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WINNIP stanley cup america EG ?Zach Collaros admits hes got to brush up on his Winnipeg Blue Bombers history, even though hes aware the team is on the cusp of tying a club record.If the Blue Bombers 9-0 stanley cups defeat the visiting Montreal Alouettes 2-6 on Thursday, theyll match the 1960 Winnipeg squad that opened the season with 10 straight victories.The veteran quarterback was asked after Wednesdays walk-through how much he knows about the 1960 roster. Can you educate me a little bit on it, Collaros said with a smile.Although he didnt know legend Ken Ploen quarterbacked that talent-laden squad, hes certainly heard of him. I need more books on historical, team stuff, Collaros said with a grin.For the record, the team was coached by icon Bud Grant and included stars such as running back Leo Lewis and guard/defensive end Herb Gray. It lost Game 11 to Edmonton, finished the regular season 14-2 and was defeated by Edmonton 2-1 in the Western Conferences best-of-three final.The ending nixed an opportunity for a run of five championships. The Bombers captured the Grey Cup in 1958, 59, 61 and 62. A lot of time history repeat Stanley cup website s itself, but hopefully thats not the case here, Winnipeg-born receiver Nic Demski said with a smile, referring to the 1960 team opening strong but not winning the title.The current Bombers are the two-time defending Grey Cup champions. Although they stress only keying on going 1-0 each week, Collaros acknowledged matching the 1960 teams 10-0 start would be noteworthy ?one day. If Qvby Blue Bombers beat Redblacks 29-9 for fifth straight home win
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ?The federal government on Tuesday carried out its first execution in almost two decades, killing by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering an Arkansas family in a 1990s plot to build a whites-only nation in the Pacific Northwest.The execution of Daniel Lewis Lee came over the objection of the victims relatives and following days of legal wrangling and stanley cup delays.Lee, 47, of Yukon, Oklahoma, professed his innocence just before he was executed at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. I didnt do it, Lee said. Ive made a lot of mistakes in my life, but Im not a murderer. His final words were: Youre killing an innocent man. The decision to move forward with the first execution by the Bureau of Prisons since 2003 -- and two others scheduled later in the week ?drew scrutiny from civil rights groups and the relatives of Lees victims, who had sued to try to halt it, citing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic has killed more than 135,000 people in the United States and is ravaging prisons nationwide.Critics argued the government was creat stanley kubek termiczny ing an unnecessary and manufactured urgency for political gain.One of Lee s lawyers, Rut stanley website h Friedman, said it was shameful that the government saw fit to carry out this execution during a pandemic. And it is beyond shameful that the government, in the end, carried out this execution in haste, Friedman said in a statement.The developments are likely to add a new front to the national conversation about
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