CornellWatch

The two Cornell Olympians, Jen Kaido and Ken Jurkowski.

Apparently the Olympics ended yesterday. Some guy mentioned a “Closing Ceremony” or something. Good riddance, I say! Now we can all get back to watching quality daytime programming on NBC like Days of Our Lives.

Anywho, how the hell did Cornell and, for that matter, the rest of the Ivies, do in Beijing?

We had 2 Olympians in attendance, Ken Jurkowski and Jennifer Kaido, both rowers who graduated in 2003 and did not medal. But they did pretty fantastically, considering it’s the Olympics: Jurkowski finished 11th overall in the Men’s Single Sculls, while Kaido finished 5th in the women’s quadruple sculls. Congrats to both of them! Maybe we can get an interview or something?

Ivygate has an overview of the the League’s medal count, mostly culled from iviesinchina.com. The so-called “Ivy Nation” sent 42 athletes who brought back 14 medals, which they say is a really good ratio. They also say that if the Ivy League were a country, we’d have the 8th most overall medals in the whole world. Just another reason to be elitist pigs, I suppose.

What do hockey players, N*Sync, and the Cornell Senior Prom have to do with each other? Beats me, but apparently Slope Media had something in mind when they made this video of the men’s hockey team dancing (poorly) to N*Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye,” which is supposed to promote “Duff Ball.” (The name made me really excited because I thought it might be Simpsons-themed, but then I realized it was just held in the Duffield Hall Atrium. Boo.)

PS: It just dawned on me that they’re saying goodbye to Cornell… I guess the one-night stand between the hockey team and Cornell didn’t go so well in the end.

Metaezra.com reports Cornell’s departure from the Ivy League, which is actually a basketball sports conference and not a get-together on Nantucket for good ol’ boys. Now that we’re not actually Ivy anymore, where’s our prestige?

Who’s ready to see our men’s basketball team (14-seeded) lose to Silicon Valley’s Stanford (3) in Anaheim, CA on Thursday?

I am! (I just happen to be in L.A. for break and gotta go out and support my beloved Big Red Basketeers.)

Oh, and the Big Red Basketettes (16- and last-seeded) will be losing to top-ranked UConn on Sunday in Bridgeport, CT.

 UPDATE: Both teams lost, as predicted.