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...Bears sent a message with their season-opening upset of the Crimson at Bright Hockey Center, and while the win gave them instant credibility, it has also prevented them from sneaking up on any ECAC opponents the rest of the way. Even though Brown has one league win since a 5-1 drubbing of Vermont on Nov. 10, the Bears’ upset win over Wisconsin in the Badgers’ own holiday tournament showed that Coach Roger Grillo’s team still packs punch. GRADE...
...that I don't think the families of 9/11 should be taken care of. They certainly should. It's just that I don't believe in creating instant wealth out of tragedy - and I don't agree with the government's decision to grant such dissimilar awards to families who suffered the same horrible fate. Making the payments the same for each and every family would allow all the families to go on without worrying about their welfare. And it might even inspire some of them to donate a few dollars to others who have also lost loved ones...
...radio shows, including ESPN's The Sports Reporters; after hip-replacement surgery; in New York City. In his five-decade career, Schaap befriended countless celebrities, covered sports and sometimes culture for Newsweek, nbc, abc and espn, and won six Emmys. Among his 33 books was the 1968 best seller Instant Replay, written with Green Bay Packer Jerry Kramer...
...when it seemed like someone had grabbed hold of the towers, like King Kong was shaking the two towers." Within seconds, the call to evacuate came over the bullhorn. The members of Engine 28 turned and charged down the stairs. They lingered, breathless, in the lobby for an instant as some companies, ignoring the order, continued to run into the building. Roy Chelsen, a fireman with Engine 28, yelled, "We have to get out. Run!" Then King Kong returned...
...Maybe it takes a survivor of cancer, the private pitiless terror, to minister to a city that discovers in a single moment that every moment counts, that everything you were certain of can change in an instant. We knew that he was a tough man. It took the trauma for us to discover the tenderness, the offscreen, backstage, lowlight kindness he showed to widow after widow, child after child. A man considered incapable of empathy, who could scarcely mutter a word of condolence to the mother of an unarmed man his police force had shot 41 times, somehow knew what...