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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in front of 250,000 people. Exactly 50 years later, tens of thousands gathered there again to commemorate it. Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter both gave speeches, followed soon by President Obama, who attended along with first lady Michelle Obama. Other speakers included Oprah Winfrey and John Lewis, a current congressman from Georgia who actually spoke at the 1963 event as well.
The speeches were generally hopeful, but noted that America still has work to do before it achieves all that King had so eloquently described. "We've come a great distance in this country in the 50 years, but we still have a great distance to go before we fulfill the dream of Martin Luther King Jr.," Lewis said.
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Penguins clinch playoffs as Malkin, Neal overshadow Radulov's return
Mar 22, 2012, 9:49 PM EST
Thursday night was supposed to be all about Alexander Radulov's return to the Nashville Predators, but it's pretty tough to steal the Pittsburgh Penguins' thunder – even when you score.
Radulov provided the Predators' lone goal as the Penguins dominated the game, winning 5-1 – and thus becoming the East's second team to clinch a playoff spot – thanks in large part to another outstanding performance from Evgeni Malkin and James Neal.
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Malkin scored his 44 and 45th goals of the season, giving him a stunning seven goals and four assists in his last five games. Malkin has nine games left to get the five tallies needed for 50, which would defy my (seemingly reasonable?) guess that Steven Stamkos would be this season's only 50-goal guy. Geno now has a whopping 95 points in just 66 games, making it hard to deny the crowd's logic in chanting "M-V-P!" tonight.
Neal wasn't exactly chopped liver, either, collecting four assists for the game's first star nod. Chris Kunitz (one goal, one assist) and Kris Letang (two helpers) also played a big part in the win, with the only "bummer" being that Sidney Crosby went without a point.
(It looked like Crosby "finally" scored his first goal of his second return, but Kunitz received credit for the goal as the puck deflected off of a Predators' skate instead.)
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Radulov did get his goal, but a -2 rating and just two shots on goal show that he didn't have a super-busy return. He appeared in just under 16 minutes (15:54 time on ice), but it'll probably be fairer to judge his work this weekend, when the Predators host the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday and start a three-game road trip by visiting the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday (which you can watch on NBC Sports Network).
Atlantic race update
As I mentioned before, the Penguins are now guaranteed a playoff spot. Here's what the Atlantic title battle looks like now:
Rangers: 99 points, 43 regulation/OT wins, nine games left
Penguins: 98 points, 37 regulation/OT wins, nine games left
Flyers: 94 points, 39 regulation/OT wins, eight games left
It's likely that the Flyers (who beat the Washington Capitals 2-1 in a shootout tonight, more on that soon) are out of the mix at this point, although they'll face the Penguins two more times this season.
Honestly, one cannot help but wonder if it might all come down to an April 5 home game against the Rangers. New York holds tiebreaker advantages so the Penguins almost certainly need to finish with one more point to win the division, but that contest could represent the difference if the two teams remain neck-and-neck down the stretch.
Just ask the Predators how easy it is to stick with the Penguins.
- govtminion2 - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:00 PM
So this is what a dynasty looks like. Soupcan Sid and his army are impossible to defeat right now. James "makesurmom" Neal is burying pucks with ease while Geno Pringles makes hockey look like a Harlem Globe Trotters Game. Gonna be tough for anyone to hang with The Franchise in a 7 game series
- govtminion2 - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:02 PM
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- philly4lyfe - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:04 PM
The flyers have 2 games left vs Pittsburg and 1 vs the rangers and bryz is 9-1-1 since the beginning of march with a 1.23 gaa and setting a franchise record for consecutive shutout streak. I wouldn't hand it to the pens or rangers just yet.
- m1k3g - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:52 PM
Talking about Bryzgalov's season by mentioning his last 10 games is like assessing OJ Simpson as a person and not including anything that happened after 1993.
- jaybaileys - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:16 PM
Your point is noted, however the Pens are 24-5-2 in their last 30 or so games, 9-1-1 is nice, but the Pens are 10-0-1 in their last 11. I just hope they aren't peaking too soon like in 92-93. I'm looking forward to the 3 left with Philly and NY.
- bobhpine - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:37 PM
when is the part where we remind ourselves that the flyers always fail in the playoffs?
- lemieux00066 - Mar 22, 2012 at 10:40 PM
The Flyers always take care of that part.
- crosberries - Mar 23, 2012 at 12:55 AM
- iluvwikileaks - Mar 23, 2012 at 6:17 AM
The last time the Flyers won the Cup, John Denver, Tony Orlando & Dawn, and The Captain & Tenille were still making #1 hit records.
- writeit22 - Mar 23, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Some worthy opponents ahead- the Whole Penguin Team and my favourites Crosby, Fluery, Staal, Dupuis, Kunnitz, Malkin and the whole team of Champions are in a super winning streak; Ok competitors might look good ….the rest of season will be just like the last winter Olympics- Got FLuery-peerless-got Staal, Got Sydney Crosby- the Whole Penguins pure Champions- Is the Stanley cup heavy?
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England centre Shontayne Hape faces the possibility of early retirement as he battles to recover from a recurring knee injury.
The London Irish back has only featured 12 times for the Exiles following his summer switch from Bath and is currently on the sidelines. He suffered a cruciate knee-ligament injury with the Bradford Bulls back in 2007 and has been struggling to recover ever since. And Exiles director of rugby Brian Smith has conceded that Hape faces a battle to save his career.
"Shontayne has got a potentially career-ending knee injury so he won't be playing for us for the rest of the season," Smith told the Reading Post. "He has got decisions to make now as to whether he tries to play again.
"He is seeking medical advice. He has had knee reconstructions and my understanding is that he is looking at heading over to the United States to try to rehab his knee, then he will make his call as to whether he will play again, but he has a very bad knee."
With various reports suggesting that Toby Booth will depart from the Exiles at the end of the season, along with coach Mike Catt, Smith has moved to deny that London Irish are struggling financially. London rivals Wasps are desperately searching for a new owner and Smith has denied that the Exiles are in a similar predicament.
"There is some speculation that London Irish are falling on hard times. That is not true," Smith said. "London Irish has a big rugby budget. There is £5.5 million spent on rugby.
"We just need to make sure we are spending at least £4.2m of that on players because that is what the salary cap is. We have had to look at tightening our belt in some areas in order to make sure that we put the quality on the pitch."
"So we are reviewing anyone who is not on a fixed-term contract as well as all the behind-the-scenes structure to make sure we provide a terrific support structure for a quality squad. There is no problem in how much money we have to spend. We just have to spend it in the right place.
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"At the moment we are still sorting through that process."
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Now that GateHouse Media has emerged successfully from Chapter 11, its executives face a new round of challenges. One of them might seem like a strange one for a company that just survived bankruptcy: finding acquisition targets.
Officials at GateHouse and its private equity backer Fortress Investment Group have made it clear that they would look to buy more media companies, post-bankruptcy. A figure of $1 billion in acquisitions over three years was mentioned in one investor presentation. I can't help but be skeptical of that number. But even if GateHouse spends one-tenth of that amount, that would still represent a big expansion, factoring in this media market's bargain-basement prices.
Invariably, GateHouse executives will look around in Massachusetts. GateHouse is based in the Rochester, N.Y., area. But it has a significant presence here. Even after 10 of its weekly papers close this month, the company will have 90 or so weeklies in the state and a half-dozen dailies — and that's not including the former Ottaway papers that it now manages. GateHouse president Kirk Davis is a longtime Massachusetts media executive — there are few people in this business more familiar with the state's community newspaper industry.
So who is going to end up in GateHouse's sights? I don't have any inside information. But if I were a betting man, here's where I'd place my money.
The Telegram & Gazette (Worcester): As part of John Henry's $70 million acquisition of The Boston Globe this fall, he also picked up the T&G in Worcester. But Henry has no interest in owning the smaller paper, and finally made the trek out to Wormtown last week to inform the staff there that he would put the paper up for sale. Globe publisher Chris Mayer reportedly confirmed that GateHouse has expressed an interest, but Henry said he would prefer to sell to a local buyer. (One reporter there told me, via Twitter, that Henry made it clear that an overture from GateHouse is a nonstarter.) That said, GateHouse offers something a local buyer can't: a built-in corporate infrastructure to take the place of the back-office functions that had slowly been stripped away from the T&G and folded into the Globe during its time as an affiliate of the Boston paper. Plus, GateHouse has a printing plant in Auburn, something that will become particularly important after the sale (as the Millbury printing plant built for the T&G will not be sold with the paper).
CNHI papers (North Shore): Unlike the T&G, there's been no public announcement or indication that these papers are up for sale. But there's no other group that could better solidify GateHouse's dominion over community news in Greater Boston. With management of the Cape Cod Times and The Standard-Times, GateHouse essentially controls nearly every paper south of Boston, from Quincy to Fall River to Hyannis. But it has no daily papers north of Boston, although it has numerous weeklies on the North Shore. I suspect that CNHI, backed by a pension fund in Alabama, could be interested in a sale for the right price. The CNHI papers include The Eagle-Tribune, The Daily News of Newburyport, The Gloucester Daily Times and the Salem News, as well as a number of weeklies. GateHouse CEO Mike Reed is already quite familiar with CNHI's operation: He ran the company before Fortress assembled GateHouse in 2006. (It's also worth noting that three of these papers were once sister papers to Cape Cod and New Bedford, as part of the Ottaway group.) The one downside for GateHouse: The company, a well-known cost-cutter, is on the hunt for places where there haven't been many job cuts in recent years, with the hope that some well-executed staffing reductions could be a quick route to increased profitability. But these CNHI papers have already been trimmed back a bit recently.
The Sun Chronicle (Attleboro): The last remaining daily paper south of Boston that's not part of the GateHouse empire in some way, the Sun Chronicle seems like an obvious target. When Harold Brown ran the paper's Wisconsin-based parent company, United Communications Corp., he didn't seem to have an interest in selling the Attleboro paper. I don't know if that's changed now that he's no longer in charge. Brown died in 2011, and his daughter Lucy Brown Minn is its president now. (Harold Brown's widow Elizabeth is chairwoman of the board.) The Sun Chronicle also offers GateHouse a printing press in Southeastern Massachusetts, an important asset given the fact GateHouse has outsourced most of its printing for the daily papers in that area.
You might consider the former Ottaway group, known now as the Local Media Group, to be GateHouse's first post-bankruptcy acquisition. Technically, those papers still operate independently of GateHouse, even though GateHouse manages them now. Fortress, GateHouse's principal shareholder acquired the Local Media Group portfolio, which includes the Cape Cod Times and The Standard-Times of New Bedford, a couple months ago for $83 million through an investment vehicle Fortress runs known as Newcastle Investment Corp. Newcastle borrowed $33 million to get the deal done. (I worked for GateHouse's Quincy paper, The Patriot Ledger, from 2004 through mid-2012, and at the Ottaway group from 1995 until mid-2002.)
Following the bankruptcy, Newcastle is now the majority owner of GateHouse and the owner of Local Media Group under a new subsidiary called New Media Investment Group. (GateHouse is running the Local Media papers in return for contract worth at least $1 million a year in revenue.) Newcastle plans to spin off New Media in early 2014. Newcastle is a real estate investment trust, which means the IRS won't look favorably on it if the firm continues to be a newspaper operator as well.
Newcastle only has about $100 million in cash on hand, but it also can borrow more easily than GateHouse could on its own. Fortress chief Wes Edens believes this is a good time to buy newspapers on the cheap, and he may be right.
It would make sense for GateHouse to look at potential acquisitions before being released from the Newcastle nest, as coming up with the financing to do a deal could be easier with assistance from Newcastle and/or Fortress.
GateHouse executives have other challenges too, including reaching agreements on new union contracts for many of its employees (a number of contracts expire in 2014) and continuing to stabilize the ad revenue situation to prevent future declines. (Ad sales were down 6.7 percent in the first nine months of the year, but only 1.4 percent in the most recent quarter.)
Reed was optimistic in a brief memo to employees on Nov. 26 announcing that GateHouse had just made it out of bankruptcy, and out from under the $1.2 billion mountain of debt that it once carried. (GateHouse filed for Chapter 11 in September.) "This will put our company in a great position to pursue a wide array of strategic growth options," Reed wrote. "I hope you are all as excited as I am for our next chapter."
It's hard to know exactly what the next chapter for GateHouse will look like. But if Reed has his way, buying more papers will probably be an important part of it.
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