Alex Holt

Articles by Alex Holt

Last one out, please turn off the lights

Well folks, this is it, my last post for The Extra Point this year. As I’ve written about in a couple other posts, I’m spending the Spring semester at IC’s very own London Centre (might as well get used to British spelling now) so presumably someone else will take over in January while I’m across [...]

Conferences and Divisions

I don’t mind the new alignment the NHL has adapted for next year. Really, I don’t. I understand perfectly that Detroit and Columbus resented having to play their division games against teams an entire hour behind them in time zones and most of their other games against teams two or three hours behind them in [...]

New year’s resolution

As much as I love sports, I tend to confine myself to actively following only a couple of sports. I’m a strong football fan, an absolute ice hockey nut, I follow baseball and basketball and I don’t go too far beyond that. So one of my New Year’s resolutions is to be a bit more [...]

Free Chris Paul

My first instinct Thursday when I heard that the Los Angeles Lakers were in the process of trading for superstar point guard Chris Paul from the temporarily NBA-owned New Orleans Hornets in a three-team megadeal also involving the Houston Rockets was to groan at the idea of the Lakers acquiring yet another star player.

We’re gonna need a bigger map (with apologies to Steven Spielberg)

As outrageous as the Big East’s latest expansion is, encompassing SMU in Dallas, Texas, the University of Houston, Boise State and San Diego State, it’s not like it’s the first conference or division in sports to have flawed geography that clashes with its name.

My birthday in sports

I generally try to use my Ithacan blogging powers for good. I’ll write about sports I’m not neccessarily keenly interested in if there’s something interesting going on with them, I try to avoid writing only about the sports I do like, especially ice hockey and since I’m not much of an athlete myself, I try [...]

Well done

So the Ithaca College women’s soccer team’s season finally came to an end last night, with the Bombers losing 2-0 to Wheaton College in the NCAA Division III Final Four in San Antonio, Texas. It’s a tough loss to take, what with the Bombers winning 15 games, tying three more and absolutely dominating the competition [...]