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...Saint right wing Scott Stevens drew goalie Tripp Tracy and a Crimson defender toward him on the right wing. He then fed a wide-open Scott Murphy, who should have been covered by that defenseman, on the other side of the net, and Murphy flipped the puck in for an easy goal...
Neither score was particularly beautiful--on the first, Saint Andrea Blakeley faked out a couple defenders and took a weak mid-range shot that somehow got past sophomore goaltender Jen Bowdoin. On the second goal, a loose puck that Bowdoin tried to smother squirted into...
Valentine's Day, one would expect, celebrates the loving legacy of some third century saint. Of course, like the rest of pop history, that's all bunk. The origin of Valentine's Day has nothing to do with Roman martyrs, arising--depending on who you believe--out of ancient myths that tell stories of suckling wolves or mating birds...
...Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
...spring, which as I imagine the birds would tell you now, is awfully cold for mating. Henry Kelly, who actually wrote a book on this subject, suggests that Chaucer's St. Valentine's Day took place not in midwinter but in early May, in honor of an obscure saint from Genoa. Later poets erroneously carried the bird's mating day to the original St. Valentine's feast day on February...