The
Boston Globe reports on an informal, five-team street hockey league started by some Northeasterners
serving in Iraq. An erstwhile basketball court for Iraqi soldiers serves as their improvised rink. There's no ice, obviously, since, as Sergeant 1st Class Andrew "Tekrit Gretzky" Fay* notes, it's ''140 degrees in the shade."
*Not Andrew Fay's actual nickname, as far as we know