Charlie Brown said it best: “There are three things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire and a Zamboni clearing the ice.” This is truer than ever for the new ...

After a Great Depression and a world war, Americans were ready to have some fun. Postwar innovators delivered, with new or improved products that made it easier, and cheaper, for people to play. The ...

Tom Klep is the building and grounds manager for UPMC Park and Erie Insurance Arena, where he operates the Zamboni. A Zamboni resurfaces an ice rink by shaving, cleaning, washing and applying hot ...

It's not a true Zamboni, the machine invented in 1949 by Frank Zamboni and manufactured in California. While everyone refers to the bright yellow machine at the local rink as "the Zamboni," a more ...

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- It's a job that a lot of us think would be pretty cool - driving a Zamboni. But the "State of Hockey" has a Zamboni driver shortage right now. For Ray Haar, IV, there's nothing ...

Harvard players now out to push the Zamboni off the ice. Can't even make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/vnS5dw93EF — Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) February 8 ...

Though skaters with the names of Lipinski, Lemieux, Yamaguchi and Gretzky are among the greatest to take to the ice, the most famous name on the slippery surface belongs to a slow, clunky, 53-year-old ...

There’s something Zen-like about watching a Zamboni, the hulking vehicle whose solemn dance is the feature of every intermission at an ice rink. There’s the drone of the machine, the driver’s look of ...

The Zamboni is a baby boomer -- 60 years old this year. Born in Frank Zamboni's Southern California shop (yes, that's right: Southern California), the quintessential ice-resurfacing machine is only ...

As a young kid growing up in Minnesota, the Zamboni man is always something of a legend at the neighborhood ice rinks. Then you graduate college and some of your buddies are still working (or go back ...

It's intermission. You're walking up the steps to get yourself a hot dog and a soda before the start of the second period. Nothing is really happening on the ice unless the little mites are playing ...