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...Princeton fell to Minnesota on Friday night, 4-0, in a game marred by a rare brawl with 38 seconds left. The win allows the Golden Gophers to advance to its first straight Frozen Four and keeps their bid for a three-peat alive. On Saturday, ECAC regular-season champ St. Lawrence prevailed over Minnesota-Duluth, 1-0, in a goaltending duel. Later that night, Wisconsin held off upstart Mercyhurst by a 2-1 count in double overtime. The results mean that the all of the host teams, representing the consensus top four teams in the nation, survived...
...performance at Cornell. “I’ve never in my 24 years here played this many young kids this much,” said Delaney-Smith after a win over Penn in February. “And that’s why I think Dartmouth [Ivy champ in 2004 and 2005] is who they are. Three years, four years ago, they were in the middle of the pack and struggling to be .500 because they played young kids so much.”Despite the mediocrity of 2005-2006, with its slow starts and sporadic offensive outbursts...
...DIVA GETS STOOD UP Upon arriving in Torino, U.S. national figure-skating champ JOHNNY WEIR admitted to being "princessy" when he travels. He complained that his Olympic Village quarters were cramped and so dusty that he had to mop the floor himself. Entering the free program in second place, Weir lost focus, shuffling his elements around and finishing fifth. Turns out that two hours before skating, he had been waiting in the cold for a bus that never came. Maybe he's got a point about crummy service...
...emcee the Oscars since David Letterman's career-braking stint in 1995. (He bombed with the "Oprah ... Uma" joke in his monologue and never quite recovered that night.) Stewart will also be credited or blamed for the size of the TV audience. Billy Crystal is the current ratings champ: his 2004 stint was the most-watched Oscar show since 2000, the last time he emceed...
...While the other U.S Olympic men's half-pipers ? 2002 silver medalist Danny Kass, 23, daredevil Andy Finch, 24, and Mason Aguirre, 19- chase the "The Flying Tomato," the women's competition is a two-rider race. Teter, 18, and defending X-Games champ Gretchen Bleiler, 24, fuel the most intense rivalry in the sport. Both can land the top women's move, the 900 (two-and-a-half spins in mid-air), with ease. And they do it while eyeing their antagonist. "We'll be like hanging out at the top, and I'll say, like...