Pens took Cup from Red Wings
When you lead a best-of-7 Stanley Cup championship series 2-0 and 3-2, you should close it out, especially if you have home-ice advantage. Most NHL teams in that situation have done just that over the years. But not the Detroit Red Wings this season. They lost both games 6 and 7 to the Pittsburgh Penguins, ending their attempt to claim back-to-back Stanley Cup titles. It no doubt frustrated Wings fans. Maybe even disappointed them. But it shouldn’t be a crushing blow. That’s because the Wings didn’t lose the Cup, per se, through poor play, though the team left something to be desired in all three losses in Pittsburgh. Rather, the Penguins took the Cup away from the Wings. Sidney Crosby and Co. were just faster, quicker to the puck and seemingly hungrier than the veteran Wings. That’s a tough pill to swallow, since the Wings had all the makings of a Stanley Cup-winning team.
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? The Tigers miss injured starting pitcher Jeremy Bonderman, but they miss switch-hitting outfielder Carlos Guillen even more.
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I may have told this story before, but even so, it bears repeating.
When I was in high school, back when — as my sons like to say — dinosaurs roamed the earth, I played basketball.
Not very well, mind yo.
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ISHPEMING — Twenty years.
That’s how long Tom and Cyndie Simula have been coaching Westwood High School tennis together.
“It wouldn’t be easy for a lot of husbands and wives to coach together,” Tom sai.
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