Word: icing
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...resentment in his voice today: "We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout...
Shani Davis has always set his own course. While most boys in his South Side Chicago neighborhood were trying to shoot hoops like Michael Jordan, Davis was lacing on skates and speeding around an ice rink. His buddies teased him for dedicating himself to a sport that seemed so white. "A lot of kids made fun of [speed skating] because it wasn't a thing you could do to get rich," says Davis...
Davis first went on the ice when he was 6. His mother Cherie worked as a secretary for a lawyer who happened to be a speed-skating official and suggested that her son try the sport. Within two years, Davis was winning regional titles. Now 6 ft. 2 in., he propels himself with long, powerful strides to the forefront of the long-track events, in which two skaters race next to each other but against the clock. This winter, defying speed-skating convention, Davis tried to become the first skater to compete in both long-track and the more roller...
...season. Just before that matchup, Harvard had nearly mounted a thrilling comeback in a 4-3 loss to Clarkson with two goals in the final frame. This week, however, the Crimson faltered and was ultimately overrun by the more energetic and crisp UNH team on its home ice. “I was disappointed in our last 20 minutes, but I like where we’re headed,” Harvard coach Katey Stone. “We hurt ourselves tonight by not controlling some situations that we usually control. We were just a step slow tonight?...
DURHAM, N.H.—The No. 7 Harvard women’s hockey team took the ice at the Whittemore Center Wednesday night to the blaring guitar strains of AC/DC. And although the Crimson (10-6-2, 7-2-2 ECAC) was not “Thunderstruck” by top-ranked New Hampshire (16-2-0, 7-1-0 Hockey East), it was certainly blunder-struck in a mistake-filled third period that eventually led to a 5-1 defeat. After threatening the host’s 10-game winning streak by remaining within one goal...