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...list-keeping is the orderliness of the disorderly. I?m absent-minded; I lose videocassettes, books, film notes, my house keys and, occasionally, my mind. But I am a walking repository of baseball and box office statistics (my patron saints: Bill James and Art Murphy). I can name every winner of the Best Picture Oscar, reflexively - it?s in my muscle or flab memory - from 1928 to the early 90s, at which point short-term memory loss kicks in. Thus it?s no surprise, though it probably is a pity, that I have kept a running tab on the subjects...
...which surrounds him, is a significant part of the reason that the Black Bears were seeded atop the East regional bracket and ranked No. 1 overall in the last USCHO.com poll. And as a team that only qualified for NCAAs because of the automatic bid that goes to the winner of the ECAC, Harvard is considered a serious underdog in tonight’s contest...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The USA Hockey Foundation officially recognized co-captain Angela Ruggiero as the best player in women's college hockey, naming her the 2003-2004 Patty Kazmaier Award winner last night at a ceremony held at the Weston Hotel in Providence...
This type of controversy is nothing new to the major college sports (and here I might be stretching hockey’s popularity a bit): think about the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and the ruckus that erupted with USC being named National Champs by national sportswriters and LSU, the winner of Nokia Sugar Bowl, being named National Champs—through a contractual requirement with the BCS—by the coaches. The 16 teams that play in the Frozen Four tournament are selected strictly by the numbers, and since polls are not given any weight whatsoever, there is only...
...other panelists—“Ghosts of Rwanda” producer Greg Barker and Kennedy School Lecturer and Pulitzer Prize Winner Samantha Power—stressed institutional denial of the genocide and the reasons for the United Nations’ failure to intervene. Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Michael Ignatieff moderated...