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Hockey is hard because you skate on ice. In handball, you just move your legs. "It's running, jumping and throwing," says Tom Fitzgerald, who played on the U.S. Olympic team in 1996, the last year in which the U.S. fielded a team. "It's what Americans do. What's the problem here...
...topic most political memoirists skate around. Not so Cherie, who even discusses the conception of her fourth child, Leo, during a trip to Balmoral, the Queen's Scottish retreat. On the Blairs' first visit to the castle, valets had unpacked Cherie's toiletries, including what she refers to as "contraceptive equipment." On a subsequent visit, she left the equipment at home to spare any blushes. That's a courtesy her readers should definitely not expect...
...missed opportunity, the outcome of a one-on-one battle, or as random as a puck bouncing to the stick of the player, who happened to be attacking the net at just the right angle. Those moments only become part of a team’s storyline when the skates are hung up for the year and the minds of sports fans start drifting towards baseball. After the Crimson skated off the ice in Albany, as Princeton started celebrating its 4-1 victory in the ECAC championship game and its resulting berth in the NCAA tournament, Harvard?...
...think both teams have year in year out recipes for success,” Donato said. “Both teams are defensively sound. We try to play an up-tempo pressure game, and I think Cornell is a big, strong, physical, fore-checking team.”Though skating against the Big Red during the season helps acquaint Harvard with the style of hockey that Cornell likes to play, the Crimson players prefer to focus on maintaining discipline and executing their own strategy.“We have to focus on playing our game. I don?...
...need them, she’s been playing great defense,” head coach Katey Stone says. “She’s doing what she needs to do for her team.”For Brine, this weekend represents a chance to return to Duluth and skate in the tournament she has been waiting for three years to experience.“Every year this is something we’ve been really striving to get to, and it’s an awesome feeling to be here,” she says.You can expect Brine...