| TSN.ca looks at Canada's best Cup shots
With the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Ottawa Senators coming up short in the Stanley Cup final for the last three seasons, Canadian hockey fans know all too well about the country's championship drought. It's been 14 long years since the Montreal Canadiens hoisted the Cup, and no Canadian team has done it since. So with the 56th NHL All-Star game in the books and the race for the postseason intensifying, TSN.ca looks at Canada's most realistic shots at a Stanley Cup championship. Quickly now - name the team with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference at the break. .
Ashlee Simpson's nose job
Ashlee Simpson's father has confirmed she has had a nose job. Joe Simpson, who manages her singing career, says the 22-year-old star underwent rhinoplasty last year purely for health reasons. Joe - who also manages eldest daughter Jessica - told Us Weekly magazine: "Girls have their own ideas. Anyway, there was a real problem with her breathing and that was cured." .
October 12: Gossip! Weekly Rag Mag Wrap-Up!
It's one step forward and two steps back for Brit Brit who rekindled her relationship with mom Lynn over the weekend, applied for an emergency custody hearing, then almost missed her court appearance, but showed up just in the nick of time. Now, the judge awarded her a weekly overnight visit with her sons Jayden and Sean, as long as a court-appointed monitor is there. Do you think she'll give up her table reservation at Les Deux on those nights? And little sis Jamie Lynn is back in the picture, and coming to Brit's defense. When a woman approached the duo and shouted she didn't want Spears in the neighborhood, the younger Spears shouted, "Then move the f**k out, b***!" My my, it seems like the Zoey 101 star had a little "you can take the girl outta Louisiana
" moment of her own.
Leon Neyfakh
The Associated Press's Hillel Italie got in touch with romance literature's queen bee Nora Roberts yesterday and asked her what she thinks of the plagiarism accusations that have been hurled in recent days at Cassie Edwards, “the world's most prolific and popular author of Native American historical romance." Ms. Edwards, who, like Ms. Roberts, is published by an imprint of Penguin Group USA, admitted this week to “taking" passages from reference books and magazines after a website about romance lit posted side-by-side comparisons of passages from her book Shadow Bear and an article about black-footed ferrets from Defenders of Wildlife. Ms. Edwards has said she didn't realize she was supposed to cite sources, explaining that “When you write historical romances, you're not asked to do that." read more » .
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Straddling two states, Delmar seeks a balance
Nose-to-nose on State Street, which bisects Delmar, Mayor John F. McDonnell (left) on the Delaware side and Mayor P. Douglas Niblett on the Maryland side help the conjoined towns coordinate services and expenditures. News Journal photographs by Gary Emeigh .
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