sports

Throught the gauntlet

Tina Chou — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:10:15 -0400

Senior wide receiver Joshua Friedman (center) caught a game-high six receptions for 121 total yards Saturday during Cornell’s loss to Navy.

0-3? Time to Find a New Team

Matthew Manacher — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

You know the feeling. You get your first taste of it in July when NFL training camps open up. Maybe your team is missing that shutdown cornerback or your team’s running back is absent due to heated contract negotiations (read: Stephen Jackson). With your luck, it will be your No. 1 draft pick who sits out at training camp in a contract dispute. Whatever the shortcomings are, none of them matter come September. Every team starts with a clean slate and theoretically, all 32 teams are vying for equal footing for the Vince Lombardi trophy. Anything can happen; just ask New York Giants fans.

Esteemed C.U. Hockey Coach Harkness Dies

Cory Bennett — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

Ned Harkness, the coach who turned the men’s hockey and lacrosse programs into perennial national title contenders, passed away Friday morning. He was 89.

“Ned was a legend, not just at Cornell but in the hockey world,” Men’s Hockey Coach Mike Schafer ’86 stated in a press release. “As a coach, he had a positive impact on a lot of lives. He was a pioneer of the winning hockey tradition here at Cornell. Today is a sad day for Cornell hockey, for college hockey, and for all those that Ned has touched in his life.”

Harkness was at the helm of Cornell’s only two national championships in hockey — 1967 and 1970. The 1967 title also capped off the only undefeated, untied season in collegiate hockey history.

Jeter Breaks Gehrig's Record

The Associated Press — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:23:32 -0400

NEW YORK (AP) — Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig's record for hits at Yankee Stadium, singling in the first inning against the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.

The hit off Gavin Floyd was Jeter's 1,270th in the 85-year-old ballpark, scheduled to close Sunday. It came in Jeter's 8,002nd major league at-bat, passing Gehrig for second on the Yankees' career list behind Mickey Mantle (8,102).

White Sox third baseman Juan Uribe, playing on the edge of the infield grass, tried to backhand the sharp grounder, which went under his glove.

There were camera flashes with every pitch thrown to Jeter in recent days. Jeter acknowledged the long ovation by taking off his helmet and raising it to the sellout crowd.

When Sports and Hypertension Mix

Meredith Bennett-Smith — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400

I couldn’t help but wince as the blood pressure cuff closed tightly around my upper arm. I sat quietly on the edge of the maroon table in one of Gannett’s cramped examining rooms, trying to concentrate on my Zen breathing techniques. Despite my best efforts, those evil little numerals kept rising, finally tapping out with a little beep at — good lord — 155/102. Now, for those of you out there who are unfamiliar with the wonders of blood pressure indicators, a healthy individual should be in the 120/70 range. When those numbers creep up into the 130s-over-80 ballpark, you are classified in what is loosely referred to as the “pre-hypertension” stage.

Rare form

Ariel Waitz — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:12:28 -0400

Junior Brittany Howse performs her floor exercise for the Red.

Study Finds That NBA Refs Make Biased Calls

Cara Sprunk — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

In a split second, a basketball referee has to make a call: to foul or not foul a player. In a recent study done by a former Cornell graduate student, it was found that these quick decisions are affected by more than just the game.

Joseph Price PhD ’07, who studied economics, worked with Prof. Justin Wolfers, Wharton, to examine nearly 13,000 National Basketball Association games between 1991 and 2002 to find evidence of an inherent racial bias in referee calls.

Price became interested in racial biases after reading a book on the topic as an undergraduate and from there went on to study the NBA.

A Cornell Sports Weekend King Leonidas Would Be Proud Of

Josh Perlin — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Madness? THIS IS SPARTA … I mean ITHACA!

I am not even kidding: if there has ever been a time to show your school spirit and attend a Cornell sports event, this is it. Cornell sports are absolutely amazing this Friday through Sunday.

You have a chance to see three teams with projected NCAA entrants: that’s three teams with some of our nation’s best athletes, right here, at Cornell!

THIS IS BLASPHEMY!

Cornell sports … advancing on a national level?

Men's Basketball Coach by Robert Bonow

Robert Bonow — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:00:45 -0500

Women's Basketball by Matt Hintsa

Matt Hintsa — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:47:19 -0500

Main Track Photo by Robert Bonow

Robert Bonow — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:11:02 -0500

Ranking Sports' Biggest Villains

Lance Williams — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400

In case any of you have been wondering why my name has been relatively absent from paper for the past couple of weeks (and by the way if you actually have, that’s embarrassing and you should begin to rethink your life a little) it is because I sacrificed fulfilling many of my beloved duties at The Sun in order to prepare for the Law School Admission Test (a.k.a. The LSAT). Now that may not seem like a big deal to some of you, but I think I speak for many future law students (and for that matter future medical students like Scott Zuckerman and Michael “Texas Belt Buckle” Schechter) in saying that I would rather take a Tyson punch to the kidney than go through that experience again.

Which Cornell sports team should be featured on the back page of Monday's newspaper?

Michael — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:54:01 -0500

* Men's hockey team\n* Football\n* Volleyball team\n* Men's basketball team\n* Cross Country team\n