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March 13th, 2006, 9:45:02 PM
John Tavares is the greatest athlete you've never heard of
By WAYNE COFFEY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — It's a few minutes after 10 in the morning and the greatest athlete you've never heard of has a piece of chalk in his right hand and 22 high school math students seated in front of him. He has just finished filling a blackboard for the third time in an hour, going over the fine points of angle bisectors and negative reciprocals, and announcing — to a loud collective groan — that there would be a test at the end of the week.
John Tavares is wearing a buttoned-down shirt and gray slacks, a tidy teacher's outfit that gives little hint of the athletic marvel within. At 37, he is in his eighth year teaching math at Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School here, just outside of Toronto, and in his 15th year wearing No. 11 for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
Eight days ago in a home game at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, Tavares became the leading scorer in the history of his sport, recording two assists for his 1,092nd and 1,093rd career points moving him past Gary Gait, the Babe Ruth of lacrosse. Tavares commemorated the feat not with a night of debauchery, but with a 110-MPH ride to the hospital with his wife, Katrina, who, pregnant with their first child, broke her water a few hours after the game.
It was entirely in character that, going through immigration at the Canadian border, Tavares asked the agent for permission to speed. Katrina delivered a 7 lb., 14 oz. boy, Justin Manuel, later that night.
more (http://www.nydailynews.com/03-12-2006/sports/story/398825p-337970c.html)
A nice article about Johnny. The thing that is best about it is from the New York Daily News, a major newspaper.
Also a quick note about the new New York team splitting games between Long Island and the Garden.
By WAYNE COFFEY
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — It's a few minutes after 10 in the morning and the greatest athlete you've never heard of has a piece of chalk in his right hand and 22 high school math students seated in front of him. He has just finished filling a blackboard for the third time in an hour, going over the fine points of angle bisectors and negative reciprocals, and announcing — to a loud collective groan — that there would be a test at the end of the week.
John Tavares is wearing a buttoned-down shirt and gray slacks, a tidy teacher's outfit that gives little hint of the athletic marvel within. At 37, he is in his eighth year teaching math at Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School here, just outside of Toronto, and in his 15th year wearing No. 11 for the Buffalo Bandits of the National Lacrosse League (NLL).
Eight days ago in a home game at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, Tavares became the leading scorer in the history of his sport, recording two assists for his 1,092nd and 1,093rd career points moving him past Gary Gait, the Babe Ruth of lacrosse. Tavares commemorated the feat not with a night of debauchery, but with a 110-MPH ride to the hospital with his wife, Katrina, who, pregnant with their first child, broke her water a few hours after the game.
It was entirely in character that, going through immigration at the Canadian border, Tavares asked the agent for permission to speed. Katrina delivered a 7 lb., 14 oz. boy, Justin Manuel, later that night.
more (http://www.nydailynews.com/03-12-2006/sports/story/398825p-337970c.html)
A nice article about Johnny. The thing that is best about it is from the New York Daily News, a major newspaper.
Also a quick note about the new New York team splitting games between Long Island and the Garden.