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I can't believe you guys are talking about old men playing basketball without any mention of the NCAA basketball championship game yesterday. That may have been the most physical college game I have ever seen. The refs were letting them play. It reminded me of some old Bill Lambier games.
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Due to the deplorable state of college athletics, I found something better to do. And I am a UConn fan.

I followed St. John's and Arizona and enjoyed the tournament overall, but the championship game was disappointing.

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back to the future

we've mentioned a few of today's greats - Cooper Flagg, Webanyama and Jokic

nobody until now has mentioned Luka Doncic

averaging 33 with 8 assists per game - 57.5% on his 2 pointers - just awesome

unfortunately, he's injured and is probably done for the year - likely to miss the playoffs






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Handsome Jimmy Valiant, the original Boogie Woogie Man, has announced his retirement from pro wrestling. He is 83.

Valiant worked as a heel in his early career, tagging with his " brother" Johnny to win the WWWF tag team titles in the early 1970s.
In the late 1970s, a doctor warned him that his body was breaking down, so Jimmy went from being a mat wrestler to one of wrestling's first entertainers. If he was booked for an eight-minute segment, five would be his entrance, a one-minute match, and two or three minutes of him high-fiving fans. If he were asked to go 15 minutes, he'd just stretch out his entrance. He went almost twenty years without cutting his hair or shaving and supposedly wore the same clothes for months at a time. Somehow, his act got over on the fans, and Jimmy bounced from region to region, even after the territory days were a thing of the past. A man of tremendous charisma but little actual wrestling skill, Jimmy thrived for over sixty years in a business that chews people up and spits them out.
He has been in the WWE Hall of Fame since 1996, and may truly be the last of the old skool grapplers.

A women's hockey game sold out Madison Square Garden. We live in interesting times.

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A women's hockey game sold out Madison Square Garden. We live in interesting times.
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Coming from Boston and the support we give girls' and women's hockey, I'm tempted to say, 'What's the big deal?" But, I hear yah. It's a big deal to those women, the teams and their fans.

My high school had a hockey club. They were scheduled to travel up to New England for a tournament when it was discovered that one of the teams had two female players. Even though the club had raised thousands for the trip, it was canceled.

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My high school had a hockey club. They were scheduled to travel up to New England for a tournament when it was discovered that one of the teams had two female players. Even though the club had raised thousands for the trip, it was canceled.
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Hard to blame them. Hockey is rough and boys should not be taught to accept roughing up girls.

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My high school had a hockey club. They were scheduled to travel up to New England for a tournament when it was discovered that one of the teams had two female players. Even though the club had raised thousands for the trip, it was canceled.
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Hard to blame them. Hockey is rough and boys should not be taught to accept roughing up girls.
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Youth hockey isn't as rough as you think. And around here, girls play on boys teams all the time and do well.

Because it was a club, not a varsity sport, the team would practice at 1 AM or so and play at 11 PM. It was a no-fighting league, but four players got into a brawl at practice, leaving one with a broken leg.

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My high school had a hockey club. They were scheduled to travel up to New England for a tournament when it was discovered that one of the teams had two female players. Even though the club had raised thousands for the trip, it was canceled.
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Hard to blame them. Hockey is rough and boys should not be taught to accept roughing up girls.
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Youth hockey isn't as rough as you think. And around here, girls play on boys teams all the time and do well.
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This isn't 8-year olds we're talking about, it's high school. So you have guys who theoretically could be drafted by a professional minor league next year. If I'm one of those guys, I don't want the stigma of having knocked a girl into the boards and hurt her. I wouldn't want family, friends, girlfriends in the stands seeing me do that.

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My high school had a hockey club. They were scheduled to travel up to New England for a tournament when it was discovered that one of the teams had two female players. Even though the club had raised thousands for the trip, it was canceled.
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Hard to blame them. Hockey is rough and boys should not be taught to accept roughing up girls.
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Youth hockey isn't as rough as you think. And around here, girls play on boys teams all the time and do well.
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This isn't 8-year olds we're talking about, it's high school. So you have guys who theoretically could be drafted by a professional minor league next year. If I'm one of those guys, I don't want the stigma of having knocked a girl into the boards and hurt her. I wouldn't want family, friends, girlfriends in the stands seeing me do that.
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You're not from around here, are you?

When I was in high school, the NHL was 99% Canadian, and no one playing club sports was dreaming of being drafted. One season, there were no Americans in the league and two Europeans. If I'm not mistaken, the first team to win a Stanley Cup with a European was the Islanders in 1979.