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...contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars and Stripes had claimed eight straight silvers at worlds. “I want to remind you of an often overlooked fact—we’re the defending world champions,” said Dave Ogrean, the executive director of USA Hockey...
...brief, confetti-filled moment this summer, Italy had regained its rightful place atop the world of soccer. With stingy defense, elegant passing and icy shootout nerves - oh yes, and the little matter of French star Zinedine Zidane's timely late championship game headbutt (and ejection) - Italy's national team won its first World Cup since 1982. To a country that follows the sport of calcio more like popular religion than just a national pastime, it seemed like a sign from the gods...
...Suddenly it wasn't like that at all. Every morning, you opened the paper, there was "five dead in encounter" here and "so-and-so businessman shot by extortionists" there. In many ways, it started to come very close to home. Geographically, I was within earshot of one famous shootout in the early '90s, which happened in my neighborhood with automatic weapons. Also, my family is connected to the film industry, so I knew people--friends and acquaintances--who were getting shot at. I wanted to understand what was going...
...next day that so-and-so gangster was killed in an encounter with the police. What that actually means is that they caught the guy, and they'd question him, and they would kill him, and they'd put a gun in his hand and say it was a shootout. So in India, at least, the word encounter in this context has come to mean a setup, a police killing...
...McKinley said. “We started by taking them line, and then we decided to trust our blockers and let them take the hitter and then also to take angle, and that was extremely effective.”The fifth frame, by contrast, was a shootout, with the Lions and the Crimson posting hitting percentages of .353 and .400, respectively. Down the stretch, juniors Mimi Hanley and Suzie Trimble took over the game, stuffing Columbia’s hitters while hammering kills of their own.Hanley—who finished with 11 kills and eight blocks on the night?...