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...loving it all. Unless, of course, you happen to be one of those oddball New Yorkers who roots for exactly zero of those teams. Unless, that is, you happen to be me. There's a conspiracy afoot against me. Just about every sports fan I know back in my hometown on Long Island has had at least one team to root for during this year of years for Empire State athletics. Except...
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...
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...
Thompson, 41, showed a penchant for investigative reporting from the start of his journalistic career. At the Pendulum, his hometown paper in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, he alternated coverage of bake sales with exposes of the local police department that led to an FBI probe and the firing of the town's police chief. After more local reporting, in Pontiac, Michigan, he shifted to the nation's capital 15 years ago, and quickly mastered the balancing act required of any Washington correspondent. As TIME's Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame puts it, "He manages to ask tough questions and write...
Kleinberg, for one, says her hometown ofWellesley, Mass., was not culturally diverse andinterracial dating was uncommon. And Gubbins, whocame from an all-boys school, says the opportunityto date outside his ethnic group didn't oftenarise...