How many times has the National Hockey League allowed its players to take part in the Winter Olympics?

National Hockey League players will again be completing for their countries when the man’s hockey competition hits the ice on February 16th. They became eligible for the Winter Games in 1992, once the NHL has allowed its athletes to go to the Olympic Games only three previous times, in 1998, 2002 and 2006.

South Africa is sending a team of search and rescue specialists to Haiti in response to the devastating earthquake on Tuesday. It is the first of several teams being sent by a local civic group. The head of South Africa’s Gift of the Givers Foundation, Emtiaz Sooliman, says his group is sending up to three teams of search and rescue specialists to Haiti to help victims of the earthquake and hopefully save some lives.