Friday, January 29, 2010

It’s Not Hockey, It’s Bandy (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By JEFF Z. KLEIN
Published: January 28, 2010

Bandy, a forerunner of hockey, dates back 200 years.

It is played on a rink was 110 yards long and 60 yards wide, about the size of a soccer field. Each side has 11 players, and they pass and shoot a small orange ball, not a puck, toward the 7-foot-high, 11-foot-wide net.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/sports/olympics/29bandy.html?hpw

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