SARANAC LAKE — Senior captain Braydon Harvey put together a career day, recording seven points to help his Saranac Lake Placid boys hockey team beat the Tupper Lake Lumberjacks 11-0 on Tuesday, Jan. 6 at the Saranac Lake Civic Center. Harvey scored four goals and added three assists. ...
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer The biggest rivalry going into the bobsled competition at the Milan Cortina Olympics is pretty much not in dispute. On one side, there is Germany. And on the other side, there is everybody else. The sport made its Olympic debut in 1924 and Germany ...
Nobody knows for certain when luge — the French word for sled — started, since nobody surely took note of the first time someone slid feet-first down a slope. Some say the 15th century, with evidence that there were races in Norway around that time. USA Luge believes that the sport could ...
Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a helmet. Daly laughed. “If I knew that, I probably wouldn’t be out here,” he ...
LAKE PLACID — In a showdown between two squads returning to the hardwood for the first time in two weeks, the Tupper Lake boys basketball team secured a 38-23 non-league road victory on Monday, Jan. 5 over the Lake Placid Blue Bombers. The Lumberjacks’ junior Colin Strack scored a ...
WINTERBERG, Germany (AP) — Austria’s Janine Flock won a World Cup women’s skeleton race on Friday, while Mystique Ro of the U.S. got her best finish of the season. Ro was leading after the first of two runs, but Flock overtook her in the second heat and finished with a combined time ...