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...biggest upset ever on the international stage. Since 1990 and the inception of the world championships, the United States and Canada had lost only to each other, and were universally forecasted to meet in the gold-medal game for the third straight Olympiad. The Americans captured the inaugural crown in Nagano in 1998 before the Canadians prevailed in 2002, setting up the expected rubber match in Turin. “I’m banged up for them, they’re pretty banged up,” Stone said of her American players’ sentiments on Saturday...
...defenseman Rob Blake, a former teammate of Gretzky's with the Los Angeles Kings. "He walked in just like he did four years ago when we won the gold (at the Salt Lake Winter Games). He's the greatest player ever to play the game and he wears that crown into retirement. He walks in the room and everybody looks...
...fellow league undefeated Yale, the No. 1 team in the nation and the defending Ivy and national champion, in New Haven on Feb. 22. It will be a rematch of the 2005 finale, when the Bulldogs eked out a 5-4 win on Harvard courts to clinch the league crown. But the weekend’s victories—a 6-3 win over the Quakers on Saturday and a strong 7-2 showing against the Tigers yesterday—have the Crimson clicking at exactly the right time to reclaim the title. “These are supposed...
...appointed a panel to develop suggestions for warding off a looming succession crisis in the imperial family. By law and eons of tradition, the Japanese throne can pass only to males with emperors on the father's side. But no boys have been born into the family since 1965. Crown Prince Naruhito, 45, and his wife Masako, 42, have had only one daughter, 4-year-old Aiko. Naruhito's brother, Prince Akishino, 40, and his wife, Kiko, 39, have two daughters. So Koizumi's panel suggested that succession should pass to the Emperor's firstborn, regardless of gender. Assuming that...
...Crown of Feathers Previously known only from a century-old specimen-although a female was spotted in 1981-the male BERLEPSCH'S SIX-WIRED BIRD OF PARADISE, with six thin feathers protruding from his head, had never been seen by scientists in the wild...