Word: alessio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turnaround came Sunday in Ithaca, when junior Pete Ciavaglia jumped on a loose puck and took a clean break into the Big Red end where all goalie Corrie D'Alessio could do was wait and sweat. Ciavaglia shoved it by him for a 4-0 Harvard advantage. Senior Tod Hartje, who replaced injured forward John Weisbrod on the penalty-killing unit, set up the play by blocking a Cornell slapshot...
...Alessio...
Goalie Corrie D'Alessio (3.41 goals-against average) is one of the top netminders in the league this year, but the Red will be dead if it doesn't score goals...
This chant used homosexuality as a stigmatized insult, hinging on the "macho" image spectators associate with male athletes. These spectators view homosexuality as the antithesis of masculinity, and--although they assumed that D'Alessio was not gay--chose to attack his athletic ability by questioning his heterosexuality...
Regardless of D'Alessio's sexual orientation, some people in Boston Garden that Saturday night felt personally attacked by the crowd's statements...