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In a recent column for TSN, Kerry Fraser recounted a funny incident involving ECAC Director of Officiating Paul Stewart during his days with Binghamton in the AHL.

http://tsn.ca/blogs/kerry_fraser/?id=379043

Sens' Greening enjoying homecoming in St. John's

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=589893

The much needed rebuttal:

The Truth About Cornell, The Supposed "Douchiest" College In America

Looks like President Skorton was a driving force behind the move.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July11/FootballIvy.html

North Dakota and N.C.A.A. Are at Odds Again Over University's Sioux Mascot

"University officials hope that a meeting later this month in Indianapolis between Mr. Dalrymple, legislative leaders and N.C.A.A. officials will help resolve the conflict. As it stands, if the university continues to use the name after Aug. 15, its athletics program would face penalties that could jeopardize much-lauded plans to join the Big Sky Conference."

Kerry Fraser's The Final Call is due out this fall.  He wrote some teasers about it for his TSN column during the playoffs.

http://tsn.ca/blogs/kerry_fraser/?id=369227

Binghamton just won the Calder Cup series tonight 4-2 with a 3-2 win over Houston!

Colin Greening has been blogging about the Sens playoff run.  The most recent, brief post is about travel, his family and press coverage.

http://fans.senators.nhl.com/community/blog/1/entry-228-greening-were-just-happy-to-be-home/

Here's an older entry (May 21) about beating Charlotte and signing his new contract.

http://fans.senators.nhl.com/community/blog/1/entry-227-greening-what-a-week-its-been-for-me/

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Quote from: ajh258What if the current pairs don't change and Ivies just have to play one of the non-Ivies teams like Quinnipiac and Colgate during week 1 or 2? That's still better than facing RPI and Union right?

I've read this 5 times, and I still don't understand what you're suggesting.

I believe that Andy is suggesting that Ivy schools only play travel partners with at least one Ivy school for the first two weeks (Colgate is paired with Cornell and Quinnipiac is paired with Princeton, hence the reference to those schools), thereby mitigating the risk of playing pairs such as RPI/Union and Clarkson/SLU who will have played more games at the time.  I'm not endorsing the idea, or even suggesting it's feasible with the current ECAC structure, just explaining.  It's not a bad idea though...

If "playoffs" also means "elections" and "alumni" stretches beyond hockey careers, then Ken Dryden's defeat in Canadian parliamentary elections tonight fits in well here.  There aren't any news articles yet, but I'm sure many will be posted tomorrow.  Oh well, Ken had to lose at something once in his life.

Relevant quotes from tonight:

"The Habs and Member of Parliament Ken Dryden bounced within five days of each other"

"Very sad Ken Dryden lost, he was the architect of a national child care program & he lost tonight. He always has inspired me."

Quote from: ebilmesOttawa fans like Greening, expect to see more of him in the NHL.

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?p=32574351

It's worth noting that the B-Sens advanced last night in an epic series against Manchester.

Quote from: theahl.com"The Senators became just the second team in AHL history to win four OT games in one series, the 16th club to successfully come back from a 3-1 series deficit, and the sixth to win Games 6 and 7 of a series on the road.

The series was also the first one in the 75-year history of the AHL to see Games 5, 6 and 7 all go to overtime."

http://theahl.com/sens-sational-p170832

First ECAC coach to win since Joe Marsh in 2000.

http://www.uscho.com/2011/04/13/union-coach-leaman-wins-spencer-penrose-award/

http://www.ecachockey.com/men/2010-11/News/2011_M_D-1_Coach-1.pdf

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Quote from: kingpin248We have the real, substantive answer: Rudy Giuliani will speak at the 2011 Convocation.

"9/11, 9/11, 9/11."

It will be 911 times 2356.

My God, I don't know what that is!

Nobody does!

From what I.N.T.E.L.L.I.G.N.C.E has gathered, it would be 9/11 times 100.

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Quote from: martyIf only Melrose hadn't given Michigan the kiss of death at the beginning of OT by praising Hunwick.

Barry also said the game was "UMD's to lose" in the third period. It's easy to predict a winner when you cover both sides.

This is the secret to being a national broadcaster: you can't be perceived as taking sides. I don't find it unreasonable...just dumb. I'd personally rather they just shut up: I have video and can see the action myself, so I would rather hear the sounds of the game than the inane chatter of the broadcasters. (For instance, MLB.tv used to have an option for sounds of the game instead of the broadcast booth, and it was wonderful when combined with the behind-home-plate camera. I wish they would revive that.)

NBC did something like that with football in the 1980s... I saw the 30 for 30 and I have to say it just felt strange. Should commentators be minimalist? Yes. But if you're not at the game, commentators are necessary.

That 30 for 30 was pretty fascinating.  Responses from people who had seen it were mixed, with some positives.  To a man, every broadcaster they asked thought it was an absolute bomb.

I remember watching that game. It was awesome. No silly chatter and lots of field noise.

Sometimes the TV analysts do add something to my understanding of the action.  But more often than not it's just chatter to fill the airtime. A guy telling me that so-and-so made a great play (which I just watched) is meaningless.

Oh I agree entirely, but if you hear a great commentator (this is especially true of baseball) like a Harry Kalas, a Jack Buck, a Vin Scully or Gene Hart and Gus Johnson for a pair of non baseball examples, they can add something to the game. There's just something about a good call that resonates and reflects exactly what you're thinking at that moment. I'm not supporting the Tim McCarver's or Troy Aikman's or John Madden's of the world. But I just can't imagine sports would be better with no commentators at all than some of the greats listed above.

All right!  A Gene Hart sighting.  "Good night and good hockey!"

I remember the football game without commentators.  It was an Oct. 1980 game between (I believe) the Jets and Miami.  It was novel in that it was one of the first times they had the refs miked up, so you could hear them make the call.  Between that, and the graphics, what more did you need?

I blame Roone Arledge.

For me watching football, I like commentators so I can keep up with the game and not watch it intensely. I'm usually doing something else at the time, same with baseball.

If only Doc Emrick could commentate every single hockey game.

http://cornellsun.com/section/sports/content/2011/04/05/athlete-diary-amanda-mazzotta

This is the first in a three-part series of diary entries from junior goalie Amanda Mazzotta detailing the women's hockey team's journey to the Frozen Four. In this entry, Mazzotta discusses the days leading up to the Red's opening round match with Dartmouth.