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Post by hc811215 on Mar 10, 2023 13:34:15 GMT -5
Iona did not offer Pitino the extension he desired. He is done there. He would take St.John’s in a heartbeat. Will the Vincentians put on the blinders that the Christian Brothers of Ireland(or whatever their new name is) did not ? The brothers running Iona are no choir boys. They did hire RP knowing his background. The Iona decision not to extend RP sounds more like a money issue than a moral issue.
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Post by hc811215 on Dec 8, 2021 18:10:28 GMT -5
Scary and sad there's a total lack of interest here on this game. Although I'm as bad as anyone. Pushing the drive limit on a work night, I'm probably going to let a projected inch of snow keep me from making the trek tonight. It might be different if we weren't a bottom ten team Yes, it’s definitely not a good thing when fans of the program aren’t even frustrated at the state of things anymore, they’re just disinterested and no longer care.
#AttackandServe I think they are uninterested rather than disinterested, but perhaps they are both.
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Post by hc811215 on Jan 17, 2021 13:31:01 GMT -5
Again, not a list of who contributed the most while playing in New York, more a list of all time greats whoever suited up for a New York team. Durant and Harden career numbers and accomplishments support their spots IMHO.
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Post by hc811215 on Jan 17, 2021 12:09:41 GMT -5
In watching Kevin Durant's start of the season with the Brooklyn Nets, it has me thinking he might be the best basketball player ever to lace up sneakers for a New York metro area based professional basketball team. The man is a joy to watch. Here are my thoughts on a top 10 list all time list. As I hope is obvious from the list, it is not based on their time in New York/Brooklyn/Uniondale, but their entire careers to date.
Kevin Durant Julius Irving Patrick Ewing James Harden Walt Frazier Earl Monroe Bernard King Willis Reed Carmelo Anthony Bob McAdoo
Who would you include? Who did I leave out? Who would you rank higher or lower? Kyrie could crack the top 10 if he gets himself together, but I don't think I would put him ahead of any of these guys yet.
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Post by hc811215 on Jul 30, 2020 15:15:16 GMT -5
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Post by hc811215 on Jul 7, 2020 16:20:15 GMT -5
It would have been nice if they spelled his name correctly. He was only the last NBA player from Holy Cross before Malcolm Miller. That might have been worth a mention.
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Post by hc811215 on Jun 2, 2020 8:52:23 GMT -5
The vast majority of protesters are non-violent and not criminal. As has historically been the case, there have been some who try to take advantage of the situation for their own ends. Just as many of you would not want all police judged by the acts of the murderous Derek Chauvin and his three criminal compatriots, the hundreds of thousands of protesters should not be judged by the relatively few in number who cause property damage and loot.
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Post by hc811215 on May 31, 2020 10:58:52 GMT -5
Not much correlation between being a very good player at a high level and being a good coach. How's Chris Mullin doing nowadays? Was Mullin a MacDonald's All American in high school? How many times did he play in Final Four? Hpw many times was he the high scorer in college against Duke? His NBA experience is irrelevant. I'm talking COLLEGE. And "all" "every" etc. are words I try to avoid. In fact, I never said there was a "correlation." It wasn't even implied in my post. All I talked about was RECRUITING. Please try to read more carefully. Thanks. Chris Mullin was recognized as the best college player in the country his senior year, winning the Wooden award. Duke wasn't as good as St. John's in those days.
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Post by hc811215 on May 31, 2020 10:42:54 GMT -5
"If you want peace, work for justice." Pope Paul VI I still can't get over the casual look on the face of the policeman as he murdered that man. I can't imagine how it would make me feel if I was a member of the black community. I can't believe the other three officers who did nothing but watch the murder happen have yet to be charged. This coming just weeks after a young black man was shot to death while jogging. I thought Fr. Burroughs' response was somewhat tepid. Here is the letter from Fr. McShane of Fordham who may be the most impressive President of a Jesuit College or University in America.
Dear Members of the Fordham Family,
It is with a heavy and (let me be honest here) angry heart that I write to you today. I suspect that your hearts are also angry and heavy with sorrow. And how could we not be angry, dismayed and sorrowful at this moment? In the course of the past few painful months, we have witnessed the savage and senseless killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, as well as many other instances of violence—lethal and not—against people of color in the United States. That is not to mention the longstanding economic violence against people of color and their communities in this country, and the widespread, systemic and shameful disregard for the value of their lives in the eyes of others. (We have seen this systemic disregard quite clearly during the COVID-19 pandemic: amid the suffering across the country, and especially in the Bronx, communities of color were and are more vulnerable and more harshly affected than are white communities.)
I do not think I have to convince any of you that these acts and this state of affairs are sinful and immoral, and that they go against everything that a Jesuit university stands for. I do, however, think that some of our fellow citizens need to be reminded that they are happening every day in our very midst—in our own communities. Although we don’t all like to admit it, people of color—and let’s be frank, especially Black people—live lives of relentlessly hostile scrutiny, and they have been telling us so since the ink on the Thirteenth Amendment was barely dry. Four years ago, when we were confronted with a sadly similar shameful moment, former President Obama wrote that, "When incidents like this occur, there’s a big chunk of our fellow citizenry that feels as if because of the color of their skin, they are not being treated the same. And that hurts. And that should trouble all of us. This is not just a black issue. It’s not just a Hispanic issue. This is an American issue that we should all care about. All fair-minded people should be concerned." And he was and is right. The problems that we must confront belong to all of us. Therefore, we need to own up to them. We have to own them. All of us. Their solutions also need to be owned by everyone, but especially by our leaders and those in positions of authority and influence.
Yesterday, in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd’s death former President Obama once again issued a statement that said, in part, “…we have to remember that for millions of Americans, being treated differently on account of race is tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal’ — whether it’s while dealing with the health care system, or interacting with the criminal justice system, or jogging down the street, or just watching birds in a park.”
As you might imagine, I found myself returning to President Obama’s haunting reflections over and over again in the course of the past few days. And I was made uneasy by them—in the best possible sense of that word. For you see, I heard in them the unmistakable ring of truth. And that truth pierced me to the heart. Therefore, I asked myself how the Fordham family can and should respond to the challenges that the events of past week have presented to us. Of course, as a community of faith, we will pray for the repose of the souls of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. We will also pray for their families as they wrestle with the losses they have suffered in and through the deaths of those whom they loved so dearly. That goes without saying, and I ask you to join me in those fervent prayers.
But, let’s be honest. That is not enough. We must do more. We are a university community. Therefore, we must also recommit ourselves to the work that is proper to us as an academic community. A university’s greatest strength is its intellectual capital—the research, teaching, and learning that occurs both in and outside of the classroom. It is our central mission, and the one on which we expend the great majority of our budget and most of our energy—intellectual and moral. Tapping into these strengths and assets, we must recommit ourselves to the work of educating for justice and to doing all we can to figure out how our beloved nation, to paraphrase President Abraham Lincoln, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all are created equal, has allowed itself to stray from the ideals (and the promises those ideals hold out to all) upon which it was founded.
We are not, however, merely a university community. We are a Jesuit university community. And what does that mean for us and the work we must undertake? As I have told you before, I believe that the issues that divide and challenge our nation are moral issues. Therefore, I believe that precisely because we are a Jesuit institution, we have a special responsibility to reflect on the events of the past week and on the challenges that they have created for our nation in particularly moral terms. What do I mean? Just this: We can remind our students (and ourselves) that the situation in which the nation now finds itself is one that requires us to engage in an honest examination of conscience and consciousness so that we can be what God wants us to be. If we are willing to engage in this examination of consciousness, we will be able to take the first step toward the conversion of heart that will free us from the bondage of anger, frustration, and suspicion that holds us back.
I will not lie to you. The work of conversion is hard. And frequently it takes time. A long time. But I assure you that it is worth the exertion that it requires. The death of innocents calls us to it. The Gospel that has always stood at the center of our life and mission calls us to it. Therefore, let us all look into our hearts and see what justice would look like for the communities of color that are languishing and being crushed under the weight of racism in our country. Let us take to heart the loving invitation contained in the message issued on Friday by the United States Catholic Conference: “Encounter the people who historically have been disenfranchised [and] continue to experience sadness and pain and more authentically accompany them, listen to their stories, and learn from them, finding substantive ways to enact systemic change. Such encounters will start to bring about the needed transformation of our understanding of true life, charity, and justice in the United States.”
As I said, the work of conversion is hard, but if we commit ourselves to its rigors, we will be able to redeem the promises of our founding ideals for all of our citizens, who are (in the eyes of God) our brothers and sisters. Our beloved brothers and sisters.
You are in my thoughts and prayers today and every day.
Sincerely,
Joseph M. McShane, S.J.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
THE JESUIT UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
441 East Fordham Road | Bronx, NY 10458
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Post by hc811215 on May 14, 2020 11:07:56 GMT -5
This could have been written in the late 1970s rather than in 2020. On this front, not all that much has changed since I left Mt. St. James thirty nine years ago in 1981. During my tenure, John Esposito (the Islam scholar who later went on to head Georgetown's center for Islamic studies) headed the religious studies department. Among the most popular religious studies classes were Comparative Religious Worldviews and Liberation Theology with Fr. Manning. Student Scott Duffy, later of the Catholic Worker in Worcester, along with our college Pax Christi organization was protesting US support for Latin American dictatorships and having impromptu debates with the head of ROTC in Hogan. Fr. LaBran, who famously had marched with Cesar Chavez and the farm workers was heading the Spiritual Exercises. We celebrated alums Philip Berrigan and catholic socialist Michael Harrington, author of The Other America, which had helped inspire the war on Poverty.
Having both my daughters attend in classes of 2012 and 2015, I have to say I found the college, and especially the student body, slightly more conservative than when I graduated in 1981. I remember a very conservative Long Islander telling my mother in the summer of 1977, "don't let him go to Holy Cross, he will lose his religion." I believe it was Time magazine that labelled Holy Cross "the cradle of the Catholic left" in the early 70s and the faculty and chaplains would wear that label with honor in the late 1970s early 1980s. The idea that the local bishop might have some say about what was taught at Holy Cross or who could speak at graduation was still a decade or so away as Ex corde Ecclesiae wasn't even issued until 1990. This article seems to long for a Holy Cross from more than 60 years ago, if it ever existed at all.
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Post by hc811215 on Feb 14, 2020 8:35:02 GMT -5
I don't think we'd find a correlation between a coach's playing ability and his later success as a coach. Maybe for the truly famous players there could be some help in early recruiting but I don't see much beyond that See Chris Mullin at St. John's.
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Post by hc811215 on Jan 9, 2020 11:36:21 GMT -5
Lafayette Boston Univ. Holy Cross Colgate Lehigh
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Post by hc811215 on Jan 8, 2020 8:58:39 GMT -5
Colgate Boston Univ. Army Navy Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Jan 2, 2020 9:43:23 GMT -5
Colgate Navy Boston University Holy Cross Army
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Post by hc811215 on Dec 20, 2019 11:14:40 GMT -5
Well done!!
Merry Christmas to all, and in the words of tiny Tim, who did not die, "God Bless us, every one."
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Post by hc811215 on Nov 13, 2019 17:22:41 GMT -5
Sacred Heart
Lafayette
Bucknell
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Nov 4, 2019 12:03:43 GMT -5
Lehigh
Fordham
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 29, 2019 7:46:20 GMT -5
5-8 10-8 1-1 16-17
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 28, 2019 8:04:49 GMT -5
Georgetown Lafayette Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 23, 2019 12:07:41 GMT -5
GTown
Lafayette
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 14, 2019 7:44:57 GMT -5
Since it is homecoming weekend, I think it appropriate to pick all the home teams.
Georgetown
Fordham
Cornell
Towson
Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 13, 2019 7:51:18 GMT -5
Glayber Torres. Wow.
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Post by hc811215 on Oct 7, 2019 12:03:23 GMT -5
Princeton Colgate GTown Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 30, 2019 7:51:22 GMT -5
Yale Colgate GTown Holy Cross
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Post by hc811215 on Sept 23, 2019 7:23:37 GMT -5
Lehigh
Columbia
Richmond
Princeton
UPenn
Dartmouth
Syracuse
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