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...Mike Taylor knocks a Cornell skater into the net, and the Big Red is on the power play. That's probably not how Ted Donato drew up the first minute in the locker room...
...strangest coaching moves you'll ever see, Harvard has pulled Richter for an extra skater with 12 minutes to go. VERY strange, and Brown almost gets an empty-netter from its own zone...
Nicknamed "Bowman the Showman" for his crowd-pleasing exuberance on the ice, the California native was a talented skater whose party-boy lifestyle and drug use off the ice got in the way of the discipline needed to train as a world-class athlete. Prior to his first Olympic appearance in 1998, Bowman checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic to treat his drug habit, one of at least two times he received treatment for his addiction. "I've told myself I'd be more disciplined," he once said. "It just never seems to work that...
...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...
Frustrated at not being able to help Bowman, Carroll decided to cut off all contact with the skater. "I felt that I needed to use a tough love approach, that if I didn't help him, didn't enable him, that it was a statement that you have to stop doing drugs if you want me in your life," says Carroll. Despite the rebuffs, Bowman continued to email his coach, imploring him at one point just about six months ago, "Come on, Frank, give in." And then the news of his death broke...