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They yelled louder than they ever have. They were wittier, nastier than they ever have been. Joke after joke fell upon the green and white sea above the Michigan State bench...
...olden days, "changing on the fly" was a curiosity. Now it is a deadly offensive weapon. A player skates within six feet of one end of the bench (where a legal substitution can occur) and is replaced by a teammate coming off the other end. The team nets about 25-feet of ice in the exchange...
...graphic below is Harvard's second goal last Friday night against Clarkson. Don Sweeney (2) dumped the puck into the Crimson's offensive right-wing corner. Sweeney, Josh Caplan (7) and Craig Taucher (10) peeled off and headed for the bench while Paul Howley (9) and Ed Presz (8) chased the puck...
...trend started last month when sister stations KGO-TV in San Francisco and KABC-TV in Los Angeles hired former California Chief Justice Rose Bird to do twice-weekly commentaries for their evening newscasts. Bird, who was voted off the bench in 1986, made a shaky debut when she delivered a commentary in rhyme on the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. KGO then added former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, out of office just two months, as an occasional analyst. Her first topic: the Bay City's budget deficit, and why it is not her fault...
...some industries the bench is almost empty already. Paper mills are producing at 97% of total capacity, while primary metal and chemical manufacturers are operating at more than 90%. Overall, U.S. factories were running at an average of 82% capacity at the end of last year, the highest level since...