11:30 a.m. update . . . Don't worry about the lightning strike. The spelling error has been corrected ;-)
From the web:
USA Football Network, Inc. is creating national awards for the Division I-AA (FCS), Division II, Division III and Small College (NAIA, NCCAA and USCAA) football programs. Two FCS awards have been established. They are the Bob Ford Award (University of Albany) that will be presented to a legendary FCS coach and the Cathy Slattery Award (Dartmouth College) which will honor a distinguished member of the FCS football communications and media industry.This is a fitting honor for the late, great Kathy Slattery, longtime sports information director at Dartmouth. That said, there are former Dartmouth sports information interns, former Dartmouth assistants (present company included), other folks who worked for and around her, Ivy League SIDs like Jerry Price at Princeton and Chris Humm at Brown, and random others around the country who are waiting for the lightning bolt "Slats" will send to hit USA Football Network's headquarters if that spelling error doesn't get fixed. And it has nothing to do with the fact that they got her first name wrong.
Other than getting things done punctually, perhaps Slats' strongest signature was getting things done right. Woe be the poor soul who made a spelling mistake that "went out."
Editor's Note: I sent off an email to USA Football Network alerting them to the misspelling of Kathy's first name. Please keep your fingers crossed that it gets there in time . . .
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Oh yeah, USA Football Network named Dartmouth linebacker Michael Runger to its All-America first-team preseason defense and linebacker Bronson Green to its second team. They named, um, absolutely huge first and second teams (check the link above) but the honors are well-deserved.
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The Sports Network, well-known for solid coverage of FCS football, taps Butler to finish third in its Pioneer Football League preview.
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The Brown season preview went up on BGA Premium yesterday. Columbia goes up today. Cornell tomorrow. Remember, there's at least one full-length story EVERY DAY from now until the end of the season.
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We had a terrific summer vacation in Maine yesterday (sounds like an oxymoron, I know ;-), capped by a tasty dinner at Lobster in the Rough in York. That Certain Nittany Lion had the double-lobster dinner, Mrs. BGA had a lobster, while That Certain '14 and her dad settled for fish and chips.
For what it's worth, it is an easy 2-hour, 15-minute drive over to the Maine coast. You can have a day on the beach (Long Sands at York Beach is beautiful), grab a lobster and be back at a reasonable hour. Well worth it this time of year . . . when you can actually go in the usually frigid Maine water ;-)
