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Sports Weekend Update 11-6-2009: M. Hockey Buries Dartmouth With Three Third-Period Goals
November 7th, 2009Check Monday's edition of The Cornell Daily Sun for additional coverage Men's hockey 5, Dartmouth 1 Read More
Crimson Comes to Town for First League Weekend
November 6th, 2009Forget saving the best for last; face-off time for Cornell hockey fans' favorite game of the season is 7 p.m. Saturday. The No. 5 men's hockey team has a 2009-10 schedule littered with tough games against big-name hockey programs like Boston University and North Dakota, but those will be largely forgotten when Harvard takes the ice at Lynah Rink in the 131st installment of the rivalry. Read More
No Pushovers Here
November 6th, 2009ECAC Hockey has a problem, though it’s more a problem for the teams themselves than for fans who want to see good hockey — the problem is that no team in the league is clearly awful. Some are on the upswing. Some are consistently strong programs. Read More
Foote Returns To Push Red On Defense
November 6th, 2009Senior Jeff Foote, 265 pounds, 84 inches, and 2 Ivy League titles, will continue to lead the Red this season from center. The big man was last year’s Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year and NABC second-team All-District. So what’s next for one of the Red’s most integral players on both sides of the court? Read More
Last Chance for Women’s Soccer To Pick Up Ancient Eight Win
November 6th, 2009Tomorrow, the women’s soccer team will conclude its season when it travels to take on Dartmouth. The Red (1-12-1, 0-6 Ivy) has failed to produce a Ivy victory so far this season, so this will be the final chance for the team to pick up a League win and end on a high note. Read More
New Faces Ready to Fortify Penalty Kill Unit
November 6th, 2009Last season when the NCAA instituted new rules to crack down on obstruction, a premium was put on special teams execution. On the defensive side, Cornell performed admirably under the new rules, posting a NCAA 13th-best penalty-killing rate of 87.2 percent. However, some of the stalwarts from the Red’s penalty killing unit last season graduated in the Spring. Read More
The Best Of the Rest
November 6th, 2009The Red has established itself as a true Ivy powerhouse, poised to match Penn’s three-peat from 2005-08. While the Red is expected to take the League title again, Brown is expected to continue its fall from grace, with preseason polls puting the Bears at No. 7 in the league for the 2009-10 campaign. Read More
Forwards Comprise Mix Of Veterans, New Talent
November 6th, 2009When the men’s basketball team returns to the parquet floors Nov. 14 against Alabama on the road, the Red will be suiting up a team that will be familiar to fans and opponents alike. The Red is returning all five of its starters this year, including big man and senior co-captain Jeff Foote and key offensive weapon, senior Ryan Wittman. Read More
For Icers, 'D' Leads the Way
November 6th, 2009In a goalies’ league, Ben Scrivens ranks among the best. ECAC Hockey games are relatively low-scoring and the league has produced a number of big-name college hockey goalkeepers, many from the rink far above Cayuga’s Waters. In fact, few positions in sports have as much institutional tradition as Cornell’s netminder. Read More
Basketball’s Success Fuels Growth of Newman Nation
November 6th, 2009As the winter sports season approaches a lot of focus will be on the Cornell hockey team that almost went to the Frozen Four a year ago. Undoubtedly the “Lynah Faithful” will be in full force this season, yelling “sieve” with the best of them. Read More