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Re: Cornell vs. Albany 5/11 - NCAA Lacrosse First Round - 7 weeks ago
The rule about how many long sticks or wide nets applies to the whole field, not how many must be in the defensive half, so one more go on attack with a bigger stick isn't an infraction and anyway it's harder to shoot with long sticks or wide nets. IIRC, Albany circa 2100 (if not, then Stony Brook?) had a goalie so talented with stick-handling that on Albany man-ups, he played behind the oppoby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 7 weeks ago
Ongoing Terrier-opponent humor has it that Mahblehead was named for an erstwhile BU player. Remember, in the seventies, BU was closer to a commuter school. Now it's Top Fifty. John Silber, president and chancellor 1976-2002, was a regal and some said imperious leader. Silber once said, in effect: Some of the faculty don't work that hard and they should consider moving on. It was outrageous anby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell vs. Albany 5/11 - NCAA Lacrosse First Round - 7 weeks ago
BearLoverI praised the lacrosse team five posts prior to yours. But I’m happy to be in people’s heads even when I’m not posting. We're happy you've find a place to live where you're comfortable. But please don't about abusing rent control. At some point adults need to move out and on with their lives.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Who to root for beyond Cornell - 7 weeks ago
RichHKeeping the lax lenses on, they have been the most successful program in the league since Richie Moran’s last few years. Our best teams continuously butting heads over many generations leads to a lot of rivalry-fueled resentment & hate. They’re the lax equivalent of Harvard hockey, only they often win games in the ncaas. Be interesting to see how good -- correction consistently good -- aby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: 2025 NCAA Lax Tournament - Others - 7 weeks ago
The 1976 game was also excellent because overtime then was a pair of four-minute overtimes, not first-goal-wins. This is the more sensible way to settle a lacrosse match. Not just because Maryland got the first OT goal yet Cornell won by three. My fondest recall, other than coming back from that early deficit, was the final (I believe) OT goal where French and McEneaney both broke in on the Mby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2025 NCAA Lax Tournament - Others - 7 weeks ago
Cradle of lacrosse coaches.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: NCAA tournament: CU vs Richmond 5/19 - 7 weeks ago
CJ Kirst had three season highs, per Cornell stats: 13 -- Shots (at) goal 3 -- Caused turnovers 10 -- Ground balls ... 10 GBs? Guy thinks he's a midfielder as well. Kirst is now at (career) 247 goals, 97 assists, 338 points, 159 GBs, 63 CTs. His first three seasons' shooting percentage was .306, .367, .326 and this year .455, almost .100 better than all other years, This year, nearby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2025 NCAA Lax Tournament - Notre Dame Penn State - 7 weeks ago
Penn State 2 1 6 5 — 14 Notre Dame 3 5 4 0 — 12 Finalby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 7 weeks ago
Bertrand arrived at 25 and already have been an Ontario police officer. You lost a year of eligibility for every year you were Canadian and over 25. This did not applied to USA Americans if, for instance, they served in the military or were missionaries. It was a pretty blatant screw-Canadian-junior-hockey rule. I was about to say it would not have passed legal muster today although, who knows unby billhoward - Hockey
Who to root for beyond Cornell - 7 weeks ago
What's with all the hate for Princeton? Everyone has a matrix of who you love, who you hate, who you don't care about. But I think we ought to support our league if we believe we the other schools have some common ground, like our belief in taking over the world via LBOs. One hierarchy: My school (rah! Cornell!) My league (people like us but ... maybe includes a school that rejected us)by billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Meinig Fieldhouse Construction - 7 weeks ago
Scersk '97I like the two random flag wavers for the soccer game. You made me look closer. "Flag waver" is also a law enforcement term for exhibitionist.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: NCAA tournament: CU vs Richmond 5/19 - 7 weeks ago
Kirst Knust was an all-round All-America Saturday. Adding: Knust did not have a very good game in goal, as others have noticed.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: NCAA tournament: CU vs Richmond 5/19 - 7 weeks ago
A lot of pipes got rung in the Syracuse-Princeton nightcap as well. Never heard that many pipes.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2025-26 Incoming Freshman and Transfers - 2 months ago
Nice that we have an All-USHL second-team commit. And makes one wonder, where's the first team going to? I went to the Twitter page for the ND reporter, Brad Elliott Schlossman (who created the above post), and this guy posts enough enough interesting stuff to maybe lift X stock. He posts about a kid getting a hockey stick left for him, an ND NHLer coming back. He is @SChlossmanGF, which eithby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell v Yale 5/2 ILT SEMI - 2 months ago
I thought "fewer" as well. But one should think twice before correcting grammar in a barroom setting, and this comes close to that.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Available: Cornell Hockey Library - 2 months ago
BTW if you attend Cornell Club or regional events, sometimes there's a Cornelliana auction and sometimes it includes team jerseys. Circa 2000 at a Philadelphia event, there was a signed-by-players jersey and I got it with a $100 bid. You know the real jerseys run quite large? In Lake Placid in March, I saw a middle age person of girth wearing another team's real jersey and, jeez, it was prettby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Available: Cornell Hockey Library - 2 months ago
If no one else, Scott Pesner '87 is a rabid Cornellian and hockey fan, also current president of Cornell hockey association. If you DIY: Your best recipient has a big house and also the skills to digitize all the photos and printed material. You want an Epson FF-680W to scan standalone prints and documents of any length up to 8-3/4" wide (back side as well), fabulously quick, 20-30 sheetby billhoward - Hockey
Re: NCAA basketball 2025 - 2 months ago
rss77 According to Ivy League, Chat Cooper Noard just entered the portal. Wonder if Coach Jacques has any one coming through the portal? And see that Penn alums want to set up a collective. Whereas Cornell students haven't even, I believe, set up a collective farm.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2025 Rowing - 2 months ago
Some reasons for rowing on other than the Harlem River: It's filthy. Trust Harvard on this: . There can be strong tidal currents And the occasional object banging into the shell: Stroke! Stroke! Corpse!by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 — All-Ivy - 2 months ago
Suppose we have an off year next year but this year we excel in the playoffs, maybe even win it all. We will likely have good to excellent teams in 2026 and 2027 even if recruiting isn't as good as the previous four years. I've been thinking about Ivy lacrosse and ECAC hockey teams that have done well, win the NCAA title or least make finals weekend. Only 4 of 77 D1 lacrosse teams get that far. Tby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2025 — All-Ivy - 2 months ago
All-Ivy mentions first-second-HM: Cornell 11, Princeton 9. Cornell has attackman, midfield, defender of the year, no FOGO of the year named but Cascadden is first team FOGO. Unanimous All-Ivy: Kirst, D JaysonSinger. as well as A Coulter Mackesy and (Princeton). Princeton attackman Peter Buonnano was unanimous rookie of the year but did not make All-Ivy first/second/HM.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - Longshots - 2 months ago
upprdeck How has longshots been doing? Interesting to tell a story and not actually tell the location? Longshots is in Triphammer Marketplace, the old strip mall with an pedestrian walkway indoors, on the near side of Route 13, the one with Ithaca Re-Use, an Ithaca Bakery outpost, nice wine store, just-closed-this-month Ithaca Coffee, and in winter the farmer's market ... not the bigger indoor maby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
WederI went to the '07 Final Four in Baltimore and sat in the upper deck and enjoyed it a lot. But I like sitting higher at hockey and lax because I like being able to watch plays develop from that angle. It's not possible to get high enough at Lynah for my preference. Yep, we went last minute to a Devils game, sat center ice but maybe 5 rows from the top, saw patterns of play you don't see fromby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
I wonder if any other school in the running for a lax 2025 NCAAs berth has fans thinking this much, this early. Either we're paranoid or we are thinking of past experience.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
Schoellkopf is not an intimate experience, not with a (defunct, never to be used again) running track around it. The solution is: Move lacrosse to the new Ellis Hollow Road fields and build a really nice lacrosse maybe soccer field (tho they'd prefer natural grass) a la Princeton with everygreens at the ends and behind the stands. Or: Remove the track, move the Schoellkopf turf to butt up aby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
Schoellkopf is not an intimate experience, not with a (defunct, never to be used again) running track around it. The solution is: Move lacrosse to the new Ellis Hollow Road fields and build a really nice lacrosse maybe soccer field (tho they'd prefer natural grass) a la Princeton with everygreens at the ends and behind the stands. Or: Remove the track, move the Schoellkopf turf to butt up aby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
Advance-sale tickets appear to hosted by third-party sites and there are surcharges. That are not disclosed upfront. One can still buy at the gate. It's not worth asking about ticket allocation ratios/numbers for the schools. I'm not sure the NCAA would do other than spit back a gentle murmur of an answer that says nothing and implies, up yours, busybody. Do not worry about ticket availabby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Sabermetrics - 2 months ago
Arcane stats pump life into the sports off-season and into lagging sports between pitches. And WAR-type stats serve us in the search for a single statistic that defines, even, say, the punter: success getting the kick off/not blocked, hang time, distance, distance less return yardage, punts resulting in fair catches, punts downed inside the 20, 15, 10, 5 minus punts into the end zone, ability toby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
NBA style - 2 months ago
Is this the face of the new breed of Celtics fan? Gold chains? It is a long way from the fans who who applauded Russell, Cousy, Havlicek, Bird, Parrish.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Memorial Day Weekend Lacrosse Ticket Strategies - 2 months ago
The NCAA probably has who-sits-where figured out a week in advance, they know which four teams play the following Saturday, say A vs D in Game 1, then B vs C in Game 2... then on Monday it's either A vs. C or A vs. D, else B vs. C or B vs. D. You think about if fans want to be closer in Q2 and Q4 to the zone they attack (I think that's what more prefer, and for TV's sake it's nicer-easier to panby billhoward - Other Sports