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...hometown was not friendly to hockey. We had no local team—minor league, high school or otherwise. The ponds didn’t freeze in the winter and the nearest rink was an hour’s drive away. The local sporting good store had no hockey equipment, save little plastic hockey sticks marketed at the pre-school crowd. And so, during the summers and warm winters, we settled for roller hockey—a slow, clunky substitute that always ended prematurely after our only ball fell into the rain gutter. To the neighborhood kids, we were heroes...
...Indulgence mounted the stage to rile up the pit. They did not have to do much. Sporting some of the largest, strongest, angriest, most steroid-filled men and women in New England, the pit was the most violent this side of the Running of the Bulls. Filling the entire rink floor, the predominantly shirtless Centrum patrons ripped into one another, forcing EMTs to rush to the aid of injured pit fighters within the first half hour. Springfield locals Staind shook some more red in front of the bulls, who were then calmed down by the following showing of "Spike...
...many ways, I like the feeling of the empty golf course better than a packed school gym or a neighborhood ice rink. I like disappearing from Cambridge for a few months, spending time with my team away from the hubbub of campus life. It is an existence until itself, complete with the joys and downfalls of sport...
...initial condemnation, outrage and punishment it has so far received. But to pursue legal action and prosecute McSorley in the courts is stepping too far. In a sport characterized by speed and contact, in a sport that pits large men against other large men in a small enclosed rink, in a sport that not only condones but practically encourages fist-fights, it is unreasonable to believe that tempers won't flare and altercations such as this won't happen. Additionally, coaches are just as guilty as players for spurring on such tragedies. They send out their big men with...
...swept the Crimson in a pair of nerve-racking, exciting playoff battles, each by a score of 4-3 in front of a raucous, sold-out Lynah Rink. The defeats mark the third consecutive time Harvard and Cornell have renewed their rivalry in the postseason with the Big Red emerging victorious...