Grand Rapids Regional Viewing Locations Thread

[mnagowski]

Buffalo-area Cornellians will be at the same viewing location tonight at 8PM for the Second Round:

[quote mnagowski]Jack Astor's Bar & Grill (In the Walden Galleria)
2000 Walden Ave
Cheektowaga, NY 14225
(716) 684-7693[/center]
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[DeltaOne81]

So for New Jersey, I'd like some more numbers potentially before I try to call anywhere. I only have a few now. Please PM me or respond here.

MIAMI MIKE'S IS OUT. STAY TUNED.

PLEASE PM ME if you intend on coming. Because if we only have a few people and, if justin tv stays up, I'm not sure if it'll be worthwhile.

[Greenberg '97]

[quote MattShaf]If there is interest, Black Bear Saloon in White Plasins has ESPN U and will show the game. Can't speak for any beer specials.
If there is no interest I will probably be watching from home (thanks Verizon Fios:-D) in HD (if the games are being broadcast in HD)[/quote]

Too bad I didn't read this before going out.  I was at the Sports Page, which was generous enough to give me two TVs.

Haven't decided between the Page or my house tonight.

[jeff '84]

I was at Black Bear -- they gave me a big screen above my booth as well as the small screen at the table itself so if I wanted to see (close caption) what the announcers were saying.....(and they seemed to talk a lot about CU, didn't catch the NU homerism)...

[Greenberg '97]

I was also considering Lazy Boy tonight, just for a change of pace and some better food and beer options than the Bear.

But I'm starting to think it's Ship of Fools or nothing for me.  I've exhausted my sports bar budget for the month, so if I'm going to watch hockey out three nights in a row, I might as well do it in style.

[Ketty]

New poster here. So, I guess there are no organized viewing locations in the Berkeley/Oakland/SF area then?

[billhoward]

The Stage Coach in Scotch Plains on Park Avenue (off Route 22) would be a secondary choice on account of having TVs not big TVs but it's a friendly place. Yesterday they were closed for a bar mitzvah so I got to watch on radio instead. I'm willing to drive half an hour in some direction. Based on my experience, if we get a group, a responsible adult, if there is one, should call to confirm they can get ESPNU and we can get a TV, so we don't all drive for nothing. I think the last of the NCAA regionals should be over by 8.

[Rich S]

[quote DeltaOne81]Well, I don't know much in the area, although Miami's Mike Sports Zone has been recommended (by our favorite Clarkson fan, though). It's on Route 10 in East Hanover (just east of Morristown), at the Ramada apparently.

I'm in Springfield, so that's fairly equidistant for us. Open to suggestions though.[/quote]

I'd love to join you guys, would even wearmy Green and Gold too, but am swamped with school work since yesterday was a washout so hopefully you've decided to go to Miami Mike's.

It really is a good place and over the years Mike has become a good college hockey fan.  He'll treat you right.

[KeithK]

[quote Ketty]New poster here. So, I guess there are no organized viewing locations in the Berkeley/Oakland/SF area then?[/quote]
There was the San Leandro location for yesterday's game (scroll up for my post).  Not sure if they're going back.  Try emailing  eastbay@cornellnorcal.com. Contact name was Joe Lemberg.

[Ketty]

thanks!

[billhoward]

[quote DeltaOne81]So for New Jersey, I'd like some more numbers potentially before I try to call anywhere. I only have a few now. Please PM me or respond here.

The plan is:

Miami's Mike Sports Zone (at the Ramada Inn)
1310 Route 10 W
E Hanover, NJ 07932
(973) 386-5622
http://www.ramadaeasthanover.com/SportsZone.nxg

PLEASE PM ME if you intend on coming. Because if we only have a few people (and if justin tv stays up), I'm not sure if it'll be worthwhile.[/quote]

... and you'll post a public note about how many are coming? So as to encourage us all to come (who've privately said we are). If it's just like 2 people some of us might stay closer to home. But I really want to do this is a group environment. This is where we need a Cornellian with a big house and a big TV and DirecTV to step forward. Alas, we have no DirecTV.

P.S. Thanks for organizing and helping out Cornell's sense of community. The Cornell Fund still wants a check from you, though.

[DeltaOne81]

Miami Mike's is a NO GO for New Jersey. They're closing early tonight, after the basketball.

Stay tuned, and check your PMs.

[DeltaOne81]

There is no official New Jersey event. It just turned out to be too late to really get this together, which is no one's fault but my own. Lesson learned.

However, there may be a few people at the Stage House Restaurant & Bar in Scotch Plains, NJ. I encourage anyone who's interested to scout it out, and maybe we'll try to use them for more official future events.

Stage House Restaurant & Bar

I will likely not be there unless the internet options all fall through, but if we like the place, we can see about using them for consistently in the future.

[billhoward]

Two of us will be there, at least. Stage House is a nice sports / pretend-we're-still-singles bar (too late to help me) across the hall from a pretty good restaurant. Pub food in the bar. Stage House, 366 Park Avenue Scotch Plains 07076 at First Street. As I recall there are TVs not jumbo TVs.

Kind of sad that we don't have a better handle on really good sports bars in NJ. (The other one near us doesn't even bother to bring in satellite.) I always thought there were a zillion sports bars around but not so.  

LGR!

[Rich S]

Probably too late here but how far are you guys from East Hanover?  That's easily the best (Miami Mike's) Sportz Bar in NJ and if the hoops are done by 8 pm, you'd have the joint all to yourselves.