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...icemen return to the rink Sunday to take on Colgate in a 2 p.m. showdown at Bright Center. The Crimson, victim of a mid-season slump in December and early January, should get some much-needed help with the return of several key performers. Jay North will return to action Sunday, completely healed from a broken hand. Highly heralded freshman Allen Bourbean will also return to action Sunday. Bourbean has been out all season for disciplinary reasons...
...recent weeks, however, the task of rebuilding's gotten a little easier. Although the talent's not what it used to be, several clutch performances from a few new faces have left the Tigers with a 6-3 record going into tonight's 7:30 p.m. showdown...
Some 3,000 Gulf shareholders gathered at Pittsburgh's new convention center for the showdown vote last week, and many thousands more sent in their ballots by proxy. Before the meeting, Pickens greeted Lee with a handshake and a smile, but when the session started, the talk was tough. In a speech, Lee ridiculed Pickens' royalty-trust plan as "silly." From the floor, Pickens responded that Gulf needed "fresh ideas...
...while, though, even the Big Red faithful seemed ready to concede this year's showdown to the visitors. They were silenced by the very first Crimson rush, as Dave Connors sprinted along the sideboards and set up Phil Falcone in front of the net for the initial tally...
...game plan the Harvard men's basketball team designed for Saturday's showdown with Army worked perfectly...