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Howard, and the Maine defense which surrounds him, is a significant part of the reason that the Black Bears were seeded atop the East regional bracket and ranked No. 1 overall in the last USCHO.com poll. And as a team that only qualified for NCAAs because of the automatic bid that goes to the winner of the ECAC, Harvard is considered a serious underdog in tonight’s contest...
That the sky was the limit for Harvard was certainly the feeling at the beginning of the season, when both the media and coaches picked Harvard to finish atop the ECAC...
Then it all fell apart in a slow, agonizing death. Maine cut it to two, then one, then tied it. Then came the guillotine. With 4:10 left, Greg Moore beat Dov Grumet-Morris from atop the left circle for a 5-4 Black Bears win that tied the largest comeback in an NCAA Regional game...
...femme action movie So Close, co-starring Shu Qi and Hong Kong's Karen Mok, Zhao plays a hacker hottie with her usual winsome charm. She (or her stunt and computer-graphic doubles) gets to pirouette over stairwell railings, jump from atop one speeding elevator to another and duel furiously with legendary villain Yasuaki Kurata. But when asked to sum up her defining characteristic?contrasted in the film with Shu Qi's beauty and sexiness, and with Karen Mok's coolness and big personality?Zhao pauses pensively, and says to her interviewer: "At the time, I really didn't know...
...much of the season, the rest of the ECAC came to know what Harvard had found out on opening night—Brown is a whole team and it’s dangerous. The Bears spent much of the season atop the ECAC, but slipped over their last six games, going 1-4-1 since mid-February. They ended the season on a high note, beating Vermont 6-0, and spent much of their bye-week recuperating...