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...Golden Knights’ Dominique Thibault robbed the Crimson of a win with a game-tying goal at 13:35 of the third, and Harvard later failed to capitalize on two penalties in overtime. But with Griffin’s top-notch performance and the 3-3 draw, the Crimson secured a third-place finish in the final league standings and thus home-ice advantage in the first round of the ECAC Women’s Hockey Tournament...
...seemingly good fortune shouldn’t fool anyone who’s been tracking the senior’s game play and dedicated work ethic throughout the season. Griffin also attributes her success to pinpointing the weaknesses in her game early in the summer months and putting in long hours to correct them...
Griffin’s season has been ripe with impressive showings against tough teams, including other game-winning goals against Dartmouth, Providence, and Union, but the forward struggled early on to fine-tune certain aspects of her game...
...health care summit that President Obama is scheduled to host on Thursday - and in the reaction to the compromise plan he put out to start the week. For better or worse, there now seems to be room only for partisan posturing, jockeying, optics and framing. If Democrats win this game, they may still be able to pass health reform. If Republicans prevail, they will hand Obama a stunning defeat that could set the tone for the 2010 midterm elections. (See pictures of the health care debate...
...sports in which the Canadians expect nothing less than gold: hockey and curling, and not necessarily in that order. So why is curling a Canadian obsession? "Because we have winter," says Bill Holder, a grain farmer from Kenaston, Sask., who has been curling for 40 years. Though the game began in 16th century Scotland, Holder explains how curling caught on in the prairies of western Canada; essentially, he says, there was nothing else to do. In Canada, the shiny bald dome of Kevin Martin, 43, the Canadian men's curling skip, might as well be this year's Olympic emblem...