Things You'll Need:
- Computer
- Internet access
- TV
- Satellite service helpful
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Step 1
Cornell Cheerleader 1906The internet is amazing for following sports, and college sports are no exception. If you have a college team and/or are an alum, type "official athletics site" followed by the name of your school into a search engine. You can do similar with conference. This will get you rollin' and also introduce you to the variety of collegiate sports that exist, as official athletics sites tend to give something closer to equal opportunity to "non-revenue" sports than does the media of Joe Sixpack. Explore the site! Often you may even have opportunity via such sites to order inexpensive subscriptions to webcasts (audio but sometimes video too) of games that may not be available on TV or radio in your area. Sometimes such content is free.
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Step 2
Expand your search by locating online live scoreboards for the big sports and other slightly dated information on the non-revenue sports. Again, search engines are key. I've found that often the best way to utilize search engines is to go with your instincts. If what you're looking for is women's basketball scores, just type in "women's basketball scores"! Don't overcomplicate matters. You might, for instance, land on the WNBA when you wanted the NCAA, but then you can just keep the search parameters but add NCAA! There are sites for virtually every college sport that exists. Did you know that there's such thing as varsity bowling? There's also equestrian, or at least equestrienne. Oh, and there's varsity rifle too.
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Step 3
TV time. While the internet is good to have as the meat and potatoes of any college sports fanaticism, the TV is your dessert (other than actually attending games). Generally speaking it's better to get dish service than cable. We're not supposed to mention brand names (I let NCAA, NFL and WNBA slide), so let's just say that I chose a subscription DIRECTly. While the basic packages carry a lot of channels that show college sports, the inexpensive sports packs are worth it! I'm not talking about the high priced pro sports add-ons, but rather the kind where you get like three dozen extra sports channels for dirt cheap. These are the channels that show the less-hyped games and roads to campuses less traveled that I enjoy immensely! You see the smaller conferences, tight gyms, and funny nicknames and mascots that make college sports special! While these channels add to your variety of football and basketball match-ups, they are nearly essential for viewing such collegiate sports as hockey, volleyball, soccer, etc.
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Step 4
Back to the internet! Once you have fifty or so channels on which you receive college sports, the hard part is dealing with all that! How in the heck do I know who's playing whom in what sport, and on what channel at what time? Fear not, for I have located online comprehensive TV guides for college sports and I shall share them with you. The best part is that I have nearly as much fun sitting in front of the computer and writing down on steno pad all of the games and channels at my disposal on any given day. Using a printer would take half the fun out of it! If you scroll down to the bottom of this page to "References", you will find a couple of links to college sports on TV.
Comments
02SmithA said
on 7/8/2008 Love those college sports! Nothing better! Go Buckeyes!
amylaine said
on 6/18/2008 Sounds like you know what your talking about. Thanks for sharing.