(Note: this appeared in conjunction with the DP's 2009 joke issue.)

This year Penn fans found a new source to view original reporting reposted DP stories on Fire Glen Miller, a student run blog.

But after seeing how low the standards were for starting a basketball blog, coach Glen Miller has decided to create his own blog for the 2009-10 season GlenMillerIsActuallyQuiteNiceOnceYouGetToKnowHim.com.

"It's important that the public gets my point of view of things, since not everyone can attend my press conferences in which I passive agressively blame Dunphy for this year's weak senior class," the third-year coach said.

Miller says some highlights of the blog will be the "Coachspeak Corner" where he'll define one phrase each day that Penn fans might not quite get (the first entry explains how "senior leaders" mean just him). In addition, he'll have a "One game at a time feature" which lists all of Penn's upcoming games -- starting and ending with the team's next game.

But without a doubt the feature Miller is most looking forward to is a form players can fill out announcing their attention to transfer from the program.

"This will be great," Miller said.  "The best part is that it automatically sends a reply saying ‘I wish you the best in future endeavors.' God that was awkward with Remy and Harrison."

Note: As we move into basketball season, items about the Big 5 will be included in "Random Notes"

1) Philly.com has launched a new college basketball blog dedicated to City Six hoops. Not only will the blog have posts from the Inquirer's college sports staff of Mike Kern, Bob Cooney and Dick Jerardi, but five of the six City Six coaches will also post their thoughts.

Interestingly, Villanova's Jay Wright -- in classic we're-too-good-for-the-rest-of-the-city fashion that Villanova demonstrated when it almost left the Big 5 -- "was not able to make the commitment because of his busy schedule during the season," according to the first post. Is his schedule really that much busier than any of the other coaches? The only possible answer is that the Big East does involve more traveling than the other conferences represented in the city, as the Wildcats travel to Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois and Indiana for conference play. (Ironically, their farthest non-conference game is at Madison Square Garden.)

2) Nittanydelphia, a blog dedicated to Penn State and Philadelphia sports, is publishing previews of all Big 5 teams.  Here is Penn's entry. From there you can find the other schools' as well.

3) Many preseason publications had the Harvard men's basketball team finishing as high as third in the conference. One key reason voters saw the Crimson moving up from seventh to third was 6-foot-10 freshman sensation Andrew Van Nast. However, Van Nast has injured his shoulder and will miss the entire year. The Crimson are not completely out of luck, since they do return all five starters from last year.

4) Looking over the Sagarin NCAA football ratings, four Ivy League teams are ranked above at least one FBS team. Harvard is the top Ivy team at no. 135 and is ahead of eight FBS teams, including Washington State of the PAC-10.  No. 156 Brown is ahead of two FBS schools, and both No. 162 Penn and No. 165 Yale are ahead of No. 171 North Texas.