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I'm old enough to remember Frank Deford's daily sports paper, which only lasted about 18 months.

On the other hand, I'm far too un-hip to know anything about these guys.

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Quote from: TrotskyWatching the transition of college sports from the prior time-honored form of hypocrisy to the next is heart-warming.  The green shoots of new corrupt life.

Academia truly is the world in microcosm.  Apes shivving each other for sex and money, all the while blatting on about Core Values.

We love you Trotsky, never change! : )

I dunno, he used to be a lot more cynical ::rolleyes::

Quote from: Jeff Hopkins '82Don't forget "Youngblood."

No, really, forget "Youngblood"

Quote from: 617BigRedGuys, this thread has kinda gone off-topic on '25-26 schedule issues lol...

Hot Truck used to ALWAYS be part of the hockey schedule.

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Quote from: The RancorLooking forward to the extra 2 games in 26-27 (assuming we travel to Alaska next year)

The NCAA will permit the bonus two games, but I doubt the Ivy League will.

My admittedly not great and getting progressively worse brain tells me Princeton visited them in the last decade and was granted the 2 extra games.  Or maybe it was Europe.  Fuck aging.

The Alaska site seems to think they've never played Princeton before, but they did host Yale for a tournament back in 92-93.  It was a three-game tournament and that season, Yale played 29 regular-season games, above the then-Ivy limit of 26.

I recall hearing third-hand that Alaska had originally intended to invite a non-Ivy ECAC team (I think RPI?), and the extra games would have put them over the then-ECAC limit of 30 but not the NCAA limit of 34 (and the NCAA would have exempted the games anyway).  Whoever it was had to petition the ECAC to allow the extra games, and with the six Ivies voting against it, they didn't get the exemption.  Then Yale was invited, petitioned the league for the exemption, and they got it.  I have no way of confirming or disproving this story, but I do remember hearing it.

Quote from: DafatoneI was actually talking about this recently with someone. New York also qualifies, but so does every state with an island, which is less exciting.

How about "non-contiguous states that look like a mitten"?

Hobart has been coached for the last 25 seasons by Mark Taylor. That name might sound familiar to, er, long-term Big Red fans like me -- he was hired as an assistant coach at Cornell in 1990, after Mike Schafer took an assistant coaching job at Western Michigan. Taylor worked with fellow assistant Casey Jones for a couple seasons and was with the Big Red until 1995, after which he coached at UMass-Lowell before landing the head coaching job at Hobart in 2000.

Quote from: TrotskyJesus.  Trotsky realizing he's not the most deeply cynical person in a thread for once: ::scared::

I think the Ivies may eventually "do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities."  The grad student restriction is even more pathetically stupid Dignity Theatre than what we usually do to burnish the Pick Me academia knob, so they may quietly let it expire.

Ivy football is finally, begrudgingly, allowing its champ to participate in the FCS (Div. I-AA) playoffs, starting with the 2025 season.  It only took 47 years, so yeah, there's hope.

Fan favorite of the fucking century Jack O'Leary!

Major draws another one.

Quote from: sah67LOL: Yegorov gets annoyed with Kraft being pesky around the net and decides to bear hug him.

I remember Ben Scrivens doing something like that once.  Of course, he got called for it.

Ok, I hate video replays.

Ok, I like video replays.

Finally.  I was afraid those last 16 seconds of the basketball game was going to take 20 minutes.

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Quote from: stereaxWho cares about the odds?

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

What the f--k happened to the Elynah I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh?

"Not me!  I'm not gonna take this!  Coach Pandolfo?  He's a dead man!  Hutson?  Dead!  Yegorov?"
"Dead!"