Around the Nation podcast: Your questions, Mount answers
Josh Yoder has the Linfield offense clicking as well as the Wildcats have their defense clicking. Linfield athletics photo Subscribe to the Around the Nation Podcast in iTunes. Mount Union answered a...
View ArticleTriple Take: Penultimate picks
Either Wabash or Wittenberg will clinch the NCAC automatic bid Saturday. Wabash athletics photo by Howard Hewitt The long-awaited regional rankings are here, and we can expect to see at least a couple...
View ArticleAround the Nation podcast: Playoff picture takes place
Hardin-Simmons wasn’t a threat to Linfield, Willamette or UMHB but crushed Texas Lutheran. Hardin-Simmons athletics photo Subscribe to the Around the Nation Podcast in iTunes. So let’s see, John...
View ArticleTriple Take: Rivalry week 2013
The Hampden-Sydney/Randolph-Macon game always draws a crowd. This year it’s also a winner-take-all game for the ODAC title. Hampden-Sydney athletics photo If you’ve never been affiliated with a school...
View ArticleTriple Take Week 3: Big clashes and bigger road trips
Cartel Brooks and the rest of the Heidelberg Student Princes had their way with Alma in Week 1. This week’s opponent will be much more challenging.Heidelberg athletics photo Late September in Division...
View ArticlePodcast: Strange, and happy endings
This is what it looked like — Dennis Dunn got pretty far out onto the field. (Texas Lutheran athletics video) What’s the sound of a team snapping a 31-game losing streak? Or of a team’s dreams...
View ArticleTriple Take, Week 7: Approaching a turning point
Shreve Rohle and the Hampden-Sydney defense don’t get nearly as much of the spotlight as the Tigers’ offense does. Past the season’s halfway point, many of us have seen enough to think we know...
View ArticleTriple Take Week 8: Some clashes to get excited about
Will the Texas Lutheran defense stand up to Mary Hardin-Baylor? (TLU athletics photo) It’s that time of year when the air gets colder, the crowds get rowdier and the games get more meaningful. To boil...
View ArticleTriple Take, Week 3: The competition gets rougher
In quite a few places from coast to coast this weekend, the time for mismatches is over. Whether conference play is getting underway like it is in the Empire 8 and OAC, or teams are looking for one...
View ArticleAround the Nation: Big games and close calls
We might question whether some teams are as good as we think, and some Top 25 voters might be asking the same questions. Other teams are right where everyone thought they would be. And in some places,...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Shaking off the big loss
It was definitely a tough weekend for Linfield and Washington & Jefferson, and a great weekend for Mary Hardin-Baylor and Thomas More, and we had people at both games and talk with the people...
View ArticleQuick Hits: The 35,000-foot view
The biggest show in Division III is coming to a major league baseball stadium. Perhaps you’ve heard. But there are 100 other games on Saturday as well, and if you’re not named Tommie or Johnnie,...
View ArticleATN Podcast 177: Covering the rest of a newsy week
Aside from “the Target Field game” there were another 99 games played on Saturday, and on top of that, there was all sorts of other news in the past week to cover. Pat Coleman and Keith McMillan talk...
View ArticleATN Podcast 179: Big games lead to playoff talk
All of a sudden we drop a few big games into the mix, set a couple of Top 25 ballots on fire, and then it’s not too early to talk about strength of schedule, and the playoffs, and how at-large bids...
View ArticleQuick Hits: On the flip side
We’re on the downhill slope now to Selection Sunday. Six weeks down, and five weeks left, with lots of questions to be answered. We’ll try to answer part of one-fifth of those questions here with our...
View ArticleATN Podcast 180: Heavy on lightning, light on thunder
A little bit of rain (OK, a lot of rain), a little lightning, half the usual Thunder and a few unbeaten teams getting their first loss made up a good part of the news in Week 7. This was definitely a...
View ArticleATN Podcast 181: How it all ties together
There were more than a couple of games that all came down to exciting endings at about the same time on Saturday, and there are plenty of games from this past week and future weeks that are fairly...
View ArticleQuick Hits: Games to keep an eye on
Lots of eyes on Iowa, where the first automatic bid of the season could be clinched, as well as on Indiana, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. But also, perhaps there’s something in Connecticut to note, or...
View ArticleATN Podcast: Starting 2011 with a bang
Redlands quarterback Chad Hurst led four second-half scoring drives in the Bulldogs’ win. The opening weekend of the season is exciting enough without all these hear-stopping finishes we had. North...
View ArticleTriple Take: Blemished and battling
Trevor Manuel leads Huntingdon with 177 all-purpose yards per game. Huntingdon athletics photo By the time Week 5 rolls past, the Division III landscape usually still has many unbeatens fighting...
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