College Hockey

The Flyers and Phantoms, in conjunction with USA Hockey, will host a college hockey seminar at the Wachovia Center on Tuesday from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Hockey coaches from more than 30 NCAA, ACHA, junior and prep school programs will answer questions about their teams and schools. Guest speakers will include Phantoms players, college coaches and financial-aid and college-admissions personnel. Financial-aid and college-application information will also be available. The event and parking are free and open to all high school-age boys and girls hockey players.

Joannie Quinn and Sharon Barone, a pair of former area high school field hockey standouts, are members of the varsity field hockey team at the College of William & Mary. Quinn, a graduate of Sacred Heart, is a sophomore midfielder. As of Oct. 13, Quinn had scored 2 goals and picked up 1 assist. "Joannie has matured a great deal since last year," said head coach Peel Hawthorne. "One of the biggest factors in her improved play has been her own confidence in her ability. "She's the most consistent hitter on our team.

Ivan Pravilov, the former coach of the Ukrainian national hockey team who was accused of sexually assaulting underage boys in Mount Airy, was found dead early Friday in a federal jail cell in Philadelphia. Staff at the Federal Detention Center in Center City found Pravilov, 48, unresponsive in his cell about 3 a.m. and attempted to resuscitate him, prison spokesman Darrin Howard said. Pravilov was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., Howard said. "The FBI has been notified, and the cause of death is being investigated," Howard said.

The NCAA yesterday awarded the finals of its Division I men's ice hockey championship, the Frozen Four, for 2007 and 2008. And Philadelphia came up empty. The city and Comcast-Spectacor, which operates the First Union Center, had been among the five finalists and had sent a delegation to NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis earlier this month to make their pitch. But the prizes went instead to St. Louis and Denver, in that order. Peter Luukko, president of Comcast-Spectacor Ventures, said through a spokesman that he was disappointed by the outcome but noted that it was not unusual for a first-time bidder to have to try several times before prevailing.

A Philadelphia delegation will be in Indianapolis today making a pitch to host the NCAA men's hockey championship, the Frozen Four, in 2007 or 2008. The city is one of five finalists in the competition, along with Denver, Detroit, St. Louis and St. Paul, Minn. The event has never taken place in Philadelphia. "We believe the hockey market in this region has matured to the point that it warrants the Frozen Four coming here," said Peter Luukko, president of Comcast-Spectacor Ventures, which runs the First Union Center, where the games would be played.

ALTHOUGH Detroit and Toronto are in different conferences now, their rivalry dates to 1927 and they have played 117 playoff games, second only to 170 between Montreal and Boston. The two Original Six foes will play in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium, it was officially announced yesterday. It will be part of an outdoor showcase that also will include minor league and college hockey games at Detroit's Comerica Park. Toronto will become the first Canadian team to play in the Winter Classic when the Maple Leafs and Red Wings face off in Ann Arbor, about 45 miles west of Detroit.

Another college hockey player was left paralyzed during a game at the same rink where a Boston University player was paralyzed from the neck down last fall. Suffolk University junior John Gilpatrick was partially paralyzed last Thursday when he hit his head on the goalpost in a game against Stonehill College at BU's Walter Brown Arena, in Boston. When didn't get up, his coaches immediately thought of Travis Roy, a Boston University freshman who was paralyzed in October after slamming headfirst into the boards just 11 seconds into his first college game.

DOUG ROSS lives on the side of a mountain now, separated from a world that moved too fast, used too many things, made too much noise. "He's anti-technology," Jared Ross was saying about his dad after scoring his first NHL goal in the Flyers' 6-3 playoff victory over Pittsburgh yesterday. "No cable. No cell phone. No computer. "He just got an answering machine a couple of weeks ago. " He has a television, though, and 1,500 feet above Huntsville, Ala., his rabbit ears can pick up the NBC affiliate with hardly any snow on the screen at all. "So I'm sitting alone in my front room, talking to my mother," Doug Ross was saying over the phone.

Maya Moore of Connecticut won the John R. Wooden Award as women's college basketball player of the year, becoming the third player to win it twice. The senior forward and four-time all-American led UConn to four consecutive Final Fours and two national titles,. St. John's basketball coach Steve Lavin said he has prostate cancer. The 46-year-old coach, who was diagnosed in September and delayed treatment until after the season, will undergo treatment in the coming weeks.

SAN JOSE - Matt Read is not a big believer in the "rookie wall. " Or, in alarm clocks, for that matter. Still, after collecting just one goal in his last 15 games entering last night's game against the Sharks, Read is running into the clichè knock against first-year NHL players - that their bodies begin to wear down in February and March after adjusting to the professional grind. Last night, Read set a new personal record for games played in a season, with his 59th as a member of the Flyers.

Ivan Pravilov, the former coach of the Ukrainian national hockey team who was accused of sexually assaulting underage boys in Mount Airy, was found dead early Friday in a federal jail cell in Philadelphia. Staff at the Federal Detention Center in Center City found Pravilov, 48, unresponsive in his cell about 3 a.m. and attempted to resuscitate him, prison spokesman Darrin Howard said. Pravilov was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 3:45 a.m., Howard said. "The FBI has been notified, and the cause of death is being investigated," Howard said.

ALTHOUGH Detroit and Toronto are in different conferences now, their rivalry dates to 1927 and they have played 117 playoff games, second only to 170 between Montreal and Boston. The two Original Six foes will play in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium, it was officially announced yesterday. It will be part of an outdoor showcase that also will include minor league and college hockey games at Detroit's Comerica Park. Toronto will become the first Canadian team to play in the Winter Classic when the Maple Leafs and Red Wings face off in Ann Arbor, about 45 miles west of Detroit.

The Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs will begin 2013 by renewing their rivalry at one of North America's most iconic stadiums. The two Original Six foes will play in the Winter Classic on Jan. 1 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, part of an outdoor showcase that will also include minor-league and college hockey games at Detroit's Comerica Park. The football venue known as the Big House hosted a college game in 2010 between Michigan and Michigan State that set a Guinness World Record for most fans at a hockey game: 104,173.

Maya Moore of Connecticut won the John R. Wooden Award as women's college basketball player of the year, becoming the third player to win it twice. The senior forward and four-time all-American led UConn to four consecutive Final Fours and two national titles,. St. John's basketball coach Steve Lavin said he has prostate cancer. The 46-year-old coach, who was diagnosed in September and delayed treatment until after the season, will undergo treatment in the coming weeks.

ATLANTIC CITY - On the day the Eastern College Athletic Conference made the announcement that its next three men's ice hockey championships would be held at Boardwalk Hall, the potential effects of Penn State's move to Division I was still the buzz. Penn State won't begin Division I play until 2012-13 and it would become the sixth Big Ten school with a Division I hockey program. "I think it's going to have a huge impact," Cornell coach Mike Schafer said. "It could have an impact on all the leagues across the country.

No more than 48 hours had elapsed after Patrick Kane's building-silencing goal clinched the Stanley Cup for Chicago, ending the Flyers' dream season, and general manager Paul Holmgren was at a podium with the focus already on next season. Mike Testwuide - and not any player on the Phantoms' roster - was the first name Holmgren mentioned when asked about young players who might surprise in training camp, which begins in just more than 2 months. And if prospect camp is any indication, Testwuide already has planted himself squarely on the bubble of the Opening Night roster.

First Montreal, now Toronto? Joe Cowley covers the White Sox for the Chicago Sun Times and was with the team in Toronto last week. He points out that Canada, which lost one of its baseball franchises six years ago when the Expos left Montreal, may be losing the other. Interest in the sport in hockey-mad Toronto is not at the sizzling level of 20 years ago, when the Blue Jays drew four million fans to the Skydome for three straight seasons and won a pair of World Series.

DOUG ROSS lives on the side of a mountain now, separated from a world that moved too fast, used too many things, made too much noise. "He's anti-technology," Jared Ross was saying about his dad after scoring his first NHL goal in the Flyers' 6-3 playoff victory over Pittsburgh yesterday. "No cable. No cell phone. No computer. "He just got an answering machine a couple of weeks ago. " He has a television, though, and 1,500 feet above Huntsville, Ala., his rabbit ears can pick up the NBC affiliate with hardly any snow on the screen at all. "So I'm sitting alone in my front room, talking to my mother," Doug Ross was saying over the phone.