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...have a history, the San Francisco slugger and me. Years before he began his assault on Mark McGwire?s homerun record, Bonds broke my heart. Back in the early ?90s, he belied his bravado, choked stupendously during key playoff games, and left my beloved Pirates dangling just short of the World Series. Two years in a row I sat watching the hated Atlanta Braves play for the championship, gnashing my teeth and cursing Barry Bonds...
...Harvard men's hockey team had a mixed bag of success during the same stretch. The Crimson split the 1948-`49 Pentagonal League regular season title with five-time defending champion Dartmouth, but fell to the Big Green in a playoff...
According to USCHO.com, more rumors circulate around the ECAC concerning Assistant Commissioner Steve Hagwell getting more hockey power and a new playoff format switch that would add an extra round and reduce Lake Placid to a traditional Final Four. Those will have to be evaluated when concrete proposals materialize...
...team in the ten-team qualification format to knock off a No. 1 seed this year in the first round by eliminating Clarkson. How much less of a chance would Brown have? How embarrassing will it be for the league to trot out its doormats as “playoff-ready” teams...
However, there is one factor that has gotten buried somewhat in the discussion of playoff expansion-money. Another first round series and another game in Lake Placid means more revenue for a conference that some have said are struggling. How much this factor has to trump competitive interests will be a judgment reserved for when the conference decides to release some data on its financial health. Certainly, the ECAC needs every possible advantage as it falls further behind the other three major D-I conferences...