Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conspiracy. As millions held their collective breath, the New York Rangers finally broke the curse and ended 54 years of suffering. At long last, they claimed the Stanley Cup earlier this month. Simultaneously, their counterparts at the Madison Square Garden, the New York Knicks, defied expectations by taking the Houston Rockets to Game 7 of the NBA finals. It was the franchise's best showing since the 1973 championship. The New York Yankees presently sit atop the American League East, on pace to claim their first division title since 1981. Why are New York sports teams suddenly breaking their longenduring...
...World Cup sportscasters snicker when they suggest a tiring player did not have "enough days off," here's why: two researchers in Israel have studied 36 male Israeli football players and have established the optimum period of sexual abstinence for peak athletic performance. Complicating life for coaches, athletes and their partners, the interlude varies with a player's position on the field. Forwards, who expend extra energy and aggression, should refrain from sexual activity for six to eight days before a game. Defenders and goalies, who require less physical energy on the playing field, need only curtail bedroom sports three...
Euphoria engulfed the hometown fans as the New York Rangers captured the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 drought-ridden years. After losing Games ( 5 and 6 to the Vancouver Canucks, the Rangers came back to win the seventh game of the series 3-2. Faithful fans were ecstatic as team captain Mark Messier paraded the trophy around the arena, allowing them to touch the coveted cup...
...Stanley Cup Joy and Outrage
Euphoria engulfed the hometown hockey fans as the New York Rangers captured the Stanley Cup Championship for the first time in 54 drought-ridden years. After losing games five and six to the Vancouver Canucks, the Rangers came back to win the seventh game of the series 3-2. While surprisingly there was no violence, vandalism or arrests in raucous New York City after the final, the scene turned ugly in supposedly more civil Vancouver as an unruly crowd of 50,000 rioted for four hours. The mob looted shops, smashed windows and launched rocks, bricks and bottles at police...