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The article offers information on photographer and soccer fan, Nick Veasey never handled hockey gear until started X-raying the equipment, goalie appearing as a kind of ghost samurai, and fans going wild seeing goalie make what looks like a great save such as Mike Richter.

The article focuses on Dick Tucker, who helped design the Model 73 lacrosse stick, which was approved by the Intercollegiate Lacrosse Associate in 1970 and addressed the problem of scarcity of lacrosse sticks prior to that time.

The Sharon Van Etten story is deceptively familiar. Nice girl from suburban New Jersey leaves home for Murfreesboro, Tenn. She attends a couple of semesters at Middle Tennessee State before dropping out and falling for a bad-seed rock star, who jealously discourages her from writing songs. After five progressively ugly years, Van Etten leaves Tennessee in the middle of the night with whatever she can carry. In the last scene of this prologue -- before Van Etten becomes the darling of indie rock -- it's Thanksgiving Day and her mom answers the door, holding the dishes she's about to put on the table, to find her black-sheep middle child, who hasn't spoken to her in ages, standing on the doorstep. We all like a good fall-and-redemption tale, especially when it's true. But it is absolutely beguiling as a Sharon Van Etten song. The difficult past is always present in Van Etten's music, a mesmerizing catalog that somehow combines the venom of P J Harvey with a choir loft full of Emmylou Harrises singing harmony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The music of John Maus evokes an urbane '80s vibe so convincingly that you practically expect him to exist in some neon-drenched video from the dawn of MTV. Instead, Maus lives in a rented ranch house next to a cow pasture two and a half hours south of Minneapolis. Apart from a keyboard and some recording gear stacked in a corner of the study, Maus's spare cabin looks like the lair of a lonely grad student desperately trying to finish a dissertation on the concept of inoperative community. Which, in fact, it is. At the moment, though, the music is going better than the dissertation. The songs that Maus makes are a fantasia of 1980s synth-pop that sometimes borders on parody. Dozens of recent records -- made by so-called chillwave or glo-fi artists -- share his fetish for period-correct drum machines, icy synthesizer chords and doomed, stentorian vocals. What sets Maus apart is his ability to hear Gregorian plainchant in new wave. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looks at the songs with indecipherable lyrics. How 'Work It' from Missy Elliot was digitally altered to make the song's hook uncomprehensible; View that record sales are promising for weird sounding songs; Reference to 'React' by Erick Sermon and 'Die Another Day' from Madonna.

Interviews chess player Garry Kasparov who was defeated by I.B.M.'s Deep Blue computer. Computers and their accumulation of knowledge of chess; Human mind versus computer calculation; Chess as an accessible game to all people; The rematch of Kasparov and Deep Junior.