Thornton provides punch at wrong time
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Shawn Thornton's job description includes the following: finishing checks, not taking bad penalties, providing energy, and skating every shift like it's the last one he'll take in the NHL.
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In the third period last night at the Air Canada Centre, with the score tied at 1-1, Wayne Primeau was sent to the penalty box for hooking.
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One mention of the term &quot;crunch time&quot; is enough to twist some players&#39; stomachs into knots. &quot;That&#39;s when it&#39;s fun to me,&quot; he said.
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Syracuse wasn&#39;t able to follow Boston College to the Atlantic Coast Conference or stop the Eagles from leaving the Big East. The one thing the Orange could do was deprive
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Few who witnessed the decisive sucker-punch try by Ireland&#39;s Ronan O&#39;Gara in Dublin last Saturday, scored while the Springbok captain John Smit was engaged in a lengthy conference with his team on the subject of illegal ball-killing, would use the word
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Mark Butcher&#39;s year has veered alarmingly between the sublime and the ridiculous and yesterday provided a neat snapshot. A meticulously constructed 79 followed by a crazy hoick against Makhaya Ntini and an
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Almost a year ago, Brad Hodge wondered if he might be another Jamie Siddons - &quot;a good player but unfortunately didn&#39;t get a chance at the next level&quot;.
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He had his chances. Oh, did Adam Scott have his chances for a repeat victory in the Deutsche Bank Championship at TPC Boston yesterday. After igniting the inbound nine of his final-round 65 with birdies on Nos. 10 through 13, Scott narrowly missed opportunities on his next four holes.
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The game was there for the taking. Bobby Russo, just seconds away from being named his team's Offensive MVP, broke outside, and in front of him lay an opening he could drive a truck through. He was inches from converting a 2-point conversion that would give the North a 1-point advantage with 41.1 seconds left.
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The Giants&#39; fourth offensive snap yesterday provided the afternoon&#39;s first obvious mistake. Its plot sounded frighteningly familiar.
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Fighting an opponent doesn&#39;t always mean opposing his force. When faced with overwhelming power, good fighters often use their attacker&#39;s force to their advantage, as in judo, for example.
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As exhilarating as hockey has been lately for the Bruins, who swaggered into the Bell Centre last night riding a four-game winning streak, they learned the hard way that fortunes can change and turn this sport into heartache.
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It was a rough night for the Colorado Avalanche.
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ROSEMONT, Ill. -- When last they saw each other, WBC light heavyweight champion Tomasz Adamek and challenger Paul Briggs were both bleary-eyed and bloody. That night Adamek prevailed, but barely, each man extracting from the other a terrible price for agreeing to an angry business meeting in which leather and blood flew.
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The far-fetched Billy Bob Thornton vehicle struggles to get off the launchpad.
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Joe Thornton scored a power-play goal 1:49 into overtime, and Evgeni Nabokov earned his NHL-best 30th victory of the season with 31 mostly spectacular saves in the San Jose Sharks' 2-1 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday night.
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When single-elimination play began in the World Cup of Hockey, Joe Thornton was converted by Team Canada coach Pat Quinn from a high-scoring pivotman to a checking center. His assignment was to shut down the other teams' top combinations. With his size, strength, and hockey sense, Thornton parlayed his new role into a crucial one that helped Canada ...