The News Review:
- Fifty years later, O’Ree still teaching through sports – NHL
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
- MICK MCCABE: 5 high school sports seasons? Major change in the works…
- 2009 lacrosse finals to be played at Gillette Stadium – College Sports…
- Loosening the knots of lunacy that choked the sports week
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Fifty years later, O’Ree still teaching through sports – NHL
ESPN – Jan 18, 2008
addVariable(“width”, “302″); so. addVariable(“adminOver”, “3564912″); so. write(“player”); Willie O’Ree made hockey history on Jan. 18, 1958, by becoming the first black player to suit up for an NHL game. His NHL résumé is a modest 45 games, including four goals and 10 assists, but O’Ree’s legacy runs much deeper and his story is much greater. This week the league celebrates the 50th anniversary of his historic debut, and in this week’s Facing Off we go one-on-one with the hockey legend. O’Ree, 72, discusses the incredible secret he kept to ensure his NHL dream continued, explains how he survived years of physical and verbal abuse on the ice and why his love for the game lives on with thousands of kids across North America.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Other Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 18, 2008
chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer died of kidney failure on Thursday. He was 64 years old. Fischer was universally regarded as the greatest chess player in U. history
and was a prodigy from an early age.
MICK MCCABE: 5 high school sports seasons? Major change in the works…
Detroit Free Press – Jan 18, 2008
com | Detroit Free Press. You won’t need your winter coat and sweater, not with the weather being what it should be that day. No, this isn’t about global warming. This is about the weather you will find on May 1, the day the boys basketball finals could be held.
2009 lacrosse finals to be played at Gillette Stadium – College Sports…
ESPN – Jan 18, 2008
It will be the second consecutive year that Boston hosts thechampionships. This year’s games are set for May 24-26. Boston was selected over Baltimore, which hosted the games in2007 and Philadelphia, which was the host city in 2006. The Division I semifinals and finals, and the Division II andIII finals, will be played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.
Loosening the knots of lunacy that choked the sports week
San Francisco Chronicle – Jan 18, 2008
content –> From the shards of a nonsensical, preposterous week of sports news that left a funny smell, the Fool unloads his craw, because a full craw can lead to crawstipation, and nobody likes that. So in no particular order, and with no particular place to go after my craw is de-clawed, sit back and drink it all in — chunk by chunk. * So some blonde-haired, overly-coiffed Golf Channel woman is chatting in Hawaii with Nick Faldo on TV and let’s go with the word “lynch” while talking about a way for anyone to beat Tiger Woods. Poorly chosen, for sure.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Motor Sports
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Jan 18, 2008
Coming off a record-setting first year, Hamilton’s contract will run through 2012. “I have been connected to McLaren and Mercedes-Benz since 1998 and feel that I
could easily drive for this team for the whole of my Formula One career,” said
Hamilton. Hamilton began his rookie campaign with nine consecutive podium finishes and
become the first rookie to lead the drivers championship. He ultimately
finished second, just one point behind Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
