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I was sitting two rows directly in front of the Judges table at an adjudicated concert band competition watching the end of the game in my lap. I didn't let myself twitch but I'm pretty sure I did start crying.

My freshman year roommate from back in '86 and I took my 11 year old son to his first Lynah games this weekend, our first time back in about 25 years. Had a lot of fun showing him the campus and telling him stories about all of our shenanigans as students. He got a kick out of them playing contemporary music and video game themes on the chimes. We ended up eating at a Korean place in Ctown that did table BBQ and Moosewood. Thought both places were great. Had no problem parking in the lot next to Cascadilla and walking to the games.

My son and I have been to a couple hundred live sporting events together, college and professional, including Fenway Park and Duke's Cameron Indoor Stadium. I know it's old hat to us and at times we can be jaded but he was astounded by the crowd at Lynah. He was a bit demure at first shaking his newspaper as Dartmouth was introduced, but by the end of the Harvard Game he was chanting along with Gary Glitter and standing on his seat shouting "Harvard Sucks." He got a kick out of the fact that Cam Donaldson lists his hometown as Pittsboro, NC which is about 5 miles from where we live. Anyway, well done faithful.

Someone posted the odds from Caesar's. Here are the ECAC teams.

12:1 Union
20:1 Colgate
25:1 Quinnipiac
40:1 Cornell
50:1 Yale
60:1 Clarkson

The owner of the Everblades and Germain Arena is trying to sell them. I wonder if Cornell will be shopping for a new tournament soon.

Riley Nash was called up to the Hurricanes a couple weeks ago. He hasn't scored yet but they're using him on the powerplay.

To rephrase it slightly, Cornell's allowed 1 goal in March

If anyone is looking for a way to listen to this, it's available at

http://www.teamline.cc/teampage?teamcode=1160

Good day for Cornell. The women just won their NCAA semifinal match in overtime.

Cornell wins 3-2 in overtime. Going to finals.

Heh, if the game you saw was the St. Lawrence game on Friday, then your first game was mine as well. I didn't have season tickets that year but I had a racquetball class that let out just as the extra tickets went on sale at the office in the squash courts.

[quote andyw2100]Imagine if after the Vermont shot, before the next stoppage, Air Force had scored what would have appeared to be the game winning goal, only to have the win taken away and given to Vermont after the video review. That would have been something.[/quote]

I suspect that had that happen they would have decided there wasn't enough evidence to give Vermont a goal and Air Force would have won. I know it shouldn't matter but the officials are human and I bet that's what would have happened.

In general I like instant replay, but I don't think people in general realize how much the TV picture can distort reality. I've actually worked the corner camera at TV broadcasts of hockey games. When we had that call go against us against UNH during the NCAA semis a few years back, the one where they used replay to determine how high the guys stick was when it deflected the puck, I remember thinking that I could make it look almost whatever height I wanted by raising and lowering my camera. Unless the knew exactly how the camera was set and were willing to do some trigonometry it was a meaningless image. When it comes to hockey I think pretty much the only use of replay should be a camera directly over the goal line determining if the puck crossed the line. For pretty much everything else the relation of the TV picture to reality is purely coincidental.

[quote Trotsky][quote reilly83]That shot was at about 10:00 of the OT.  Seems a shame to review it now (abount 4:00 something) and possibly change the score.  Would be a crappy way to end it. (Especially since I'm rooting for AF)[/quote]

Not as crappy as if they blew the call...[/quote]

We had a really awful no-goal call go against us in a late season game against Vermont where the puck when in and out of the net back in, uh, '89 I want to say that cost us home ice in the playoffs*. So if the call had been blown it would have just been really really slow Karma for Vermont. ;-)


* Or didn't. Doing this from memory. Do remember I was really annoyed about it when it happened.

[quote min]Needless to say, someone please (please!) post the last two goals on the internet! I was one of those justin.tv casualties who missed the entire 3rd period and had to listen to those awful NU announcers... Thank God it was worth it.[/quote]

If you saw the game winner against Princeton in the ECAC semis you pretty much saw the game winner in this game.

[quote scoop85]Also, GTown beats Duke, 11-7.  Amazing.[/quote]

Some of those Duke players must be getting pretty old at this point. Can't get up and down the field like they used to back when they were college aged.

[quote Beeeej]

You're not doing your logic any favors by picking those two ridiculous examples.  Nobody with even the slighest basic knowledge of probability will tell you that the odds of the 100th flip coming up heads is anything other than 50%.[/quote]

Actually, I disagree. Anbody with even the slightest basic knowledge of probability will tell you that the odds of the coin having two heads is approaching 100%. He never specified a fair coin. ::smashfreak::