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Re: Non-hockey alumni in the pros - 13 years ago
ugarte Now THIS is annoying. Yes, I know he is not alumni. What part(s) of it are annoying? (a) Mark Cuban, (b) Jeremy Lin, (c) Lin's parents, or (d) all of the above.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lax Notre Dame -Duke NCAA title game - 13 years ago
I know most of us had a hard time deciding which team, if any, to root for in the finals. We had a hard time rooting for either. But don't you think that a discussion of how vile, sick, and contaminated public water fountains are is going a bit too far? We don't discuss disease and unsanitary public facilities with regard to any other school, not even Harvard. If Duke & Notre Dame are like baby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
scoop85 Josh '99 peterg Per the Ithace Journal a few minutes ago, Coach Tambroni is not a candidate for the Maryland job. Ithaca JournalHe sounds genuinely happy to be living and working in Ithaca. I second Jason's use of the banana. Since my son loves the banana, I'll go with twoby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell lacrosse in 2011 - 13 years ago
Al DeFlorio jkahn Al DeFlorio Cody Bremner played hockey for Nanaimo and comes in as a two-sport guy. We'll see how that pans out. Unfortunately, the hockey/lacrosse combo is almost impossible to do now. Back in our day Al, the NCAA hockey final would be something like March 18 and the first lacrosse game in early April. Cornell's first lacrosse game was still April 1 in 1971 when the NCAAby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell vs. Notre Dame - 13 years ago
ugarte ben03 Josh '99 Apologies if this sounds like sour grapes, but: Why didn't the officials start giving ND the stall warning sooner? It was obvious that they were content to sit around and waste time as early as the second quarter. i was saying the same thing ... but then i started paying attention to the style of play that preceded the stall call. first, we were blatantly slowing downby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: HARVARD SUCKS - 13 years ago
I just saw a great flick, The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos). It does have a pretty good "Harvard Sucks" moment early on. You won't embarrass yourself if, when the heroine says she didn't go to Harvard (guess where she did go), you yell out "Because Harvard Sucks!"by Swampy - Hockey
Re: Lax: NCAA Quarterfinals - 13 years ago
ugarte ben03 Swampy Tom Pasniewski 98 Have to root for Stony Brook in the second game if only to have a final four where Cornell is the only team to have won a national championship thus giving us a Final Four that ends with either Cornell winning another title or another team is added to the relatively small list of NCAA DI champs. Be careful what you wish for. I don't believe UVA has ever wonby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lax: NCAA Quarterfinals - 13 years ago
Tom Pasniewski 98 Have to root for Stony Brook in the second game if only to have a final four where Cornell is the only team to have won a national championship thus giving us a Final Four that ends with either Cornell winning another title or another team is added to the relatively small list of NCAA DI champs. Be careful what you wish for. I don't believe UVA has ever won a NC.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lax: NCAA Quarterfinals - 14 years ago
Trotsky Josh '99 Al DeFlorio KenP Here's a breakdown of Maryland-Notre Dame and NC-Duke. At the bottom it states "Stay tuned as Quint checks in later today to break down the other two quarterfinal matchups." If someone notices the second article, please post a link on the thread.It's finally posted: "What U Need 2 Know?" Really, Quint? It would've been too much effort toby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Lax Cornell 11 Loyola 10 (3 OT) & other NCAA 1st round - 14 years ago
Jim Hyla Killer It's Tuesday, and the Globe still has Syracuse beating Army in 2OT. Plus they show the 14-1 Orange playing us on Saturday. Must be that whacky-liberal, anti-military bent that the local conservative talk show hosts always accuse them of having (or the sports department is just too lazy to get the facts).Is that the problem when you're not "All the news that's fit to print&qby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: UnderArmour Lax All-Americans - 14 years ago
Al DeFlorio Jeff Hopkins '82 Al DeFlorio mnagowski Having spent a summer on Georgetown's campus during my junior year, Georgetown doesn't have anything that Cornell doesn't, save for a preppier student body.Jesuits. Not a positive.No argument from me. Dan Berrigan?by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: UnderArmour Lax All-Americans - 14 years ago
billhoward If there's a suggestion that someone is going to Georgetown not Cornell because of the difficulty getting in ... try getting a non-athlete into Georgetown these days in any major, but especially if you're looking at something like international relations. I know, but the renege and this page suggested to me that academics may have played a role. So far as I know, the Big East does alby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: UnderArmour Lax All-Americans - 14 years ago
I didn't want to start a whole new thread, but here are some links regarding Cornell recruits: 1. Interview with Dan Lintner is a middie at the Hill Academy, the same school that Jason Noble attended. Lintner is a captain at the school that's generally considered the #1 lacrosse school in Canada. (See the article on Canadians at US colleges.) He was headlined as one of the "highlights&quoby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Seeded 7th -- Facing Loyola - 14 years ago
Towerroad It looked to me like we had a change in strategy after the half against Princeton and I suspect the same thing happened last year against SU. It looks we had a big lead and tried to slow down the tempo of the game to use the clock. That worked last year against Princeton but that was a very different team. From my perspective you just can't do that against high quality teams especiaby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell 10 at Princeton 9 lax photos May 1 - 14 years ago
Great photos! In that sequence with Lang and Paul Barnes, it looks like Lang legally took him down. (Legally being defined as "there was no whistle." This would help explain why Lang was up on his feet so fast. It always helps you prepare to get up if you know you're going down. Relatively speaking, and out of fairness, Barnes was down so long it probably looked like up to him.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Cornell Lacrosse Saturday May 1: We're IN - 14 years ago
Jeff Hopkins '82 Edit: And a Lang goal as the #10 play on SportsCenter. Nice. Has Cornell set some kind of record this year for Top Ten Plays appearances? Whitman had that crazy shot in a tournament before Xmas, we had a bunch during the NCAA's, and now this. Not that I'm complaining.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Harvard fires squash coach - 14 years ago
Trotsky Josh '99Can't argue with Christina Hendricks. And I don't have any problem with the natural, radiant women of yesteryear, I just happen to think Molly Ringwald is funny-looking. Even in her proto-goth makeup, Ally Sheedy was still the cute one in The Breakfast Club. Yes, we have found common ground. However, Molly Ringwald was the cute girl in Breakfast Club. Ally Sheedy was the seby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Bill Courtney Basketball Coach - 14 years ago
KeithK phillysportsfan ugarte KeithK Reading the story I count five different jobs as assistant (or associate) coach in fifteen years, including a couple very short stints. Is this typical of college basketball coaches? Seems like a lot of movement. I'm not saying this is a problem. It just seemed noteworthy to me. It isn't that noteworthy, especially since he was moving up the chain. Coachiby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Next Cornell basketball coach - 14 years ago
phillysportsfan Swampy phillysportsfan And Rutgers might finally fire Fred Hill after he cursed at the Pitt baseball team during a Rutgers game as his dad is the baseball coach. I wonder if Donahue would have rather gone there as it is much closer to Philly but he would have had to do a lot more work to build Rutgers, although they would have been more patient than BC will be Listen, have yby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Next Cornell basketball coach - 14 years ago
phillysportsfan And Rutgers might finally fire Fred Hill after he cursed at the Pitt baseball team during a Rutgers game as his dad is the baseball coach. I wonder if Donahue would have rather gone there as it is much closer to Philly but he would have had to do a lot more work to build Rutgers, although they would have been more patient than BC will be Listen, have you tried to book a fligby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Only a "home run" offer takes Donahue away - 14 years ago
billhoward Still wondering if BC is a home run? Maybe Donahue meant "... or reach the left field wall at Fenway." He certainly has the ability to take BC one level up. Well, he has the ability, but so did Skinner. According to SI, he won more games than any other BC coach in history and took the team to 7 NCAA tournaments in 13 years. On the surface, this looks like a home run.by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose Jim HylaWell, I have to respond to this, because that's not what I said. I didn't say anything about leaving if you don't like it. I'm not that kind of person and hope that you would be able to see the difference in what I wrote. "go find that society and live there. I don't think you'll be moving soon." Meaning, I don't think you'll leave because that society doesn't exist anby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
KeithK mnagowski But the cost/benefit calculus is extremely different. If the costs of a proposal outweight the benefits then it's a bad proposal even if it produces some good. I disagree that the costs of the health care reform outweigh the benefits. And thankfully a lot of well-respected economists, public health scholars, doctors, and the majority of the American public disagree with you asby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Robb Swampy You're right, but only if we ignore the impacts on future generations and animals, or an intrinsic ethic of protecting the environment. Considerations such as these are not amenable to resolution by claims for damages. Also, don't forget about our limited knowledge regarding unintended environmental consequences, as Fred Hayek was fond of pointing out. This Exxon Valdez business is aby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
Kyle Rose Jim Hyla How about oil spills from ships with only one hull, how about lakes and rivers polluted to the point that fish can't live there. Those are a few obvious environmental ones. Pollution causes problems when it comes up against someone's property or interest in property (e.g., water rights): those people have a claim to damages. It would look very different from existing criminalby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
KeithK Swampy Keith, you're misrepresenting my point. I didn't say Marx should be taught in business schools. I said if business schools were about studying business impartially, then work by people like Marx and Vance Packard would be more central to what's covered. My point is that business schools are more vocational than purely academic/scientific or whatever term you want to use for impartiaby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
KeithK Al DeFlorio KeithK Business school curricula legitimize the role of private business in our society? truly shocking! who would have thought? Inequality in income and wealth is a good thing. Gradients drive change, encourage innovation. One would think the history of the twentieth century would serve to refute and discredit anything that Karl Marx had to say.You know, Keith, people whby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Now that our season is over... - 14 years ago
On a different thread, a discussion of graduation rates often assumes getting a job is the purpose of a college education. I would argue instead that elevating the individual, and thereby society, through education is the purpose. Just as college sports teams ought not be developmental programs for professional sports, neither should university academics be developmental programs for Wall St. orby Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Ashley Judd taunts - 14 years ago
Swampy rmandel Don't forget, she is currently enrolled at the Harvard Kennedy School. Isn't "Harvard sucks" sufficient for Ashley? We also could just say, "We'll trade you one Ann Coulter for an Ashley Judd."by Swampy - Other Sports
Re: Ashley Judd taunts - 14 years ago
rmandel Don't forget, she is currently enrolled at the Harvard Kennedy School. Isn't "Harvard sucks" sufficient for Ashley?by Swampy - Other Sports