Malm�, Liberec host Wednesday's NHL vs. Europe games

Source: http://www.puckworlds.com/2010/10/5/1731406/malmo-liberec-host-wednesdays-nhl-vs-europe-games

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News and Notes: Thursday Edition

Below, news and notes for Thursday...

• The Charlotte News Observer writes of former Cornell coach and current Boston College coach, Steve Donahue, "Coming from the Ivy League, he may not be a known quantity around the ACC - outside of Cornell's NCAA tournament run last spring - but he tried to do his homework, calling other coaches to figure out exactly what he was getting himself into." The Washington Post reports that during the ACC Media Day, Donahue jokingly suggested that the rest of the league should take it easy on him this year. "Be nice, right?" he said. "There's no hazing in this league for first-year guys. Let me get my feet under me."

• In previewing the upcoming Wisconsin season, BadgerBlitz.com wrote, "Wisconsin bowed out of the [2010 NCAA] tournament with a sobering 87-69 loss to Cornell in the second round."

• GoBlackNights.com interviewed former Cornell assistant and current Army head coach, Zach Spiker. Below is an excerpt from the article:

"'[O]ur jobs as coaches are to encourage, motivate and teach.'' He did that very well as an assistant coach at Cornell for five years, when the Big Red won three straight Ivy League titles and last year became the first Ivy team in 31 years to reach the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament.

Two former players at Cornell were brought in on his new staff this past spring: Kevin App, Class of 2007, and Ka'Ron Barnes, Class of 2004. Omar Mance (Rice) and Jimmy Allen (Emory & Henry) complete his young staff. Allen comes to West Point after six years as an assistant coach at the U.S. Naval Academy.

...Having coached in the Ivy League, Spiker's targeted recruits are not dissimilar to the athletes he coached Upstate. 'That was something that excited me about this opportunity, the inroads in terms of networks and connections,' he said, 'and the type of kid we recruited at Cornell was the exact same kid we want to bring to the academy. The only exception is that they need to understand and be educated about the five-year post-grad experience. But in terms of board scores and things like that, this is very, very similar, which I think will allow us to play a very similar style of play.'"

• Louis Dale ('10) scored 5 points and grabbed 3 rebounds in Gottingen's 80-61 win over Duesseldorf on Wednesday.

• The LegaDue (Italy) league website has some quotes from the Fulogr Libertas Forli staff about the future of Ryan Wittman ('10). The franchise has reportedly been considering cutting Wittman and signing a veteran guard. Below, photos from Wittman's last game, Forli's 65-53 loss on October 17 to Immorbiliare Spiga Rimini. Wittman finished with 8 points.

• Here are the upcoming games for Cornell alumni with the name of player, Cornell graduation year, pro team, pro league and date of next opponent: Jeff Aubry ('99) (Halcones, LNBP Mexico, October 21 vs. Lechugueros), Cody Toppert ('05) (Plymouth Raiders, BBL United Kingdom, October 22 vs. Everton), John McCord ('97) (Strasbourg, Pro A France, October 23 vs. Le Mans), Jason Hartford ('08) (Ginasio, LPD Portugal, October 23 vs. Academica), Louis Dale ('10) (Gottingen, Bundesliga Germany, October 23 vs. Ratiopharm), Ryan Wittman ('10) (Forli, LegaDue Italy, October 24 vs. Aget IMOLA), Jeff Foote ('10) (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel Winners League, October 24 vs. Ashkelon), Jon Jaques ('10) (Ashkelon, Israel Winners League, October 24 vs. Maccabi Tel Aviv)

• Dartmouth junior forward Josh Riddle was removed from Big Green roster. He joins Herve Kouna and Josef Brown as veterans dropped from 2010-2011 roster.

• The Harvard Crimson reports that Max Kenyi, a junior guard, who suffered an MCL injury a year ago, will take a leave of absence for one year from the University. The ulimate outcome of Kenyi's "leave of absence" will be the functional equivalent of an on campus red-shirt season. He will return to Cambridge in 2011-2012 as an academic junior with two years of preserved eligibility.

• Visit The Cornell Basketball Blog's Community Forum and Message Board to interact with other fans of Cornell and Ivy League basketball. Membership is free! You may also follow us on Twitter.

• Check out The Cornell Basketball Blog's Index of 2010-2011 Season Previews.

• Blueprint for Success, the book commemorating Cornell's 2009-2010 season is now on sale and available for delivery. Visit the Cornell Athletics website to order your copy today! Or pick up a copy sold in the Cornell Store on campus.

• Fans of the basketball program in the Ithaca area should not miss the opportunity to join the Cornell Rebounders Club. Join the Club at Newman Arena, Saturday, October 23 to see the three-time defending Ivy League Champions and Sweet Sixteen Cornell team in action in the annual Red-White Game.

• Below, links to the Ivy League's 2010-2011 schedules, rosters and recruiting classes.

Cornell has released official announcements of its schedule, roster and recruiting class. Here are links for the rest of the Ivy League:

IVY LEAGUE '10-'11 SCHEDULES
-Brown
-Columbia
-Dartmouth
-Harvard
-Penn
-Princeton
-Yale

IVY LEAGUE '10-'11 ROSTERS
-Brown
-Columbia
-Dartmouth
-Harvard
-Penn
-Princeton
-Yale

IVY LEAGUE '10-'11 RECRUITING CLASSES
-Brown
-Columbia
-Dartmouth
-Harvard
-Penn
-Princeton
-Yale

• Check out the projected roster sizes of Ivy League teams for the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 seasons by clicking here.

Source: http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2010/10/news-and-notes-thursday-edition_21.html

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The Heli-Ski Guide You May Never See

Although you spend a lot of time on your heli-ski trips with a few guides, there is one guide that you may never ski with. This guide, even though he or she may never ski with your group, has a job that affects you more than you might think.

The snow safety guide plays a huge role in the safety, and smooth running, at each of our heli-ski areas. Mike Welch, area manager of Galena, gave me some insight as to what the snow safety guide might do to make our day out in the mountains better.

Snow Safety- Digging snow pits, checking stability, and explosives control are all part of the snow safety guides day. They might be doing all of the above on runs that are going to be skied later that day, or ensuring more consistent stability for later in the season. Once a run has been deemed safe, the snow safety guide may also check for snow quality. We all know how a thick sun crust can kill a great run, the snow safety guide will relay information back to the lead guide so their group can successfully avoid any poor snow conditions.

Helicopter Safety- We love skiing in deep snow, so what happens if it snows a couple of feet overnight and the landings are no longer accessible? This is where the snow safety guide may quickly become your best friend… They might be out early in the morning digging out landings, replacing landing flags, or clearing brush all so that your pilot can land safely and you can start skiing.

Refueling- When it comes time to refuel, the helicopter will often head to one of our remote fuel caches to avoid the long flight back to the lodge. Generally at the lodge, the helicopter engineer will refuel and avoid the need to turn off the engines, saving you a lot of time. Because our remote fuel caches are so remote, it often becomes the job of the snow safety guide to meet your helicopter at the fuel cache so that refueling happens quickly and efficiently.

Finding the perfect lunch spot- Did you ever wonder how that amazing lunch gets set up in the middle of nowhere? Although the guides may often have an idea of where a good lunch spot would be, the snow safety guide will pinpoint a spot where there is maximum sun, minimal wind, and you aren’t sinking up to your chin in snow. Lunch is one time where deep snow isn’t optimal conditions!

Balancing the groups- What happens when you or someone in your group gets tired and starts slowing down your group? Often, the snow safety guide will be called in so that the faster parts of the group can do a lap while the slower group members take a break or slow down their pace. This keeps everyone skiing, and everyone happy!

Source: http://blog.canadianmountainholidays.com/heli-ski-blog/bid/52751/The-Heli-Ski-Guide-You-May-Never-See

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Rotterdam 2010: WAG Prelims Wrap-Up

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Blythe Lawrence has some additional quotes:

[Lauren] noted that before the meet, a judge asked Peggy Liddick how Liddick thought they would do. "224," Liddick said. And indeed, Australia came up with a 224. So Liddick was pleased that her gymnasts met expectations, Mitchell said.

Mitchell said that she feels a bit more like a team leader, given her Olympic and World Championships experience. "I kind of help guide them," she said of her younger teammates. She remembers what it's like to be new on a team and feel like an outsider.

"2007 was kind of a funny year for me," she said. "Even though I was selected for the World team, I didn't feel like part of the gymnastics world. I didn't feel like I really belonged. Then I made beam finals, and I was like, 'oh, maybe I do really belong out here.'"

After one day of qualifications, Australia's sitting in 5th place in the team rankings. A team finals slot looks VERY very real. As does a spot for Lauren in the all-around final. We won't know final standings until the last session (again kicking off this evening) is completed so... hold tight til tomorrow, I guess. Commonwealth rivals Great Britain are currently sitting above Aus, talk about awkwardness!

Read GA's wrap-up here.

Photos from DayLife:






Photos from Couch Gymnast:

Struttin' like a boss.

Source: http://ozgymnastics.blogspot.com/2010/10/rotterdam-2010-wag-prelims-wrap-up.html

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Passing the Buck on Growing Women's Hockey

Source: http://www.puckworlds.com/2010/9/30/1722415/passing-the-buck-on-growing-womens-hockey

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BAPA Comp - Owens Valley - Sept. 2010

Today was an eventful day. . . and a lot of fun.  We had a great turnout for this weekend and the weather was classic high-pressure Owens.  The nice thing about a ridge of high pressure moving in, is that the winds are generally light.  The less than nice thing is that the thermals are rocket ships that just shoot through your wing with lots of enthusiasm. . .  If one isn't flying with the same enthusiasm as the bullets being launched upward, it can be an un-enjoyable day.





We met at the Motel in town at 9am and had a large parade up to the Paiute launch.  There were a lot of new faces so we did a site briefing and an extensive pilot meeting.

The task was from Paiute Launch North to Montgomery Creek (just short of Boundry Peak) the South to the Flynn LZ - 86Km or 53 miles.

I launched about 40 minutes before the 12:45 start and had a decent start.  Kansas, Jug, Fred and I were leading out for much of the first 20 mile leg to Montgomery Creek.  The winds were light, but definitely had a South component.  Just after tagging the turnpoint, I was heading into a nice bowl on about 1/2 speed-bar when the right line severed and I was suddenly without speed-bar for the 30 mile upwind leg to goal. . .

Things were going fine (in spite of my equipment problem) with Kansas a thermal ahead and Fred flying deep and downwind of course.  Jug and I were making good time and staying ahead of a gaggle of 4 or 5, behind us a mile or two.  We flew a good line with abundant lift and finally Jug and I got a climb, 7 miles from goal, that gave us a 5.2:1 glide to goal.  We rolled out & within 5 minutes I saw a wing ahead of me fold up and cascade to impact in the foothills ahead.  I thought it was Kansas and made a call.  It turned out to be Fred, and he sounded OK.  I landed near him about 10-15 minutes later and hiked up to his location with a group who had 4-wheeled as close as they could get, to help.  When we arrived, Fred had packed his wing and was just about ready to hike to the ambulance that had arrived.  It was a welcome surprise to find Fred walking and talking after watching him pound in.  We were met by a Cal-Fire crew and Fred posed for a recruiting ad.

My flight is HERE.


Scores will be HERE.

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Source: http://biggovtsucks.blogspot.com/2010/09/bapa-comp-owens-valley-sept-2010.html

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Hicks will not go quietly

It seems there is another dramatic twist in the extraordinary battle to buy Liverpool.

With club chairman Martin Broughton and the independent board of directors expecting a Dallas judge to lift the restraining order blocking the sale of the club to New England Sports Ventures, it looked like they were winning the fight for control of the Reds.

But the real reason for the Texas court action - described by one lawyer in the High Court on Thursday as so fanciful it read like a novel - was to buy Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks enough time to do a last gasp deal with Mill Financial.

Mill already owns 50% of the Premier League club after assuming control of George Gillett's stake in August. Now Hicks, who is close to Mill, is trying to sell the other half to the American hedge fund, paving the way for it to pay off the �237m owed by Hicks and Gillett to the Royal Bank of Scotland. That money is due to RBS by the end of Friday.

Should Hicks succeed, an already complicated story will become even more bewildering.

John W Henry is determined to win the battle for Liverpool. Photo: Reuters

NESV chief John W Henry has already tweeted he will fight what he described as the "last desperate attempt" by Hicks and Gillett to "continue their entrenched regime".

Henry still has a binding agreement with the Liverpool board to buy the club and will take legal action here in the United Kingdom if the deal with Mill Financial goes through.

There is one major stumbling block facing Hicks as he looks to retain his hold on Liverpool. Any prospective sale to Mill will have to be voted for by Broughton and English directors Christian Purslow and Ian Ayre. Given they outnumber the American co-owners, it seems difficult to see how Hicks can come out on top.

But it is impossible to predict what happens next with this story.

Update 1236 BST - There's one remarkable fact which is almost being overlooked in the latest developments in the Liverpool ownership saga.

George Gillett's half of Liverpool Football Club has - thanks to the levels of debt piled up - ended up in the hands of an American Hedge Fund (Mill Financial) of which very little is known about.

Did the Premier League know about it? Would it have passed their new 'fit and proper' person's test?

Also, it's worth noting that the only people who can repay the debt (more than �200m) to RBS are owners Tom Hicks and Gillett. Not a third party. It's like someone else paying off your mortgage for you.

So - in other words - for Hicks to get the money from Mill Financial - which is attempting to do - there needs to be a transfer of shares.

And the feeling from New England Sports Ventures (NESV), the Liverpool board and RBS is that any transfer of shares needs a vote of the UK board - as the asset here is ultimately controlled by the board which Martin Broughton chairs.

That board has already voted 3-2 in favour of a sale to NESV (owners of the Boston Red Sox). That would make a sale of Hicks' shares to Mill Financial highly unlikely.

But let's think about this another way, now the restraining order in the Texas court has been lifted, NESV technically can complete their deal but RBS still need to be paid off.

Again they can't be paid off by a third party - it needs to be Hicks and Gillett - so they would have to accept the money from NESV and John W Henry for it to work.

Whatever happens, and it's certainly complicated, this looks almost certainly to be heading for the courts again.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/davidbond/2010/10/hicks_refuses_to_go_quietly.html

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