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...having a hockey game break out came up again, but this time it wasn't so funny. Boston Bruins defenseman Marty McSorley, apparently forgetting he didn't play baseball, raised his stick in the air as if it were a bat and swung at Vancouver Canucks left wing Donald Brashear's head. The egregious (though not entirely unprecedented) whack-heard-round-the-world left Brashear unconscious and twitching on the ice for about 10 minutes, blood streaming from his face. Paramedics had to take Brashear off the ice since he still could not walk. The consequences seemed obvious: Both...
...league 6 times for actions involving his stick, cross-checking and other "unsportsmanlike" performances. Every team has a player like this: one who attempts to instigate conflict with a star on the opposing squad and put him in the penalty box for five minutes. Even Vancouver has one: Donald Brashear. In fact Brashear has logged 132 penalty minutes this season and averages about five minutes played per minute in "the box." This wasn't little orphan Annie being smackedup side the head...
...outcome was an attack so sudden and violent that it's impelled police in Vancouver, where the game was played, to consider criminal charges. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the NHL suspended Boston's Marty McSorley for 23 games - until the end of the season - for his hit on Canuck Donald Brashear. The incident raises questions on where to draw the line between sports violence as an occupational hazard and as a criminal act, and what measures professional sports organizations are willing to take to curtail violence...
...Canucks organization has already asked that prosecutors not pursue the case. Meanwhile, referees routinely allow players to fight each other until they are spent. "Whatever the league says, fighting is allowed because it sells tickets," says hockey historian Stan Fischler, whose book "Hockey's Greatest Fighters" profiles both Brashear and McSorley. In Tuesday's game, McSorley and Brashear first fought just two minutes into the contest. Brashear, a muscular 28-year-old, was clearly winning, but the referees allowed the fight to proceed and the veteran McSorley was humiliated. McSorley, a battered 36-year-old with bad wrists...
...TIME story was true. One person even says, "We did not use lethal gas, and we did not kill any defectors, men, women or children." So what was a sizable contingent of heavily armed, Special Forces soldiers doing on that secret mission in Laos? Selling Girl Scout cookies? BRUCE BRASHEAR Goteborg, Sweden...