Posts About "Colleen Howe"

Stem Cell Treatment and the Exploitation of Mr. Hockey

February 9th, 2015 No. 9 Gordie Howe has always been something of an outlier. His frame was made for hockey: Short, powerful legs gave him a low center of gravity and made him almost impossible to knock off his skates. He was an uncommon athlete who blasted baseballs over the fence at Briggs Stadium; a scratch golfer who once shot 75 with a fractured...

Book Review - Lone Star Skate

March 8th, 2011 The Lone Star Skate: Improbable (But True) Stories of Texas's Hockey Heroes By Glenn Hart and Rusty Burson. (2011, Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books. Hardcover. Pp. 180. $39.95 US. ISBN 978-1-934454-38-1) “Black gold…Texas tea…” When the average person thinks of sports in the Lone Star State, the images...

Wings Fans Mourn Loss of "Mrs. Hockey"

March 7th, 2009 The Red Wings have confirmed that Colleen Howe, known to everyone as Mrs. Hockey, passed away yesterday in Bloomfield Hills, a suburb of Detroit. She was 76. She had been battling Pick's disease, which is a rare neurodegenerative disease, since 2002. The disease causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain and causes...