Hockey and Donkey Kong

Mercyhurst junior to skate in Olympics for second time

Who cares if this isn’t related to Edinboro? This is awesome.

The last time that Meghan skated in the Olympics in 2006, she won gold. Nice.

When Meghan Agosta turned 6 and gave up figure skating to pursue hockey in her hometown of Ruthven, Ontario, she told her dad that some day she would wear Canada’s maple leaf sweater in the Olympics.

That dream came true in 2006, when Agosta helped the women’s team win gold in Torino, Italy.

Agosta will celebrate her 23rd birthday today with Team Canada at the Winter Olympics’ opening ceremonies in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Canada opens preliminary round play Saturday against Slovakia at 8 p.m.

Agosta is taking what would have been her senior year off from Mercyhurst to concentrate on the Olympics. She has been centralized in Calgary, Alberta, since August with the Canadian national program.

To counterbalance kind of being a dick earlier to the Edinboro Film Series, everyone should go and check this out when they play it March 4th (Doucette Hall room 119):

It’s definitely one of the most entertaining documentaries I’ve ever see.

Fully support this.

Don’t forget. There’s a potential Donkey Kong kill screen coming up… if you want to watch.

Some quick updates

Anyone complaining about not getting any snow, here you go!

A good fresh inch an a half for your commute tomorrow. Not too bad, a friendly reminder that yes, it’s December.

Truthfully, we should be thankful that the conditions aren’t as bad as they were one year ago, yesterday.

What, you don’t remember what happened a year ago, yesterday?

A fifteen car pileup on I-79.

A big thanks to http://www.edinborofire.org/ for all of those images. Those guys are always on their game about updating their site, and serve Edinboro well.

Thanks, guys!

On an unrelated note, if anyone caught the Penguins game tonight they were treated to a small dedication to Edinboro University graduate Michael Crawshaw, who died in the line of duty in Penn Hills on Sunday.

Fans were then treated to an amazingly fast-paced hockey game, which unfortunately for Pittsburgh fans ended in defeat.

Unfortunately, I can’t find the video of the pre-game ceremony with the moment of silence held for Michael anywhere on youtube, however I could find a picture of the flags set at half-mast at the Mellon Arena for him.

Also, a video of Penguins’ Bill Guerin fighting Hurricane’s Tim Gleason

There’s no place like dome for the holidays

(YourBoro would like to thank GoErie.com for the pun title inspiration).

Pretend the Y is an I.

In true Edinboro style, the Mike Zafirovski Sports and Recreation Center was officially opened yesterday. Even though it’s been nearly one year since the project was officially completed.

No, really! Check out this story from the Meadville Tribune, “EUP’s $5M sports dome project complete”:

“More than 20 tons of white fabric material were inflated to massive proportions Thursday, completing Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’s $5 million project to build the largest free-standing sports dome in the region.”

-December 18, 2008

Or maybe the post we made about it last year:

Which is as tall as the damn library.

What an ugly, ugly, piece of work

five million dollars put to good use

right?

I think our writing has significantly improved. What is this, a haiku?

Tardiness aside, the opening’s main objective was to pay dues to the man who paid for the whole thing – Mike Zafirovski, EUP alum and CEO of Nortel.

During the ceremony, he told the crowd:

“My name is hard to pronounce, so myself and Robin don’t mind if we call this the Z Dome or something like that.”

Sounds pretty cool for a multi-millionaire, huh? He’s surprisingly important –  much like Dave Filoni, he’s got his own Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_S._Zafirovski#Career

Despite being grandly and officially opened, this December’s commencement ceremony will be held in the high school gym – I mean, McComb Fieldhouse. I guess “multipurpose” doesn’t include that. Whatever.

Oh, and don’t forget about this weeks poll!

As of Thursday, the voting will end. Right now it’s tied between contests and an activity calender.

(Oh, and most “other” votes will be displayed on Friday. If you feel the need to submit something like “positive comments about Edinboro University” maybe you should visit another website for news instead, like Edinboro University’s website or BoroOnline)

Wanna watch the most entertaining Steelers game of the year? Tough shit.

I’m not too amazed at the amount of Steelers fans in Edinboro. And Erie.

WSEE will not be airing the Steelers game today. Supposedly the most entertaining Steelers game of the year, or something. WSEE sports director Gary Drapcho has tried to have Erie become a Steelers market but has been rejected by “Ralph Wilson” (founder, owner and president of the Buffalo Bills) and the NFL, because Ralph Wilson’s stadium is closer to Erie than Cleveland or Pittsburgh. The NFL measures from the stadium to the TV Station.

I think that we speak for the majority of Erie when we say:

Fuck Ralph Wilson. Fuck the Bills. Fuck WSEE.

The only way this will change anytime soon is if the Buffalo Bills move to Toronto? And that wouldn’t even happen for the next few years. Great. Why would they decide who gets what game by this? Why wouldn’t they go by, oh gee, I dunno, state lines?

Wanna watch the game streaming on your computer?
http://www.atdhe.net

Did anyone catch the F-bomb on FSN the other night?

And this will conclude today’s updates- four in one day is pretty good, I think

We got doooooooome, son!

check it out live on the most uninteresting webcam ever

7 stories tall, I believe.

Which is as tall as the damn library.

What an ugly, ugly, piece of work

five million dollars put to good use

right?

right?