Word: tournaments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Every year, Walter Gretzky (Wayne's dad) hosts a street hockey tournament in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario. After learning about it, I mused about the idea of playing in the tourney, in a podcast and on the message board at my website. All of a sudden, other dudes like me - old, out-of-shape, unathletic, with more body fat than bone - started dreaming they, too, could forecheck it up the slot and slap themselves some middle-aged glory one last time ... in the hometown of the Great One, no less...
...coached at the University of Kentucky from 1989 to 1997, he was linked to numerous NBA openings before finally leaving for the Boston Celtics. That didn't work out, and Pitino returned to the Bluegrass State to coach Kentucky's archrivals, the Louisville Cardinals. (See the top 10 NCAA Tournament first-round upsets...
...coach of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team that spawned the globalization of basketball, Chuck Daly didn't call a single timeout over the tournament's eight games. When you have Michael Jordan, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson on your squad, and are beating the awestruck Angolans, Brazilians and Puerto Ricans by an average of 43.8 points, any coach worth his whistle would have just let them play. But even if the Dream Team had been challenged, Daly, who died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday morning, at 78, might not have seen the need to lecture his team. Unlike most...
...practice recently.” Totaling the scores of its four best performers on each day, Harvard shot rounds of 318, 323, and 338 for the three-day affair on the par-72 course. Senior Emily Balmert led the Crimson’s efforts this past weekend at the tournament held on the Scarlet Course on the campus of The Ohio State University. She shot rounds of six, seven, and eight over par, finishing with 11 pars on the final day of competition. “It was a tough weekend for us,” Balmert said...
...women, after a grueling 15-13 loss to the eventual champion Northeastern in the semis, the Quasars came back Sunday with a vengeance, topping Brown and Middlebury to stay alive in the tournament. The victory over the Lady Pranksters proved to be one of the most thrilling matches of the weekend for Harvard, as the squad opened the contest on fire to grab a 7-2 lead. Although Middlebury fought back the Quasars held on for a 15-13 win, pitting the Harvard women against host Dartmouth with a plane ticket to nationals at stake...