How To Catch Bucknell/Lehigh (Broadcast Info), And Other Fearless Predictions

This weekend's Bucknell/Lehigh game, if you're not able to make it to Bethlehem, will be available to be viewed online for free thanks to the Patriot League Digital Network.

If you're in the Lehigh Valley, you don't need a TV since the game will be televised on Service Electric 2, with Mike Zambelli and Mike Yadush on the call.

You can listen to the game for free on www.espnlv.com (or on the radio at AM 1230 and 1320 of the Lehigh Valley), with Tom Fallon, Matt Kerr and Matt Markus on the broadcast team.

Game time is 12:30 PM.

And I will also say that if you follow my Twitter feed (@LFN), I'll do my best to keep up with the action.

Here's the preview of this week's games from the Patriot League Network:

Links to all the scores of Patriot League games:

Patriot League Scoreboard

There is only one Patriot League football game not airing at the same time as the game at Murray Goodman, but it's happenng 17 miles away in Easton as Georgetown faces off against Lafayette at 3:30 PM. The Patriot League Network is covering this one.

In terms of big games in the rest of college football, you should be able to get home in plenty of time to see the marquee matchup of the day, Auburn vs. Mississippi State, at 3:30 PM on CBS, or you can watch a marquee FCS matchup of nationally-ranked teams on NBC Sports Network as William and Mary takes on New Hampshire, Lehigh's Week 2 opponent, also at 3:30 PM.

In fact, putting those two games on picture-in-picture, and watching Liberty vs. Appalachian State on ESPN3 on a laptop or another screen seems like a fine use of an afternoon to a college footbal junkie like me. Liberty, an FCS school from the Big South, plays App State, the former FCS powerhouse-now-mediocre-member-of-the-Sun-Belt. Liberty is hoping this will be a regular think for the Flames and Mountaineers, especially if the Sun Belt ultimately accepts them as Sun Belt conference members.

That is if you're rather not watch Lafayette at 3:30.

Whatever you choose to watch, that should leave you plenty of time to get the ribs cooked for Penn State at Michigan, at 7:00 PM on ESPN2.

My picks for today's Patriot League games:

Lehigh 36, Bucknell 28 (game breakdown and fearless prediction here)
Holy Cross 29, Brown 26
Princeton 35, Colgate 17
Fordham 53, Penn 13
Lafayette 24, Georgetown 13

Bonus Pick: Penn State 35, Michigan 22

How The Ivy League Is Able To Break the NCAA's Scholarship Limits and Still Consider Themselves FCS

By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League....

UMass 21, Lafayette 14, halftime

Are you watching this game? UMass had this game under control until about 3 minutes in the second quarter, and then got an interception, converted for a TD. Then the Leopards forced a fumble off the return, and then converted THAT for a TD, making this a game. It's on CN8. You really should be watching this.

Examining A Figure Skating Rivalry: Tonya and Nancy

It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics. If you're of a certain age, though - whether you're a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating - the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples' attention, twenty years later. Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly , idiot "bodyguards", and the whole sordid affair? I think it's because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium. The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who...

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