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Thanks to Al DeFlorio's mention of Jane McNally in the Sun sports beat thread, I see that the new field is in use even though construction is not yet complete.  
https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/25/field-hockey-to-debut-new-marsha-dodson-field-on-friday-vs-17-yale.aspx
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/09/field-hockeys-new-marsha-dodson-field-is-complete-after-near-year-long-delay
https://cornellbigred.com/news/2025/9/26/field-hockey-shuts-out-no-17-yale-in-historic-dodson-field-debut.aspx

Jane had her third shutout of the year!

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I'll take 25 and snowy over 35 and rainy any time.

 " ... but, oh, to be 20 and back at Cornell ..."

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Quote from: TrotskyI really want guys with local connections to be our announcers.  The pros are Whore Time.  College should be Local Kid Makes Good Time.

I miss Sam Woodside!

Was Sam before Grady before Adam before Jason?

I grew up listening to Sam Woodside call Cornell hockey, football, and basketball games in the 50's and 60's.  
Arthur remembered him in this post from 2006.
A few other links:  Cornell Sun on his retirement
Corenll Athletics Hall of Fame

Quote from: jkahnInteresting tribute to Ken Dryden from a Penn State perspective:

statecollege.com/articles/columns/rip-ken-dryden-penn-state-hockey-thanks-you/

Amazing perseverance!  Thank you for the link.

In completely different area, I expect that this story, as reported in The Ithaca Voice and The Sun will start to circulate widely for its novelty.

Ithaca Journal report on the Varsity-Frosh game November 5, 1965.  Red Cub Puck Potential Evident

QuoteAnd the Big Red has a whale of a Frosh goalie.

Quote from: hypotenuseAn interesting project. As a 1973(!) graduate, I feel that like a game of telephone, or that Star Trek episode with the Coms and the Yangs, some of the cheers have become garbled over the decades. The one I miss most is the cheer after we score, which went ONE! WE WANT MORE, hopefully followed by ONE! TWO! WE WANT MORE,, etc. This was done slowly and deliberately, so the full impact of our scoring prowess could be absorbed by our adversary.
Over the last decade(?), the words are said,  but without any understanding why, IMHO.
As for RED, I always thought we stole it from someone else, maybe Colgate. It was not done during my era.

One funny anecdote. At the first game at MSG on Thanksgiving weekend, maybe 10 or so years ago. The Garden had some guy on hand to sing the Star Spangled Banner. No one had bothered to tell him about our little tradition, and so when he got to rockets red glare, and the place erupted with RED, he literally stopped for several beats while he tried to figure out WTF. A highlight of the evening.

I remember that first MSG game well.  It was 2007.  They had a famous trumpeter from one of the late night TV shows play the national anthem standing on a carpet out on the ice. He almost dropped his horn when we screamed "RED".

The New York Times has a story Planning a college sports road trip? These are the 25 best stops worth making.  Lynah is not on the list.  #15 is Boston for the Beanpot.  I'm posting here for this:

QuoteNo. 17: Syracuse, N.Y.

March up from Marshall Street

A regular-season lacrosse game (men's lacrosse)

The Orange hold the sport's most national titles (10, though none since 2009), and JMA Wireless Dome (the former Carrier Dome) is considered the best atmosphere in college lacrosse. When the schedule comes out, check if Cornell or Johns Hopkins is coming to town.

Status report from https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/07/field-hockey-s-new-turf-is-unlikely-to-be-ready-for-the-start-of-the-upcoming-season

Quote from: CASNice article on incoming QB Ryan Downes in today's Cornell Daily Sun.

https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/07/from-injury-to-ivy-meet-cornell-football-s-newest-qb-ryan-downes-29

I'm getting in and calling up reports with no perceptible delays.

From the Racker web site https://www.racker.org/hockey/, with a slide show from last year.

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Quote from: upprdeckwhat will this bring?

make you wonder.

One that already exists, perhaps Wendys comes back up the hill, they had a great business at the mall?  chills with a 2nd location? Dont think Arbys make any sense. Applebees did not want to leave so maybe a new location works for them?  BK has been out of the market for awhile?

popeyes  or Sonic would be nice.  Jersey mikes would be nice.

the restaurants AT the mall are barely afloat, bar zocalo...

My first thought was Chipotle, though it's rare for them to put two in smaller communities.

Another Chipper could work. Problem is Lansing's just stupid far away from anything else of note. Also why the mall's a ghost town.

The fast food and fast casual categories are swinging rapidly into takeout and app based delivery services. This is one of the few areas of growth for the industry. Students and locals alike are ordering off of Grubhub instead of going out. Legacy chains like McDonald's are planning new stores with minimal in store dining areas, if any at all. The one nearest me, albeit here in Mid-Size City, is empty inside but for the Uber Eats drivers and the drive through wraps around the block all day. Even chains like Applebee's are finding that existing square footage for in store dining is more than they need to staff on any given night, while their kitchens double as ghost kitchens for other delivery-only brands to make up for excess capacity and glean greater profits.

Rezoning and redevelopment of the former Pyramid Mall (I'm that old) with residential/mixed use needs to come sooner than later. Or Just re-install the fountains from the 70's and all the Gen X folks like me can retire there.

Note that in the report that upperdeck linked to the biggest point of contention at the Planning Board meeting was between the developer saying that the restaurants needed easy drive through (even though they were "fast-casual", which to me implies sit-down) and the Village's antipathy to extra curb cuts.

If there were a totally generic basketball thread, I'd post there, but there isn't one active so I'll initiate some drift here.  The "Cornell Chronicle" headlines "Better basketball through theoretical physics?"  A Cornell prof and his team have "has adapted density-functional fluctuation theory (DFFT) to predict player positions and rank players based on their defensive contributions. They've also attempted to quantify "player gravity" – how strongly a player attracts defenders, indicating he's a scoring threat."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/06/better-basketball-through-theoretical-physics

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Quote from: BearLoverDoes anybody here understand how NIL or revenue sharing gets taxed?

its compensation.   why wouldnt it be taxed like any other ordinary income?

Depending on your biases, people tend to favor taxing various kinds of income differently.  Tips.  Overtime.  Capital gains.