Staff members at Level B said they felt played by B.o.B. on Saturday when, according to the bar’s management, the famed hip-hop artist refused to pay his $1,060 bill. A representative of B.o.B., however, contested Level B’s characterization of the interaction on Tuesday.

The Sun confirms the virtues of the newly-minted Homecoming parade.

Those creepy old people milling around Collegetown can only mean one thing: HEROIC Homecoming weekend.

The Red faces an important matchup with Ivy League foe Yale during the annual Homecoming game.

As alumni gravitate back to their alma mater this weekend and undergraduates preoccupy themselves over the best tailgate food and beverages, Cornell’s annual homecoming weekend will see the addition of another Big Red tradition. For the first time in a number of years, the University will host a homecoming parade.

Sponsored and funded by the Office of Alumni Affairs, the parade marks the return of a tradition last observed in the ’90s. Student organizations, from the Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse Teams to the Cayuga’s Waiters a cappella group to the Student Assembly will march across campus in honor of the football team’s match against Fordham University.

If anyone ever made a talking doll of football head coach Jim Knowles ’87, choosing its phrases would not be that difficult. And in the press conference after Cornell’s 17-14 win over Yale on Saturday — an old-fashioned skirmish befitting the drizzle and gloomy clouds — the media pulled the string and Knowles uttered one of his favorite idioms.

“This was not about offense, defense, or special teams,” he said. “It’s about one team.”

As true as that has been through two games this year, with the offense picking up the defense and vice versa, Saturday’s tilt was certainly about the defense.

Head coach Jim Knowles ’87 is trying to take a more even-keeled approach in 2008 than in the past, but it was difficult for him not to get excited after his team beat preseason Ivy League favorite Yale in front of a Homecoming crowd of 11,143. Cornell’s soggy 17-14 upset over the perennial Ancient Eight contenders Saturday afternoon at rain-drenched Schoellkopf Field was primarily the by-product of an aggressive and well-executed defensive scheme that restricted senior All-American running back Mike McLeod to 57 rushing yards and zero trips to the end zone on 20 carries.