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Re: Cornell 1 Union 1, 3rd - 19 years ago
When you click on Gametrack you get an audio ad that thrills you into thinking the game audio has come back. And it hasn't. Isn't GE up near Union? You'd think think they have the power over wired lines thing resolved.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 1 Union 1, 3rd - 19 years ago
A tie against Union in January is the kind of game that shouldn't happen. And for Cornell last year, all too oftendid.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: No free audio for Cornell@Union? - 19 years ago
At 6:50 EST, I just clicked on the Real Networks connection and the game showed up for free, which has me suspicious I signed up for the whole season or for an automatically renewing monthly subscription and it's not really free.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 0 Union 0, 1st - 19 years ago
Before the penalty, Haynes (?) has a breakaway that maybe takes 5 seconds and takes the announcers 10 seconds to try to describe in real time.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell 0 Union 0, 1st - 19 years ago
Not sure if gametracker has the actual lines or just a list of LW RW C etcetera. It shows LW - C - RW Vart - Abbott Chris - Sawada (who just drew a boarding call) Moulson - Bitz - Hynes Knoepfli - Iggulden - Carefoot Scott (it says) - Pegoraro - McCutcheon Pokoluk - Cook Krantz - O'Bryne Downs - Gleed McKee Chabotby billhoward - Hockey
Re: No free audio for Cornell@Union? - 19 years ago
Teach your girls to like hockey, maybe? I've got my older, the hockey player, off with a friend playing backyard hockey, the younger one is watching Simpsons or similar, and my wife is lamenting her best, single, friend's lack of male companionship. Got the game all to myself. Maybe if I'm lucky we can ditch the kids, drive up Saturday, and see the RPI game in person. My first date with my wife wby billhoward - Hockey
Re: No free audio for Cornell@Union? - 19 years ago
The whole f'ing month is $7 and you used to pay $5 a game. Aren't Cornellians paying thirty grand a year for the Cornell experience? What's $7 on top of that? How much is a pre-rolled joint now on campus? Which is more satisfying? (And doesn't give you the munchies?)by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Japanese Ballparks - 19 years ago
The Japanese thought *our* game of baseball was very loud? The bleeping Tokyo Dome is what's loud. Actually, it's the indoor park that's what's loud. It was kind of neat, having competing-brand beer girls (I think in Japan that's the term) running up and down with keg-backpacks with hoses on the kegs, and kneepads, because they kneel on the concrete to siphon out the beer. I don't know if thaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Article about Texas goaltenders - 19 years ago
Nicely written story. McKee has devoted parents: >>> McKee's parents, Carl and Pat, haven't missed a game since. They've immersed themselves in Cornell's puck-crazed community and spread the hockey gospel at home. They have a rental house in Ithaca and bring friends to David's games at Lynah Rink, the Fenway Park of college hockey. "The first time I went to a Cornell game, I wby billhoward - Hockey
Re: New Recruit - 19 years ago
A hidden ball trick you'd never see on instant replay?by billhoward - Hockey
Re: PWR volatile, Cornell -> #8t - 19 years ago
We definitely start out winning, if not necessarily strong, against soft teams like Army, Canisus, Sacred Heart, Mercyhurst, etcetera (except for the occasional upset) in the very first games. This year our status as the last unbeaten team was a combination of soft first couple games and everyone else playing 8-10 games (increasing the odds they'd lose one somewhere) as we got up to five games orby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell vs. Clarkson in The OC - 19 years ago
Way to go, California hockey! There are a bunch of Silicon Valley types, both the normal people and the normal people who hit it right in the dot com era, who are gaga over the Sharks. If California ever develops seropis college hockey, or lacrosse, Stanford will be in the Final Four darn quick. I'm still not sure why I picked Ithaca over Palo Alto other than it was a $5 bus ride home at Christmaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: PWR volatile, Cornell -> #8t - 19 years ago
Cornell seems to have a history of starting slow and finishing strong. Not just in hockey. Think lacrosse, too, both recent years and those Tim Goldstein - Joe Niewendyk (well, we could have hoped for Joe to play his other natural sport) teams circa 1987 that came from a just-over-.500 record to make the NCAA final four or almost make it. Maybe it's just our imagination that it's a Cornell-spby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Ask and you shall receive... - 19 years ago
jeh25 Wrote: jmh30 Wrote: *insert joke about uncertainty here* Policeman: License and registration please. Dr. Heisenberg: What seems to be the problem officer? Policemen: Do you have any idea how fast you were going? Dr. Heisenberg: No, but I know where I am.... One could also argue that because of Dr. Heisenberg's car being at speed, Doppler shift made the red light still appearby billhoward - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
Bah. That open source stuff is communism, communism I say! Are you a communist John? Perhaps it would be better put, "Are you a communist, John?" Remember Woody Allen got in trouble for trying to title "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" without the comma. Speaking of open source and the like, there was quite a ruckus at the Telematics Update forum the day before the Consumeby billhoward - Hockey
[OT] Sportswriting cliches - 19 years ago
Picking up on Darren's comment about drivel online: Cliches and sportswriting go together like, well, beer and Sunday afternoon football. Dan Jenkins in his novels does a good job of mimicking the best or worst of sportswriting, but one man can't track them all. There are something like 100 synonyms for defeated, almost as many as there are for boobs. (Playboy once counted them all. Talk abouby billhoward - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
You mean cast the universe so it doesn't revolve around Microsoft? Hah, that's a good one.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
Perhaps not here but in the outside world, the worst sin of all is Microsoft's smart quotes that are terribly dumb when it comes to things like Class of '94. It always gets that wrong, assuming it to be an opening single quote when it's the opposite, and the way to fix it is to type Class of'94 and then go back and insert the space before the open quote. Sheesh. Sometimes the smart quote glitby billhoward - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
Sportswriting is the place where all good cliches come home to roost, especially when the writer gives 110 percent (see, there's one right there). When you've got nothing else to write about, snapping a two-game winning streak is better than nothinglby billhoward - Hockey
Re: This Week's Column Up - 19 years ago
calgARI '07 Wrote: I had em losing at Harvard didn't I? You did, but on a bunch of systems, whatever character goes after the score reads as question mark, so it was like Cornell 1 ? Harvard 2 ?by billhoward - Hockey
RPI, Union way ahead in games played - 19 years ago
By the time Cornell pulls into RPI's field house Saturday, the Engineers will have played 24 games. Sheesh. Cornell is at 15 games played. Friday's game at Union will be Union's 22nd. On the bright side, RPI already has almost as many non-wins (14) as Cornell has games played (15). Only two teams have fewer conference losses than we do, and we have both chances left at one of the one-loss teaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: uscho's bracketology - 19 years ago
It is utterly silly to project bids halfway through the season ... which is what we all say *after* we've read the lengthy column, about half of which gets re-used each week.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lynah East Postmortem (slightly OT) - 19 years ago
The unofficial eLynah pager service I used - thank you Adam - was speedy, accurate, and passionate in reporting the Harvard penalties and the near scoring opportunities. If eLynah was non-profit charity, maybe I'd mention it in my will.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: BU's new rink - 19 years ago
And airlines won't accept an expired passport as proof of identification. (When you get a new one they send the old one back with a hole cut in it. But it's still you. And NJ will not issue you an ID card in addition to your driver's license; the idea being that you should leave your license in your wallet at all times and use the ID for things like airlines and bars ... because if you get toby billhoward - Hockey
Re: 1/28 - Cornell vs. Clarkson Cornell Alumni Happy Hour in NYC - Park Avenue Country Club - 19 years ago
Park Avenue Country Club is nice, large (but segmented) so there's lots to do if you show up early. If you take the Lexington Ave. local, get off at 28th Street.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell/Harvard on Sirius - 19 years ago
My recollection is Sirius or XM, sorry I can't remember which, would let nonsubscribers stream 20 mins via the Web and then get cut off, and I think you can then reconnect. Try that, too. Or just fork over the five bucks for the Cornell broadcast.by billhoward - Hockey
Need game updates (Harvard) - 19 years ago
If some kind soul could send me game updates, that would be much appreciated. I can't be by the PC except maybe the first period, if that. Send me a private msg if you can. Many thanks!by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 1/7/05: Cornell 4 Brown 1 (2nd) - 19 years ago
Save something for Saturday, Cornell.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: 1985-86 Cornell Hockey Poster - 19 years ago
Never even got the initial $15 minimum bid, alas. It looks like a cookie cutter poster: Team name top, team schedule bottom, in the middle a picture of a Dryden-era goalie mask leaning on a bottle of Budweiser (not Molson?).by billhoward - Hockey