Word: cupping
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...seems to be somewhere in the dozens: a collage of friends, colleagues and a handful of celebrities. The mix creates a media experience quite unlike anything that has come before it, strangely intimate and at the same time celebrity-obsessed. You glance at your Twitter feed over that first cup of coffee, and in a few seconds you find out that your nephew got into med school and Shaquille O'Neal just finished a cardio workout in Phoenix. (See excerpts from the world's most popular Twitterers...
...great Mark Messier, winner of six championships during his Hall of Fame career, was fond of taking the Cup to strip joints. After his New York Rangers won the title in 1994, he brought the Cup to a Manhattan venue called Scores. "It was the first time I'd seen our customers eager to touch something besides our dancers," the club's spokesperson said. The Animal House antics of those '94 Rangers - Eddie Olczyk let Kentucky Derby winner Go for Gin eat out of the Cup at Belmont Park, and a couple of other Rangers took...
...Another Cup tradition - engraving the names of players, coaches, and executives from each winning team on the trophy, which is now almost three feet tall, and weighs nearly 35 pounds - offers more opportunities for misadventure. With so many names, misspellings are inevitable. Still, it's pretty difficult to explain how the Toronto Maple Leaes, not Maple Leafs, won the 1963 championship, or how the New York Ilanders, not Islanders, took home the 1981 trophy. And what's with the 16 "Xs" under the 1983-1984 Edmonton Oilers? No, they don't refer to the nocturnal fetishes of Messier, who starred...
Blemishes and all, the Stanley Cup is a beauty. What other trophy may show up at your local tavern for a shot or two? But if you happen to see the Cup this summer, please keep it clean. And do yourself a favor: no matter how psyched you are to see the trophy, keep your lips off Stanley...
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