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...players. The National Hockey League, hardly a sport for wimps, also cracked down on thugs. The NHL decided to enforce the rules on hooking, holding and interfering when it became apparent that the chippy play was ruining the game by preventing players from using their talents--you can't skate with a stick up your behind. The result: when the refs cracked down, there was a lot of whining about the loss of "old school" hockey, but once everyone got used to the fact that the rules would be enforced, the game improved. Scoring increased because the game's stars...
...Canadian U-22 team in Ottawa between August 23 and 27. The U-22 squad will likely be a collegiate all-star team, comprising the nation’s top young talents with whom Stone has acquainted herself while manning the bench at Bright Arena. And two players who skate in Crimson colors for Stone—rising senior Jennifer E. Sifers and rising junior Caitlin Cahow—are expected to make the USA cut. Stone, who just finished her 12th season at the helm for the Crimson, brings an impressive resume into her new assignment. She is fourth...
...Donato also describes him as a purist in terms of ice hockey.“He tried to play the game from a pure standpoint, not as an act of thuggery but a show of skill,” he recalls.“There was a lot of skating, a lot of passing,” Fusco says. “He worked very hard to see his own values upheld.”More than just a coach, though, Cleary’s former students describe him as a “friend and mentor...
...festoons John Lee Beatty's balconied set with streamers, packs the stage with sight gags and sex appeal - 10 gals in bathing suits, courted by boys with press cards in their hat bands. The cast and orchestra, under the vigorous baton of Paul Gemignani, rise to the material, then skate on it. Garber does justice to one of the all-time rousing musical-comedy lines, "Did you say corn muffins?" (Mary had won his heart by revealing she makes the best corn muffins. When they reach the White House, Mary says she'll bake "corn muffins for the unemployed!" Wintergreen...
...cult punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...