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The Sports Network has a column about the best FCS stadiums that notes the one stadium in each conference you should see. Which one did TSN pick for the Ivy League?The Yale Bowl
Which one would I pick?
Harvard Stadium by a country mile. Granted, there's a lot of history surrounding the Bowl, but let's be honest. It's not the best place to watch a game and architecturally there's nothing remarkable about it from the outside or the inside apart from its history.
To TSN's credit, Harvard Stadium, Franklin Field and Princeton's stadium all get a nod.
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For all the junk Ivy League fans toss around about different AI's at HYP vs. the others, this school having a business school or that one having a state school component, the playing field is remarkably level compared to some conferences. Consider the CAA, which is adding Stony Brook to its roster this fall. The Seawolves football program just announced that it has added transfers from Pitt, Cincinnati and UTEP. Their roster also includes transfers from Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota and Rutgers. All totaled, SBU has more than 20 transfers. New Hampshire? Not a one. Maine? Two. Villanova? One.Don't misunderstand. Stony Brook isn't doing anything wrong or anything many other schools don't do. It's just that it is coming into the league with a completely different philosophy than some of the other schools in the league.
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At the Rugby Sevens tournament in Philadelphia yesterday Dartmouth crushed Wisconsin, 31-5, and beat Arizona, 21-19 in stoppage time, to win its pool and advance to the quarterfinals. Find a story here.The Big Green plays UCLA today at 10:20. A win would lead the Big Green into the semifinals at 3 p.m. on NBCSportsNetwork. The winner of that game plays for the national title at 5:30 on NBC. Dartmouth has won back-to-back national titles.
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Columbia baseball, which defeated Dartmouth in the Ivy League Championship Series, evened its record in the NCAA Tournament with a 6-5 win over New Mexico in 13 innings yesterday. It was the first win ever by Columbia in the NCAAs and the first by an Ivy League team since Dartmouth beat Florida International in 2010. The Lions, who dropped a 4-1 decision to Cal State Fullerton in their opener, play Arizona State today at 1 p.m. eastern with the winner to face Fullerton at 5 eastern.
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That Certain Nittany Lion is working at Hanover Country Club for the third summer in a row and yesterday he grabbed his camera just as the course had a rather tall visitor . . .
That's a young moose in case you are wondering ;-)
