Press coverage (Articles about D3 players or D3 in general)

[retagent]

As a follow-up to the Brett Leonhardt story above:

Brett was interviewed today on NHL Live on the NHL Network (I have it, but I realize it's not on all cable/satellite systems) by host Don La Greca and co-host Billy Jaffe. That program will be re-aired at 5:00 eastern, 4:00 central etc, if you want to see it. It aired after the first half-hour break, and they took about fifteen minutes with him. Brett did an excellent job, and did D III proud. You might think that he would be a little overwhelmed by the attention (ESPN, CNN, NHL Network etc.) but he was very well spoken and bantered with the hosts better than most seasoned pros. It  was a very good interview overall, where they mentioned Newman, and Oswego (but didn't specifically say they were Division III schools). I recommend it to all, even those who are, inexplicably, not hockey fans.

[Ron Boerger]

Of course he spoke better than most "seasoned pros" ... he actually went to college to get an education!   

This was a great story - thanks to you and K-mack for sharing.

[K-Mack]

You're welcome.

If it was about football, of course, I'd use the 'What we're Reading' link out front. That's been one of my favorite additions to our ever-so-busy front page this year.

[K-Mack]

2 coaches fall through hotel window at convention

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two assistant coaches apparently wrestling with each other fell through a hotel window Tuesday morning and fell four stories to a concrete sidewalk, leaving one in serious condition.
    The American Football Coaches Association is holding its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel, and hotel security had been called around 4:10 a.m. with a noise complaint when officers found a broken window and Scott Coy and Darren DeMeio outside on the ground below.
    "They wrestled each other too close to the window going through it and down to the ground floor," Nashville police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said. "That's four floors."
    Coy, 29, is 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds from Newcastle, Pa. He was in critical condition and having surgery Tuesday afternoon at Vanderbilt University. DeMeio, 24, is 6-4, 225 pounds and from Clinton, Ohio. Police said he was in fair condition but remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon.
   Coy is co-offensive coordinator at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., and DeMeio is the running backs coach, according to the college's Web site. A telephone message left with the sports information office was not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.
    Hotel spokeswoman Kim Keelor said the window the men fell through was double-paned with a strong wooden sash in the middle.
    "It's very sad. I definitely want to express our sympathy to their families. It's just a very strange and unfortunate occurrence," she said.

[BoBo]

2 coaches fall through hotel window at convention

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two assistant coaches apparently wrestling with each other fell through a hotel window Tuesday morning and fell four stories to a concrete sidewalk, leaving one in serious condition.
    The American Football Coaches Association is holding its annual convention at the Opryland Hotel, and hotel security had been called around 4:10 a.m. with a noise complaint when officers found a broken window and Scott Coy and Darren DeMeio outside on the ground below.
    "They wrestled each other too close to the window going through it and down to the ground floor," Nashville police spokeswoman Kris Mumford said. "That's four floors."
    Coy, 29, is 6-foot-2 and 300 pounds from Newcastle, Pa. He was in critical condition and having surgery Tuesday afternoon at Vanderbilt University. DeMeio, 24, is 6-4, 225 pounds and from Clinton, Ohio. Police said he was in fair condition but remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon.
   Coy is co-offensive coordinator at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., and DeMeio is the running backs coach, according to the college's Web site. A telephone message left with the sports information office was not immediately returned Tuesday afternoon.
    Hotel spokeswoman Kim Keelor said the window the men fell through was double-paned with a strong wooden sash in the middle.
    "It's very sad. I definitely want to express our sympathy to their families. It's just a very strange and unfortunate occurrence," she said.

Hope the guys will recover quickly, but I can't wait to hear [Paul Harvey speaking] ...the rest of the story!! 

[Knightstalker]

As a follow-up to the Brett Leonhardt story above:

Brett was interviewed today on NHL Live on the NHL Network (I have it, but I realize it's not on all cable/satellite systems) by host Don La Greca and co-host Billy Jaffe. That program will be re-aired at 5:00 eastern, 4:00 central etc, if you want to see it. It aired after the first half-hour break, and they took about fifteen minutes with him. Brett did an excellent job, and did D III proud. You might think that he would be a little overwhelmed by the attention (ESPN, CNN, NHL Network etc.) but he was very well spoken and bantered with the hosts better than most seasoned pros. It  was a very good interview overall, where they mentioned Newman, and Oswego (but didn't specifically say they were Division III schools). I recommend it to all, even those who are, inexplicably, not hockey fans.

And here we have another D-III tie in.  Don LeGreca went to Ramapo State College in New Jersey.

[K-Mack]

I feel like I've read a very similar story somewhere. Hmmm.

http://bestwebnewsonline.com/73-year-old-basketball-player-booted-off-college-team/

[AF4]

Ralph et al

todays USA TODAY, Sports section c , cover story 'Playing on without a mascot'

although th article mostly revolves around Newberry (where my hischool coach played) it also discussed McMurray, shows where it is on a map, and mentions the new name of the former Indian stadium

thought i'd share

keep the faith 

[K-Mack]

McMurry ... not to be confused with MacMurray.

Here's something old quoting Willamette's Mark Speckman that I found ... an Outside the Lines on female kickers:

http://sports.espn.go.com/page2/tvlistings/show29transcript.html

[Knightstalker]

Here is a nice feel good story about the Kean football team.  This seems like a great program.
http://www.nj.com/sports/njsports/index.ssf/2010/03/kean_football_latest_team_to_e.html

[retagent]

I didn't get the whole story on this, but I happened to be watching a local news program out of Minneapolis/St Paul, where one of the anchors, Don Shelby, was thanking one of the sports guys for taking the heat off him, as far as getting hate mail. One of the three assertions made by the aforementioned (I love that word) sports announcer that had gotten him in trouble was his saying that the teams in the Womens NCAA Final Four could beat either most, or many, D III men's teams. I don't know if he was joking or not, but Shelby went on to say that he was right about all three statements, including that one. If the guy really believes that, he shouldn't be a sports announcer. My contention is that, despite the VAST improvement of womens' college basketball, I think they would have trouble beating most high school boys teams.

[Ralph Turner]

I didn't get the whole story on this, but I happened to be watching a local news program out of Minneapolis/St Paul, where one of the anchors, Don Shelby, was thanking one of the sports guys for taking the heat off him, as far as getting hate mail. One of the three assertions made by the aforementioned (I love that word) sports announcer that had gotten him in trouble was his saying that the teams in the Womens NCAA Final Four could beat either most, or many, D III men's teams. I don't know if he was joking or not, but Shelby went on to say that he was right about all three statements, including that one. If the guy really believes that, he shouldn't be a sports announcer. My contention is that, despite the VAST improvement of womens' college basketball, I think they would have trouble beating most high school boys teams.

I think that the great variable in that statement is how physical the officials permit the players to be.

If you call blocks, charges and handchecks by "Naismithian" standards, then Baylor's 6'8" center will give a lot of D3 teams fits.

If you're permitting a very physical style of play, then the men win.

[HSCTiger74]

I didn't get the whole story on this, but I happened to be watching a local news program out of Minneapolis/St Paul, where one of the anchors, Don Shelby, was thanking one of the sports guys for taking the heat off him, as far as getting hate mail. One of the three assertions made by the aforementioned (I love that word) sports announcer that had gotten him in trouble was his saying that the teams in the Womens NCAA Final Four could beat either most, or many, D III men's teams. I don't know if he was joking or not, but Shelby went on to say that he was right about all three statements, including that one. If the guy really believes that, he shouldn't be a sports announcer. My contention is that, despite the VAST improvement of womens' college basketball, I think they would have trouble beating most high school boys teams.

I think that the great variable in that statement is how physical the officials permit the players to be.

If you call blocks, charges and handchecks by "Naismithian" standards, then Baylor's 6'8" center will give a lot of D3 teams fits.

If you're permitting a very physical style of play, then the men win.

I saw an article a few years ago (in SI, I think) about Pat Summitt recruiting men from the general UT student body to scrimmage against her teams. They all have high school experience, almost all would have been able to play at the D2 or D3 level, and she assigns one of her assistants to coach them into some semblance of a team. Both they and the Lady Vols treat the scrimmages seriously, and sometimes the women win and sometimes they don't. Given that, I suspect that if a very good women's team were to play a decent D3 men's team that had been together for a full season the men would probably win. As a matter of fact, that might be a fun game to see.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I didn't get the whole story on this, but I happened to be watching a local news program out of Minneapolis/St Paul, where one of the anchors, Don Shelby, was thanking one of the sports guys for taking the heat off him, as far as getting hate mail. One of the three assertions made by the aforementioned (I love that word) sports announcer that had gotten him in trouble was his saying that the teams in the Womens NCAA Final Four could beat either most, or many, D III men's teams. I don't know if he was joking or not, but Shelby went on to say that he was right about all three statements, including that one. If the guy really believes that, he shouldn't be a sports announcer. My contention is that, despite the VAST improvement of womens' college basketball, I think they would have trouble beating most high school boys teams.

I think that the great variable in that statement is how physical the officials permit the players to be.

If you call blocks, charges and handchecks by "Naismithian" standards, then Baylor's 6'8" center will give a lot of D3 teams fits.

If you're permitting a very physical style of play, then the men win.

Generally speaking, you are correct, but I think you picked the wrong example with Baylor's Griner - have you seen the size of that girl?!  (And she is the one who got suspended for punching out an opponent - I don't think physical play is gonna faze her! )

While the sports announcer was undoubtedly speaking out of ignorance about d3 sports, I think the UConn women would beat 'many or most' d3 men's teams - conceivably even all of them.  I can't recall who it was, but a d1 men's coach said recently that there have been a handful of women players who could have started for most d1 men's teams.

No less than Mia Hamm admitted that an elite hs boy's team would defeat her World Cup winning team - differences in strength and speed are just too much to overcome.  But some girls/women have become so freakishly good AND strong, that in the more confined space of a bball court, a hot-shooting women's team would IMO defeat all but the very very best hs boy's or d3 men's teams.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

I didn't get the whole story on this, but I happened to be watching a local news program out of Minneapolis/St Paul, where one of the anchors, Don Shelby, was thanking one of the sports guys for taking the heat off him, as far as getting hate mail. One of the three assertions made by the aforementioned (I love that word) sports announcer that had gotten him in trouble was his saying that the teams in the Womens NCAA Final Four could beat either most, or many, D III men's teams. I don't know if he was joking or not, but Shelby went on to say that he was right about all three statements, including that one. If the guy really believes that, he shouldn't be a sports announcer. My contention is that, despite the VAST improvement of womens' college basketball, I think they would have trouble beating most high school boys teams.

I think that the great variable in that statement is how physical the officials permit the players to be.

If you call blocks, charges and handchecks by "Naismithian" standards, then Baylor's 6'8" center will give a lot of D3 teams fits.

If you're permitting a very physical style of play, then the men win.

While the sports announcer was undoubtedly speaking out of ignorance about d3 sports, I think the UConn women would beat 'many or most' d3 men's teams - conceivably even all of them.  I can't recall who it was, but a d1 men's coach said recently that there have been a handful of women players who could have started for most d1 men's teams.

I think it was Bruce Pearl, Tennessee's Men's BB Coach who said that.