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American Wescott Defends Snowboardcross Gold

Will McCahill — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:28:00 CST

Seth Wescott pulled a huge comeback this afternoon in snowboardcross, overtaking Canadian Mike Robertson to score the second US gold medal of the Vancouver Olympics and defend the title he won In 2006. The 33-year-old Maine native had been injured and racing poorly, but turned it on down the stretch...

Top US Sports City: Pittsburgh

Will McCahill — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:31:22 CDT

With championship NFL and NHL teams and solid college squads, Pittsburgh is America’s top sports city, the Sporting News rules. “Sports fans in Western Pennsylvania have had a lot to be proud of these last 12 months. Pittsburgh truly is the City of Champions,” says Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, who briefly...

350K Fete Victorious Penguins

Harry Kimball — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:18:19 CDT

Pittsburgh celebrated its Stanley Cup-winning Penguins today with a parade that may have drawn upward of 350,000, the Post-Gazette reports. Revelers began arriving at the parade route in center-city at 4:30am, and by 10:15 there were already 185,000 happy fans. At a downtown Starbucks with lines...

Penguins Pinch Wings 2-1 for Stanley Cup

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:06:21 CDT

Slide over Super Mario and make room on the Stanley Cup for a new batch of Pittsburgh Penguins. Max Talbot scored two second-period goals, and the Penguins overcame the loss of captain Sidney Crosby and a whole lot of history to beat the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 tonight...

Lord Stanley's Top Game 7s

Will McCahill — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:49:59 CDT

With the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins to decide the Stanley Cup finals tonight, David Schoenfield takes a look at the best Game 7s in NHL championship history for ESPN. Some highlights: 1950: Red Wings 4, Rangers 3 (2 OT). Pete Babando’s goal 8½ minutes into the second overtime...

Hockey Holiness: Penguins Force Game 7

John Johnson — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:56:01 CDT

It may not have the audience or star power of the other big-sport championships, but the Red Wings and Penguins are plugging away in a great Stanley Cup finals. Pittsburgh eked out a 2-1 win tonight to tie the series at 3 and set up those two words so beloved...

Red Wings Give Hard-Luck Detroit Reason to Cheer

Drew Nelles — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:08:24 CDT

As Detroit reels from the automotive crisis, a much-needed emotional uplift is coming from a dependable source: the Red Wings, currently in the Stanley Cup finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins. We “are one of the good stories that are coming out of Detroit right now,” a Red Wings VP tells...

NBC Gives NHL Little Love

Kevin Spak — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:57:11 CDT

NBC is putting the NHL in the penalty box. Unwilling to sacrifice its weeknight programming, particularly Conan’s Tonight Show debut, the network has dictated that games 1 and 2 will be tonight and tomorrow, the first time games have been back-to-back since 1954. Then, it’ll kick games 3 and 4...

It's Magic vs. Bird—On Ice

Katherine Thompson — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:41:13 CDT

The Capitals-Penguins playoff series, with its two budding superstars, is what the beleaguered NHL has been waiting for, writes Reed Albergotti in the Wall Street Journal . In contrast to the disciplined play of Sidney "Wayne Gretzky" Crosby, Russian phenom Alex Ovechkin is both a firebrand and a goofball. But the...