Before Game 3, Charles Barkley bought dinner for Cooper and his staff at the restaurant Chicago Cut Steakhouse. Well, the coaches are hoping the steakhouse is their lucky meal, because they went back before taking on the Blackhawks in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. MORE: Blackhawks logo needs to go | NBC Sports defends stance on playoff beards Again, the party of 20 left the establishment without paying....
Storms in the Chicago area delayed the beginning of the Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup parade Thursday morning. MORE: Korea Times declares Bears Stanley Cup champs | Sean Gentille’s Stanley Cup road trip Not to worry, rain is expected to clear out and the parade will continue as planned. The Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup on Monday night with a 2-0 win over the Lightning in Game 6.
The Lightning, who play their final three games on the road, are just the third team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season. The other teams to win at least 60 regular-season games in a season are the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (60-8-12) and the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (62-13-7). “Winning 60, you’ve got to give a ton of credit to those players,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said....
He stood in the locker room, microphone cords tangling underneath his suit, and delivered a speech to his team. That speech was scripted. He delivered his “real” pregame speech to his guys after the cameras had stopped rolling. The casual fan would never have known he did it. Most of the media would never have known, either. But in a June radio interview, Thompson fessed up. “I had people come in for a pregame speech,” he said, just before openly debating whether he should proceed....
One of the wealthiest clubs in the world ever since Oryx Qatar Sports Investments (QSi) took over in 2011, PSG have stuttered in their attempts to become a true European force. Thus, the club went all out in this summer transfer window. As a result, the entire market changed in the final month of the window with clubs re-evaluating their players’ prices. The French club strengthened their side significantly before the transfer window closed....
Lenovo Tab3 review: Release date & price Lenovo’s Tab3 tablets are still a while away yet. They’re not set to become available until June, but when they do you’re looking at a price of 119 Euros (around £95) for the Tab3 7 and 149 Euros (around £115) for the Tab3 8. Also see: Best new phones, tablets, laptops & more at MWC 2016. Lenovo Tab3 review: Design & build As the names suggest, the Tab3 7 and Tab3 8 offer 7in and 8in screens respectively....
While he did look good in the first round, the fight was declared a no-contest after Edwards accidentally poked Muhammad in the eye. But since then, things have moved forward, and Belal Muhammad wants a rematch against ‘Rocky.’ However, Edwards called Muhammad a clown, and then they proceeded to engage in a back and forth on Twitter. The latest of these tweets came after Muhammad took a shot at Leon for getting punched by Jorge Masvidal in an altercation that they had before the Florida native’s fight against Darren Till....
MORE: Ranking the top 40 college football players for 2016 You can watch the video and decide for yourself what to think. Both guys appear a little too composed for it to be an all-out brawl, reminiscent of the early days of the late, great Kimbo Slice’s career in South Florida, but regardless of whether it was a silly game of slapboxing or something more sinister, it was certainly stupid....
His team already trailing 21-0 at halftime, Bills running back LeSean McCoy took a hit to his right knee on the second play of the third quarter against the Redskins. McCoy did jog off the field but was later ruled out for the remainder of the game at FedEx Field. MORE: NFL injury impact meter | Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch reportedly rehabbing with MMA coach The bad news for the Bills is they lost, 35-25....
When my wife, Hind, an Arab-born psychologist, came to Syria this year as a Fulbright Scholar to lecture at the University of Damascus and to do research on the world view of young Syrians, I accompanied her as a Roman Catholic, like her, eager to explore the cradle of Christianity. After wandering the safe streets of Syria at all hours of the day and night, we can testify that domestic peacefulness is a Syrian specialty....
All that sensitivity and grit may be bad news for Harvard. For 33 years, the “Let’s Go” travel guides written by Harvard students have been peerless arbiters of penny-wise, street-smart travel. Now “On the Loose” executive editor Andrew Barbour, 29, and his student staff are determined to unseat what Barbour calls Harvard’s “appalling glorified Yellow Pages.” Both guides have the basics of modern tourism down, from visas to VD clinics....
The positive side of a special prosecutor is that he is independent of the attorney general and other high-ranking justice department officials who were appointed by the incumbent president and can be fired or promoted by him. This is not to suggest that any of these people would be overtly influenced by a political consideration rather than by the rule of law. Such bias is, of course possible, either at a conscious or unconscious level, but even if it did not exist in reality, the widespread perception would be that it was there....
On Saturday, Fury controversially drew his Los Angeles fight with Deontay Wilder for the American’s WBC heavyweight title. Despite many feeling that Fury, who twice had to get off the canvas, had controlled the fight, only one judge scored in his favor in a contentious ruling. A rematch with Wilder is a very realistic possibility with the winner then perhaps facing Joshua, who holds the IBF, WBA and WBO titles formerly held by Fury, later in 2019....
Proponents of the lethal injection method had called it a more humane way of carrying out death sentences. But as noted in a report published in The New York Times just hours after Brooks died on December 7, 1982, his death did not appear to be painless. A total of 1,377 inmates have been put to death with a lethal injection in the past 40 years, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)....
House Democrats on Tuesday night released new evidence obtained by Parnas, who, along with fellow Giuliani associate Igor Fruman, was indicted last October for allegedly illegally transferring foreign funds to American politicians. The trove of documents included voicemails, text messages and photos that related to the alleged surveillance of former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch by Giuliani associates, which is believed to have occurred before her employment was terminated by Trump....
On Wednesday, it was announced that Jeopardy! executive producer Mike Richards will step in to host the daily syndicated show, while actress and neuroscientist Mayim Bialik will present the Jeopardy! prime-time and spin-off series, including the upcoming Jeopardy! National College Championship. The appointments came after months of several stars—including Ken Jennings, Anderson Cooper, Aaron Rodgers, Katie Couric, Bill Whitaker, George Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta—serving as guest hosts, as a permanent presenter to replace the late Alex Trebek was sought....
Stefan Kiessling of Bayer Leverkusen is in second place, scoring nine, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Borussia Dortmund, Vedad Ibisevic of Stuttgart, Hamburg’s Pierre-Michelle Lasogga and Bayern’s MarioMandzukic share the third spot with eight goals each, reports Xinhua. The leading scorers: 11 goals: Robert Lewandowski (Dortmund) 9: Stefan Kiessling (Leverkusen) 8: Aubameyang (Dortmund), Ibisevic (Stuttgart), Lasogga (Hamburg), Mandzukic (Bayern) 7: Firmino (Hoffenheim), Kruse (Moenchengladbach), Mueller (Mainz), Rafael (Moenchengladbach), Ramos (Hertha), Reus (Dortmund), Sam (Leverkusen)...
“Wrestling with the Devil: The True Story of a World Champion Professional Wrestler—His Reign, Ruin, and Redemption” by former superstar professional wrestler Lex Luger and co-written with John D. Hollis. Luger, wrestling mega-sensation and three-time world heavyweight champion, ruled the ring for years as “The Total Package.” Whether he was making a dramatic entrance from a helicopter, defeating champion Hulk Hogan, or sculpting a near-perfect physique, Lex was on top of his game....
No. 4-seeded Li won the first give games to set up a 6-2, 6-4 win over 19-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard in the first semifinal Thursday before No. 20-seeded Cibulkova trounced 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1, 6-2. Li, the 2011 French Open champion, was the only major winner in the semis after the fourth-round upsets of Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova and defending champion Victoria Azarenka's quarterfinal loss to Radwanska....
