Word: rinks
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Ithaca is not usually a fun place to be, and for Harvard hockey fans, Lynah Rink in Ithaca has been particularly unsettling in recent years...
...Junta--whose stature (6 ft. 1 in.), girth (270 lbs.) and receding hairline ensure that James Gandolfini will play him in the inevitable TV movie--was watching an informal practice involving his son at the Burbank Ice Arena. He became so vexed at the violence he saw on the rink that he confronted the man who had volunteered as referee, Michael Costin (6 ft., 156 lbs.), for allowing it. Costin snapped back, "That's hockey." The two men scuffled, and Junta left the arena. He returned and repeatedly whacked the ref, knocking him out, as the children, including Junta...
Reading's hockey families see the Junta incident as an unfortunate encounter rather than the spawn of rink rage. "The vast majority of parents are doing this for the right reasons," says John Rattigan, a lawyer and father of three boys, all of whom play hockey at the Burbank arena. "We don't necessarily clap for the other side, but we try to be good sports." Rattigan, who does not know Junta or Costin, calls the fight "a very isolated, unusual, scary incident...
...Steady," No Doubt's fifth album, finds the band impressively easing into its proper role as ambassador of a good time. "Hella Good," one of a number of tracks on the album produced by the accomplished Nellee Hooper (of late U2 and Bjork fame), sounds like an eighties roller-rink party. The good time flashbacks don't end there. "Don't Let Me Down," produced by Ric Ocasek, with its Cars-like bass line, spacey keyboards and layered vocals is the perfect melding of the best of what both the eighties and No Doubt have to offer...
...pleasant story, any way you look at it: One minute, Thomas Junta and Michael Costin were watching their sons' hockey practice. The next, fists (and insults) were flying - a brawl that left Costin dead. The July, 2000 incident, which bloodied the floor at a Reading, Massachusetts hockey rink, was front page news for a few days, then mercifully faded from sight. But this week, as Junta's trial for manslaughter drew to a close, the hockey dads were back in the spotlight. Friday evening, after less than two days of deliberations, a jury found Junta guilty of involuntary manslaughter...