Under pressure. We had much fun rooting for the hometown Syracuse Crunch skating against the visiting Charlotte Checkers the night before the gold medal Winter Olympics men’s hockey game between the U.S. and Canada. The tight contest had it all: fast skating, back-and-forth scoring and too much fighting for my hockey tastes. Alas, the home…

He shoots … While many hockey fans in North America were waiting for the Winter Olympics men’s team gold medal game between bitter rivals squads from the United States and Canada, my dear wife Karen, terrific daughter Elisabeth, fantastic George Three and I drove the couple miles to downtown Syracuse the night before that big…