Links Of The Day

The Colgate Athletic Department has been getting an earful from Hamilton residents and 'gate professors who don't think their anti-Cornell homecoming slogan, "Better Dead Than Red," was appropriate. Colgate Maroon-News

RPI hockey coach Seth Appert, whose team nearly ended Cornell's season in the ECAC quarterfinals last year, says his squad is more talented than last year's and is poised for a breakout season. RPI opens the season tonight against UMass. Albany Times-Union

NHL.com becomes the fifth prognosticator to rank Cornell as the 7th best team in the country. (No one ever accused the experts of doing independent thinking!) Snubbing BU, and every other eastern team, they predict two CCHA and two WCHA teams in the Frozen Four. NHL

Speaking of the 2010 Frozen Four, tickets have been selling pretty slowly. So slowly that the organizers have decided to move the planned ice surface at Ford Field from the 50 yard line to one of the end zones. The move shrinks ticket capacity from 70,000 to 36,000, which is still double the capacity of last year's Verizon Center. CHN/USCHO

Happy fall break.