Growing minority: Sandra Mckee in the Baltimore...

Growing minority: Sandra Mckee in the Baltimore Sun: “Remember the phrase, ‘You’ve come a long way, baby’? These days it can be applied to American-born players in the NHL.

“When the league first began keeping statistics on such things in 1967-68, only 2% of the players in the game were born in the USA. This season, the percentage has grown to 17.9, which translates to 117 of 652 players.”

Quotebook: President Clinton before his first round in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic: “We’re not going too far to the right or too far left; we’re going to play political golf today.”