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...star of the sport in the 1980s and '90s. "Bowman the Showman," a former child actor, improvised routines at the last minute, winked at the cameras and flirted with female fans. He won the men's nationals in 1989 and '92, but his fights with coaches and off-rink habits?drinking, cocaine, women?began to overshadow his talent. At the time of his death from unknown causes in a Los Angeles hotel room, Bowman weighed more than 260 lbs. (118 kg) and was said to be depressed over the end of his marriage...
...over again, highlighted his complicated relationship with Carroll. A day after sitting down with Carroll to be lectured on the importance of eating right for an elite athlete, Bowman stocked up on three boxes of doughnuts, which his mother discovered under his bed and promptly brought to the rink. Carroll forced the skater to eat the entire stash - and then put him through a lesson on spins until he threw up. "He loved telling that one," says Mitchell...
...power play, who used a nifty spin move to stuff the puck into the left side of the net and give her team a 4-0 lead. Chute then scored a goal of her own when she picked off BC defenders from the right side of the rink and flipped a shot passed the shoulder of the goalie at 4:51. “Sarah Vaillancourt got hit by the other team and the puck squirted out,” she said. “I took a shot and it went in.” Harvard?...
...Cornell goalie Jenny Niesluchowski did not have the same success. Harvard freshman Kate Buesser scored at 10:53 in the first period after stripping the puck from a Big Red skater and sprinting half the length of the rink...
...some 60,000 members. Even when Hillary Clinton campaigned in Pahrump, a small town outside of Vegas known for its anti-government leanings and several well-known brothels, more than 2,500 people showed up, forcing Clinton organizers, who had only been expecting about 300, to rent a skating rink to accommodate the overflow...