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Ted Kulfan / The Detroit News Detroit -- Fans hear it at the trade deadline all the time. Then again July 1 when free agency begins: A team can never have enough defensemen. The adage is especially accurate now. Defensemen are so vital because of the breakneck speed of the game, the transition game, and the ability to pass the puck and get an offensive rush going. "I just believe defensemen are very valuable these days," said Jim Nill, the Red Wings' vice president/assistant general manager, who'll run the Wings draft table tonight and Saturday in Montreal for the NHL entry draft. "You have to have them to be successful." The Wings would like to draft another young defenseman this weekend. But their position will make it difficult. The Wings pick 29th in the first round, and next to last in every round but the fourth (that... [read full story]
by Jon Weinbach Filed under: Clippers Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives by his own rules. And the only one that matters, apparently, is this: all bad deeds go unpunished. The Donald Sterling Rule: All Bad Deeds...
Some of the Greats Who Never Became President It takes ability, personality, support, and luck to become President. When the time came to elect the first President of the United States, it was a foregone conclusion that George...
Review of Look at the Birdie . It is in this context that we look at Look at the Birdie , a set of fourteen previously unpublished stories by the late Kurt Vonnegut. Over his long career Vonnegut explored the American landscape...
LiveScience.com - The average American eats 17.6 pounds of turkey per year, more than double the figure for 1970, according to the National Turkey Federation. To feed the growing appetite, some 273 million turkeys will be...
