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With a sold out show floor and higher registration numbers than last year, NCA estimates the 14th annual show was one of largest, best attended trade events in the association’s history. Trade customer attendance increased 12 percent over 2009.
The Chicago Blackhawks were guests on ”The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno Monday night and were even written into the script to not only showcase the Stanley Cup, but also the four Olympic medals players on the team had earned at the Vancouver Winter Games.
While the rest of the team stayed in the audience, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook and Jonathan Toews talked about their big win while wearing their Olympic medals.
“It’s a great feeling to bring the cup back to Chicago,” Kane told Leno.
Many fans are still overwhelmed and excited for the new Stanley Cup Champs. Duncan Keith even gave Leno a very special necklace with a tooth on it..
As the Blackhawks have been celebrating all around the city, Chicagoans have been able to chase the ‘Cup’ as it travels from bar to bar by tweeting updates to @WheresTheCup.
After two defeats in Philly at the Wachovia Center, Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville decided to split up his power line string, intermixing first, second, and third line players to mix it up against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Senator Lincoln has powerful friends after the 2008 DNC Convention
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Does the Democratic Party have its own version of the Tea Party in the Progressive movement? In a bizaaro-world version of Rand Paul’s victory in Kentucky or Bob Bennett’s Tea Party inspired loss, Progressives have been gathering momentum around Progressive candidate Bill Halter and against moderate incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Despite support from President Obama and former President Bill Clinton, Halter forced a runoff in the primary.
Appearing as the perfect Washington couple with a 40-year long marriage since being high school sweethearts, Al Gore and Tipper Gore have decided to call it quits.
“After a great deal of thought and discussion, we have decided to separate,” the Gores wrote in an e-mail to friends on June 1st. “This is very much a mutual and mutually supportive decision that we have made together.” Gore spokeswomen Kalee Kreider confirmed the statement came from the Gores, but declined to comment further.
Umpire Jim Joyce admitted in tears that he blew the first base call that would have given Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarrage the perfect game. The call was ruled an error call after review.
Authorities in Santiago, Chile detained Joran van der Sloot as the prime suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old Peruvian women, Stephany Tatiana Flores Ramirez. She was found dead Wednesday morning in a Lima hotel room registered under van der Sloot’s name, according to ABC news.
Authorities believe van der Sloot escaped Peru via bus into Chile just a few hours after police accused him of the murder. Van Der Sloot is primarily known for being the main suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, May 2005.