Penn 'Versus' Dartmouth TV

MIDDAY UPDATE
While the Dartmouth-Penn game is fully expected to be televised on Versus, the Daily Pennsylvanian apparently jumped the gun just a bit. Final approval for the time switch and broadcast had not been given as of this morning.

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Good news for Dartmouth (and Penn) fans from afar. The Ivy League opener between the teams has been picked up by the Versus Network and will be broadcast live from Hanover on Oct. 3, with kickoff at noon. The game was switched from a 1:30 start to accomodate Versus, which last year had a full Ivy League package. The Daily Pennsylvanian broke the story in today's edition.

The opener against Colgate, of course, will be carried on the radio and over the internet. From the Dartmouth notes:

The game will be broadcast on WFRD 99.3 FM locally in Hanover, via the internet at DartmouthSports.com and DartmouthSportsNetwork.com, and over Sirius Satellite Radio on channel 130. Veteran Bob Lipman will on the microphone providing all the action with former Dartmouth football stalwart Wayne Young '72 offering his analysis on the game and players. The broadcast will begin at 1 p.m., one-half hour before kickoff.

Allen Lessels, who always does a good job with the Manchester Union Leader, has a season preview of the Big Green here.

The Harvard Crimson newspaper has predictions on this week's games and in its usual tongue-in-cheek style, has Dartmouth falling to Colgate, 34-10. The story includes this:

Bold prediction: Sullivan gains more yards rushing than Jenny does throwing.

Green Alert Take: As anyone who knows me can tell you, I'm a huge believer that money is too hard to come by to lose it making bets. So I don't bet. But if I did, my rubles would be on Jenny.

Back to the Daily Pennsylvanian, which has a look at the first weekend of Ivy League play in its football supplement. Find the previews here, sans a prediction.

The Sports Network's comprehensive FCS weekend preview included capsule looks at Harvard-Holy Cross, Penn-Villanova and Princeton-Citadel. Suffice it to say the Ivy teams were not picked in the first and last (there was no pick in the Penn game). One correction though. TSN wrote of Harvard:

The biggest concern for the Crimson is finding someone to replace Chris Pizzotti at quarterback. Sophomore Collier Winters will start, but has not played a varsity down.

In Dartmouth's game at Harvard two years ago, Winters entered the game in the third quarter and ran for two touchdowns, a 20-yarder in the third and a four-yarder in the fourth. Those scores proved to be the difference in a 28-21 Crimson victory.

Princeton, which is taking the lead on these things, is now offering TigerCast, the official podcast of Princeton athletics. Read about it here.

A regular reader emailed a reminder that tonight's game pitting Merrimack College against Stonehill is a matchup of former Dartmouth coordinators. Merrimack's John Perry was the Big Green's offensive coordinator under John Lyons while Stonehill's Rob Talley served as JL's defensive coordinator. Merrimack is 1-1 this fall while Stonehill is 1-2.

Extra Point
I'm not sure whether it says more about the cars we drive during the rest of the year or about German engineering, but if you ask me our 1984 VW Westfalia camper drives more smoothly than either of the other two. Granted, one of them is my 15-year old Mitsubishi Expo with 161,000 miles on it and the other has 96,000 miles on it, but let's be serious. It's not like 25-year old VW van is a luxury ride.