WSJ Article 1/27/2010

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phillysportsfan

#15
January 28, 2010, 03:14:04 PM
Yeah that SI article was written by a Harvard grad. I would rather be the underdog, let Lin get all the national praise he wants and Ivy player of the year but it is all meaningless without a single Ivy league title.

The game Saturday is already a sellout, should be a great one, hopefully we kill them. The one thing we got going for us is that Lin has not traditionally played very well here, last year he had 8 turnovers 2 years ago he shot 2-8 from the field. Although I think Lin is a better player this year but we have beat Harvard by 20+ the last 2 years at home.

They have come up with some interesting cheers on the basketball forum, definitely like the chant Shop-a-rite or "You went shopping" to Amaker after he had tried to recruit Zach Rosen in a Shop-a-rite before he was supposed to talk to recruits.

Jim Hyla

#16
January 28, 2010, 03:55:47 PM
Having finally read the article, this is the quote I like:
Quote"It's been addressed," Mr. Amaker says. "I just know we're doing things in the Harvard way and by the Harvard standard."
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005

billhoward

#17
January 28, 2010, 04:33:42 PM
Quote from: dbilmesMeanwhile, this week's Sports Illustrated has a huge, glowing article on Harvard and its star point guard, Jeremy Lin. It makes it sound like we're the underdog on Saturday night. In any case, I hope we can taunt him without resulting to racial slurs. According to the article, he was met with racist taunts at every road game last season.
(Caddyshack) Al Czervik: "I think this place is restricted, Wang. So don't tell 'em you're Jewish. Okay?"

Josh '99

#18
January 28, 2010, 06:05:26 PM
Quote from: dbilmesMeanwhile, this week's Sports Illustrated has a huge, glowing article on Harvard and its star point guard, Jeremy Lin. It makes it sound like we're the underdog on Saturday night. In any case, I hope we can taunt him without resulting to racial slurs. According to the article, he was met with racist taunts at every road game last season.
I wonder:  Is "token Asian" a racial slur?  I remember we used to chant that at Harvard hockey games because for a long period of time there, they had exactly one Asian on their team (Aaron Kim from 1999-2000 to 2002-03, Kevin Du from 2003-04 to 2006-07) and, well, it was kind of funny, especially given the timing of Du's recruitment right after Kim's graduation.  I don't think anyone meant anything bad by it (it's not like we were yelling "Asians can't play hockey" ) but I guess it could theoretically be taken as such.
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French Rage

#19
January 28, 2010, 06:34:52 PM
Any chance this weekend's game will be on any sort of TV anywhere?
03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1

phillysportsfan

#20
January 28, 2010, 07:30:09 PM
Quote from: French RageAny chance this weekend's game will be on any sort of TV anywhere?

The Harvard game should be on TV but I dont think it is anywhere. With all the SI, WSJ, and ESPN articles you think some network such as ESPNU would pick up this game. Andy Katz of ESPN even put the game Saturday as a place to be.

Time Warner should have put this game on TV instead of the Columbia game. I guess there is always Redcast if you are not in Ithaca.

Jim Hyla

#21
January 28, 2010, 08:05:04 PM
Quote from: phillysportsfan
Quote from: French RageAny chance this weekend's game will be on any sort of TV anywhere?

The Harvard game should be on TV but I dont think it is anywhere. With all the SI, WSJ, and ESPN articles you think some network such as ESPNU would pick up this game. Andy Katz of ESPN even put the game Saturday as a place to be.

Time Warner should have put this game on TV instead of the Columbia game. I guess there is always Redcast if you are not in Ithaca.
They have the Clk @ 'gate hockey game. I believe Colgate pays for this.
"Cornell Fans Made the Timbers Tremble", Boston Globe, March/1970
Cornell lawyers stopped the candy throwing. Jan/2005

phillysportsfan

#23
January 28, 2010, 09:34:52 PM
Also Pete Thamel of the NY Times who I think posted the original articles on Amaker's questionable recruiting really attacking the author of the SI article on Harvard over Twitter:
http://twitter.com/PeteThamelNYT

Thamel says:
The difference is my story explains how the system works. Yours celebrates without the showing the sausage making.
No need to debate. You gave a warm fuzzy hug to your alma mater. I am reminding folks of the reality. Pretty simple
SI breaks out its pom poms for Harvard, glosses lowering academic standards and skirting NCAA rules.

RichH

#24
January 29, 2010, 05:46:51 PM
Kornheiser just hyped HU-CU on PTI as the most intriguing CBB game this weekend, and then started the whole "if Cornell doesn't get the auto-bid, they should go at-large" train moving.  Wilbon picked his Northwestern game, continuing the proud homer tradition that PTI has.

Jordan 04

#25
January 29, 2010, 06:08:20 PM
Quote from: RichHKornheiser just hyped HU-CU on PTI as the most intriguing CBB game this weekend, and then started the whole "if Cornell doesn't get the auto-bid, they should go at-large" train moving.  Wilbon picked his Northwestern game, continuing the proud homer tradition that PTI has.

On his radio show this morning, his producer talked briefly about how he would have liked to have booked Tommy Amaker on the show,but didn't pursue it for a couple of reasons (namely, potential timing difficulties given their game tonight as well as Amaker's likely hesitancy to discuss tomorrow night's Cornell game with the Columbia game up first).

jtwcornell91

#26
January 30, 2010, 02:38:46 PM
NPR actually mentioned the H-C game and the surprising strength of Ivy basketball.  They also mentioned that Cornell is usually better known for hockey, and talked about Penn as the traditional Ivy power.  Somehow they managed not to say the word "Princeton" at any point in the piece.

Al DeFlorio

#27
January 30, 2010, 03:09:23 PM
Quote from: dbilmesMeanwhile, this week's Sports Illustrated has a huge, glowing article on Harvard and its star point guard, Jeremy Lin. It makes it sound like we're the underdog on Saturday night. In any case, I hope we can taunt him without resulting to racial slurs. According to the article, he was met with racist taunts at every road game last season.
Time magazine article on this topic: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1951044,00.html
Al DeFlorio '65

Jordan 04

#28
January 30, 2010, 06:58:55 PM
In case anyone wasn't aware, free home audio for the bball game at: http://wvbr.com/listen, assuming it doesn't cut out at the start of the game.

peterg

#29
January 30, 2010, 08:14:15 PM
Quote from: RichHKornheiser just hyped HU-CU on PTI as the most intriguing CBB game this weekend, and then started the whole "if Cornell doesn't get the auto-bid, they should go at-large" train moving.  Wilbon picked his Northwestern game, continuing the proud homer tradition that PTI has.

Hey, when you are a Cornellian or an Northwestern grad you take every opportunity to hype your alma mater when they have a little athletic success.  It doesn't happen all that often, even given the CU Hockey, lacrosse and wrestling programs.  If they are being homers these days, they deserve a little slack.

Just my opinion,

Peter (Northwestern '73)  ::cheer::
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