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According to John Halligan, historian of the National Hockey League (NHL), few Chosen Skaters have graced the ice in the 88-year history of the league...
Already a second-round NHL draft pick, Welch wasn’t short on offers. Sure, if he was going to build a train he’d build it in Cambridge, but if he had wanted a ride, it wouldn’t have taken much prodding to board the Green Line to Chestnut Hill...
...core of the PSP: the games. Of the five provided for review - Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal Head-on, Gretzky NHL, NBA and World Tour Soccer - none strike me as a must-have the way Grand Theft Auto became for the PlayStation 2. Still, they are pretty incredible for such a small device. The graphics and game play sophistication rival that of Sony's home system, the PS2. The sports games almost exactly mimic their "big-screen" counterparts with full rosters that you can manipulate and on-the-fly playmaking. Wipeout Pure, part of the futuristic Wipeout racing series...
...rendition was as frustrating and meaningless as any in recent memory. After the first weekend of the month, there was no more NFL—save the irrelevant Pro Bowl—no NHL in sight, and no chance here in Cambridge of seeing the men’s basketball team finally head to the Big Dance...
...Whenever the NHL does come back, in whatever form, I will be there. Because far more exciting than a goal being scored is the possibility of one. And no sport can represent the beauty of hope as well as staying awake for a goal to end a triple-overtime playoff game. By stressing Beckettian optimism, the sport has uniquely trained us to sit through a lockout. Anyway, we have no choice. You feel a little too special when you tell people you?re a curling...