Multi-Media News

A couple of interesting multi-media developments for Dartmouth football fans and family. ... According to the folks out in Hamilton, N.Y., all home Colgate football games will broadcast this year by Time Warner Sports - Channel 26 in Central New York. I'll share more details as they become available (ie. will the games be live, where can the station be picked up). If you know someone in that part of the world, have them set the VCR/DVD/Tivo and you are in business. Or, if you happen to be going to the game and staying in a local hotel, bring a tape along and slap it into the machine in your room.

The other piece of multi-media news is still a little sketchy. I wouldn't go out and buy a new computer and sign up for Titanium-level DSL service, but Dartmouth is working on "streaming" its home games over the Internet. The idea is in the preliminary stages, but there are some alums on the tech side who have stepped forward and the hope right now is that it will be operational this fall. The idea would be to stream video from the same videographer who did ice hockey in the winter. Stay tuned for more details.

What else? The Tennessee Titans might want to take a look at Jay Fiedler according to a Nashville paper. ... Giants.com has a nice piece about former Penn tailback Jim Finn, who has carved out his niche in the NFL as a blocking fullback. In eight years in the league, he's had nine carries, or more than one a year. ;-)

The Dartmouth Football golf outing is this weekend and I'll be there to pull together a short story on the event. I'm giving away several subscriptions to Green Alert as raffle prizes ... so you'll definitely want to be there. (That's supposed to be funny.)

Now I've got to get rolling. I'm helping do PR for the Vermont Open golf championship that began yesterday and runs through tomorrow. Long, long days but I really enjoy writing about golf. (Not that there's much writing involved with what I'm doing up there this year.) I've covered about 20 Vermont Opens, two Masters, three U.S. Opens, Futures Tour events, the LPGA and Nike Tour and really do subscribe to the theory that the smaller the ball, the better the sportswriting. (That only goes for round balls, of course ;-)