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Post by Chu Chu on Apr 11, 2024 12:44:02 GMT -5
Today, the UConn men’s and women’s programs have a combined 17 national titles, while, other than Cousy and Holy Cross in 1947, no other New England college has ever won This is one of my favorite Sports trivia questions that I often stump people with.
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Post by Chu Chu on Apr 1, 2024 11:22:25 GMT -5
They are all tied!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 28, 2024 12:29:56 GMT -5
Go a nice "thank you" call yesterday from DEANDRE WILLIAMS. It was most enjoyable. He asked if I could to get to any game that was close to me to please come and support the team. Most articulate young man. A good example of the scholar-athlete that will represent HC well as we move forward. He also called me, as well! I agree with all of your comments.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 26, 2024 14:55:26 GMT -5
This is a great article, that really captured the spirit of our team and the course of the Iowa game. If anybody has his email address, somebody should send this to Dan Shaughnessy at the Boston Globe. They need a class in how to write a reasonable article and an accurate headline.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 23, 2024 13:04:48 GMT -5
I meant to watch, but got sidetracked. Did anyone watch this? I did and I thought all participants did a commendable job. Difficult questions were addressed, considered answers were offered. The faith of the enslaved and their descendants, many of whom remained members of the Catholic Church, is humbling. President Rougeau and Fr. O'Keefe represented Holy Cross and the Jesuits very well. I also watched, and I agree it was an excellent program. I was especially impressed by President Rougeau, who spoke eloquently about the Healy brothers, and how they were able to achieve so much only because they were able to pass for White. This came out great personal cost, which included estrangement from their family. He also noted that when the Healy brothers father died, the sale of his estate and slaves resulted in a gift that helped to rebuild Fenwick Hall after a catastrophic fire.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 19, 2024 23:15:27 GMT -5
Jordan Faison‘s story reminds me a bit of Jim Brown, who was an All American in both football and lacrosse for Syracuse!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 13, 2024 15:58:37 GMT -5
God love hockey and FCS which allows HC to compete nationally when we have great coaches. 22nd in College Hockey is like being ranked 100th in College Basketball Let us have our moment of joy!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 13, 2024 9:01:43 GMT -5
Cute. I am very familiar with modern scholarship on the Civil War. When you generalize to States Rights as a primary cause of the War you leave out several others (of which I am sure you are aware). Here is a list of "primary" causes of the Civil War (in no particular order): 1. States’ Rights 2. The Missouri Compromise 3 The Dred Scott Decision 4. The Abolitionist Movement 5. John Brown’s Raid (Harper’s Ferry) and Trial 6. Slavery in America (yes it is on the list but only as one cause of many) 7. Harriet Tubman 8. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 9. Secessionism 10. Election of Lincoln *11 Newspapers (and the few men who owned them and controlled public debate) It was a far more complicated than some with agendas might have others believe. rgs318, with respect, everything on your list, with the possible exception of #10, IS ABOUT SLAVERY! The Confederates of the time said it was about slavery.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 12, 2024 12:27:35 GMT -5
I was able to read the article by copying the entire address in the first post, and then pasting it in to the browser window. For some reason, our Crosssports website is not allowing the entire address to link. I will post it again to see if it works. If not, copy and paste the entire text of the link below. www.riverdalepress.com/stories/manhattan-college-needs-transparency,136633#:~:text=Locally%20Manhattan%20College%2C%20the%20170,enrollment%20has%20fallen%20since%202019.&text=As%20these%20figures%20show%20a,decided%20to%20take%20some%20action
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 12, 2024 10:48:27 GMT -5
www.riverdalepress.com/stories/manhattan-college-needs-transparency,136633#:~:text=Locally%20Manhattan%20College%2C%20the%20170,enrollment%20has%20fallen%20since%202019.&text=As%20these%20figures%20show%20a,decided%20to%20take%20some%20action I hope that they can right the ship. I was taught by the Christian Brothers in high school, and I hope their legacy can last at Manhattan College.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 11, 2024 7:53:55 GMT -5
Colgate is going to get smoked by whatever top seed they face. They are not that good a D1 team. The PL gets worse every year. Downright awful this year. Colgate can hang their hat on being the best of the worst. And, yet I sense this pleases you in some strange way. Article in USA Today has Colgate as a 14 seed.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 9, 2024 13:32:07 GMT -5
This link below is from the University of Georgia football website, detailing the history of the series. Very interesting!
georgiadogs.com/sports/football/opponent-history/holy-cross/324
And this is from the New York Times, October 23, 1938:
HOLY CROSS ROUTS GEORGIA, 29 TO 6
24,000 See Varied Attack by Purple Eleven Score in Every Period
Pass Starts Drive Gerasimas Recovers Fumble
Holy Cross's rebounding Crusaders unleashed a devastating offense today and crushed a big, unbeaten University of Georgia eleven, 29 to 6, in a colorful intersectional football war before 24,000 spectators. Fullback Bill Osmanski and regular quarterback Henry Ouillette were unable to dress for the game due to injuries.
Just imagine how much fun it was to be a Holy Cross football fan in the 1930s!
Read the entire article here in the New York Times "Time Machine": timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/10/23/98866983.html?pageNumber=79
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 9, 2024 13:17:20 GMT -5
Perhaps not exactly the same. Didn't we end that Georgia series undefeated (2-0)? 3 - 0!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 9, 2024 10:23:17 GMT -5
Get a win then end the series. That way you keep the fact of ending on a winning note. That's what we did with Georgia!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 8, 2024 12:15:56 GMT -5
Just let HC public relations know. Be nice if they noted it on our social media accounts, at a minimum. They did!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 6, 2024 10:57:51 GMT -5
That was well done and very entertaining!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 5, 2024 10:54:14 GMT -5
Jim Fixx, who wrote the best selling “The Complete Book of Running “ that helped start the running/jogging revolution in the 1970s, died of a heart attack while running at age 52. I remembered James Fixx and enjoyed his book. I also know that he had congenital heart problems and that if he had not been running, he quite probably would not have reached the age he did. Some of his doctors and friends said much the same thing. Not exactly. Jim Fix died of an acute myocardial infarction, and was found after his death to have severe arteriosclerosis of the three main coronary arteries. I also read and enjoyed his book. He was a great advocate for exercise as a major cure and preventive for cardiovascular disease, and believed he exercised at an elite level that he did not need to pay attention to other risk factors. It is important to get his story right, because I believe it contains lessons for the rest of us. He should've paid more attention to his prior history of cigarette smoking, and his family history of early heart disease, which might have indicated an underlying abnormality putting him at increased risk.
This article is by By Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., from the New York Times, was written a week after his death, July 24, 1984, Section C, Page 1:
THE first symptom of heart disease is sometimes sudden death. Never was that fact made clearer than in the ironic death last week of James Fixx, whose best-selling book ''The Complete Book of Running'' led tens of thousands to take up jogging and made him a guru of the running world. Mr. Fixx, whose transition from a heavy young man who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day into a trimmer, middle-aged nonsmoking athlete seemed to insure a healthy life, died at the age of 52 while jogging in Vermont.
Friends described him as being in fine physical condition and said he had not complained of any symptoms while running 10 miles a day and pursuing other vigorous physical activity. He had trounced his sister, Kitty Fixx Bower, in a tennis match on Cape Cod the day before his death.
His former wife, Alice Kasman Fixx, said, ''He never had any warning.''
''If he did,'' she said, ''he ignored it.''
Reports immediately after his death suggested that Mr. Fixx did not have a regular physician and had not gone for a routine checkup as his sister had urged him to do, even though his father had his first heart attack at the age of 35 and died of another one at 43.
News accounts of Mr. Fixx's death have led many to assume that such checkups would have detected the disease, brought about drug treatment or coronary bypass surgery, and saved his life. It might have.
But the insidious thing about heart disease, which is the nation's leading cause of death, is that it is often so secret and veiled that doctors cannot always detect severe cases such as Mr. Fixx's from routine tests. All individuals with heart disease are not candidates for bypass surgery, nor do all who have it benefit from it. It usually takes decades for arteriosclerosis to clog the arteries, thereby narrowing the stream of blood and reducing nourishment of the heart muscle. Further, as the painless, insidious process progresses, the body usually adapts to it by forming collateral pathways for blood to flow. Presumably, in Mr. Fixx's case, they were inadequate to protect against the heart rhythm abnormality that apparently killed him - an abnormality that may or may not have been triggered by a heart attack.
Dr. Eleanor N. McQuillen, Vermont's chief medical examiner who performed an autopsy on Mr. Fixx, said in an interview that all three of his coronary arteries were damaged by arteriosclerosis, the underlying cause of heart attacks.
Mr. Fixx's left circumflex coronary artery was almost totally blocked; only trickles of blood could flow through the pinholes that were left of the inside of that artery. About 80 percent of the blood flow in the right coronary artery was blocked. The chief nourishment to Mr. Fixx's heart came from blood flowing through the third artery, the left anterior descending, which was less severely affected. Nevertheless, half that artery was blocked in places.
There was additional arteriosclerotic damage to a portion of Mr. Fixx's aorta and the arteries in his legs, but no blockage. The disease spared the arteries that fed his brain.
Mr. Fixx's case ''will be a big question raiser'' because of the irony of his death while jogging and the debate about the health benefits of exercise, said Dr. Robert S. Ascheim, a cardiologist who practices at 435 East 57th Street and teaches at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
''Does running benefit you? Nobody really has a clear answer,'' Dr. Ascheim said.
Nevertheless, many people believe exercise prevents death from premature heart disease. Dr. Ascheim said that the severity of Mr. Fixx's heart disease would not have made bypass surgery imperative but that national studies have shown that medications would have been advised.
As the debates go on, optimists will say that exercise prolonged Mr. Fixx's life, and pessimists will contend that it shortened it.
Because of the uncertainties, one of the thorniest questions physicians face is how many tests and which ones to advise to screen for heart disease in middle-aged males who have no symptoms. Many physicians would not have been particularly suspicious of Mr. Fixx's having heart disease because he was in such fine physical condition and because of the apparent absence of symptoms even when exercising strenuously.
A physician examining him would start with a medical history, asking such questions as whether the patient has felt pain in the chest, jaw, throat or arm in relationship to exercise. He would ask the patient to describe the character of the pain and to tell how long it has been present. Newly occurring pain might merit special attention.
On learning that 17 years had passed since Mr. Fixx stopped his two-pack-a-day smoking habit and began running, the physician would have assumed that his risk of a heart attack would have returned to that of a nonsmoker. However, the physician would be struck by the heart disease history of Mr. Fixx's father.
If Mr. Fixx's blood pressure was high, appropriate therapy would have been advised.
Mr. Fixx's heart, like those of many athletes, was enlarged, and it probably would have appeared so on a chest X-ray. But, as Dr. McQuillen said, ''it is hard to know what the significance of an enlarged heart is in a runner'' who had serious heart disease.
Chances are that the electrocardiogram would have been normal because blockage of the arteries does not show up in the test, which detects only abnormal heart beats and damage that has already occurred to the heart muscle itself. Evidence of a painless heart attack sometime in the past, if present on the electrocardiogram, would have been a clue to the severity of his problem. However, if it was a heart attack that killed Mr. Fixx, it was apparently his first. Dr. McQuillen said she would study specimens of Mr. Fixx's heart under the microscope for evidence of an old heart attack.
Doctors are reluctant to resort to tests involving injection of needles, tubes and chemicals because of the associated risks. They usually order such tests only if there is evidence of medical need. So most doctors would not advise special X-ray tests known as coronary angiograms unless they had strong clues to the presence of heart disease.
The advanced equipment needed to screen for heart disease in symptomless individuals is very expensive. Moreover, all medical tests sometimes fail to detect a condition when it is present and indicate it is there when it is not. The percentage of such so-called false negatives and false positives varies with each test. For those and other reasons, most doctors are not inclined to advise use of currently available technology to mass screen for heart disease.
Particularly because of Mr. Fixx's family history of heart disease, many doctors might have advised a simpler screening test called the treadmill, or exercise stress test, which costs about $175. But many other doctors might not have done it.
Even if Mr. Fixx had a stress test, his endurance might have been supernormal because of his training. Yet changes may have shown up in the so- called ST segments of the electrocardiogram. In equivocal cases, ''many doctors might ignore the changes if he had no pain at the time,'' said Dr. J. Ward Kennedy, chief cardiologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
If the results of the exercise stress test were normal, most doctors would have stopped the search. However, if the exercise stress results were abnormal, many doctors would have ordered tests that rely on radio-isotopes to outline the heart muscle. Some use thallium, and such tests cost about $750. Presumably, Mr. Fixx's results would have been abnormal. Because of the expense and because there are false negatives, such tests are generally not done as a first option.
Many will be struck by the irony of the jogger dying while striving for physical fitness. But as Dr. Kennedy put it, arteriosclerosis is ''a very complicated disease and practically anything can happen.'' Mr. Fixx's death is a reminder of how much more needs to be learned before heart disease can be conquered.
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 2, 2024 13:17:22 GMT -5
Quite a turnaround so far! GoCross!
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Post by Chu Chu on Mar 2, 2024 13:03:00 GMT -5
I just turned in before the half. Ouch.!
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 22, 2024 12:35:15 GMT -5
I don't think that fans are going to line up for a trip to Montana. This one will!
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 22, 2024 10:39:10 GMT -5
To perhaps reset the dialogue and discussion, do others have individual journalists whom they follow and would like to share?
I am speaking of individuals who appreciate and engage in real pursuit of Truth, informed decision, and knowledge.
Another individual whom I track closely is Victor Davis Hanson. Highly intelligent individual who provides riveting historical perspectives on a wide array of topics. Thanks for the recommendation, td.
As a counterpoint, someone that I follow who also comes with a very thoughtful and interesting perspective is Heather Cox Richardson. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She writes a consistently interesting daily newsletter that you can subscribe to for free that also discusses current events in light of past history.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 21, 2024 20:44:03 GMT -5
This is our best game of the year!
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 21, 2024 16:31:30 GMT -5
I participated in this campaign, but I never saw where I could select how to direct my gift.
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 21, 2024 16:20:50 GMT -5
I have a good friend who is a St Johns grad, and a basketball fan. He was so hopeful this year, and he is crushed about Pitino's comments. He also disparaged the schools facilities as one of his problems. I am frankly a bit surprised. It certainly won't be good for team chemistry or morale. I do not remember him doing anything similar while at Iona.
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Post by Chu Chu on Feb 10, 2024 13:10:55 GMT -5
Mo money, mo money, mo money. IMO, this is all by design and thought out well in advance by the Power 4 conferences. The 12-team playoffs beginning next year are the college equivalent of the NFL playoffs. The NCAA wants to continue to be in a position to feed at this trough so it plays a role as a sycophantic yet ineffectual self regulatory organization. Under this construct both on the FB and BB front, you’re right this is worse than pro sports. I foresee future major issues primarily related to gambling on games. All the elements are in place. I think the likelihood of scandals relating to gambling is like night following day. I personally think Holy Cross and like minded schools and FCS schools overall are in a great position. The schools that are boxed are the mid to lower tier FBS programs that are not going to be able to keep up and don’t have the $$ to compete. BC, Syracuse, Temple, UConn, UMass, and a host of others in the MAC and Sun Belt are going to get squeezed. They either won’t be able to land the requisite number of talented recruits to compete and/or will lose their better players. I foresee many kids and families choosing to come to places like Holy Cross instead. Just my two cents. Let’s Win. Although, Syracuse is having their best recruiting year in decades.
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