SEPTEMBER 4, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH
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🏈  It’s Time to Kickoff the 2025 Football Season

🗞️ In Today’s Edition. Hello, Football. How to Stream Games This Fall. Comings and Goings. Amazon Ends Free Shipping Perk Program.

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1. Hello, Football

Thirteen games are on tap tonight as the 2025 Division III football season gets underway. Averett and North Carolina Wesleyan kick things off at 6 p.m. ET, while four other games cap off the evening with 8 p.m. kicks.

Fourteen more games are slated for Friday with the remaining 90 contests set for a fun-filled Saturday.

Three top-25 matchups highlight the docket on Saturday, as No. 2 Mount Union entertains No. 17 Wheaton (Ill.), No. 10 Cortland welcomes No. 23 Grove City to central New York, and No. 15 Wisconsin-Platteville travels to Chicagoland to take on No. 22 Aurora.

» Winningest Active Coaches. 1-Sherman Wood, Salisbury (214-118-1); 2-Mike Sirianni, Washington & Jefferson (194-46); 3-Andy Frye, Centre (180-88); 4-David Murray, Hamilton (174-163-1); 5-Geno DeMarco, Geneva (167-158); 6-Joseph Smith, Linfield (166-31); 7-Jeff McMartin, Central (163-50); 8-E.J. Mills, Amherst (153-70) and Steve Bell, Augustana (153-97); 10-Terry Horan, Concordia, Minn. (150-84).

» Top 10 Winningest Programs. 1-Mount Union (868), 2-Wittenberg (805), 3-Washington & Jefferson (790), 4-Widener (732), 5-Wabash (725); 6-Saint John’s (692);
7-Williams (676); 8-Franklin & Marshall (669); 9-Central (668), 10-Amherst (664).

» D3football.com Scoreboard

2. How to Stream Games This Fall

The age-old question of how to watch your favorite team play when you can’t be there is answered here with our links to DIII networks through Hudl, FloSport and Boxcast.

» Hudl. American Rivers, Atlantic East, Centennial, CCIW, Conf. of New England, Empire 8, Heartland, Middle Atlantic, MASCAC, Michigan, Midwest, Minnesota, NESCAC, North Coast, Presidents, SUNYAC, Upper Midwest, Wisconsin

» FloSports. Landmark, Little East, NEWMAC, Northwest, Ohio, Old Dominion, Southern California, Southern Collegiate, UAA.

» Boxcast. Allegheny Mountain

3. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

» Finances. “The University of Chicago is looking to cut $100 million in expenses after two years of deficits and “profound federal policy changes” under the Trump administration, according to university President Paul Alivisatos. He said that goal requires staff reductions. This year, the university plans to eliminate 100 to 150 staff jobs, including through layoffs, mostly tied to discontinuing university programs and activities.”

» Field Hockey. The NFHCA selected Penny Baroni, a sophomore forward/midfielder from Babson, and Myles Lakin, a sophomore goalkeeper from WPI as its Division III Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week.

» Coaches. Keene State field hockey coach Amy Watson became the 14th coach in NCAA history to record 500 career wins last weekend.

4. Comings and Goings 

• AUGUSTANA - Trevor Jossart resigned as assistant athletic director for communications

• CATHOLIC - Jason Bors named associate head men’s basketball coach

• CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT - Madison Hagen named assistant women’s basketball coach

• FARMINGDALE STATE - Jaylin Miller named assistant to the athletic director

• GETTYSBURG - Madelyn Yannetti named interim head softball coach

• HUNTER - Marc Gershel named head swimming coach

• JOHNSON AND WALES-PROVIDENCE - Kevin Casey resigned as head baseball coach

• MANHATTANVILLE - Jon Merceus named head men’s basketball coach

• MCLA - James Birge announced his retirement as president at the end of the academic year

• MINNESOTA MORRIS - Mike Weatherly named acting head golf coach

• OLD WESTBURY - Thomas Beirne named assistant baseball coach

• POTSDAM - Drew Gardner named assistant men’s lacrosse coach

• ST. LAWRENCE - John O’Connor and Padriac Condon named assistant men’s lacrosse coaches

• STEVENSON - Jordan Hoover named director of athletics

• SUFFOLK - Rich Tierney named assistant sports information director

• WESTMINSTER (Pa.) - Announced addition of women's acrobatics and tumbling and co-educational competitive cheerleading as varsity sports

• WILMINGTON - Danie Shafer named assistant women’s basketball coach

• WITTENBERG - Announced addition of competitive cheer as a varsity sport. Marley Hosier named head coach

5. Amazon Ends a Program That Lets Prime Members Share Free Shipping Perk With Users Outside Household

by Anne D’Innocenzio, AP

“Amazon is ending a program that allows members of its Prime membership subscription program to share their free shipping benefits with people who don’t have the same primary address.

In an update to the customer service section of its website, the online behemoth says it will eliminate the sharing on Oct. 1 and is encouraging users outside the household of the account holder to sign up for their own Prime subscription.

Amazon is encouraging users who don’t live with the account holder to subscribe to their own membership at a discounted rate of $14.99 for one year. After that, it’s $14.99 per month or $139 annually. The offer starts this Friday and is valid until Dec. 31, 2025.”

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