The Ivy League made its 2022 TV schedule official with a release yesterday. Here are the games slated to be broadcast on the so-called "linear" networks:
Friday, Sept. 30 – Penn at Dartmouth – 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Friday, Oct. 7 – Harvard at Cornell – 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Friday, Oct. 14 – Brown at Princeton – 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Friday, Oct. 21 – Princeton at Harvard – 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Friday, Oct. 28 – Yale at Columbia – 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU)
Saturday, Nov. 19 – Yale at Harvard – TBA
Total appearances:
3 – Harvard
2 – Princeton, Yale
1 – Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn
Green Alert Take: Dartmouth's release features a great picture of the packed home stands. The shame is that the TV cameras only show the other side of the field where the smaller stands have a much less impressive crowd.
The Ivy League scheduling agreement with ESPN started in 2018. Dartmouth's ESPN games since then:
2018 – 1
2019 – 3
2021 – 3
2022 – 1
(The 2020 season was canceled.)
Find the Dartmouth press release announcing the TV game HERE.
Overall ESPN "linear" appearances 2018-22:
Harvard – 9
Dartmouth – 8
Princeton – 8
Yale – 7
Penn – 5
Brown – 4
Columbia – 4
Cornell – 4
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SI's Fan Nation has a story on its New York Giant site with this tag line: Niko Lalos showed enough flash to earn himself some playing time in 2020. But with a crowded outside linebacker room before him, can he hold on to a roster spot? The bottom line from the story about the Dartmouth '20 (LINK):
He's facing some stiff competition at both defensive end and outside linebacker that he will have to outwork, and the numbers just don't favor his chances right now. Still, stranger things have happened . . .
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As noted here before, because I already have enough "time suckers" in my day (including BGA Daily ;-) I don't do Facebook. A loyal reader who does, however, shared a note culled from former record-setting quarterback Dalyn Williams '16 page noting that he has just started as the quarterback coach at St. Mark's School in Dallas.
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Speaking of former Dartmouth football players, onetime tailback Bill Daly '86 has been the NHL's deputy commissioner since 1997. Here he is presenting the Stanley Cup to the Colorado Avalanche:
From 14 leagues, the likely strongest chances for repeats are in the Missouri Valley (North Dakota State), MEAC (South Carolina State) and Patriot League (Holy Cross). Everywhere else, it’s anybody’s guess. There definitely will be new champs in the ASUN-SWAC Challenge (Sam Houston ineligible) and Big South (Kennesaw State left the conference), but expect it to occur in a bunch of conferences.
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EXTRA POINT
That Certain Nittany Lion '16 began playing golf at the Hanover Country Club as a middle schooler and went on to work at the club through high school and college. It was a home away from home where he grew into a low single-digit handicap player and developed a love for the game that saw him earn his way onto the Penn State club golf team and help it advance to the national championships.
I first brought him to the Traveler's Championship in Cromwell, Conn., for the final round in 2010 and carted him down to the PGA event every year until he started attending the Sunday final with friends. He hasn't missed one since the first, with the exception of the 2020 COVID cancellation.
He was there for Jim Furyk's 58, Jordan Spieth's famous hole-out from the sand on 18, Bubba's first tour win and last year's ridiculous eight-hole playoff. To see as many players as he can, he and his buddy hit the highway up here each year between 4 and 5 a.m., and spend the day walking miles and miles around the course.
The two of them hung around this year not only until the final putt rolled into the cup, but until the winner finished his post-round interview with the Golf Channel. With the overflow crowd long-since departed his friend was rewarded with Xander Schauffele's autograph on a Travelers flag and TCNL '16 got a nice shot with the new champion:
