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Pittsburgh – the champion of Champion Cities?
Pittsburgh held a parade on Monday to celebrate the Penguins' Stanley Cup triumph along the same route that the Super Bowl trophy was carried in triumph by the NFL's Steelers in January.
It was the second time the city had claimed two of North America's four top team sport prizes -- the Superbowl, World Series, NBA championship and Stanley Cup -- in the same calendar year after 1979, when the Steelers were NFL champions and the Pirates won Major League Baseball's World Series.
The Steel City was re-dubbed "Champion City" after that double achievement 30 years ago and a quick skim through the winners of the four prizes since 1970 indicates that it is a pretty rare achievement.
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Penguin chicks clinch Stanley Cup
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their third Stanley Cup on Friday night with a 2-1 defeat of the defending champion Detroit Red Wings in Game Seven of the finals series.
A good evening for co-owner and Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux, who many credit with saving the franchise or keeping it in Pittsburgh at least.
The most striking thing about the Penguins, however, is the relative youth of their standout players.
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NHL and Blackberry maker boss face off in court
The United States is just across the lake, of course, and on clear days you can almost see it - a sort of line, a sort of haze…Strange, and more dangerous – that much is clear - and maybe because of that superior. Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
In his book Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream, journalist Jeffrey Simpson chronicles the lives of Canadians who have left their homeland to display their talent on the world’s biggest stage.
Since the late 1980s the National Hockey League (NHL) has been dreaming about landing a lucrative network television deal south of the Canadian border.
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We interrupt this music to bring you some ice hockey
The official name for the tournament is the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship. But its real motive seems to be to cram 10,000 people into a covered a arena and then subject them to over two hours of Euro-rock crowd pleasers.
Imagine a soccer match being interrupted at every free kick, corner, throw-in and goal by a burst of music, usually of questionable taste, and you start to get the picture.
At the world ice-hockey championship, each of the three 20-minute periods will typically be halted between 20 and 30 times.
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