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Re: MLAX: Ohio State 3/2 12 noon - 2 months ago
Triple-header home action for three top-twenty Cornell teams: Men's Lacrosse hosts #20 Ohio State, 12 noon, Schoellkopf Field. (Temp 47, 35% chance of rain.) Also Women's Ice Hockey hosts game 2 of ECAC quarterfinals against Quinnipiac, 3 pm. And Men's Ice Hockey hosts RPI 7 pm, RS finale (the Friday game as pushed back to 7:30 but not Saturday) Let's see if Cornell can shake off thatby billhoward - Other Sports
Hobart-Cornell lax - 2 months ago
Cornell clobbered Hobart by 16 goals Tuesday (final, 23-7) and it got me to thinking, Why are we playing such a poor team, maybe we should schedule another top ten or top twenty team. There's a number of reasons why: * Hobart is good competition (most years), it's a day trip, it's midweek. * We do win more often: 20 of 23 times this century, all but 18 times going back to the Ned Harkness eby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 2 months ago
jtwcornell91One time in my 30s I was nearly clotheslined by the bouncer at the Chapter House because it didn't occur to me that I would need to show my ID while strolling in the front door. There is a belief that some bars try to keep out people beyond their 20s, certainly their 30s, and they'll reject you for not having a license. The bouncer is told to say, "We treat everyone equally, haveby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 2 months ago
ugarte CU2007 billhoward Every university needs to have a female head athletic director now or within the next decade Why? He's being glib Exactly so. Even if it's not in university trustee bylaws, every school has to come to grips with not having had a female president, athletic director, dean of students, etcetera, and there's implied pressure to not be, say, the last Ivy school to hireby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell @ St. Lawrence, 2/24 - 2 months ago
Lots of band both nights. Kind of nice Friday, the Cornell band played a couple numbers with the badly outnumbered Clarkson band.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ St. Lawrence, 2/24 - 2 months ago
The SLU videoscreen behind the Cornell goalie (periods 1 and 3) is really bright. But: You can make out the action. Seems to be better resolution than Cornell's video screen.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ Clarkson, 2/23 - 2 months ago
The Clarkson overtime goal. A Clarkson takeaway in our end, and that's all she wrote.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - drinking age NYS - 2 months ago
For history's sake, New York's drinking age: <1896, 16 1896-1920, 18 until Prohibition in 1920 1933: 2118, with the end of Prohibition (21st Amendment). 1973: 18, with the lowering of the voting age to 18 (26th Amendment) 1982: 19, with concerns for traffic safety Due to a high number of state driving fatalities 1984: 21, raised "voluntarily" by NYS, after Congress pasby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 2 months ago
Trotsky Scersk '97 Jeff Hopkins '82 FWIW, Dunbar's was very thorough about checking IDs when I was a student. Back when we had a more rational drinking age, I suspect a great many bars were much more thorough in checking IDs. Separating the high-school crowd from the college crowd makes sense; separating the college crowd from itself never really has. This is true in theory, but back when it wasby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell's Sprint Football HC stepping down - 2 months ago
There's a lot of love for 150 Football, especially among lightweight-football alumni. The action is fabulous. Pound for pound, they put on a better show. The average 21-year-old male weighs 198 pounds, so this is an attainable sport. If you have to weigh in at 178 now for sprint football, your off-season weight could be the 198 average and you could weigh 185, 190, between games. If there's cby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: New athletic director Nicki Moore - 2 months ago
I believed in two career paths for Nicki Moore: * Here at Cornell for 5 years and then on to something SEC, Big Ten big. Every university needs to have a female head athletic director now or within the next decade and Moore appears to have the skills to be an AD just about anywhere. With only a handful of SEC / Big Ten good-old-boy alumni griping it was gender that got her the job. P * Here atby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 months ago
Firth has upward potential. To get the 4 goals he needed 5 SOG. #freshmanjittersby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - attendance - 2 months ago
Thinking about playing a lacrosse game in two (?) years in Meinig Field House and how many people will fit and be safe from the elements. It's still not clear what is capacity but I hope it's not less than 500: Date Opponent Attend Notes 02/17 Lehigh 296 22F gametime mostly cloudy, light snow It looks as if 250-300 is the minimum one gets early season: parents, lax alumni, studby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 months ago
semsox The women's team is currently playing Cal at Schoellkopf, and from the looks of things, the field conditions are definitely going to play a role in the game. We were in Ithaca for the weekend and Saturday it ranged from dark-blustery-flurries (beyond a half foot that fell Friday) to ... occasional 15-minute stretches on sunshine.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 2 months ago
For half a century, the New York City dweller's attitude about the rest of the world drew strength from the Saul Steinberg's March 29, 1976 "View of the World from Ninth Avenue" cover of The New Yorker. In case there is someone who hasn't seen it. I hope Steinberg retained for himself royalties outside of that issue's cover.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: ECAC 2024 Discussion Thread - 2 months ago
Trotsky They're fun. Sports is entertainment. A lot of wisdom in those five words.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI, 2/9 - 2 months ago
We'd be +2 points if Dartmouth game hadn't, ah, been suboptimal up in New Hampshire.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Opponents and Others 2023-24 - 2 months 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 treadmillby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI, 2/9 - 2 months ago
What a nice game: * For Cornell and RPI to be close then Cornell break it open toward the end * To close the gap vs. Quinnipiac in the ECACs; we made up 3 points with a C win and Q loss. Still, tough for Cornell to win the ECAC RS title. Now Q 38 points, Cornell 30. * To open the gap vs. third place Colgate, now Cornell 30, Colgate 27. At the least, in Lake Placid we we home jerseys. * Forby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI, 2/9 - 2 months ago
4-5-6 goal wins came last week vs. SLU and Clarkson. So let's see if we can do that at Union.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell @ RPI, 2/9 - 2 months ago
Cripe, there have been Cornell fans at every away game. The most amazing was at Arizona State. The ASU fans kind of sat and watched, didn't interact all that much with the game, and also misunderstood that opposing fans might be, ah, snarky. Scott Pesner '87 noted that when ASU gave up a goal and Cornell fans near Scott chanted "Sieve," the ASU fans complained to security and wanted ourby billhoward - Hockey
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 months ago
Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.by billhoward - Hockey
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 3 months ago
Trotsky Let's posit that dive bars were authentic in the 40s-60s and nostalgic in the 70s-90s, with dive bars themselves being a bar food echo of road houses (00s-20s / 30s-50s). ... Dive bar" may take on a different name so students / young adults / slackers have something their own. Still: There has to be a bar type for people down on their money and bar owners cutting corners on upkeep, bby billhoward - John Spencer Is Dead
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 3 months ago
George64Every place north of The Bronx is Upstate. Causes upstaters an identity crisis as to how one defines upstate. That or your location makes you look down on people not quite as upstate as you are. I'm from Rochester and that's definitely upstate. (People in Plattsburgh would say "Western New York." ) My wife's great-something grandmother was regarded as the first baby born in Lakeby billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse 2024 - 3 months ago
Many are geographically challenged. A fraternity brother from Five Towns on the Island met a woman at one of our mixers: He: So, where you from? She: White Plains He: Upstate, huh. I'm not sure he was joking or serious.by billhoward - Other Sports
Re: Yet another collegetown bar bites the dust - 3 months 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 - 3 months 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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