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These being the Kings, who are still traveling a cursed course set by an excessively curved stick, a felonious owner and decades of bad drafting, there could be no silver lining to their 1-0 loss to San Jose on Sunday without a curtain of clouds.
The Kings are selling hope this season.
Todd McLellan discovered a lot about his team during his triumphant NHL coaching debut, a dominant performance by the San Jose Sharks in a 4-1 victory over the Ducks on Thursday.
Still feeling the sting of their first-round playoff elimination last spring, the Ducks had vowed they would resemble the fast, forceful team that won the Stanley Cup in 2007.
Jason Bay is not competing mano a manomano a mano -- or in this instance mano a Manny -- with the man who preceded him as the Boston Red Sox's left fielder.
Wanda Mercury-Simmonds raised her four sons to be strong but respectful and to channel their boundless energy into sports, as she had done as a tomboy alongside four brothers.
Like the Kings, future franchise goaltender Jonathan Bernier is a work in progress -- promising but unproved, not quite ready to play with the big boys but maybe not that far away if he can absorb a few bumps without bruising his confidence.
Teemu Selanne will outlast General Manager Brian Burke in Anaheim, or so it seems now that the dynamic right wing has signed a two-year contract that will carry him to the end of his glorious career.
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Two years ago USC could blame a failed two-point conversion pass attempt for its confounding and confusing loss here to Oregon State.
Bobby Ryan was angry.