Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Ron Caron Dies, Freestyle Skiing Tragedy

RON CARON DIES

Former St. Louis Blues GM Ron "The Old Professor" Caron has died in Montreal at age 82. His family reported. Before his years in St. Louis, he was an assistant GM of the Montreal Canadiens, and was actively involved with Sam Pollock in building the team that won 6 Stanley Cups in the 1970's.

FREESTYLE SKIING TRAGEDY

Four-time Winter X games freestyle skiing champion Sarah Burke is in a coma after a crash in Salt Lake City today. The Canadian skiier, who is 29, and was a favorite to win gold in 2014 in Sochi, "whiplashed" over onto her side after completing a trick on the Salt Lake halfpipe, according to a witness to the accident, that was reported on the website powder.com Her husband, Rory Bushfield tweeted that he is looking for a private jet to take him and his mother-in-law to the Salt Lake City hospital where Burke is staying.

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