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...game exhibition series preceding the Nagano Olympics seeded the hostilities. In one game, Granato and Wickenheiser engaged in a high-sticking duel. Then Wickenheiser and Ruggiero squared off to fight. By the time the teams reached Nagano, tension had reached Mount Fuji heights. In an otherwise meaningless first-round game, a flurry of illegal body checks-open-ice hitting is not allowed in the women's game-resulted in 48 penalty minutes. U.S.A. rallied from 1-4 in the third period for a 7-4 victory, setting the stage for its gold-medal upset...
...came down to the final duel on Sunday afternoon in Ithaca, N.Y. One team would lose the inside track for an Ivy title, while the other would poise itself to take a league crown next weekend. Both Harvard fencing teams accomplished the latter. The women finished the weekend at 3-0 and ended Sunday with a 14-13 win over No. 3 Columbia, a team that was actually favored against the Crimson. With the score tied at 13 and one duel to go, senior Anne Austin, who had not lost a duel all afternoon, capped a 3-0 foil performance...
Admit it -- You miss the cold war. It was a roughly symmetrical duel, a face-off between two nuclear powers. The battle against terrorism is more like a free-for-all in a gladiator movie--spear vs. net, triton vs. tiger. We land our troops with guns. They board our trains with backpacks...
...Saturday after a quick exchange of goals in the final period broke a lengthy scoreless lull.HARVARD 1, BROWN 1For all but a brief minute-and-a-half long span in the third period, Brown and Harvard found themselves locked in a defensive duel. Crimson netminder Ali Boe went toe to toe with counterpart O’Hara Shipe for the opening 43:25 of the game before she was beaten on a one-timer by Kim McManus and the Bears third line. But Harvard’s own young tertiary offensive unit answered back only 92 seconds later when freshman...
...recruit does fall into the Ivy pool, the six non-P’s face a desperate struggle to out-duel the two traditional league powers for the top prospects. Penn and Princeton work from a position of strength in this endeavor, as they have the qualities that recruits demand most...