...women's national hockey team scored the biggest upset in the modern history of Olympic ice hockey qualifications by advancing to the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Slovakia, which is ranking No. 16 on the IIHF World Ranking, was the lowest ranked of...
...game will be played in the Herb Brooks Arena, which was the site of the U.S. gold-medal victory in men's hockey at the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid. Brooks coached the U.S. to victory, which was nicknamed Miracle on Ice . . . Canada, the U.S., Sweden, Finland,...
...runners have placed well in other races around the country and the world. At the Kosice Peace Marathon in Slovakia on Oct. 5, former State College track and cross country runner and Penn State graduate Shari Franzetta was the first American woman in 3:49:55....
...overall. Local runners have placed well in other races around the country and the world. At the Kosice Peace Marathon in Slovakia on Oct. 5, former State College track and cross country runner and Penn State graduate Shari Franzetta was the first American...
...organized much farther in advance than I have in the past," Yzerman told NHL.com. "I'm trying to arrange the games of teams and players that I want to see and trying to work them into the Red Wings schedule and combine the two. Obviously in some areas something...
...Ali Bernard (New Ulm, Minn./Bears) at 72 kg/158.5 lbs. Mocco defeated 2000 Olympic champion David Musulbes of Slovakia by forfeit in the championship finals. Mocco, who was seventh at the 2008 Olympic Games, had four victories in the tournament. Hrovat, competing...
...2006-07, when the Avalanche -- long written off -- closed with a rush and almost made the playoffs. Even his work for Slovakia in the 2008 Olympics raised some hopes. But given several chances to secure the No. 1 job during the organization's period of dissatisfaction...
..."But you don't have to study sport to play sport," he adds. "The soft skills required – being reliable, working as part of a team, being a good communicator, working within set rules, and being flexible – are the transferable skills employers are looking for." In...