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Goalie sprawl — Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard (35) covers the puck against the Phoenix Coyotes in the second period of an NHL hockey game in Detroit, Monday, April 22, 2013. Detroit won 4-0. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Mr. T scored a goal at the Blackhawks game on Tuesday night during a promotion at intermission. In the leadup, he was asked for his prediction about the shot from centre ice.
He responded the only way Mr. T knows how: “PAIN. I pity that puck.”
She inspired a novel and a movie starring Robert Redford when in 1949 she lured a major league ballplayer she’d never met into a hotel room with a cryptic note and shot him, nearly killing him.
After the headlines faded, Ruth Ann Steinhagen did something else just as surprising: She disappeared into obscurity, living a quiet life unnoticed in Chicago until now, more than a half century later, when news broke that she had died three months earlier.
The story, with its elements of obsession, mystery, insanity and a baseball star, made it part of both Chicago’s colourful crime history and rich baseball lore. (Photo: AP/Files)
(Source: sports.nationalpost.com)
Dennis Rodman is in North Korea. Dennis. Rodman. Is. In. North. Korea.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills Tuesday and flamboyant style — tattoos, nose studs and all — to a country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea.
Landing in Pyongyang with VICE television, the American athlete and showman known as “The Worm” became an unlikely ambassador for sports diplomacy at a time of heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.
Rodman and VICE said the Americans hope to engage in a little “basketball diplomacy” by running a basketball camp for children and playing with North Korea’s top basketball stars — and, they hope, drawing leader Kim Jong Un to a game. Kim is said to be a huge basketball fan.
“Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,” said Shane Smith, the VICE founder who is host of the upcoming series, referring to North Korea by the initials of its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. “But finding common ground on the basketball court is a beautiful thing. (Photo: Kim Kwang Hyon/The Associated Press)
Let’s take this outside: The Notre Dame Fighting Irish take on the Miami Redhawks during the Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field on February 17, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
The Green Bay Packers had the best comeback for all that trash-talk from the Chicago Bears.
Another NFC North title.
The Packers clinched their second straight division crown with a 21-13 victory over their archrivals Sunday — at Soldier Field, no less.
Aaron Rodgers connected with James Jones on all three touchdowns, Clay Matthews hounded Jay Cutler with two sacks and the Packers limited the Bears to just 190 yards, their third-lowest total of the season. Rodgers finished 23 of 36 for 291 yards as Green Bay won its sixth straight against Chicago. (Photo: David Banks/Getty Images)
They were looking for the Cubs:
Wild baseball fans might be a standard sight at Wrigley Field, but a pair of wild coyotes milling around Chicago’s historic ballpark — surrounded on all sides by bars, restaurants and busy streets — wasn’t what one photographer was expecting on a busy Friday night.
So he quickly grabbed his camera.
“They were just kind of chilling,” freelance photographer Will Byington said. “They were hanging out and not even doing much. They were kind of just checking out the scene on a Friday night in Wrigleyville. It was like they were on a date, taking a stroll.”
(Photo courtesy of Will Byington Photography/The Associated Press)
A non-World Series photo: Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith (89) makes a catch as Chicago Bears cornerback Tim Jennings (26) defends during the first half of their NFL football game at Soldier Field in Chicago. (Photo: REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)
This is what 20-year old McJordan sauce looks like.
A man who used to own McDonald’s restaurants in North Dakota is about $10,000 richer after selling a 20-year-old container of McJordan barbeque sauce to a buyer in Chicago.
The sauce was used on McJordan Burgers, named for basketball icon Michael Jordan. The promotional item was sold in limited markets for a short time in the 1990s, when Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships.
Mort Bank, of Bismarck, saved the gallon jug of sauce after selling his McDonald’s restaurants in Bismarck-Mandan and Minot in 1996.
“It was in my basement and I would look at it occasionally,” he told The Bismarck Tribune. “I thought it would be worth something someday.”
Chicago Bulls point guard Nate Robinson (right) sneaks behind Chicago Bulls centre Joakim Noah (13) during a a photo session during media day for their upcoming NBA basketball season (Photo: REUTERS/Jeff Haynes)
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