It’s finally time to play ball

It’s that time of year again. Can’t you just smell it in the air? It’s almost time for baseball season to start. On the professional level, the first pitch of the first spring training game will be thrown in 10 days. Most college baseball teams begin their seasons in the first or second week of March, which, depending on where the school is located, can often result in a large amount of cancelations or postponements. This wasn’t so much of an issue for Marietta College last season, as they went on to win their fourth National Championship in school history. And while Marietta deserves coverage here (which they will get during their championship defense), I found something else that deserves recognition.

Virtually the only site devoted to covering everything about Division III sports is D3sports.com. It has two other sites that are devoted specifically to football (d3football.com) and basketball (d3hoops.com). Both sites have weekly rankings, analysis, features, commentaries, statistics - everything a fan could look for. As you’d probably imagine, I have spent way too much time on these sites. You can also understand why I was ecstatic to read that d3sports.com had added a new site: d3baseball.com.

The website, which is only a week or so old, is the upgraded version of a formerly self-maintained D-III baseball site. Jim Dixon, the website’s creator, approached d3sports.com about combining his site with theirs. The rest, as they say, is history.

This is a great step towards increasing national coverage of D-III sports. Now three of the four major sports have their own websites - awesome.

Play ball.

Posted February 17, 2007 at 7:05 pm by Andrew | Share on Facebook
Categories: baseball, d3sports.com

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  1. Pat Coleman, D3hoops.com on February 19th, 2007 4:47 am

    I am guessing that you would tag lacrosse as the fourth major sport? Wish I could say we have something in the works on that, but alas, we don’t.

  2. lovell on February 19th, 2007 12:34 pm

    I’m still more of a traditionalist, so I consider hockey the fourth major sport. But I love what you guys are doing with the new baseball site.

  3. Pat Coleman, D3hoops.com on February 19th, 2007 11:37 pm

    Gotcha. The folks at USCHO.com do a good job with D-III and give it a great deal of respect, so we are content to do what we’re doing.

  4. TGP on February 22nd, 2007 12:08 pm

    http://www.laxpower.com provides good coverage of lacrosse at all levels (hs, d3, d2 and d1). includes posting boards and many of the same attributes that d3sports.com does.

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