New Vols sports calendar for Outlook, iCal, Google calendars, etc.

#52
#52
This is a great thing you have done, Vercingetorix. You have done your university and online community a great favor. Thanks a heap.
 
#53
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herkyvol said:
This is a great thing you have done, Vercingetorix. You have done your university and online community a great favor. Thanks a heap.
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My pleasure. I just got sick of wishing something like this existed, so I figured I'd do it myself.

Scroll on out there to September 2019. Cool, huh?
 
#57
#57
I have been searching all morning for a feed from the vols website. Not there. I found your post and wanted to thank you so very much for doing this. I am a Mac user and this was very simple to use. Go vols!

PS> Check out the 14th of August. Appears to be a personal event. Might want to remove it. or invite us all to Steves for Whiskey!
 
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smr4vols said:
PS> Check out the 14th of August. Appears to be a personal event. Might want to remove it. or invite us all to Steves for Whiskey!
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What time should we come, Vercingetorix? Is this BYOB, or are you buying?

Thanks again for your calendar efforts.
 
#59
#59
Just a note that this calendar has been updated to include game times and TV information for the entire men's basketball schedule. Baseball coming soon.

(Just saw that about the whiskey event -- heh. Sorry about that. You guys missed out. Steve is a friend who has what may be the best personal single malt collection in the US. He buys it a lot faster than he drinks it, so every couple of months he has a few folks over and opens up a few bottles. It's better stuff than you can buy in all but a very few places. Good times.)
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I got tired of wishing somebody else would set this up, so I went ahead and did it myself. I've set up a publicly accessible web calendar for UT sports that includes football, men's and women's basketball, and baseball schedules. It includes future schedules as far out as we have them; it will be updated with game times and TV networks as they become available. It will include things like signing day, the start of spring practice, and the O&W game, as well as other things of interest that might pop up -- for example, if it had been set up last year, I probably would have added the women's softball championships once it became obvious that our girls would be playing for a championship on ESPN. That sort of thing. My aim for it is to include everything that you, the UT fan, might care to know about.

The point of this kind of a calendar is that you can "subscribe" to it in your calendar application of choice -- Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, etc. -- and then from then on, everything in it automatically shows up in your own calendar. Even better, you then sync your Blaker-style smartphone or PDA with that application, and presto, now you're carrying around the schedules for all our teams with you all the time. Including not only this year's football schedule, but next year's. And future dates all the way out, like that September 9, 2017 game we've got scheduled in Neyland against Nebraska. I'll update game times and TV information as it becomes available, since I tend to be obsessive about that sort of thing, so when you're sitting there in September wondering whether the Alabama game in late October is going to be at night, you can pull out your cell phone, see that it still says "All Day" for that game, and be confident that it hasn't been determined yet.

Clearly, some drone in UT's sports information department ought to be doing this, but nobody is. So now I am. And I figure that this is something that might interest other UT fans as well. I hope somebody else finds it useful too. Suggestions are more than welcome; if you find this useful, please let me know what else I should include in it.

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The address for the calendar is:
webcal://ical.me.com/andrew_coleman/Vols_Sports.ics

That's what you paste into your calendar application. It's trivially easy in Google Calendar or Mac OS X's iCal; I'm no longer an Outlook user, but apparently it's just as easy to do in the latest version of Outlook. If you use Outlook 2003, you can install a free Outlook plug-in and do the same thing. (I tested it on my wife's laptop; takes about 10 minutes, and you have to install a couple of Microsoft Office updates as well, but it's pretty easy and it works fine.) If you'd like to try this out and need some guidance setting it up, by all means let me know.

OUTLOOK 2003 UPDATE: Google has now come out with something called "Google Calendar Sync," which is supposed to be compatible with Outlook 2003. I have not tried it, but if it's from Google, I bet it works. I would think that you'd have to subscribe to the calendar in your Google Calendar, and then sync THAT up with Outlook using their plugin. Link: Getting started with Google Calendar Sync - Calendar Help Center

EDIT: Vader reports below that he need to change the webcal:// to http:// in the above URL in order to add this to his Google calendar. Worth noting.

EDIT 2, July: Had to change the web address. Initial post updated with the new link, which should be permanent. Calendar now includes 2010 season and as many game times as we already have for the 2008 season.
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That's cool...Thanx
 
#61
#61
Great job. I imported into iCal on my Mac. Not getting any TV info, but otherwise will be great for the iphone.
 
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VolnTitan said:
Great job. I imported into iCal on my Mac. Not getting any TV info, but otherwise will be great for the iphone.
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I've got the TV info in the event titles. Example: Tuesday night's basketball game should say "VOLS vs UT-Martin (SportSouth)." You don't see that?
 
#65
#65
This is awesome. Thanks! :D

I'm using it on Google & can't see TV info; however, I will continue looking. I'm new to this so I may be looking in the wrong area. Google users, any suggestions?
 
#67
#67
This is totally cool!!! There's an auburn fan in my office who is pretty jealous!! ROFL!!
 
#69
#69
Could I get somebody to refresh and see whether "SportSouth" shows up in the title of tonight's game now? I think the no-TV problem was something on my end...
 
#70
#70
I'm trying (and very new to) Windows Live and am having problems updating the calendar. I don't see any way to manually update. Anyone know how? It is a beta.
 
#73
#73
I'm updated and looking good. Very nice to know where to find the game quickly.
 
#75
#75
just thought i'd say thanks again Vercingetorix since I reinstalled windows and had to do the calender again on google , which was wierd since google is not on my computer,and just to bump it so new members can use it too
 
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