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Princeton traveled to Niagara for a non-conference series this past weekend...
...teams in ECAC hockey where all placed in the ECAC 9, while the ECAC 8 included the five programs with men’s programs in Hockey East—New Hampshire, Northeastern, Providence, Maine and Boston College—plus whatever teams were left, namely Niagara, UConn and Quinnipiac...
...darkest moment of the game came in the third period, when ECAC forward Brooke Bradburn, a senior from Niagara, was taken down on a face-off. The game was delayed for over 15 minutes as she was carried off the ice. ECAC Coach Karen Kay of New Hampshire said that she suspects that Bradburn has suffered a stress fracture...
...still hear the Wibbage jingle, with some Johnny Mann Singers-type ensemble perkily warbling, "W-IBG,/ Where your dial belongs the ev-en-ing through,/ W-IBG,/ Joe Niagara spins the hits for you." Known as the Rockin' Bird, Niagara had been with the station eight years before the music revolution, but the young pro fit smartly in any format. His shtick was to run the end of one sentence into the beginning of the next, then take a breath in the middle. It brought suspense to the simple craft of reading commercials you never knew. When he'd pause...
...Jerry Blavat. WIBG remained No. 1 through the '60s, but Niagara wasn't there for all of it; he left town for a few years in the glare of the payola scandal. He returned in '62, but by then the station had both congealed and softened; the format was strangling the jock's freedom to go nuts. As Wibbage turned to cabbage, other DJs at smaller stations caught kids' attentive ears. At WCAM in Camden, across the Delaware River from Philly, Kal Rudman spun the widest playlist in the tri-state area and gave records away. (I still have...