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Willie O'Ree still trying to open up hockey

By LZ Granderson
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Friday, January 18, 2008

ASPEN, Colo. -- Early Thursday morning I got out of bed and made my way into the kitchen of the house I'm currently staying in, looking for coffee. When I got there I saw a countertop littered with beer bottles -- a little reminder of the previous night's spirited conversation among a group of guys who'd flown in from around the country to play in a rec hockey tournament. As the bottles were drained, we talked playoff football. We talked steroids, records, and baseball. But mainly we talked ab ...

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