What we learned from the Spurs win over the Magic

In 2006, at the edge of the northernmost settlement in Quebec, Canada, the diminutive Lydia Angyiou went toe-to-toe with a polar bear.

This was, of course, not her idea per se. The small town of Ivujivik is a sub-arctic community, existing just 185 miles outside of the Arctic Circle, and roughly 1000 miles from the North Pole. The population experiences a grand total of 20 days a year without ice.

Certainly, there’s a higher probability of encountering a polar bear there than in most places on Earth. Still, such encounters in a populated area are exceedingly rare, which is why Lydia Angyiou’s blood ran cold the moment she spotted it.

On a walk with her sons, she heard shouting from a group of children playing street hockey that no longer resembled the eager keening of play, and turned t