Crossing off the Days?

If you are crossing off the days until you can get your hands on the 2010 Dartmouth football media guide you haven't been paying attention. The closest your hands will get to a media guide is on a keyboard.

Dartmouth, like the Ivy League and indeed most of the NCAA, is moving its materials to the Internet. (If you really want to confuse yourself on this topic, look over these 14 Questions about NCAA Division I Proposal No. 2009-42, which becomes effective on Aug. 1.)

The reason I bring this up again is the transition of the Dartmouth football media to an electronic semblance of its old self sees the awards section now available here.

If you are looking for that 2010 Dartmouth football media guide, here's an index of what is available so far (unless I'm forgetting something, which is always possible):

All-time award winners
All-time letterwinners
All-time series records
All-time results of Dartmouth TV games
All-time won-loss record
All-time Dartmouth coaching records (scroll to bottom)

Other pieces of the traditional media guide that are available on the website include:

Future schedules
2010 roster
2009 statistics

While you are at it, you might also like to take a look at the Yearly Archives with rosters, results, statistics and jayvee results back to 2003 and rosters and results back to 1997.

PLEASE NOTE: I've been told a full index that will help you find your away around the complete digital guide (of sorts) will be available on the official Dartmouth website closer to the season.

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Speaking of the web, Columbia has debuted a new football page here. The slogan used on the page is, "The strength of the Lion is in the pride." Columbia sports information's football page is here and it uses the slogan, "Unleash the roar." It's a little confusing as to which site will have what on it.

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Penn has lost its only 2010 tight end recruit to a scholarship offer from Tulane. Interestingly, he won't enroll at Tulane until January according to a NewOrleans.com story. I wouldn't expect his Penn bio to be up very long so click here before it disappears.

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No slight intended toward Bucknell, but do you think the switch from playing Colgate to playing the Bison was a smart move by Dartmouth? If you are wondering, the Colgate website reminds us the Raiders were picked 20th in the nation by Sporting News and 23rd by Phil Steele. Bucknell does not appear in either poll.

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And finally, old friend Brad Parks '96 started Dartmouth's original Sports Weekly, once an independent publication that provided some of the most comprehensive and best-written sports news in the Ivy League. For a while the Sports Weekly was printed at the local paper and we'd always try to sneak a peek at it to see what stories we missed and wanted to follow up on.

Anyway, Brad went on to write for the Washington Post and Newark Star-Ledger before churning out his first novel, Faces of the Gone, last year. As Brad well knows, I've got a few stories I could share to tease him a little bit, but there's no need. He provided fodder for that cannon himself with his musical tribute to Brad Meltzer. Find the one-minute video here.

I just have one thing to say. Brad, you never sang to me ;-)

(Thanks to a regular reader for the link. I would never have found that one.)