2026 Olympics

[Dafatone]

OTOH, just about any National Anthem is better than our pilfered drinking song.

speaking of anthems and drinking songs... i caught the tail end of Mizzou-Vandy basketball (i miss you, AK Okereke) and Mizzou's band was playing a song suspiciously similar to Far Above Cayuga's Waters.

Went to a University of Kansas bar to watch them play Kentucky in the basketball finals about 10 or 15 years ago. Bar broke out in their Alma mater at one point. Same tune.
As for the hockey, three beautiful goals in a three-goal game. Felt like USA had the run of play (despite surprising shot totals for most of the game) and depth won out. As good as the Keller move/goal was, the stretch pass to spring her was some Magic Johnson no-look brilliance.

[Trotsky]

Go Suomi, but all defensemen G-A-A are tight!

[Trotsky]

Mizzou's band was playing a song suspiciously similar to Far Above Cayuga's Waters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lisle

This.  Extremely popular and much-stolen tune.  Crops up everywhere in the late 19th century.  We are just one of many thieves.

[Trotsky]

This looks inevitable.  I guess the Slovaks will just have to go through Canada. 

[Jim Hyla]

We are just one of many thieves.

But maybe the first!

[Beeeej]

We are just one of many thieves.

But maybe the first!

Certainly the best.

[RichH]

Somebody explain to me why I care so much less about the Men's tournament with the NHL players involved. I'm just so "meh" about it.

[imafrshmn]

Somebody explain to me why I care so much less about the Men's tournament with the NHL players involved. I'm just so "meh" about it.

Because it doesn't compare to the Stanley Cup as a showcase for the sport and the athletes act like they're doing us a favor by putting on the Olympic jerseys. If it's not a pinnacle it's an exhibition.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

We are just one of many thieves.

But maybe the first!

Certainly the best.

It was also my high school alma mater.

[ugarte]

Somebody explain to me why I care so much less about the Men's tournament with the NHL players involved. I'm just so "meh" about it.

Because it doesn't compare to the Stanley Cup as a showcase for the sport and the athletes act like they're doing us a favor by putting on the Olympic jerseys. If it's not a pinnacle it's an exhibition.

i think that's more cynical than i can manage. the level of play has been so high. the canada-finland game was amazing.

[Beeeej]

Mizzou's band was playing a song suspiciously similar to Far Above Cayuga's Waters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Lisle

This.  Extremely popular and much-stolen tune.  Crops up everywhere in the late 19th century.  We are just one of many thieves.

Also this. There's an actual plot conceit that the character singing, the owner's grandson, is a Hotelie, which explains his use of the tune. But the screenwriter was a Penn alum, not Cornell.