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Re: 2024 Awards - 26 days ago
Al DeFlorio Shane named to All-CHN second team: Looks like the Boston phone directory. Do they still print directories? Nine of the 18 are Boston players (um, BU and BC, not Harvard, not Northeastern). All skaters (except all-rookie) are freshmen or sophomores. Ian Shane is the only junior (or senior). All-CHN First Team F Macklin Celebrini, Fr., Boston University F Cutter Gauthier, So., Bby billhoward - Hockey
Men's lax: CU-Notre Dame Sunday 4/14/24 - 27 days ago
Cornell vs. #1 Notre Dame, Sunday 4/14 12:30 on Long Island at Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium (LIU Stadium), Old Westbury. Seats "over 6,000." Tickets via Cornell link, $25 including parking. HS game Manhasset vs Shoreham Wading River boys lax follows. Be worth getting tickets in advance. The Irish have a large NYC contingent, it could sell out. Notre Dame has been #1 all seby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Rowing - 28 days ago
Right. You want to be an informed spectator, you should be willing to pay for it. So, paying for a seat in the stands and a jumbotron, and somebody to explain which boat is which, that has value. Or does the announcer intersperse race news with shoutouts to Merrill Lynch and Boeing Aerospace Systems and other valued sponsors?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 28 days ago
Wish I'd taking more courses on statistics and probabilities. I wish we'd gotten the OT goal against Penn and then it'd be simple. I wish I was drinking buddies with Nate Silver. All roads not taken.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 29 days ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 One last thought for completeness. If both Cornell and Princeton win out, we win the H2H with Princeton. Princeton winning out means they beat Penn 4/20 and Yale 4/27.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax: Brown at CU 4/6/24 - 29 days ago
RichH... when all cogs are working. Need to get more complete games. Or need more games played second-half-only.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 29 days ago
nshapiro And I believe that winning the last two Ivy league games gets Cornell #1 seed in the tournament In a scenario where Penn and Cornell finish at 1 loss, everyone else has 2 losses, Cornell loses the H2H. Among the one-loss teams, Yale or Princeton will have one more loss on the final weekend (because they play each other). Ditto Penn or Princeton the weekend before, same reason. I believeby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2024 Rowing - 30 days ago
cu155https://usrowing.org/sports/2024/1/25/2024-olympic-trials.aspx The trials are free for spectators to attend. They will also be available to stream on Peacock, NBC.com and NBCSports.com on Saturday and Sunday. Heat sheets and results will be available on HereNow.com. For more information, visit USRowing.com or NathanBendersonPark.org. In part because how do you close a lake, or 2000 meters oby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Glad you're going to the game. Thank you for making our collective day if in any way you had thoughts Schoellkopf Field might sell out (though you said otherwise). That happens for graduation (tickets are $70,000 times four years) and comes close for the fireworks the night before football Homecoming in September. Yes, BigRedTix.com is the legit link to Cornell tickets. It's $7 for 12 and undby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Yes, Harvard is the team that could make us a 4-2 Ivy team. And you need a strong arm to land fish on the playing surface.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: 2023 LTW Rowing - 4 weeks ago
Geez, that's almost as long as getting academic tenure.by billhoward - Other Sports
Men's Lax Tournament 2024 - 4 weeks ago
Info is as of the end of the regular season and all the 4/27 games. IVY LEAGUE MEN'S LACROSSE TOURNAMENT At Cornell (School of #1 Seed) Semifinals, Friday, May 3 1 seed Cornell vs. 4 Penn, 8:30 2 seed Princeton vs. 3 Yale, 6 pm Final, Sunday, May 5 Title game, 1 pm No third-place game Ticket info "Coming soon" says the ILT site. Cornell ticket site now active: All gameby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
Four-minute overtimes, whoever gets more goals wins, if not, four more minutes. Seldom does a game go more than two OTs. Much fairer. Our 1976 16-13 national title win over Maryland started with a Maryland goal. The fact we scored four more suggests the better team was Cornell. The NCAA will say it has bigger things to worry about, like the possibility it collapses. But the lax committee ougby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
Give Connor Buczek credit for making the goalie change to Wyatt Knust (.750 save pct) at halftime not, say, when it was a 7-0 deficit in the first. Less sense of panic, less damage to first goaltender Matthew Tully (.300).by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
The last-minute-of-basketball problem is the timeouts and the commercials. Not the play itself.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
It's almost midnight, the game has been over going on 2 1/2 hours, and there's no sign of a Cornell lacrosse story on cornellbigred-com. Syracuse U site has its story up. Ditto the Syracuse newspaper's site. Cornell has its story up about the Orange lax women taking down Cornell 17-4. Bupkis about Cornell men's lax and one of the year's best games in D1. I don't believe anybody at Cornell spby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
mike1960I hope Barry gets better soon and returns. The camera person needs to stop with the close ups! I can't see the field! OTOH: The video guy needs to zoom in some of the time, too. If I'm a coach charting how the sets worked and I need to see the entire half of the field, cool. But when it's zoomed so far out and you can't see the ball, and you know if it was a goal or not you only when youby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
mike1960I hope Barry gets better soon and returns. The camera person needs to stop with the close ups! I can't see the field! Well then you're not doing worse than our video crew. Look, I appreciate it's being broadcast and the signal stability is worlds better than 2008. But JFC, Track. The. Ball.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - reset needed - 4 weeks ago
Mr. Niss chimpfood That is the best fucking game I have ever seen and will ever see I said the same thing to my wife, who went to Syracuse (ha ha loser) Is there a spare bedroom you're sleeping in? Or is the backseat comfy with about three pillows and a blanket?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - rest of season - 4 weeks ago
Is this the game where we slipped past the odds or ... does this set us up for the rest of the season? Give us the confidence to clobber the rest of the Ivy competition even if we don't host the ILT?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
mike1960 How do we not pick that guy up??? We let him walk right to the goal and toss it in. Wasn't this a 2009 Lesson Learned?by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
ugarte Of course the real when the rubber meets the road moment is when we play Syracuse in the postseason. Or in the Groundhog Day replay of Cornell-Syracuse 4/2/24. Syracuse got 17 goals in this parallel game but ... phew ... it was the women's lax match earlier. I know I was drinking too much in the run as the men went down 7-0. Seeing this made me doubt what I saw. I mean, we know from 2009 Sby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
mike1960 I'm too old for this. Dude, you are never too old for this. This is better for anti-aging than injecting monkey hormones. Or lurking in the ladies' dressing room at Bergdorf. I saw Cornell lose about 3 times in my mind in the overtime before we nailed the victory that resurrects this season. LGR!!! I take back about 33% of what I said about the broadcast / broadcaster quality earby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - reset needed - 4 weeks ago
Cornell got off a terrible start, gave up the first 7? more? goals ... can't win faceoffs ... the defense is challenged in this game at least ... and it feels unclear how we made it into the top ten earlier in the season. And yet we're down only 14-10 at the half. Already Syracuse has given up more goals than its per-game season average. This matters less than whether Cornell wins but ... Ms.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Men's Lax Syracuse at Cornell 4/2/2024 - 4 weeks ago
Make or break game for Cornell. It feels as if we're on the cusp of not making the NCAA tournament if we don't win the Ivy League tournament. And that will be harder with the loss to Penn and the possibility we don't host the tournament. We need Yale and Princeton to step up and knock Penn around. Meanwhile, let's go, Red. And Penn has a tough final three games: at Yale, vs. Harvard, at Princby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 5 weeks ago
The smaller cities and smaller arenas may be hungrier for the NCAA's business. Springfield MA is an 8,000-seat arena and Midwest regional site Centene Community Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri , I believe the largest of their four rinks is 3,500 (one is outdoors, covered). Syracuse, Binghamton and Glens Falls and have 4,000+ and could bid for NCAA hockey regionals. Or Lake Placid.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: NCAA regionals in Springfield - seating chart - 5 weeks ago
Seating chart of the Springfield Civic Center / MassMutual Center, below. Cornell will be the visiting team against Maine. Cornell attacks twice: Behind the goal: Sections 1-5, 28-31 Out to blue line: 2-7, 26-27. Center ice is: 8-10, 23-25 IIRC there is an upper and lower level and you can go between them. It is not an upper / lower bowl. Hockey seating capacity is 6,800. Main Street, Spby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 6 weeks ago
Final was Syracuse 10, Duke 4. 3/20/24by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - dining-drinking - 6 weeks ago
On Main Street, you are never more than 50 feet from the next bar and warming refreshment.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
a) Fiber is 300 yards away but not getting closer. Our unprovisioned part of the road has our camp with a half dozen buildings and families, one other camp, and about 150 people. Unfortunately 125 of them are veterans of the Revolutionary War and not voting any more. I believe. "Camp" is Adirondack-speak for anything from an open-front lean-to to the places the robber barons built circaby billhoward - Hockey