I just found out that Johns Hopkins has started publishing an athletics blog, and from there discovered links to McDaniel and Centennial Conference blogs as well. As relative veterans of blogging ourselves (I refuse to use the media-created term blogosphere), D3football.com and D3hoops.com would like to welcome them aboard. We’ll add them to the links on both Daily Dose blogs when we get the chance.

The lower levels of college football aren’t necessarily blessed with great officiating. But sometimes top-notch men in stripes pass through on their way to bigger stadiums and bigger paychecks.

One such person is a Division III grad and former Division III official, Bernie Kukar. The full story, from the Cook County (Minn.) News-Herald.

Division III basketball fans made their opinions known last year on an ESPN.com poll regarding basketball rivalries, making Hope/Calvin the best rivalry by an overwhelming margin.

Now it’s your turn, football fans. As part of ESPN’s current promotional vehicle, where they are visiting all 50 states in 50 days, they have posted a fan poll for each of the 50 states.

It’s the Indiana poll we’re concerned with. The fifth question on the survey asks what the state’s best rivalry is, and DePauw vs. Wabash football is the last choice on the list (typical lack of respect), but is holding onto first place in the survey. As of this writing, the rivalry has 32.6% of the 15,767 votes, slightly ahead of some schools called Purdue and Indiana, who apparently play basketball.

Vote early. Vote often, or at least on any computer you can get to. Remind ESPN that there are other schools besides those in Division I.