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TOO MANY GOALS, TIME TO RETURN TO OLD-FASHIONED BUT EFFECTIVE STAND-UP GOALTENDERS

  More stuff ... In ice hockey, isn’t it about time to come full circle and  bring back the stand-up goaltender? Sure seems like it,  what with NHL goalies automatically going to their knees  nowadays … and being beaten, with uncanny regularity,  high to the upper right and left corners of the goal. Last of the (really good) stand-up goaltenders was   MARTIN BRODEUR , who retired in 2015 after 22  NHL seasons, 21 with New Jersey. He was inducted into  the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018. Actually, Brodeur’s style was considered something of a  hybrid … because, in the latter years of his career, he  started floping more, resorting to the so-called “butterfly”  method first introduced by the Detroit Red Wings’   GLENN HALL  in the mid-1950s and latter perfected by  other future hall of famers such as  TONY ESPOSITO   (Chicago) and current Islanders coach  PATRICK ROY  (Montreal). Locally, when the Richm...
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WHATEVER GAME OFFICIALS WERE WATCHING ... IT WASN'T WAKE FOREST AT VIRGINIA

Lots of Stuff:  Why is it calls that are missed (any sport, you name it)  invariably have greater significance than those recognized  in error? Saturday night, in Charlottesville, Virginia’s 14th-ranked  Cavaliers lost QB  CHANDLER MORRIS  to a late hit  that by any definition was targeting by Wake Forest’s   TRAVON WEST … who, nevertheless, was allowed to  remain in the game. Without the player most responsible for the Hoos’  turnaround this season, underdog Wake ended their  seven-game winning streak, 16-9. Morris went down with more than eight minutes left in  the first half, running for a first down then doing the  familiar “quarterback slide” as Deacon defenders were  closing in.  Invariably, opponents will pull up and refrain from hitting  the suddenly-defenseless runner. Or, at the very least, try  to avoid him. West did neither. He came on, low and hard, and with  Morris on the ground, faci...
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