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Another rookie, defenseman Kevin Sneddon, dove all over the ice stop-ping pucks. He was small, he was quick, but he was noticed. Add another Harvard player to the All-Tourney list...
...ranchers out around Hays, Kans., who, like 40 million other Americans, watched the television epic Lonesome Dove, figured that the great Texas- Montana cattle drive came right over their broad land. If that fantasy were turned into fact, then in all probability the tough old trail bosses Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call drove their herd across the Smoky Hill and Saline rivers and pushed north to beat the merciless winters they knew were in store for them...
With Johnny Kaye getting squeezed out in a 3-2 loss to Sam Crew, the Crimson dove to the depths of its team to haul up a treasure chest of victories. Jeremy Fraiberg, in his second game back since an injury, silenced the crowd so much you could hear the sound of the opponents matches dropping as Fraiberg managed a 3-0 victory...
...mode of westerns like The Wild Bunch, Lonesome Dove notes the passing of an era. "Durn people makin' towns everywhere," says McCrae. "It's our fault too. We chased out the Indians . . . hung all the good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain...
...McCrae's stoic resignation in the face of misfortune. "Yesterday's gone; we can't get it back," he tells a man grieving over three murdered bodies. "You go on with your diggin', and I'll tidy up the dead." In its terse prairie poetry, Lonesome Dove celebrates not just the old West but also the men who could witness the randomness and cruelty of life and accept...