January 29, 2010

Harvard Hockey's Hat Trick

The following article featuring Harvard's Biega Brothers (Alex, Danny and Michael) appeared January 29 on the ESPN Web site.

 

By Brian MacPherson
Special to ESPNBoston.com

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- All summer, every summer, Peter and Peggy Biega's four boys divided up and went at it, two against two, competing as fiercely as they could. The oldest (Alex) and the youngest (Marc) tended to team up against the two in the middle (Michael and Danny), just to make things fair. Soccer or football or basketball -- no matter what the sport, the Biega boys would play.

"Regardless, every sport we'd play ended up in a brawl or a fight," Alex said. "It got so competitive. My mom would be screaming up on the balcony, so pissed off at us because we were way too competitive, I guess. But it was fun."

Once snow started to fall and the lake within a slap shot of their Montreal home froze thick enough, out came the skates and sticks and pucks. Hockey, after all, is what the Biega boys do best.

Complete article can be accessed via the ESPN Web site by clicking here.