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THE BIG GAME ON A LITTLE POND IN PLASTER ROCK

By Doug McIntyre

Friday, February 15, 2008

I didn't know much about the World Pond Hockey Championships when ESPN The Magazine asked me to cover the seventh annual tournament in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick. What I did know was sports reporters don't usually get to play in the events they're writing about. "I'm in," I told the editor, as if he was my men's league captain checking headcount for an 11:30 game on a Wednesday night. A quick troll via Google suggested this excursion would not be for the weak. A locker-room chinwag confir ...

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