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Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
(I'm hoping Congresswoman Stefanik stays in that position and develops enough additional clout to bring wired internet and electricity along our road 15 miles outside LP that has it at both ends, but not the 250 yards in the middle. Yeah, we've got solar and we've got a backup generator, but there's nothing like grid power if you want to add a heat pump. You especially want electric if a governmeby billhoward - Hockey
Basketball March Madness 2024 - 6 weeks ago
Let's see how long #13 Yale holds on versus #4 Auburn, Friday, 4:15 pm. Consider this understatement insight: Fox61 TV Yale Men’s Basketball travels to Spokane to face the No. 4 seed Auburn in the Round of 64 Down six with 22 seconds left, Yale beat the odds and the buzzer against Brown to win the Ivy League, but the Bulldogs face steeper competition against Auburn.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
Sorry, I switched to an LG Gram (<3 pounds, 17-inch screen) and as part of the weight-reduction project, they removed the irony font. My bad. I was thinking of the little guy getting the same information as the big guy. Like how Toyota shared most all its factory production data with suppliers so they could make parts ever better. Savvy corporations, at least in books about business innovaby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
adamw billhoward Correct, the ECAC site box score has it as 3839, or 49.9% full in a 7700-seat arena, for Colgate's 3-2 win over Harvard a year ago in Placid. I never know if the site publishes tickets sold for the game or people who actually come in. I don't know any venue on the planet anymore that counts people who come in. It's always tickets sold. Imagine perfect world if only for a moment,by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - dining-drinking - 6 weeks ago
Here's what to do in Lake Placid this weekend with Cornell in the ECACs. Before you go: Bring a pair of snow brushes and extra windshield washer fluid. Will not reach 30 all weekend. Snowy Saturday, 5"-8", Lake Placid can handle it no problem. For visitors, Lake Placid is effectively one street wide, a half mile long: Main Street, the greenish line. (the map points north.) The LP Olby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
Correct, the ECAC site box score has it as 3839, or 49.9% full in a 7700-seat arena, for Colgate's 3-2 win over Harvard a year ago in Placid. I never know if the site publishes tickets sold for the game or people who actually come in. I'm buying the two-game package but if Cornell loses Friday (unthinkable), we would not perhaps show Saturday, it being a multiple-of-ten anniversary for us. Atby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
I got tickets in the Quinnipiac section, section 24, kittycorner across from the Cornell section (11), because it has the most seats up high, it is the end Cornell attacks period 1 and 3, and in part because I love the irony of a school's broadcast journalism school being named (in part) to honor Ed McMahon (think Jimmy Kimmel's Guillermo). Most of the Q partisans will have decamped to watering hby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 6 weeks ago
St. Lawrence definitely helps attendance in Lake Placid. Clarkson a bit more. Clarkson 3700 students St. Lawrence 2200 students The best possible ECAC-in-Placid turnout would be Cornell, Clarkson, St. Lawrence and, um, pick one, maybe RPI. It is about 80 miles from Clarkson (+5 for St Lawrence) to Lake Placid but it is dark (well, yeah), twisty road that is not well-striped. Read: Iby billhoward - Hockey
Re: MLAX: Cornell vs Princeton 3/17/24 - 7 weeks ago
We don't lose many lacrosse games when during the game we score seven unanswered. I don't know of any games we allowed 10 unanswered goals and had a whiff of winning. Until today. Jeez, the Princeton crew at 1.8 left on the scoreboard, they looked like orphans who missed the party boat. Hey, there's always Wall Street to make you feel better, lads.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 weeks ago
Sad news for Andy Noel-haters. He's baaaack! (As a fan.) I shook his hand walking out of the Princeton lacrosse game and wished him well. Remember, it was Him who hired Connor Buczek. And Brian Earl. And etcetera. The Cornell coaching staff is his doing, outside of Mike Schafer. And it was his doing to let the new AD hire the football coach, rather than stick it on Nicki Moore. The yodeliby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 7 weeks ago
BearLover There are some YouTube videos with yours of college hockey facilities. For example, UMass, which provides its players 24-hour access to a rink and gym exclusive to the hockey team: Contrast with the Cornell men’s team, which shares its ice with the women’s team, figure skating team, club team, intramurals, and recreational skaters, and which has a couple exclusive bikes and treadmiby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Harvard @ Cornell Saturday - 7 weeks ago
ugarte Trotsky SLU and Dartmouth have advanced.LFGR! i never remember if ecac reseeds for LP. Pretty sure high plays low, and the two middles (Cornell, Dartmouth) play. I'm also pretty certain the top seed used to get its pick or early or late game, always chose early, so the high remaining seed gets assigned the 4 pm Friday game. More time for Cornell fans to drive up.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Lake Placid-2024 - 7 weeks ago
pmbblblaw Anyone know where the Cornell fan section will be at Lake Placid this year? Be nice to know out which goal Cornell attacks first and third in case you want your seats there (or the goal Cornell defends if you prefer defense). We will be the home team / white sweaters for the Friday game and if we advance, away team / red sweaters Saturday if Quinnipiac also advances. Based on last yearby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Women 2023-24 - 7 weeks ago
George64 Our Athletic Department should charter a couple of buses and get some fans to Hamilton to support our WIH team! 7-1 over Stonehill! Attendance of Colgate Class of '64 Arena: 215 Attendance at St Lawrence 1 Penn State 0 (OT) in Madison: about the same Attendance likely for SLU-Wisconsin Saturday: sell-out (LaBahn Arena, capacity 2273), because Wisconsin fans are hockey-mad (theirby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 weeks ago
mike1960 blackwidow Cornell lax primed to be the bottom of the ivy Jordan Stevens has coached some really good defenses, like the 2022 team that went to the title game. I'm sure they'll work hard this week on picking up the ball a little sooner and protecting the topside so they can help the goalie on Sunday. The best solution is, Fire Andy. I know, that's so 2022.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Womens Basketball - 7 weeks ago
AI in Sportswriting PR then sent to a first-year-law class to suck out any residual signs of life. Cornell PR "The Ivy League has become one of the preeminent women's basketball conferences in the country," Moore said. "As we embark on a new leg of this journey, we do so with unwavering confidence in our ability to discover an exceptional leader who will embrace the ideals ofby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 weeks ago
Yours is a more reasonable description of Cornell's woes on defense: concerning not fatal. This weekend's Ivy match between two top Ivy teams will be a fairer matchup. At Princeton Saturday at the Tigers' gorgeous Class of '52 Stadium (56 degrees, partly sunny, 4,000 seats, PU-CU lax well attended, near to but seldom a sellout, if only this were in Ithaca as a precursor to the Harvard hockeyby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 7 weeks ago
BearLover blackwidow Cornell lax primed to be the bottom of the ivy thanks Some fishermen are best at trolling.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Women 2023-24 - NCAA bracket - 8 weeks ago
NCAA bracket has Cornell in the Colgate-hosted regional Thursday 3/14 7pm EDT against Stonehill. Colgate as the 3-seed gets a first-round bye (as do #1 Ohio State and #2 Wisconsin, but not #4 Clarkson or #5 Minnesota). If Cornell advances, Colgate is a tough opponent Saturday, March 16, 3 pm. But the bottom bracket does not have #1 seed Ohio State. That is the tournament's toughest opponent.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: MLAX: Cornell vs Penn State 3/9/24 - 8 weeks ago
Penn State 20, Cornell 9. Final. COR 1 3 3 2 -- 9 PSU 6 5 7 2 -- 20 Shots, shots on goal, saves, turnovers all close-ish but in Penn State's favor. Cornell won faceoffs 19-14. Biggest margin was goals, that and save percentage Cornell .355 (Knust .143, Tully .417), Penn State .625.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: MLAX: Cornell vs Penn State 3/9/24 - 8 weeks ago
Lordie, 19-8 Penn State 5 minutes into the fourth. Need to start looking up most recent margin of loss by, perhaps 10 goals? At this writing, CJ Kirst 2G on 9 shots, Willem Firth 2 on 7.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - Tewaaraton Award - 8 weeks ago
Now that Cornell's extraordinary defender Gavin Adler '23 is gone from the Cornell team, Inside Lacrosse ponders Men's Tewaaraton Watch: Should a Defender Get Serious Consideration? But still, Cornell is in the hunt: Matt Kinnear, Inside Lacrosse ... "If the season ended today…" CJ Kirst would be the favorite Ajax Zappitello would be (should be) at the Tewaaraton ceremony JJ Siby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Ohio State @ Cornell lax polls 3/4 Week 4 - 2 months ago
Cornell lacrosse in polls in Week 4 of the 2024 season, after weekend of March 4 Media 8 was 9 USILA -- Kessinich 9 Cornell in Media poll by week Pre-season 7 Week 1 8 Week 2 8 Week 3 9 after @ Denver loss Week 4 8 Current media poll (image below) and Quint Kessenich (Lax All-Stars) have Denver No. 1. Quint Kessenich 3/4by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 2 months ago
Chris '03 Nothing did more to make Moore look good than two decades of Andy Noel. Unfounded and uncalled for. Presumes that Cornell sports suffered more under the previous AD than in years previous. Basketball got to the Sweet Sixteen under Noel, lacrosse has been to multiple final fours, women's ane men's hockey are thriving, wrestling is perennial top ten, soccer is doing well. This year's succby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Ohio State @ Cornell lax 3/2 - 2 months ago
upprdeck I don't see anyway they play a game like yesterday inside. There were games all over this weekend played in much worse weather and far worse rain. 200 people in attendance. Temps in the 40s. Raining. Some Cornell players have experience in box lacrosse where it doesn't rain? If there's an indoor field available, why would you not play it there? ... because we might or might not fare betby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Ohio State @ Cornell lax 3/2 - 2 months ago
Drizzly, cold (43 at 12 noon faceoff), thus only 212 fans. This is the kind of game that would benefit from being played in the pending field house. The offense is ahead of the defense. Saturday so much was CJ Kirst, an amazing 7G 1A day and Michael Long 3G 4A. Otherwise five players with single goals. The Willem Firth goal to build Cornell's first 3-point lead, late in the third, pass frby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Schafer interview - 2 months ago
I was wondering if it's been weeks or decades Trotsky has been saving the eh-men line. #cunninglinguistby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Clarkson, 2/23 - 2 months ago
There were no humanitarian awards for coaches or players back then. If I was a visiting coach and Harkness set -- and it couldn't be unset -- the heat to 85 degrees in the visitor locker room, I'd bring a fire axe the second year to improve ventilation, and for year three I'd bring a couple of fans the fire department uses to clear smoke. P.S, You ever seen a concrete-wall saw with a diamond-by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Hobart-Cornell lax - 2 months ago
nshapiro billhoward * We've already got five of our 13 games against non-league teams this week rated top 20 – Denver, Ohio State, Penn State, Syracuse, Notre Dame – and four Ivy teams. No Southern teams, tho. Aren't Syracuse and ND Southern teams now? As Stanford, Cal and SMU are now 3, 3 and 1 time zones removed from the location implied by Atlantic Coast Conference. I was thinking of the geoby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 2 months ago
Nor did the Royal Palm, 1941-2012, keep anyone out for being too old. Always seemed to be a number of alumni/grad students who never wanted to leave and who never believed they'd go bald on top and have a gray ponytail before reaching 40. Why can't the National Register of Historic Places fight to keep alive one like-a-dive-bar bar in each college town? Has to be college related, so the Chantby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead