Sports

Gymnastics Hosts RivalTemple

Luke Mishrell  —  Mar 9, 2007

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Last year at this time, the Cornell gymnastics team traveled to Philadelphia, PA and won a decisive victory over its rival — the Temple Owls. That dual meet sparked the beginning of the Red’s deep run into Nationals, which was the best finish in program history. With five returning All-Americans and a solid core of freshman, the Red hope that tomorrow’s regular season home finale with Temple will foreshadow even more postseason success.

Baseball Heads South to Battle La Salle, Villanova

Lance Williams  —  Mar 9, 2007

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The baseball team will escape the frigid upstate New York weather this weekend and head south to Philadelphia to take on La Salle in a twin-bill tomorrow afternoon and match up against Villanova the following day. After dropping three of four games to Bucknell last weekend due to inconsistent offensive production, the Red (1-4) hopes to work on gaining consistency before Ivy league play begins in just over three weeks.

M. Icers Fight Injury Bug

Jeremy Drucker  —  Mar 8, 2007

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After a tough road trip on which the men’s hockey team dropped two games to end the regular season, the Red returned to Ithaca disappointed, tired and with several injury problems.

However, a loss by Quinnipiac (18-13-5, 10-8-4 ECAC) on the final night of the regular season eased some of the pain and granted the Red an all-important first-round bye. The week off would be crucial to healing a team that was suffering from a string of injuries to its defensive unit. This weekend, a rested Red squad (14-11-4, 10-8-4) will host Quinnipiac in the ECAC quarterfinals with a trip to the semifinals in Albany on the line.

Wrestling’s Hammond Anticipates NCAA Meet

Tim Kuhls  —  Mar 8, 2007

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Hammond deals with torn medial collateral ligament as he prepares for Nationals

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Junior heavyweight Zach Hammond still remembers what it feels like to be on the outside looking in. After finishing in fifth place at last year’s EIWA tournament, the Galloway, N.J., native found himself a one-point loss away from making his first-ever national tournament appearance.

Baseball in Politics

Tim Kuhls  —  Mar 8, 2007

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For decades, if not centuries, baseball has been America’s pastime. It can be a game of small ball, where strategy, speed and the ability to put pressure on the opposition eventually lead to long term success. Baseball can also be a game of epic power and fear, where one player and his ability to change a game with one swing of the bat trumps all other kinds of value. It’s no coincidence that the same strategies are used by leaders in American politics — after all, baseball and American politics are considerably linked. Former owners have become presidents, and former pitchers have become state senators.

Head Coaching Position Advertised for W. Soccer

Harrison D. Sanford  —  Mar 8, 2007

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Following this year’s three-win season, the athletic department has decided to advertise the women’s soccer head coaching vacancy on the NCAA job opening site. After serving as the women’s soccer team’s interim head coach last year — and assistant coach the previous four years — former interim coach Gretchen Zigante is still in the running to be the team’s long term coacg.

10 Questions with Olivia Dwyer

Paul Testa  —  Mar 8, 2007

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After listening to former Sun Sports Editor Olivia Dwyer’s demands for a year, former Assistant Sports Editor Paul Testa aims to get some revenge in this version on 10 Questions.

1. Can you tell me again why exactly we’re doing this?

Face Offs Key for M. Laxers

Cory Bennett  —  Mar 7, 2007

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During the short-lived XFL, each game began, not with a coin flip, but by placing a football at midfield and letting two players sprint at it from 10 yards away to see who could get there first. And despite color commentator Jesse Ventura’s gruff insistence that there were several different, intricate strategies each player had at his disposal, the reality was that the quicker man to the ball was rewarded with the option to kick off or receive.

Brown’s DeOssie Impresses at NFL Combine

Bryan Pepper  —  Mar 7, 2007

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As you may have come to notice, the Ivy League produces a very meager supply of NFL talent. Obviously, certain names stand out when compiling the very short list of current players. Harvard alum Matt Birk has qualified for five Pro Bowls as a center for the Vikings. Columbia’s Marcellus Wiley plays a role on the Jaguar’s defensive line. Even Yale’s Eric Johnson, Harvard’s Isaiah Kacyvenski and Cornell’s own Kevin Boothe come to mind. Yet with the NFL draft at the end of April, there will certainly be one more name to add to the list: Brown defensive end Zak Deossie. As one of 326 players invited to the combine in Indianapolis, DeOssie was given the rare opportunity of showcasing his skills to NFL brass and his performance there ranked as one of the very best in the field.

M. Tennis Defeats Local Rival Colgate

Devon Goodrich  —  Mar 7, 2007

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While plenty of Cornell students were taking prelims last night, the men’s tennis team had a test of a different kind. The Colgate Raiders brought their A-game, but they failed to take out the Red, which prevailed by a score of 6-1 at Reis Tennis Center.

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