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This is really, really sad.

Nineteen-year-old Alexei Cherepanov died this afternoon (evening in Moscow) after accidentally colliding into teammate Jaromir Jagr. Cherepanov skated to the bench, had a seat, leaned back, and passed out. The medics couldn’t revive him at the ice nor at the hospital. Drafted by the Rangers in the 2007 first round — 17th overall pick! — the kid was playing in the KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) rather than be at the Ranger prospect camp since the KHL season begins earlier. he was due to begin Rangers training next season. It’s been updated within the last few hours that the collision had nothing to do with the cardiac arrest.

A nineteen-year-old had a heart attack while playing hockey.

for in depth reading:
TSN’s official release
NHL official release
ESPN article
Deadspin
Puck Daddy’s live blog

And I like it.

This is happy sad. A bunch of Marines sing to the song everybody knows from Rent.

17-year-old Irene Gjoka has decided she wanted to try out for the football team of her high school in Long Island. The boys response to her joining the team? “Gotta look out for our little sister.” Awesome.

Gjoka had to jump through a few hoops to be allowed onto the boys’ team, but after all the hubbub, she’s going to be put on special teams. Hoho!

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The ULTIMATE COMPILATION!!!
by phillyblacklite

This video is slightly over a half hour long. This video compiles as many crashes, mess-ups, faceplants, screwups, hockey fights, and near-death bashes as this mysterious person could find. Your Daily Media has a stamp on it, but I found it on Two Eight Nine, which is With Leather, which is 289. I can’t look away. You’ll want to always wear a helmet, not only on a motorcycle, but while you do anything else. I’m digging the music.

And while you’re at that site, check out the article on Roman Abramovich’s insane yacht. Holy shit.

I already knew Coolio was a nice guy. This just made him cooler.

from triforce.

Google is bringing back their oldest archive for everybody in the whole internet to search. Back when Geocities and Yahoo groups were big, when Hampster Dance was still cool, and AOL chat rooms were the shizz.

Okay. The Hampster Dance is ALWAYS cool until they tried to make it cooler.

Google had its birthday party in Greece says one website. BBC says they aren’t having a big party. So… did they celebrate? idk! This website I’ve never heard of, Weberence, says it was the EMEA Conference (that’s “Europe, Middle East, and Africa” to you less hip folks), but that’s in reference to a comment on another site. Regardless, the Google people had 2500 of their people doing the Syrtaki, a dance known as the zorba song, breaking the old Guinness World Book record of 1608 set by Australians.

BBC’s got a cute video using Google Earth Maps and an article about how the public is reacting to the milestone.