ScuttleBu(r)t …

Sarah Beauchamp, a 1998 Iron Mountain High School graduate who once played women’s professional football (yes, football), can be found on You Tube delivering an inspirational TEDx talk.

“I had an amazing opportunity,” said Beauchamp, an award-winning high school educator who made the presentation in Hollywood, Fla. “It was massive and a big honor.”

Name of her topic was “Find love in what you are doing.” (Go to You Tube and Sarah Beauchamp)

“My students, especially my speech and debate students, were very excited for me,” she said. “It was my turn to step up.”

Beauchamp was a hard-nosed defensive back and running back for Pittsburgh and Palm Beach, Fla., pro football teams.

I still have a couple “Sarah Beauchamp No. 29” autographed Iron City Light/Pittsburgh Passion beer cans. Yes, they’re unopened …

From UP Hall of Fame scribe Bob McGinn, on his bobmcginnfootball.com site: “If the Packers had lost (to the Jets), they still would have had a shot at the No. 4 pick in the first round of the draft in April but more likely would have drafted seventh or eighth. Now the Packers cannot draft higher than No. 10 …

Alabama’s Nick Saban has played pick-up basketball games against assistants and others during his coaching stops. I’ve always wondered whether Saban, during his Michigan State days, went up against Tommy Izzo.

IM radio legend Mike Caruso, part of the Super Dooper Yoopers’ recent 20th anniversary trip to East Lansing, got the answer for me. The Michigan State basketball coach did play basketball against Saban but the Alabama coach is really tough playing racquetball.

Understand the “Yoopers” had another fine trip to MSU. Tommy landed the group up-close seats for the Wisconsin-Green Bay game and played congenial host to his local fans for a party at his home.

Trip coordinator Bob Furno presented Tommy with a video commemorating the 20 years of bus trips, with the group viewing only one Spartans’ loss in that span. I’m honored to have my name in the video a couple times.

By the way, Tommy told buckeyeextra.com that he may one day resume his quest for a master’s degree.

After leaving NMU, he was taking courses for a master’s at MSU but his promotion to full-time Sparty assistant left him no time for the degree.

“I’m going to try to finish it because I don’t have that much to go and I thought that would be one of my bucket list things,” Izzo said. “In the next year or two I might try to take a couple classes here, and instead of taking them online I might go to them. It’s strictly a bucket list thing.

“My mother (Dorothy) is 92, and if I walked across the stage with my master’s I think that would fulfill her life.” …

A tweet from former Houghton Mining Gazette sports editor Brandon Veale: “The Packers-Lions game will be shown in Wisconsin, Michigan, Toledo and that is it. Which is honestly probably more than it deserves.” …

Former Hurley star Mark Saari, who went up against area athletes during his high school days, wrapped up his University of Wisconsin football career Thursday in the Pinstripe Bowl.

“Our old FB Mark Saari was with the Badgers for five seasons and Bucky goes 5-0 in bowl games,” noted one Twitter comment. “I’m thinking maybe he shouldn’t get to leave.”

The UW walk-on, a 2017 Academic All-Big Ten recipient, rushed for 2,441 yards and 31 touchdowns for the Midgets …

St. Charles (Ill.) North High School football coach Rob Pomazak told the Chicago Tribune it’s his responsibility to “take care of the kids.”

“Parents are trusting me with their kids’ lives,” he added. “You have to create a program where people feel it’s worth the risk to have their son part of the program because they’ll feel better when they come out of it than when they went in.” …

Hope all of my fellow journalists can one day watch the 1959 movie “– 30 –“ about a newspaper newsroom starring Jack (Dragnet) Webb and William (Cannon) Conrad.

Conrad, also a radio voice for “Gunsmoke” in his career, overheard two youngsters, one of them David (Ozzie & Harriet) Nelson, in the office saying this was “just a newspaper.”

Conrad followed with a lecture on newspapers that gave me goose bumps on top of goose bumps:

“There’s a lot of information to a lot of people who wouldn’t have known about these things if we hadn’t taken the trouble to tell them. It’s the sum total of the work of a lot of guys who don’t quit. Yeah, it’s a newspaper, that’s all. It only costs 10 cents but if you only read the comics section and the want ads it’s still the best buy for your money in the world.”

As one of the characters lamented, “I could have had a life of relative comfort or newspaper work.” …

Burt Angeli is a Daily News columnist and sports writer. He can be reached at bangeli@ironmountaindailynews.com