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

[Mugsy]

Interview with former Wheaton DE/current Eagles OLB Andy Studebaker on CBS Channel 2 in Chicago:

http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=44301@wbbm.dayport.com

[D306]

Graet Article

Congrats to Andy good luck.

Get the name of that agent thise whom have potential, he and his wife are working for their players.

[PurpleSuit]

Former Gustavus College stand-out and Mr Irrelevant, Ryan Hoag seems to be staying busy these days
http://thesportspoint.blogspot.com/2008/05/2003-nfl-mr-irrelevant-ryan-hoag-is.html

[gordonmann]

That's awesome.  Thanks Purple Suit.

I posted the link on the Daily Dose, too.

[K-Mack]

These are too old for 'What we're reading', plus they're from an open-source network, not real outlets/newspapers:

Josh Vogelbach, the best quarterback you've never heard of

Division III: The Less Glamorous Side of College Football

[retagent]

Can anyone more Tech Savvy than I post the article from this weekend's USA Today previewing the My Union/Capital game?

[Pat Coleman]

It's a sidebar to the main piece on this page.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2008-10-09-weekend-preview_N.htm

[K-Mack]

Since my rant was largely press-related:

. . . not the kind of Year-in-Review moment you want to see in the headlines:

7 (Including 5 Salisbury U football players) Arrested in Salisbury Nightclub Brawl

Keith, since this is your board--and given your profession, you might know a good copy editor that they could use down at WBOC-TV 16, the DelMarVa's News Leader?   

I just read the story and then looked at the schools web site.  3 of the 5 started on Defense in the Del Valley game and a 4th had 5 tackles in the game.  That is a serious blow to the defense.

I counted four defensive starters and a fifth who got significant burn. Add that to Chandler being out with injury, and ... well if you have depth, this is the time for it to shine.

Red, not sure you want to know what I think of small-town TV news.

While I'm sure these guys were out of line -- what were they doing at the Monkey Barrel anyway? -- the accounts of what happened are pretty uneven, as they often are when football players get arrested.

1) I doubt these guys were fighting themselves ... how come everyone arrested seems to be friendly with each other? No one from the other side was escalating the situation?

2) Oh, the poor helpless officers were attacked by the mean football players! Give me a break. Police from six departments come swarming in to stop a bar fight, certainly with whatever weapons they need to diffuse the situation at the ready, and they're adding on 'assaulting an officer' charges? I wasn't there, but that charge always seems sketchy to me.

3) The one mug shot/glamour shot is comical.

Kudos to Sherman Wood for taking swift action and sending a message to his team and the community that that stuff doesn't fly. While they might or might not be guilty of everything they are charged with, certain being at a bar during the season is exercising poor judgement, and as a player, even though it's in your nature to kick butt, you have to get the heck out of there if you feel things getting out of hand, because you have much more to lose than the drunken townie who likes to start stuff.

To me, college kids drinking isn't really that abnormal, and people who've been drinking getting in fights isn't either. I'm not saying it's excusable, I mean I managed to avoid getting in trouble in college, but I certainly wasn't above a fistfight, so I don't want to sound holier-than-thou either.

If nothing else it demonstrates that football players have to hold themselves to a higher standard than the general student body, and that's not necessarily an easy thing to do. Maybe this is a blip on the screen on a slow-news day if these are just Salisbury students getting in a tussle at a bar/club on a weekend night ... but once it's a football team -- and this goes for everywhere -- it's a story, and frankly the "team players" are generally presumed guilty.

Having been to Salisbury recently, the town of, it also seems like a place where race could ignite a small incident into a bigger one. Not saying that from any particular experience while there, the campus seems pretty cool, I'm not trying to damage their recruiting or anything ... just saying that it reminds me of another small college town in this part of the country that feels the same way.

. . . not the kind of Year-in-Review moment you want to see in the headlines:

7 (Including 5 Salisbury U football players) Arrested in Salisbury Nightclub Brawl

Keith, since this is your board--and given your profession, you might know a good copy editor that they could use down at WBOC-TV 16, the DelMarVa's News Leader?   

I just read the story and then looked at the schools web site.  3 of the 5 started on Defense in the Del Valley game and a 4th had 5 tackles in the game.  That is a serious blow to the defense.

Red, not sure you want to know what I think of small-town TV news.

Hey, who better to save the day, than SuperCopyNerd!^*     Wherever redundancies or oxymorons stand in the way of liberty and literacy, . . . look!  By the pasteboard!  It's a bird!  It's a plane! . . .

^* See Top 25 Board

While I'm sure these guys were out of line -- what were they doing at the Monkey Barrel anyway? -- the accounts of what happened are pretty uneven, as they often are when football players get arrested.

1) I doubt these guys were fighting themselves ... how come everyone arrested seems to be friendly with each other? No one from the other side was escalating the situation?

2) Oh, the poor helpless officers were attacked by the mean football players! Give me a break. Police from six departments come swarming in to stop a bar fight, certainly with whatever weapons they need to diffuse the situation at the ready, and they're adding on 'assaulting an officer' charges? I wasn't there, but that charge always seems sketchy to me.

3) The one mug shot/glamour shot is comical.

Kudos to Sherman Wood for taking swift action and sending a message to his team and the community that that stuff doesn't fly. While they might or might not be guilty of everything they are charged with, certain being at a bar during the season is exercising poor judgement, and as a player, even though it's in your nature to kick butt, you have to get the heck out of there if you feel things getting out of hand, because you have much more to lose than the drunken townie who likes to start stuff.

Good points all around.  I did wonder why there were peace officers from 6 different jurisdictions involved, but ultimately, Coach Wood appears to understand what you describe: these guys had multiple opportunities to avoid this scene, and they apparently chose not to take advantage of a single one, making the wrong choice every time.  Sigh.

To me, college kids drinking isn't really that abnormal . . .

It's not only normal, it's physics:

Newton's first law of motion states that a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Newton's fifth law of motion states that a body in college tends to drink beer.

Having been to Salisbury recently, the town of, it also seems like a place where race could ignite a small incident into a bigger one. Not saying that from any particular experience while there, the campus seems pretty cool, I'm not trying to damage their recruiting or anything ... just saying that it reminds me of another small college town in this part of the country that feels the same way.

Does it always have to be about race?  Can we at least be happy that one white boy was partying (and getting busted) with the brothers?   

No, it doesn't always have to be about race. Maybe gender though ... wasn't that a white girl (Erin?) who got busted?

[redswarm81]

Since my rant was largely press-related:

. . . not the kind of Year-in-Review moment you want to see in the headlines:

7 (Including 5 Salisbury U football players) Arrested in Salisbury Nightclub Brawl

Keith, since this is your board--and given your profession, you might know a good copy editor that they could use down at WBOC-TV 16, the DelMarVa's News Leader?   

I just read the story and then looked at the schools web site.  3 of the 5 started on Defense in the Del Valley game and a 4th had 5 tackles in the game.  That is a serious blow to the defense.

Red, not sure you want to know what I think of small-town TV news.

Hey, who better to save the day, than SuperCopyNerd!^*     Wherever redundancies or oxymorons stand in the way of liberty and literacy, . . . look!  By the pasteboard!  It's a bird!  It's a plane! . . .

^* See Top 25 Board

While I'm sure these guys were out of line -- what were they doing at the Monkey Barrel anyway? -- the accounts of what happened are pretty uneven, as they often are when football players get arrested.

1) I doubt these guys were fighting themselves ... how come everyone arrested seems to be friendly with each other? No one from the other side was escalating the situation?

2) Oh, the poor helpless officers were attacked by the mean football players! Give me a break. Police from six departments come swarming in to stop a bar fight, certainly with whatever weapons they need to diffuse the situation at the ready, and they're adding on 'assaulting an officer' charges? I wasn't there, but that charge always seems sketchy to me.

3) The one mug shot/glamour shot is comical.

Kudos to Sherman Wood for taking swift action and sending a message to his team and the community that that stuff doesn't fly. While they might or might not be guilty of everything they are charged with, certain being at a bar during the season is exercising poor judgement, and as a player, even though it's in your nature to kick butt, you have to get the heck out of there if you feel things getting out of hand, because you have much more to lose than the drunken townie who likes to start stuff.

Good points all around.  I did wonder why there were peace officers from 6 different jurisdictions involved, but ultimately, Coach Wood appears to understand what you describe: these guys had multiple opportunities to avoid this scene, and they apparently chose not to take advantage of a single one, making the wrong choice every time.  Sigh.

To me, college kids drinking isn't really that abnormal . . .

It's not only normal, it's physics:

Newton's first law of motion states that a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Newton's fifth law of motion states that a body in college tends to drink beer.

Having been to Salisbury recently, the town of, it also seems like a place where race could ignite a small incident into a bigger one. Not saying that from any particular experience while there, the campus seems pretty cool, I'm not trying to damage their recruiting or anything ... just saying that it reminds me of another small college town in this part of the country that feels the same way.

Does it always have to be about race?  Can we at least be happy that one white boy was partying (and getting busted) with the brothers?   

No, it doesn't always have to be about race. Maybe gender though ... wasn't that a white girl (Erin?) who got busted?

Nouns have gender.  People have sex. . . . which, ultimately, is why bar many bar fights get started (as near as I can remember). 

[OshDude]

A few things I saw in this week's The Magazine:
• 6 Things You Should Know About: Acting in a Sports Movie (features Rob Brown, Amherst)

And two "All News" briefs:
• UDub-Stevens Point gets first official live mascot: McKenzie, an English pointer
• Mt. Union RB Nate Kmic scores D3-record 95th career TD

[tmerton]

Nice headline and article on MUC's Kmic and Micheli in today's SF Chronicle.

[HScoach]

Nouns have gender.  People have sex. . . . which, ultimately, is why bar many bar fights get started (as near as I can remember). 

You obviously haven't been married for 20+ years....................

[K-Mack]

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A 6-foot-7 Web site producer for the Washington Capitals dressed as the team's backup goalie for Friday night's game against the Ottawa Senators because of an injury to Jose Theodore.
    Brett Leonhardt, a Division III goalie in college, signed an amateur tryout contract before the game. If he had actually played, he would have tied Ben Bishop of the St. Louis Blues as the tallest goalie ever to see action in an NHL game.
    Theodore suffered a hip flexor injury during the Capitals' morning skate, and Simeon Varlamov was recalled from Hershey, the team's AHL affiliate, to back up starter Brent Johnson.
    But Hershey happened to be on the road in San Antonio, and Varlamov didn't arrive in time for the 7 p.m. faceoff.
    So the Capitals received special dispensation from the league to dress three goaltenders. Leonhardt had a spot on the bench until Varlamov arrived midway through the first period.
    By the end of the second period, Leonhardt was back in a dress shirt and tie and in his usual spot in the press box, preparing for his regular job of holding the camera during postgame interviews following the Capitals' 5-1 victory.
    But first, of course, everyone wanted to interview him.
    "Every dream come true," Leonhardt said. "Growing up in Canada, playing since I was 4. It was just very surreal. It was a blur, went by real quick."
    Although he didn't play, Leonhardt — whose nickname is, you guessed it, "Stretch" — enjoyed the thrill of his life as he dressed in jersey No. 80 and went through the usual player's pregame routine, including having his skates sharpened. Teammates greeted him warmly during pregame warmups as he fended off shots from superstar Alex Ovechkin and others while tending goal at the Verizon Center.
    "It was a great view. Usually I'm up here with you guys in the press box," Leonhardt said. "Mike Green started laughing his head off."
    During the first half of the first period, Leonhardt sat at the end of the bench in a white baseball cap. He looked down sheepishly when shown he was shown on the huge replay screen along with the caption: "1st NHL game." The crowd roared.
    The crowd cheered again later in the period when Varlamov — also new to the big league — was shown on the screen along with the same caption.
    The 26-year-old Leonhardt played two years for Oswego State in New York and two years for Neumann College in Pennsylvania before graduating in 2007. He has worked for the Capitals' Web site for about a year and has taken part in drills during practices when the team needed an extra goalie. He wore one of his college masks from Neumann during warmups.
    His chances of playing Friday weren't exactly remote. Johnson had a sore hip from a fall during Wednesday night's victory over the Boston Bruins.
    Even if he had played, Leonhardt wouldn't have received an NHL check. The special amateur contract pays nothing.
    "I should pay them for being able to do this," he said.
    The Capitals also reassigned forward Oskar Osala and defenseman Sean Collins to Hershey.

[retagent]

I guess I should have checked here before posting the above story in the d3 players in the pros thread. I should have known K Mack would be all over the Leonhardt saga.

Also, as I'm reading the previous posts, I need to clarify something. It always, as a former law enforcement agent, bothers me when people criticize officers for using force because they will probably be able to overcome the attacker with overwhelming force. Just because they might outnumber the attacker(s), doesn't mean that before they are able to subdue, no officer will get injured or killed. If a guy has a knife he can inflict grave damage on someone who doesn't use his gun soon enough. Someone can also injure with his fists ot feet one of three officers before the other two can subdue him. If you are the officer getting injured, what the hell difference does it make that your two comrades handcuff the guy after he has broken your face, arm, leg or otherwise done damage to your body. It gives little comfort to be in the hospital knowing that the guy was arrested after you got hurt.

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

Article about Kmic in Nate Kmic the NYT:

Nate Kmic