Happy Memorial Day Weekend

Some dibs and dabs while you are getting your BBQ's ready for this weekend or loading up your IPod with music:

1) While you're looking for stuff for your IPod, you can download the latest I-AA Waves radio show which features an interview with (you guessed it) me, talking about the preseason Any Given Saturday poll and why there are no Patriot League schools in the Top 25.

2) HoyaSaxa.Com has a special memorial day blog entry which talks about why the Hoyas are silver and blue, and talks briefly about those Hoya alums who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Go read - you're not working right now or anything, are you?

3) You may have looked at the blog an noticed that things are, well, a little different. That's because I've been making some small tweaks to the interfaces of the blog, and I've been updating the "I-AA Stadium Finder" at the bottom of the page. (Call it, if you will, some last-minute "spring cleaning".) I've upgraded to the latest version of the Google Maps API (v2.0), and as a result I've cleaned up the code and made some subtle changes, making it work more like how it was intended, and making it a bit faster. It's a work in progress, but the main work is done. Check it out!

4) If you don't know, as a Lehigh fan you have another reason to rejoice this summer: Lafayette's Fisher Field is getting a badly-needed facelift, with new seats and a new turf. (No more picking splinters off your butt after Lehigh/Lafayette!) Want to see what's happening behind enemy lines? Here's a webcam that shows you the progress.

5) Hard to believe, but it's 100 days until Lehigh kicks off against Albany September 2nd.

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!

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