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This year there is no underdog--or perhaps there are two, because while B.C. and B.U. battle for control of the ECAC East Division, Northeastern and Harvard pivot around the .500 mark. As a result, the last two ECAC champions (Harvard in 1983, N.U. in 1982) take the ice for...

Author: By Michael D. Knobler, | Title: Battle of the Underdogs | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

This season the icemen celebrated the new year in the traditional way. They won as many January games as they have in three of the last four years put together--one (1980, 1-4; 1981, 0-5; 1982, 0-4; 1984, 1-4). Even with the phenomenal 3-2 effort...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Auld Lang Syne | 2/1/1984 | See Source »

Well, innocence may be catching up with America, because the U.S. is certainly gaining on the cold world. The team of 120 athletes headed for Sarajevo is flush with champions, and not only skaters this time, although there is a bumper haul of those, but skiers too. Count them, seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

In Phil Mahre and McKinney, the U.S. boasts both overall 1983 World Cup champions in Alpine skiing, an astonishing double in a sport that has been essentially the property of Western Europe. As of four years ago, Marilyn Cochran's giant-slalom title in 1969 constituted the Americans' solitary accomplishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clear the Way For the U.S.A. | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

Of all the Americans in Yugoslavia, Hamilton, 25, is closest to a shoo-in for a gold medal. He finished fifth at Lake Placid in 1980, but since September of that year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This One Figures To Be on Ice: Scott Hamilton | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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