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Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 8 weeks ago
Scersk '97With Johnny's, the Palms, the one I can't even mention without getting very, very sad, and others gone, there's so little left. It's like the Chanticleer and the Creeker and that's it. Where is historic preservation when you need it? I'd rather the Palms still be around than, say, the snail darter. Which actually is still around although a Tennessee dam that threatened them was builby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 8 weeks ago
I'm feeling good about Cornell's chances in the ECAC tournament: the ability to have a first-round bye, then home ice at Lynah for the quarterfinals March 15-17, then second or third seeding in the semifinals (and 7:30 not 4 pm faceoff in Lake Placid March 22 to make it easier to drive up Friday). Quinnipiac would need a historic meltdown to not be seeded first. Woe unto whoever comes into LPby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
scoop85 Kudos to Brian Earl and his staff for building this team with guys who were, by and large, unheralded recruits with few if any other D1 offers. And how about walk-on AK Okereke who scored 12 points today? He fills an important roll on the team and is getting better each game. While an Ivy League title is a long way off, it will be nice to see Cornell listed in this week’s Joe Lunardiby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's Sprint Football HC stepping down - 2 months ago
Can a team escape the web of Title IX and equal opportunities just b/c the team is self-funded? Many dozens of men's basketball teams could self-fund and ignore Title IX. If they haven't already, somebody may try to litigate it.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 2 months ago
nshapiro When we had the one bit of possession in OT, their skater backed into his own net and dislodged it with no push from a Cornell skater. Shouldn't that be a delay penalty? If the ref thought he backed or slid in as part of getting close to the net, then it's no penalty. And a penalty call also makes Cornell a likely winner with a 4x3 if called, so the refs saw nothing callable.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 2 months ago
What a depressing finish, to wit being outshot in regulation and still be one lucky shot away from a 3-2 regulation win, then getting out-possessioned in the 3x3 OT then losing the shootout without getting even one goal. Some of the Cornell hockey good karma got siphoned into the Cornell basketball karma and that 16-point win over Princeton. All that matters is we get enough points in the ECAby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 2 months ago
No offense, Dartmouth, but: It's 7 pm. Your house not ours. There appear to be more people warming up on the ice than sitting in the stands.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
I'm feeling good about making it to LP as the 2 or 3 seed then taking down Q in the title game. Then they gotta take us. But not feeling so good Cornell shouldn't beef up RPI.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 2 months ago
marty Iceberg Dartmouth hasn't won too many games since the end of the winter break and lost in OT yesterday. The game is in Hanover, though, so it'll probably be closer than it needs to be I always find Hanover closer than it needs to be. And farther than any Cornell teams wants to be if it it loses in Hanover and faces that glum 5-1/2 ride home. Another reason to bring home a W. We had to manyby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
The home win over Princeton was a fair possibility. But by 16 points, 83-67. Whoa!by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
Feeling better now that it's +20 with 2:33 to play? We made some mistakes, but Princeton also tried those long 3-pointers.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
Thank you Princeton for that airball 3-point attempt from just inside midcourt and then Cornell's return dunk to keep the lead well above 10.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
With 5+ minutes gone, Princeton has only picked up +1 points versus the halftime margin.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
mike1960 So far, so good. 1. Up by 19 at the half over Princeton, that's incredible. 2. Versus Princeton in hoops is like versus Harvard in hockey. But there are lots of empty seats. 3. The TV image quality is good; hockey is marginal, perhaps because Cornell's lighting is bush league compared to new rinks such as Colgate and Quinnipiac.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - 2 months ago
I see mention of a second level in building. 500 should hold most of the fans for the February / early March games. I recall attendance numbers of 250-500 at Schoellkopf for early lax games. Once the place is open, and since non-athlete students are said to be getting some level of access, I bet Cornell wishes it had the money to build two indoor fields.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
The color guy correction rink side guy is a little stiff. He also asked a two-part question between periods of the player rather than one and a follow-up. Also not sure why they use a greenscreen background of the empty rink once the game has started. I mean, Bright actually had some fans there. When the announcers announce "rink is full" they should have shown on-ice action asby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell's new baseball stadium - "Booth Field" - 2 months ago
SwampyWith luck, including great coaches and continued stellar recruiting, and assuming Ithaca weather does its part, there will be a couple of indoor games per year, and the lines to get tickets will resemble those to get season hockey tickets during the late sixties and early seventies. The early-season games draw a couple hundred people. But I'm unclear if limited seating means 100 or 1,000. Iby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's Sprint Football HC stepping down - 2 months ago
Trotsky "Thank God there is still a sport for middle-sized white boys." Yesterday in Manhattan, we were solicited by a Black guy selling tickets to a comedy club. As I walked past, he said, "We need White boys." I told him, "Look up Colin Jost. He counts as two." Got the guy to laugh. Wasn't as pushy as people selling the double-decker bus tours of Manhattan. Thursdaby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Indoor sports facility announced - 2 months ago
David Harding One step at a time. Ithaca Planning Board has some suggestions. Ithaca Voice The board had some suggestions. Daniel Correa lauded the use of Sasaki Associates as landscape architect, but felt the landscaping was lacking in interest, and suggested decorative boulders or a small-quad like layout, and Chair Mitch Glass added that “it needs a lot more attention.” Emily Petrina likeby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's new baseball stadium - "Booth Field" - 2 months ago
Chris H82 Photos? I keep meaning to snap a photo when we drive past Game Farm Road (a bad name if it makes people think we're in the middle of farm country) but it's not exactly right alongside the highway. Hopefully there will be stately trees at the new sports facility in a decade or two. I wonder if there's room to be buried among the trees, outside the stadium.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell's Sprint Football HC stepping down - 2 months ago
It's also a good idea -- a form of football that takes into account the inequities when some college mainstream football teams have front lines that average 300 pounds. The most a sprint player can weigh is 178 pounds at weigh-in 4 and 2 days before the match, I believe it is, meaning about 185 maybe 190 after the weigh-in. In 50 years the max weight at weigh-in has gone up 20 pounds.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
arugula billhoward We lost in the fall before the team realized how bad Harvard would be. We lost to their reputation. This. Last year was similar. We lost twice to a great Harvard team because we didn’t believe we could win. Or that. When we lost in the fall, Harvard was five games removed from a 24-8-3 seasons with 3 wins over Cornell including the ECAC semifinal game. They are 3-11-3 enteby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell admissions - 2 months ago
Still unsure if the record number of applications is because Cornell is a totally excellent university, or because Cornell accepts the common application. How many Princeton-intenders decide on Cornell as a safer if not safe-admissions choice? Do colleges have a way of sussing what is really the applicant's first choice? Is it the reachiest of the reach schools? Or maybe the Ivies have doby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: NIL - 2 months ago
Weder Trotsky George64 Free-agentry - Couldn’t think of a better place to post this.Confused. Thought that rule was dead? You get the first transfer with immediate eligibility now, but you need to complete a year at School 2 before you can transfer to School 3 unless you get a waiver. That description may be what troubles the Justice Department: that players aren't free to jump at any time, inby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Men’s Basketball 23-24 - 2 months ago
Trotsky Any chance Cornell gets into the polls this year, even as "Also receiving votes"? It could happen with a tailwind and a few more W's including against Princeton and Yale. The AP Top 25 has 46 teams including the also-receiving-votes. Princeton is one of the also-mentioned. Here is the Ivy League power rankings. Read from the bottom to see which team might upset us. NCAAby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell at Harvard, 1/26 - 2 months ago
We lost in the fall before the team realized how bad Harvard would be. We lost to their reputation.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
Wow! I thought I was good at thread-drift. There is competition and that improves the breed. Thank you for keeping me on my toes. The high-end clothes if they can't or shouldn't be burned, could be shredded. They aren't produced in quantities like Zara. They aren't quirks that were done up in advance for the team that wound up losing the Super Bowl. So it's manageable. But if you send the cloby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
Exactly: took the golf supplement. Me too. I've played maybe 3 dozen rounds of golf, lifetime, so why not read more about it. Because you checked a box, it could be said you opted in or were a qualified and interested reader, which shows value to the advertiser. Every pub wants highly qualified readers. Especially the ones with money: I love the WSJ fashions for men (and women). A man's winteby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
martyI remember Ziff Davis mostly for double billing me for a magazine and then threatening collection (IIRC). I do remember that the only way a poor guy like me living in suburban Chicago could get their attention was to write a complaint to the NYS AG (Louis Lefkowitz?). Suddenly I was no longer invisible and was treated like a VIP. Geez, why didn't you call me? I would have taken care of itby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: AI killing SI - 2 months ago
marty Bill, I thought you would comment but really wondered if you have ever heard of this: It was she who oversaw the “advance text” portion of the mag, stories that mostly ran only in subscriber issues (versus newsstand), and only then for subscribers in affluent zip codes. In addition to regional editions (1-2 pages that are different for NYC, NJ, CT, NYS outside NYC), publications target morby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead