Special Day

Father of the Bride

Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens and daughter Lindsay share a moment after her wedding Friday night in Hanover.Smiles abound as father and daughter dance.

Lindsay and new husband Matt Knittle

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Now back to our regularly scheduled programming ...

Easily the best look at Ivy League Media Day was done by former Princeton beat writer Craig Haley, now the executive director of FCS football for The Sports Network. Craig headlines his column: It could be an offensive year in Ivy League

In support of his theme, Haley writes:

In the reverse of a year ago, six of the league's eight teams return their top quarterback. Also, the top five rushers are back this season.

Meanwhile, 14 players made an expanded All-Ivy first-team defense last year, and only Harvard safety Colin Zych and Yale cornerback Adam Money are back this season.

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Media day was met with a huge yawn in the league's top markets. If there was a mention in the New York Times online edition it was hard enough to find that I missed it. Ditto for the Daily News, Post and Newsday. Feel free to share links if you find them.

Philly.com gave the event 119 words. The Boston Globe made it the top of a roundup with 166 words but I didn't see anything in the Boston Herald.

The New Haven Register gave the proceedings a little more of a splash as did the Ithaca Journal.

Mention of the teleconference was at the bottom of the Providence Journal college football roundup.

Locally, our daily had a story built around the Dartmouth angle. ... Most, but not all, team web pages had a blurb that summarized the poll.

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If you want to listen to the entire 1 hour, 36 minutes of the media call, click here. If you only want to listen to Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, fast forward to 42:35. (I believe I wrote this last year but the Ivy League may want to consider dividing the sound up into more palatable bites – oops bytes – because the guess here is that not many people are going to be interested in listening to the whole thing, or zipping the slider back and forth to find the coach they want to hear.)

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Old friend Tiger Blog takes on the subject of preseason polls here.

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Out of league, Holy Cross has commenced practice. There's a brief mention here along with a video interview with Crusader coach Tom Gilmore, the onetime Dartmouth assistant.

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Former Dartmouth cross country standout (and U.S. Olympian) Jarrod Shoemaker finished third in the London Triathlon. Find a brief here.

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Meant to link to a Dartmouth release yesterday that notes:

Dartmouth College received $153 million in philanthropic support in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010, an 11 percent increase over 2009 but below the record of $168 million received in 2008.

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Tonight on Green Alert Premium: the first of a series of Dartmouth opponent previews begins with a look at Brown.