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Re: Opponent news 20-21 - 18 days ago
Trotsky Per posts on the USCHO Cafe the state of Alaska threw in the towel on their hockey programs the instant their budgetary oil credits went tits up. A year ago the governor squeezed the whole state university system with a 41% cut in funding, along deep cuts to Medicaid and other programs.by David Harding - Hockey
Opponent news 20-21 - 18 days ago
Hope I'm not jinxing anything, but is seems time to move on from the 19-20 season thread. Clarkson, Mercyhurst, Northern Michigan, Bemidji State, UAH, LIU, and Oswego are all picking up players from the dormant and probably moribund UAA squad.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: COVID-19 & ice rinks - 18 days ago
Chris H82 came across these 2 articles - a bit of science, a bit of conjecture. A cluster of cases at an Anchorage hockey tournamentby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Alumni in the Pros 2020-2021 - 28 days ago
George64 Forever Blueshirts on Morgan Barron Painful writing.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Men's Basketball 2020-21 - 7 weeks ago
Ken711 Athletes at Ivy League schools can’t redshirt. They have eight semesters on campus and eight semesters to be eligible. With that in mind, 10 of Jones’s players at Yale opted out this fall — not just of the season, but of school — with hopes of returning when things return to normal. They’re working at internships and trying to better themselves.by David Harding - Other Sports
Re: Attention hockey fans . . . - 8 weeks ago
Several years ago we were driving outside Toronto and our GPS sent us onto am all-electronic tool road. Back home in Illinois a couple of months later we got a bill in the mail. FWIW, Illinois's I-Pass is integrated with EZPass. The big question is when will the border open up so the issue is relevant for Ontario drivers?by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Bill Lazor- Coaching in NFL - 2 months ago
The Chicago Bears hired Bill Lazor as Offensive Coordinator in January 2020. The team offense, especially the line, has struggled this season with Head Coach Matt Nagy calling the plays. Magy finally turned play-calling over to Lazor for yesterday's game. Things didn't go any better, but Chicago Tribune “It’s not easy your first time,” Nagy said. “Trust me, Bill Lazor’s a competitor. He careby David Harding - Other Sports
Re: Cornell in the Movies - 2 months ago
Trotsky upprdeck There is a reference to Cornell in the new Netflix series Queens Gambit . A book the main char picks up on some mathematical theory shows Cornell on the cover for the writer. I was going to go back and see if its a real book. MONOMIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND SYMMETRIC PRESENTATIONS BY ALICE HARMON, PH.D. Some Group Theory shit. It's s'posed to be good for you.by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Ivy League looking to move Fall sports to Spring - 2 months ago
Archer skeptical about spring football happening. “How on earth do you appropriately schedule the facilities, the training staff, and all of the shared resources at work?” Archer said. “Who would you give priority to? Would you say, ‘Man, the winter and spring kids got their season crushed — I guess they get first priority.’ And then what do we do, go to Schoellkopf at 10 o’clock at nightby David Harding - Other Sports
"Number Crunching the Beautiful Game" - 2 months ago
From "Physics Today" A stochastic model that analyzes the movements of a handful of players correctly reproduces the statistics of nearly 2000 real-life soccer games. There's a link to the original paper, whose abstract reads In this paper, we study interaction dynamics in the game of football–soccer in the context of ball possession intervals. To do so, we analyze a database coby David Harding - Other Sports
Re: I'll bet Dave never had a day like this - 2 months ago
billhoward ursusminor It was apparently an Olympia. The genesis of the story correction had to be: a Zamboni PR person sees a story like this calling the ice resurfacer by the generic "Zamboni," freaks out, alerts Zamboni legal, and a sharply worded message goes out. Most small town media outlets shift gear immediately, and in this case it's the right thing to do. Much like Kleenex andby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Collegetown Bagels to move, not close - 3 months ago
David Harding A Cornell Sun reviewers pans CTB bagels. CTB’s main business relies on pedaling a product that relies on sentimentality, and not pure quality. In short, people don’t buy these bagels for their outstanding taste or texture, but to relieve the experiences that they’ve had at CTB. ... One student described them most eloquently as “Bread formed into the shape of a bagel,” and anoby David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Collegetown Bagels to move, not close - 3 months ago
A Cornell Sun reviewers pans CTB bagels. CTB’s main business relies on pedaling a product that relies on sentimentality, and not pure quality. In short, people don’t buy these bagels for their outstanding taste or texture, but to relieve the experiences that they’ve had at CTB. ... One student described them most eloquently as “Bread formed into the shape of a bagel,” and another as “a smaby David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Columbia bandied about - 4 months ago
Columbia marching band disbands. The band admitted to “sexual misconduct, assault, theft, racism and injury to individuals and the Columbia community as a whole.”by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Snitches on campus (we made the New York times} - 4 months ago
From the Cornell Sun The shift up in alert levels came after Cornell identified 39 cases associated with an initial cluster and “related cluster” of COVID-19 cases linked to social gatherings — 36 of the 39 cases are among student athletes, Provost Mike Kotlikoff and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi wrote in a Thursday email to the Cornell community. Within those 39 caseby David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: We made the Washington Post - 4 months ago
The Sun reports a cluster of 9 students testing positive "following several small social gatherings where people did not social distance or wear masks." The Vice President for Student and Campus Life is reported to have emailed that "multiple students have already been temporarily suspended for reported violations of the behavioral compact."by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Rules Changes? - 5 months ago
French Rage ursusminor osorojo How about a "Hockey Lite" League where the whole GAME is 3-on-3? Fans who who prefer watching scoring rather than playing would be thrilled, hockey teams (corporations) could reduce their employee overhead by at LEAST 40% and advertisers could tailor their ads to appeal to brain-dead consumers/hockey fans. Does anyone know what the fan reaction was whenby David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 5 months ago
French Rage Any truth to the statement that the Cayuga Medical Center only has one ventilator and they got it from the Cornell Vet School? In March CMC said they had 25 ventilators.by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Rules Changes? - 5 months ago
osorojo How about a "Hockey Lite" League where the whole GAME is 3-on-3? Fans who who prefer watching scoring rather than playing would be thrilled, hockey teams (corporations) could reduce their employee overhead by at LEAST 40% and advertisers could tailor their ads to appeal to brain-dead consumers/hockey fans. With social distancing rules in effect on the ice and on the bench.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 5 months ago
upprdeck student getting tested twice a week should be interesting.. I wonder how often the staff will get tested They pretty consistently say testing the whole Cornell community.by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Donate to charity for Cornell hockey in a "player's" name - 5 months ago
This year the competition was fundraising prowess, not hockey.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Cornell 2020-21 plans - 5 months ago
upprdeck If they do the testing as they say they will they can make it happen.. how they do the testing who knows. Plans were to be full on saliva pool testing to save money and increase capacity. still havent seen signs of that. Cornell has a big med college, maybe they have plans to send tests to NYC on the bus and back every day for turn around. Frazier: Number one, those who live inby David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Louis Agassiz - 5 months ago
Sage Chapel plaque In memory of Louis Agassiz LL.D. 1807-1873. In the midst of great labors for science throughout the world he aided in laying the foundations of instruction at Cornell University and by his teachings here gave an impulse to scientific studies which remains a precious heritage. The trustees in gratitude for his councils and teachings erect this memorial in 1884 A grouby David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell on TV - 6 months ago
The Chapins on Merv Griffin introduced as being "all out of Cornell University," though I think only Harry actually attended Cornell. Tom went to SUNY Potsdam.by David Harding - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Incoming football recruit kicked off team - 6 months ago
Ken711 And the Sun's version.by David Harding - Other Sports
Re: Season's Over - 7 months ago
Trotsky Scersk '97 Jeff Hopkins '82 Scersk '97 Jeff Hopkins '82 If it's fossil fuels, you're only kicking the can down the road. Depends on the fossil fuel. Of course, we shut down Ward… Nuke isn't considered a classic fossil fuel. Fine, fine. Uranium is not made of compacted dead organisms, but we do get it (mostly) out of the ground!All energy came from the sun at some point... Or somby David Harding - Hockey
Re: LIU adds men's hockey - 7 months ago
ugarte jkahn With UAH dropping hockey, there's now a way that LIU can get themselves an instant D-1 team. And that former UAH squad with the LIU location would be a good fit for the ACHA.i don't know if LIU is far enough out on the Island to avoid culture shock If LIU is recruiting from the same pools that everyone else is, the team probably won't look a whole lot different than UAH.by David Harding - Hockey
Re: Indoor Practice Facility - 8 months ago
dag14 Noel also noted that construction is at least a year out and given the pandemic issues he is comfortable with the timing . He also discussed potential locations with 2 central campus locations in the running. He favors putting it where the field hockey turf currently sits; the President et al prefer the spot east of the soccer field where the shot put, discus, et al throwing happens. Alsby David Harding - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2020 - 8 months ago
dag14 The University has a hiring freeze in effect across the board because of COVID 19 so Athletics can't post the position now even if they wanted to. Hiring freeze announcement on March 30. Hiring Freeze – We are implementing a university-wide hiring freeze on staff and temporary workers. Any exceptions must be approved via a process that is being established. All academic hires will be carefby David Harding - Other Sports
Illinois not quite there - 9 months ago
Illinois seems have been poised to announce that they were going DI in ice hockey, with money for a new arena lined up, but the pandemic and economic uncertainty is at least postponing the formal announcement.by David Harding - Hockey