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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…

Douglas, Kirk

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Kirk, 1916–2020, American film actor, b. Amsterdam, N.Y., as Issur Danielovitch, later Isadore Demsky. A leading man with a muscular physique and handsome cleft-chin face that…

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…