The Pittsburgh Penguins could take all the glorytonight, at the Nashville Predators, in game 6 of the National Hockey League'sStanley Cup finals. Pittsburgh leads theseries, and could win it. Nashville,though, wants to measure up to their name, and tie the series, which thePenguins lead 3-2. This series has beenabout home field advantage, with the hosts winning each game. Pittsburgh didn't disappoint the home crowds onThursday, pulling out a win to get the go ahead game. Penguins' Sidney Crosby has playedaggressively in the series, and several altercations have broken out betweenhim and Predators P.K. Subban. "Stilla lot of work to be done," Crosby said. "We know we're going to facea desperate team. We've already played two games there and know the atmosphereand know how much they feed off their fans. We've still got a lot of work to dothere." Crosby has been so investedin the action, that while on the bench Thursday night, he actually threw awater bottle onto the ice to protest a call. The Penguins have a chance to win the fifth Stanley Cup in franchisehistory and capture the first back-to-back Cup wins in the salary-cap era(since 2005) when Game 6 travels to the madhouse in Nashville tonight. InFrance: Roland Garros stadium will see anexciting French Open final between two veterans, Rafael Nadal vs. StanWawrinka. Nadal, aiming to be the first man to ever win a grand slamsingles title 10 times, has a perfect 9-0 record in his previous nineappearances in the closing match of the tournament, he absolutely dominated onclay from his premier at the highest levels until 2014. Wawrinka has a perfectrecord in grand slam finals. He is a bit older than Nadal, but in his career hehas played three and won three. He beat an injured Nadal in the 2014 Australian Open, andhe convincingly beat No 1 Andy Murray on Friday. Wawrinka is strong both physically andmentally. He was the better player against Murray on Friday, and despite beinga break up conspired to drop the first set. Nadal is the favorite, though, forSundays meeting, but he faces in Wawrinka a very capable and strongopponent. In Bermuda, in America's Cup action,Sweden is in the middle of the "final" series of the round robin,facing New Zealand. The winner of thisfinal will meet the United States in the overall final when these nine days ofracing are over. InAustralia, in Football Action, today the featured match pits the GreaterWestern Sydney Giants against the Carlton Blues at the Etihad Stadium, home ofAussie Rules Football. In this season,it seems nothing is certain. The Giantssit atop the AFL ladder for the first time and have defeated the Blues in theirpast four encounters. They are burdenedunder injuries, though, and are not playing at full strength. Carlton,though is coming off a bye and so is rested and hopeful, despite losing the pastthree games. The Blues are a young team, and poorly placed, at 17th. Every week, though, they seem toimprove. Carlton has not beat the Giantssince 2013, but are primed to do so this afternoon. How could you not love their team song: We are the Navy Blues We are the Old Dark Navy Blues We're the team that never lets you down We're the only team old Carlton knows With all the champions They like to send us We'll keep our end up And they will know that they've been playing Against the famous Old Dark Blues -- Posted By Rex to SR at 6/11/2017 01:57:00 AM -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
