Cornell at Dartmouth, 1/27

[Roy 82]

...perhaps to appeal to those who think beach volleyball is a real sport, not a skin show....    

I'm guessing you are not very familiar with competitive beach volleyball. "Uniforms" aside, the game requires a high degree of athleticism and skill - not to mention size. And you might also be surprised at the range of uniforms that teams choose to wear.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/volleyball/beach

Enjoy.

[Al DeFlorio]

...perhaps to appeal to those who think beach volleyball is a real sport, not a skin show....    

I'm guessing you are not very familiar with competitive beach volleyball. "Uniforms" aside, the game requires a high degree of athleticism and skill - not to mention size. And you might also be surprised at the range of uniforms that teams choose to wear.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/volleyball/beach

Enjoy.

I'm knowing you are wrong.  Of course, it takes skill and athleticism. So does ballroom dancing.  So did roller derby.

[Trotsky]

So did roller derby.

Alive and well.

I was privileged to see flat track roller derby in Tucson.  Those women are outstanding, and the culture is boisterous and rebellious and delightful.

[upprdeck]

roller derby is in the mall about once a month.. They sell tickets so there must be some audience for it.

[Trotsky]

roller derby is in the mall about once a month.. They sell tickets so there must be some audience for it.

There's a strong core culture which is similar to Riot Grrrl. The crowd was part looky-loo tourist (our money's good too), part true believers on a mission, part women just settling into working but derby curious.  It went all the way up and down the spectrum from kids running around (my god is derby the perfect adult version of kids' natural play) to grandmas.  Lots of multi-generation families.  One of the few places that still exist with working class and Eloi side by side.  Dominant chord: laughter.  It was wonderful.

[George64]

What a depressing finish, to wit being outshot in regulation and still be one lucky shot away from a 3-2 regulation win, then getting out-possessioned in the 3x3 OT then losing the shootout without getting even one goal.

The 3 on 3 OT needs to go!  It's an aberration!  I don't recall ever seeing a 3 on 3 in the course of a hockey game.  Puck possession becomes the key.  Worse yet, for an inferior team, just possess the puck and settle for a tie.  With so much open ice, it's relatively easy to do.

Except for tournaments, what's wrong with a tie?  Go to, say, a 10 minute sudden-death OT, if no one scores, it's a tie.  You win it's two points, you tie one point.

And the shootout is totally pointless.  It's one thing in soccer where most games seem to end nil-nil in regulation, but not hockey.

I'm curious, prior to this silliness, what percent of regular season games ended in a tie?

I don't like 3 on 3 either. It feels like a different sport. Especially sudden death.

A 3 on 3 league would be fun, but sudden death just turns into possession focused hockey and gets surprisingly slow.

BTW, I have no objection to 3 x 3 exhibition hockey, especially when it involves Cornell alumna.


https://www.thepwhl.com/en/pwhl-ottawa-players-look-ahead-to-three-on-three-action-at-nhl-all-star-thursday

https://twitter.com/CornellSports/status/1752398453026484449?cxt=HBwWwsOzmfjG4tEwAAAA&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

[George64]

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So did roller derby.

Alive and well.

I was privileged to see flat track roller derby in Tucson.  Those women are outstanding, and the culture is boisterous and rebellious and delightful.

If you're in Ithaca when we're playing in the quarter-final NCAA men's hockey game on March 16, you can catch the Ithaca SufferJets in the late afternoon.  Tickets still available.

[billhoward]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.

[chimpfood]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.

We just love to make the national tournament, which we made a lot harder by playing down to Dartmouth's level.

[Trotsky]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East.

Beating Harvard at Lynah is.

[ugarte]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.

not exactly a year to get hype about beating harvard. they stink! so does dartmouth and we lost! it kind of explains itself.

[Trotsky]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.

not exactly a year to get hype about beating harvard. they stink! so does dartmouth and we lost! it kind of explains itself.

"It is never the wrong time to beat Harvard."  -- Martin Luther King Jr.

[shafer]

Loss aversion bias. It explains everything all the time.

[Dafatone]

I'm kinda stuck here, because on one hand I tend to be relatively optimistic, but on the other hand I somehow hate Dartmouth more than Harvard.

[BearLover]

Nothing is more sacred than beating Harvard at Lynah East. Which we did nicely. Yet, posts bitching about the loss next night to Dartmouth (and some thread drift) outnumber the Harvard posts 82-77. We love to complain.

We just love to make the national tournament, which we made a lot harder by playing down to Dartmouth's level.

Yes, this is the obvious answer. We want Cornell to make the NCAAs, which requires winning the vast majority of our remaining games. Therefore, a loss is a lot more momentous than a win.