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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...
Among the performers who will be on hand Aug. 31 through Sept. 2 are Susan Klein, renowned for her vivid reminiscences of growing up on Martha's Vineyard in the '50s; Diane Ferlatte, whose multicultural repertoire includes folklore from Africa and the American South; and Donald Davis, who immortalizes friends and neighbors from his Appalachian boyhood with homespun humor...
...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...
...read somewhere that Jesse Ventura and Donald Trump knew each other long before they banded together to form a Loudmouth Caucus in the Reform Party. Is that true...