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Four Boston area hockey teams square off in the city’s largest arena in front of the nation’s most cultish college hockey fans. The winner takes home a legendary trophy and cross-town bragging rights for a year...
...PLAYING IN THE STREET Hopscotch in front of the house? Street hockey? Not in Chico, Calif. "Baseball or any other game" is banned from any "sidewalk, lane or alley...
...Throw in this year's high-profile failures in other global sports - the U.S. hockey team's freeze-up in Torino, baseball's loss to Canada (Canada!), in the World Baseball Classic, and the soccer team's struggles at the World Cup (did we mention Tour de France "champ" Floyd Landis and track star Justin Gatlin, both accused of doping?) - and the basketball World Championship, which starts Aug. 19th in Japan, takes on added urgency...
...instead of dealing with these problems, as other sports have, FIFA, soccer's governing body, is a world leader in bloviation over action. The NBA outlawed trash talk and instituted a flagrant-foul rule to deal with dirty players. The National Hockey League, hardly a sport for wimps, also cracked down on thugs. The NHL decided to enforce the rules on hooking, holding and interfering when it became apparent that the chippy play was ruining the game by preventing players from using their talents--you can't skate with a stick up your behind. The result: when the refs cracked...
Three thousand miles away at Harvard’s Bright Hockey Center, approximately 300 people watched a digital lobster celebrate Anna Kournikova’s errant baseline shot...