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Like Nancy Dowd's script for Slap Shot, Casey's Shadow continually proves that men do not have a monopoly on first-rate sports reportage. Writer Carol Sobieski, working loosely from a story by John McPhee, takes a cynical attitude toward her characters' obsession with winning, and she leavens her familiar narrative with gritty bits of lore from the backwaters of quarter-horse racing. She accurately re-creates the arduous rituals of training, the sweaty romance of jockeying and the cracker-barrel humor of the eccentrics who build their entire lives around long shots...
...hooking call on the Crimson's Bobby McDonald gave the Terriers the game's first power play and first goal at 4:17. With only 15 seconds gone in the power play, B.U. defenseman Jack O'Callahan uncorked a slap shot from the left point that ricocheted off of Hynes shoulder into the upper right corner. Pointmate Dick Lamby and Dave Silk got the assists...
Gary Doak tallied the game-winning score with only 1:50 left in the contest, taking a cross-ice pass from Jean Ratelle and beating Rockies goalie Michelle Plasse with a low, hard slap shot from the right point...
Davenport said he feels the philosophical issue behind the decision was the department's feeling that graduate students lack direction. "They slap on regulations," he said, "when we really need advisors...
...they were opposing fragile senior citizens. Their finess was no where to be seen. Clarkson dominated the ice, mounting all sorts of offensive pressure. Finally, the Upstate New Yorkers broke down the Crimson defense at 5:48 and tacked on an insurance tally at 5:48. A slap shot bounced off the back boards onto Laughlin's stick, and when Clarkson's junior winger had his second goal of the night, Harvard was all washed...