Word: shootout
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Soccer, the lingua franca of sports everywhere else in the world, was finally - on tongues in the U.S. as the cup made its Stateside debut. And even if only a few in this country were fluent enough to know a penalty shot from a shootout, Americans filled up stadiums to watch. Now, even soccer-illiterate Yankees know how to say it: Gooooooaaaal...
...movies. The sweetness that develops between them as they try to elude the rogue dea agent who orchestrated her family's death (a divinely psychotic Gary Oldman) is crazily dislocating, the more so since Besson's French vision of the New York underworld is so eerily unreal. His final shootout is masterly cinema -- this is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them...
...Francisco Shootout...
...rule change that the ECAC won't employ is that of the penalty shootout to settle ties after scoreless overtimes, a la the Olympics. Hockey East instituted the shootout this year, but the ECAC hasn't approved this "made-for-TV" format of deciding games...
...coach, I probably would not want to see a shootout," Tomassoni says. "As a fan, probably...