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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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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
Re: Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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" - 3 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 - 3 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 - 3 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