[Cowperson]

Good feature story in the New York Times of soldiers taking up roller hockey in Iraq . . . .

"While still in Kuwait, I joked that we'd be playing hockey here in a few months, but I was totally kidding," said Specialist Armstrong, 20, who is from Appleton, Wis., and has played hockey since he was 10. "Now it's weird to play this here, because Iraqis have probably never even seen hockey, or ice, for that matter.

"But after awhile, I couldn't watch another movie, couldn't play another video game," he said. "I needed hockey."

Don't forget your bugmenot for this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/25/sports/h...5hockey.html?hp

Cowperson