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Post by WCHC Sports on May 16, 2024 11:31:08 GMT -5
Remember, Miyagi didn't teach Daniel-Son karate at first. It was wax the car, paint the fence, etc. That's the benefit of a Liberal Arts education. You learn well-rounded skills, strengthen and hone your broader talents and capabilities, and apply them to specific opponents when the need arises.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 16, 2024 8:25:30 GMT -5
I haven't reffed basketball game in twenty years, but even some snot-nosed kids gave lip to the ref. I always liked to communicate while reffing: "Clear the paint!" worked better than immediately blowing a three seconds call, or "hands off!" better than a ticky-tack foul call away from the hoop. I think players and coaches like that.
I despise it as a fan-- either watching my own team or watching others nationally-- when a coach is perpetually ripping into the refs. Basketball is insufferable at times for that fact. College football especially. These millionaires are RIPPING the refs apart. The worst sport on a performance basis (just an opinion) is baseball. It's so clear to see, and often, the umps botch balls and strikes. And since there are something like 350 pitches in a game, lots of opportunities for it to be botched. But the rules largely prevent the complaining, and the coaches are distant from the umps off in the dugout. I'd love a zero tolerance rule for berating the officials and doing toddler performative tirades on the sidelines. I would wager a large sum of money that if it stopped in the pro and college ranks, you'd see it trickle down to AAU/high school level by osmosis and imitation rather quickly.
Parents however.... no such guarantees!
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 10, 2024 12:57:50 GMT -5
So now that's 4 head coaches since Stevens moved up to the front office- Udoka, Lee, Mazzulla and Will Hardy. And they keep winning. What a franchise.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 10, 2024 12:09:47 GMT -5
172 today. Was very chalky. Michael A. Taylor was my bottom left.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 10, 2024 10:00:08 GMT -5
Matt Stairs was one of my buddy's hail mary guesses this morning and it hit. Another one we learned and now will keep in the back pocket was Jeff Franceur while he was hanging on one team at a per-year clip.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 10, 2024 8:23:41 GMT -5
Immaculate Grid is fun and can be very humbling. To nycrusader2010, you'd be surprised at the random stats this proves you think you know, but you don't. Nolan Ryan never won a Cy Young award. Tons of fantastic players never got 200 hits in a season, even in their MVP, like Goldschmidt and Votto. And WAR can really mess with ya when you're aiming for the 6+ seasons.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 9, 2024 6:55:05 GMT -5
You guys would love Immaculate Grid if you're not playing already.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 7, 2024 10:23:28 GMT -5
While some might be critical of the choreography, I'd like to know where they found the time in med school (they are Harvard med school students, right?) to actually practice this? The stereotype, which may or may not be true nowadays, was that med students studied and worked such long hours that they were sleep deprived and no time for anything but their studies. Has that changed? What do you call the worst student that graduates med school?
Admittedly biased viewpoint, but anecdotal evidence from a liability lawyer claims that medical negligence in the review of x-rays/MRIs/charting is "at an unusual high." I try to have empathy for the tremendous stress and hours put on these doctors, but my own daughter was sent home from the ER with a clean bill of health (or otherwise, "it's just a viral cold") and the regular pediatrician saw the x-rays the next day and noticed she clearly had pneumonia.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 6, 2024 14:07:39 GMT -5
Baseball: Little League World Series qualifying game I hit a grand slam to walk off over the left field light tower... foul ball. I struck out looking on the next pitch to end the game.
Basketball: Not me, but in 6th grade, we had a classmate who was a bit of a wild kid (had some larger troubles later in life as an adult) who was out with a broken wrist or a sprain. Whatever it was, he was in a soft cast. A) our team was not very good, B) the kid was not very good, and C) his mom never came to games. Despite basically being on the injured list and not playing, his mom happened to come to this particular game. And despite not being very good, we were blowing the opponent out for this game. So our coach, good guy, looks across half court to the kid's mom and basically gestures "Can he play?" Figuring he'd get the son some rare playing time in front of his mom. Mom gives the thumbs-up, so the kid goes to the scorer's table. He was in his jersey, sneakers, and had the snap-on/snap-off warm-up pants. Ball goes out of bounds, horn goes BRRRRRRRRRRT, and the kid starts to walk onto the court to applause. Grabs both sides of the warm up pants and rips them off: and is wearing just his tighty whities underneath and not wearing his uniform shorts.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 6, 2024 9:04:04 GMT -5
Treat symptoms or treat diseases; one helps the problem continue, and one solves the problem once and for all.
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Post by WCHC Sports on May 2, 2024 11:12:30 GMT -5
Holy Cross students are smarter than that, apparently.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 30, 2024 8:23:57 GMT -5
Great year so far for Regis: - Basketball team is a total bull in a China shop, beats Fordham Prep, Xavier, Jesuit New Orleans, wins league, city and state titles - Speech and debate also wins the whole enchilada, state champs - Declan Cronin dominating out of the pen for the Miami Marlins - Jost tears it up at White House Correspondents' Dinner May ours be the noble heart! Hearn, 4LYFE
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 19, 2024 9:18:19 GMT -5
Send them to Gaza. They can stand in solidarity there.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 18, 2024 11:13:21 GMT -5
Donaghy is the worst of the worst. An official paid to be impartial, an employee of the league directly, whose decisions directly can shape the outcome of games... a player TRYING to lose can't guarantee it as much as a ref can.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 16, 2024 9:36:59 GMT -5
While at HC, I was a major NY sports fan in the heart of enemy territory. Even so, I was spoiled because I had Don Orsillo and the Rem Dog on SOX games, and Mike Gorman and Tommy Heinsohn for Celtics games. Great mix of exceptional play-by-play skills and chops, with the supremely entertaining insights and quirks of the color guys. My personal fandom aside, made me really love watching the games.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 15, 2024 9:03:38 GMT -5
FBS =/= FCS is horrible. IF they did it for basketball, it would be 10x worse. How are you viewing FCS? I prefer HC's opponents, post-season opportunities and budget over the UMass opponents, budget and post-season opportunities in the MAC they sold their soul (leaving A-10 BB) to get. How could Holy Cross spend what UMass, UConn and BC, our three FBS neighbors spend on FB every year? They can't. I know why they did it. But what it did was establish a separate-but-not-equal setup for football, where there are champions, and there are champions and there are also winners of the Tostitos Doritos Fritos Dos Toros Taco Bell Locos Tacos Bowl.
Hockey = National Champion Basketball = National Champion
Football = Well, we have some champions and some winners and some are the "real" big time leagues and some are pocket leagues and some....
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 12, 2024 13:40:15 GMT -5
FBS =/= FCS is horrible. IF they did it for basketball, it would be 10x worse.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 12, 2024 12:25:17 GMT -5
I seem to recall the car chase breaking into a sporting event I was watching (NBA finals?) and being annoyed This was before the days of TV shows like CSI and NCIS making the average person aware of DNA testing. Back then most people were not familiar with that technique and all that evidence could look more like science fiction than science 94 NBA Finals, New York Knicks.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 8, 2024 13:52:23 GMT -5
Was always partial to the Boulevard Diner. So much so that Brenda came to our commencement!
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 5, 2024 13:11:19 GMT -5
Heard it before I felt it-- it was pretty eerie as it got louder. Then the house vibrated for maybe 20-30 seconds? All good otherwise in lower Westchester.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 3, 2024 11:21:56 GMT -5
Bob Hyland played freshman basketball at BC in ‘63-‘64. HC played them twice, splitting the pair. Bob set one heck of a screen. Next time I see him, probably in the Fall, I'll be sure to remind him. Thanks. MM Tell him I miss the Sports Page after softball games.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Apr 2, 2024 8:46:10 GMT -5
Heard Women's Final Four tickets going for a higher price than tickets for the Men's Final Four. Is that true? Great to see the improvement & growth in the women's game. Will it translate to the WNBA? No it will not.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 29, 2024 9:29:58 GMT -5
I think you're missing nextmanup's inference that the Patriot League, and even HC football's success in the PL, does not make Holy Cross relevant "nationally." I'd argue that it's pretty much the case outside of the niche world of NCAA D1 AA/FCS fandom, and the northeast more-broadly. The national recognition is far and away of FBS programs. Holy Cross as an institution (studies and academic focus, available courses, undergrad-exclusive, size, geographical attendance demographics) does not match up to really any major FBS football school. That's just a fact.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 28, 2024 8:20:10 GMT -5
My daughters will learn to be a plumber and an electrician. They'll have a contracting business and be tasked to build the next dorm for all the lunatics that can actually afford to pay for college in 12 years.
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Post by WCHC Sports on Mar 26, 2024 8:52:43 GMT -5
You seem to omit a big difference. Most students pay to attend a school and have the right to stop if they wish. Many athletes are being paid (whether or not it is a scholarship worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or NIL money that can be even more). Don't they owe something more than the average student? So should a regular student on an full academic scholarship not be able to transfer from a school if he or she is unhappy? They should. But "unhappiness" is only a minor driver, if it is a driver at all, for the student athlete to transfer. They're mercenaries that are chasing the highest bidder, whether it is a better academic/athletic opportunity or not.
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