Word: canadas
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...Gators--nine of them from Canada--had to learn that if the local weather doesn't make you sweat, the cuisine will. The concession stands serve red beans and rice, jambalaya and Cajun sausage. (Alligator, served elsewhere in town, is banned at the rink. "Bad luck to eat your mascot," a server explains.) All the food is spicy: even the rink's martinis and Bloody Marys come with pickled okra and peppers. Says Gators coach Don Murdoch, a star right wing for the New York Rangers in the 1970s: "I went from Rolaids to Zantac pretty quick...
...gives him an elaborate "care package" before each road trip. Several Gators have married local women. Others have refused trades or quit hockey altogether to avoid leaving--the second wave of Canadians to settle here, two centuries after the first. Corey Neilson, a Gator defenseman from New Brunswick, Canada, loves the warm weather, the food and the way the fans simply enjoy the game instead of critiquing it. He says, "It doesn't really get much better than this...
...experience thrown out, all you need to get elected anywhere is to be famous and have a reputation for being intelligent. Since Clinton's election, Marilyn Vos Savant, Stephen Hawking and Dr. Dre (street smarts) have all been elected to the House from Utah. Alex Trebek is King of Canada...
...Knicks-Raptors match-up was supposed to be a coming-out party for Carter, a.k.a. Air Canada, the NBA's designated supernova. Instead it turned into a showcase for the NBA's new back-from-hell hero, Sprewell, whose career was nearly cut off, along with Golden State Warrior coach P.J. Carlesimo's air supply, when Sprewell attacked and choked his coach more than two years ago. Sprewell was barred from the 1997-98 NBA season, lost nearly $7 million in pay and was reinstated only after an arbitrator ruled in his favor. The Warriors unloaded him on the Knicks...
Since then, Sprewell has been a favorite among New York's hard-hearted fans, who have embraced his maturity and industry. He still blazes with intensity--his suffocating defense on Carter included a flagrant but not malicious foul that floored Air Canada. But Spree leaves it all on the court, and even NBA commissioner David Stern has had kind words for him. It's Sprewell's face, after all, that the League elected to represent the Knicks in its playoff commercials. "I'm glad I was able to turn it around," Sprewell told reporters last week. "It could have easily...