Word: face-off
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...Carroll. "Maybe we should just let 'em all race against the clock." Don't count on figure skating's being booted from the Games. It's too valuable a franchise. It always draws the biggest TV audiences of the Winter Games. And controversy only makes it more golden. The face-off between Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in 1994 gained the largest audience of any Olympic broadcast in history...
...years ago. As music they were using the theme from Love Story. Compared with the Russians' more nuanced classical choice, Thais, by the French composer Jules Massenet, it sounded a bit sappy and show biz. Looking over the roster of judges, many people expected a kind of cold war face-off. The judges from the U.S., Canada, Germany and Japan were more likely to back the Canadians. The Russians could likely count on the judges from China, Russia, Ukraine and Poland. That would leave the French judge, Le Gougne, as the likely deciding vote...
...scoring began 11:48 into the first period, when Kolarik took a breakaway up the left side, firing a quick wrister from the lower face-off circle past the unprepared Vermont goalie, Shawn Conschafter. The tally was Kolarik’s seventh of the season. Freshman Brendan Bernakevitch provided the assist...
...stop the latest attacks, they are unlikely to change the basic deadlock. Few Israeli commentators these days believe that, almost one year after being elected on promises to stamp out Palestinian violence and ensure Israeli security, Sharon has a political or military program that can transform the violent face-off into a decisive defeat of the intifada. While the term is still used, the current violence has little in common with the original intifada, in which masses of youths armed mostly with stones and molotov cocktails confronted Israeli troops in West Bank towns...
...Face-off for tonight’s game is a 7 p.m. and the puck will drop at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Both games are at the Bright Hockey Center...