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hockey, ice

(Encyclopedia) hockey, ice, team sport in which players use sticks to propel a hard, round disk into a net-backed goal. The NHL long regarded itself as the world's elite, but the overwhelming…

Motown Magic

Detroit coach Scotty Bowman hoists the Stanley Cup after his Red Wings completed a four-game sweep of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1997 Cup Finals.Wide World Photos The drought is finally…

Year in Review 2001 | Sports Moments

By John Gettings, Mike Morrison, and Gerry Brown Moments Dale EarnhardtStanley Cup71 Home RunsWS Games 4 & 5Jordan ComebackWimbledon FinalLewis UpsetWS Game 7King of the MountainTiger…

1998-99 Season Recap

No Goal Things were going so well. Finally, after four consecutive years of Stanley Cup Finals sweeps, the NHL got what it wanted - a competitive championship series. But of course, something had…

Irish Movies: Barry Lyndon (1975)

Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next by Beth Rowen Barry Lyndon (1975) This 1975 Stanley Kubrick adaptation of the William Makepeace Thackeray novel won four Oscars,…

Tom Johnson Biography

hockey defensemanDied: Nov. 22, 2007 (Falmouth, Massachusetts) Best Known as: hockey defenseman, hall of famer, and Bruins coach Hockey defenseman, hall of…

cold fusion

(Encyclopedia) cold fusion or low-temperature fusion, nuclear fusion of deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, at or relatively near room temperature. Fusion, the reaction involved in the release of the…

Edward VIII

(Encyclopedia) Edward VIII, 1894–1972, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1936), known in later years as the duke of Windsor; eldest son of George V. He attended the naval colleges at Osborne and…