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In a column that comes out of media day, The Sports Network has a list of what it considers the Ivy League's "Five Key Games." The Dartmouth-Penn contest on Oct. 5 is the first game mentioned and it is certainly worthy of being on the list. But TSN missed not just the boat but the ocean by skipping over Brown's Sept. 28 game at Harvard. As two of the three teams that received any first-place votes, their game is absolutely huge – and it has been for the past few years. And sorry, it may be one heckuva party, but until Yale comes back to life the Harvard-Yale game is a lowercase "g" game.
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The Dartmouth Sports Publicity office, nee Sports Information, has a release on Ivy League football media day here.
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A 1-hour, 34-minute, 14-second MP3 recording of yesterday's media day call is available here.Green Alert Take: Consider yourself forewarned that I'm going to go all Andy Rooney on you here. The full media day recording runs 1 hour, 34 minutes and 14 seconds and take it from someone who did, you probably don't want to sit through the whole thing. Do you really want to hear virtually every coach saying, "We're excited to get going," "The league has more parity than ever," "On any given Saturday," and "People don't understand how good the level of play and coaching is in this league," even it's all true?
It would be a ton more user friendly if the recording were broken down into nine individual links (eight coaches and the head of officials). Using the free software program Audacity it wouldn't take more than five minutes to do it. . . .
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The Ivy League football media guide has been posted here.
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How close is the season? Old friend Colgate, which opens up at Air Force on Aug. 31, kicked off practice Monday per a story in the Oneida Dispatch. Bucknell opens Saturday.Dartmouth's first practice is three weeks from today.
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Former UNH receiver David Ball's stay with the Philadelphia Eagles has ended because of a hand injury that will be repaired at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center tomorrow. Former Dartmouth lineman-turned-sports anchor Mike McCune reports in this link.