Word: skates
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Maybe that was because Ruddock had already given her teammates--and the fans--one scare when the puck was behind her early in the game. Midway through the second period, it was right behind her left skate after she had ventured five feet out of the crease to play an uncontested puck...
...excellent hockey team, but quite frankly it is not that much better than Harvard. The Crimson showed in a 3-2 overtime defeat at Bright Hockey Center during Thanksgiving weekend that it can just about skate and hit with the mighty Eagles. B.C. may be considerably more polished, but that shouldn't have been a 4-1 loss...
...what would be a welcome trend, we saw it again last weekend in the Crimson's homestand against Colgate and Cornell. Over 2,400 fans packed the house Friday night to witness Harvard skate to a 4-1 victory over the Red Raiders. Not even an inch of standing room was available on Saturday, as a sellout crowd watched the Crimson battle to 2-1 loss...
...antisocial poses that couldn't be appropriated by the mainstream and practicing self-mutilating rites, like safety-pin piercing, too gross or painful for the masses. In Jackass's case, the connection is more than theoretical: Knoxville first made his Taser video for the skateboarding magazine Big Brother--the skate and punk communities have a long, symbiotic relationship--and many of his show's stunts are straight out of skate-punk culture. The big difference is that theirs is a highly corporate punk rock, eagerly appropriated, encouraged and even created by giant entertainment companies...
Russian figure skaters can take a patriotic turn to Tchaikovsky. Americans can glide to Gershwin. But nobody in the skating community has heard of Xian Xinghai, one of China's premier composers. And that's a problem for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, the skating duo who rank among China's top medal hopes for the Salt Lake City Games. "If we choose to skate to the most famous Chinese music," says Zhao, "no one will even recognize it, which puts us at a big disadvantage. It isn't really fair...