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Quote from: billhoward on April 11, 2026, 03:09:29 PM>>> Corrigan brothers annoying

This is like listening to the bad puns of a 1970s Triple-A radio broadcast, with 21st Century references. If this was student announcers, they might be called in to the dean's office for diversity training.

Cornell shots go off the post. "They've been hitten the pipe so often, you'd think they were in Washington, DC."

Cornell shot goes wide. "That shot went out so far left, it'll come back in bounds with a new pronoun."

Cornell gets 3 quick goes to start second half. "Momentum changes. ... Hide your wife."

[edit add] ... And more:

[paraphrasing] "Shot so far left ... Hunter Biden was on Jones Beach with a crack pipe."

"shot so far left ... Michael Moore is doing a documentary on it."

[And IIRC after goalie save] "Fat Jesus!" or "Phat"

Also, "shot so far left, he should get a guest spot on The View."  If only they'd stick to the play by play, they do know lacrosse.

In season 5, episode 3, of Only Murders in the Building, mobster Nicky Caccimelio ("Dry Cleaning King of Brooklyn") says "I did a semester at Cornell."

I can't believe that I'm agreeing with the intent of something that our president did, if not necessarily the means, but —

As reported in the Washington Post on Friday, he signed an executive order that says there should be a 5-year window for student athletes to complete their athletic careers, establish limits on transfers (one penalty-free, subsequent transfers have to sit out a year), NIL compensation rules, including possible caps or "fair market value" standards and regulation of third-party collectives paying athletes.   

Elements of his order parallel legislation introduced last week by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, an ally and former college football coach. Tuberville's bill would restore stricter transfer rules by allowing one penalty-free move while requiring athletes to sit out a season after a second transfer. It would also establish a five-year window for five seasons of eligibility.

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday that aims to reinforce the rules of college sports in a bid to restore financial stability and protect the future of college athletics. Friday's order directs ‌federal agencies to bolster the effectiveness of key college-sports rules on transferring, eligibility and pay-for-play. It seeks evaluations on whether any violations of such rules render a university unfit for federal grants and contracts. It calls on the relevant governing bodies to update rules by establishing clear eligibility limits, setting transfer rules as ⁠well as banning "improper" financial arrangements including pay-for-play agreements facilitated by collectives and similar entities. The order also calls on Congress to quickly pass legislation to address these critical issues.

Quote from: stereax on April 03, 2026, 10:57:15 PMSome of the guys apparently made the trip to see Stanley's debut!




Pretty sure the guys in red from left to right are Walsh, Kraft, and O'Brien. Both the guys in white look like Catalano lol

Catalano has a younger brother, maybe visiting to check out Cornell.  Guy to our right of Catalano 2, looks like FFJOL.

Castagna's contract has an AAV of $1,075,000.  I have three degrees from Cornell, but if I was offered $117k (Jon's contract in 1968 dollars), I'd have been gone in a heart beat.  If we want to be a national contender, I think we have to adjust to the new reality. 

We shouldn't go the NIL route like Penn State's $700k deal with Gavin McKenna (think how many full-tuition scholarships that would be), but compare the lifetime earnings of a Cornell grad to a Whatsamatter U alum.  We need to stress that a three-year degree is possible (Morgan Barron '21 got his BS degree in 2020), or you can have a professional hockey career and come back later for your degree (e.g., Anthony Angello '18, BS '??, Dan Ratushny '92, BS '97).  Castagna's a smart guy and I'm sure he'll eventually get his degree.

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Quote from: stereax on March 30, 2026, 07:14:16 PMMakes sense when you put it that way. No skydiving, no bungee jumping, no braving the Slope after midnight...

Bungee jumping isn't that dangerous.

If the cord doesn't snap.

A quick google turned up only two incidents of cords breaking - one in Africa and one in Thailand.  FWIW, I've done the jump in Africa and felt perfectly safe. 

I've also jumped in New Zealand and was told that their operation is monitored by the NZ Government.  Also they change the cords out much more frequently than mandated by the gov't just to be extra safe.

Interesting coincidence: when I was in New Zealand, my sister and I almost went bungee jumping off a bridge. We backed out after finding out that the week before, someone had died—not because the cord snapped, but because they forgot to attach it.

Whaaaaat? 

You're sitting there watching everything they do.  How could the customer not notice that they hadn't attached the cord?

At least it improved the human gene pool!

More on Jonny and Hoyt.  We'll miss you guys! 

Castagna going, going, gone!  Good luck Jonny!

Quote from: Jim Hyla on March 30, 2026, 12:09:02 PMI think your friend has this incorrect. We use the BU cheer to remember the past, but really to poke at the current team we're facing. I doubt any fan, but a few of us, thinks anything about BU when the cheer goes up.

I like to think of it as Screw BU (You left us) and whomever we are now playing.

As one of the "few of us" — Among other great games against BU, I'll always remember listening to the double-overtime 3-3 tie against BU in the Christmas Tournament in 1966.  As I assume most current eLynah posters weren't yet born, those were real twenty minute overtime periods, not the faux-hockey overtimes played today. I was in grad school back in Ithaca and listened on WHCU, Sam Woodside (I think) did the play-by-play from the Boston Arena. Ned and Kelly (?) decided that 100 minutes of hockey was enough, so Cornell and BU were declared co-champions.

Nice interview with Jon Castagna from before Lake Placid.  Definitely worth watching.  Hope he comes back for his senior year, but he has to do what's best for his professional future.

While it's nice to have the Norton Award for the top-scoring defenseman, you should add an award for the best defensive defenseman (Ratushny Award?) and, while you're at it, best defensive forward.

Natyshak: O'Brien
MacFarlane: Castagna
Gage: Kraft
Shippel: Major
Schaefer: Walsh
Oates: Syer
Dadswell: Veilleux
Nieuwendyk: Castagna

Fun fact: Denver played an indirect role in Cornell's ascension to hockey greatness.  Ned Harkness was a good friend of Murray Armstrong, head coach at Denver.  The Ferguson twins, Doug and Dave, and younger brother Bobby, from Birsay, Saskatchewan, were interested in playing for Denver, but Armstrong thought they were too small and referred them to Ned.  The rest is history. 

Doug, 5-8 and 175, centered a line with Dave 5-8, 165, and Mike Doran, 5-7, 160.  Doug scored 91 goals in his three seasons and was a two-time All-American.  Dave was captain in his senior year, culminating in Cornell's penultimate NCAA Championship.  Cornell only played Denver twice in that three-year span, losing both games at Denver in the 1965-66 season, but that was 60 years ago.

Let's go Red!

President Kotlikoff, thank you!

The administration's harassment never seems to end!  Sure, there are antisemites on campus, but to my knowledge, Cornell is, and historically has been, the least antisemitic school in the Ivy League.