Neil Koepke of the Lansing State Journal has a terrific look back at the life of Amo Bessone, the “Godfather of Spartan Hockey” who left his mark at Michigan State and in the college game. Bessone passed away Saturday at 92.

Who can forget the memorable ending to the 2009 national championship game and the roles that BU’s Chris Higgins and Miami’s Kevin Roeder played in it? A little more than five months later, Higgins and Roeder find themselves on the same roster in the training camp of the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch.

As the shuffling in the St. Cloud State crease played out this summer, Dan Dunn wasn’t sure where he’d end up. But as Kevin Allenspach writes, the junior will enter the 2009-10 season with an opportunity to compete with highly regarded rookie Mike Lee.

It’s been a crazy summer for Montreal native Louis Leblanc, who was picked by his hometown team at the Bell Centre at the NHL Draft. The spotlight has shined so bright, there’s a story about his starting college at Harvard today (one which he may want to hide from his freshman professors, given his comment about focusing on hockey).

While there wasn’t any surprise news broken at yesterday’s Fenway Park press conference, there was a chance to get reaction from some of the participants. Among the quote of the day candidates: Northeastern women’s coach Dave Flint in the Boston Globe, BU’s Nick Bonino in the Boston Herald and Jerry York in the Concord Monitor.

Think the UAH situation is much ado about a small town that doesn’t really support its team? The front page of today’s Huntsville Times will tell you differently (.pdf). We can’t find the html version of the front page story (though we did dig up a reprinted-without-permission version of columns from USCHO and INCH; thanks a bunch, al.com).

Kevin Allenspach has a good tale of former St. Cloud State forward Billy Hengen, who has joined the likes of us Internet entrepreneurs with the launch of splayback.com, a sports video highlight site.

Michigan State player A.J. Sturges, injured in an off-ice incident last year, issued a statement Thursday critical of the Spartan football program and athletic department for its reinstatement of running back Glenn Winston, who was recently released from jail. Our colleagues at ESPN.com have the details, as do the Lansing State Journal and Detroit Free Press.

It may take one at this point, Huntsville Times columnist Mark McCarter writes, as the Charger program recovers from the bad news delivered by the CCHA on Tuesday. In Fairbanks, Forrest Karr offers some insight into the thinking behind the CCHA’s decision.

Alabama-Huntsville could learn of its future in (or out) of the CCHA this week; in the meantime, all the Chargers can do is wait for an answer.