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...first goal. Not exactly one to savor, either--Geoff Lopatka's dump-in found a chink in the glass and caromed on goal where Harvard goalie Aaron Israel "just kind of flubbed it," in his own words, letting it trickle in. It was Lopatka's fifth goal in three play-off games, two more than he notched in the entire regular season, and it gave Cornell the early lead...
Despite earning its first ever point against the Providence Friars Saturday, the Crimson (11-8-2, 4-5-2 ECAC) was held winless this weekend and head into Sunday's ECAC play-off opener against Northeastern with one win in its last five games...
...image that when reporters asked him to comment on the Los Angeles riots last year, he mumbled something about not knowing what was going on. On the other hand, he grew restless within his corporate straitjacket, like the time he went gambling in Atlantic City the night before a play-off game with the New York Knicks...
...what happened inside the building," says inspector Gerald Stewart, who heads the major-crimes division of the Detroit police department. "We will have to establish that someone did assist in a suicide, and it's kind of difficult." After two hours, during which he watched the Knicks- Hornets play-off game, police released Kevorkian into Fieger's custody...
Phillies owner Giles, who heads the TV committee, has a plan to make expanded play-offs and interleague play irresistible to the networks. The play-off games would be played simultaneously and, to boost ratings, aired only on a regional basis. (Guess what, fans, that means you would be unable to watch three-quarters of the play-offs.) Adding allure to the regular-season TV package might be Monday-night interleague games. And the last item on Giles' agenda: "If we go to three divisions," he said, "we'll have to expand to 30 teams...