Media Day

The Ivy League preseason media teleconference will be conducted Tuesday, Aug. 10. I'll have the phone glued to my ear and Green Alert Premium will have comprehensive previews of all seven Dartmouth Ivy League opponents as well as non-conference opponents Bucknell, Sacred Heart and Holy Cross starting the following day. The previews will continue every weekday until the kickoff of preseason camp.

Speaking of which, official signups for the 2010 Green Alert Premium will begin on Monday, July 19. Once again, there will be at least one newspaper-length story posted every day from the first day of camp until the final day of the season – seven days a week – and full coverage of all games, home and away.

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The official Dartmouth website has a piece about the five Dartmouth football players named to the Phil Steele magazine first or second All-Ivy preseason team. The Dartmouth release begins this way:

A total of five football players for Dartmouth were named to six spots on Phil Steele’s 2010 Preseason All-Ivy League First and Second Teams. Senior wide receiver Tanner Scott (Kenilworth, Ill.) and junior running back Nick Schwieger (Norton, Mass.) were chosen for the first team on offense, while junior Shawn Abuhoff (Hialeah, Fla.) made the first team as a return specialist and the second team as a cornerback. Also selected to the second team were sophomore linebacker Garrett Wymore (Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif.) and junior place kicker Foley Schmidt (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.).

Bios of the players named:

Shawn Abuhoff
Foley Schmidt
Nick Schwieger
Tanner Scott
Garrett Wymore

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Dartmouth, by the way, is holding ticket prices steady for the fourth year in a row. In a press release, Interim Director of Athletics Bob Ceplikas said:

“Being a supportive community partner is very important to us. We had to look hard at all our revenue sources during the campus-wide budget reduction process, but we resisted raising ticket prices in recognition of the impact of the economy on local families and all our other loyal fans."

The release notes:

The price freeze will include season tickets, single-game tickets, and in-season tournaments, and will apply to all football, men’s and women’s basketball, and men’s and women’s hockey games as well as select games and doubleheaders in men’s and women’s lacrosse, and soccer.

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Jake Novak over at his Roar Lions Roar blog works tirelessly to promote interest in Columbia football and the Ivy League. Latest is his look at what he perceives to be the top returning offensive lines in the Ivies.

Jake has become a friend over the past few years so I hope it's OK to tease him a little and say I haven't seen so much talent in Columbia blue since, well, since the North Carolina basketball team invaded Dartmouth's Leede Arena on Dec. 19, 1998. (In case you are wondering, UNC won, 82-68.) Here's Jake's complete list of the best returning talent in the Ivies:

OFFENSE
Line
1. Penn
2. Columbia
3. Dartmouth

Quarterback
1. Kyle Newhall-Caballero, Brown
2. Collier Winters, Harvard
3. Sean Brackett, Columbia
4. Patrick Witt, Yale

Running Back
1. Columbia
2. Harvard
3. Penn

Tight end
1. Andrew Kennedy, Columbia
2. Luke Nawrocki, Penn
3. Alex Prestley, Brown

Wide Receiver
1. Chris Lorditch, Harvard
2. Trey Peacock, Princeton
3. Michael Reilly, Dartmouth
(Honorable mention to Dartmouth's Tim McManus, Cornell’s Shane Savage, Columbia’s Mike Stephens and Yale’s Jordan Forney.)

DEFENSE
Line
1. Harvard
2. Columbia
3. Penn

Linebacker
1) Penn
2) Dartmouth
3) Columbia

Secondary
1) Yale
2) Columbia
3) Harvard

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Dartmouth won't be playing New Hampshire this year but then again, the Big Green wouldn't be seeing UNH tight end Scott Sicko anyway. Now finally graduated, after a stutter-start to his pro career he has won over a few people at the Dallas Cowboys camp. The Albany Times-Union has a story.

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And finally, Penn State golf camp apparently paid off for That Certain Hanover High Student who yesterday posted his lowest round ever at Hanover Country Club. ... His sister, meanwhile, signed up yesterday for her DOC trip. Tops on the list for a distance runner who hiked to the bottom of Grand Canyon two years in a row? The most testing of the DOC hiking trips. Signing up late might be a hindrance, but stay tuned to see if she gets her top choice.