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That was the year Vitaly Ovakimian decided Krayzelburg's future. The coach at the Red Army club in Odessa, Ukraine, selected the "born backstroker" with the long, lean body and the almost double-jointed elbows to enter the Soviet sports machine. It churned Krayzelburg through five hours a day of...
That was the year Vitaly Ovakimian decided Krayzelburg's future. The coach at the Red Army club in Odessa, Ukraine, selected the "born backstroker" with the long, lean body and the almost double-jointed elbows to enter the Soviet sports machine. It churned Krayzelburg through five hours a day of...
Hasek is also stubborn. In 1989, playing for Czech's army team, he refused to skate during a key game against his hometown's team. In Buffalo he's already legend enough that the Marine Midland Arena, where the Sabres skate, is flanked by two gargoyle goalies splayed apart in...
John Laroche is a serial monomaniac who learns everything about Ice Age fossils; then chucks fossils for orchids, becomes a celebrated breeder, then a thief of wild orchids; and finally turns his back on the plant world and its obsessed hobbyists and dives into computers. As he explains to the...
9:30 a.m. Happy in the continued evidence of my good health, I am off to my sigmoidoscopy. I don't like what I see in the examination room: a black, jointed, snakelike creature with two little eyes and a mouth that squirts jets of air and water. This thing...