Today's _Cornell Daily Sun_ reports that the NC$$ has sentenced the Cornell men's hockey program to the "death penalty" for violating NC$$ regulations with the host family program. The sanctions mean that Cornell will not field a team until the year 2000. This was the Sun's more-or-less annual joke issue, by the way. Not bad. Peripherally-related college hockey note: The deadline for the HOCKEY-L preseason poll is Monday, October 11 at midnight, so there's still time if anyone else wants to send in a vote. I've gotten a good number of responses so far. -- Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and probably '94 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! "So I was lying in bed with my girlfriend, and she said, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' -- and I said, 'Nope,' and she said, 'Forget it, then.'" -- Steven Wright