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1 DETROIT RED WINGS (1): Star defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, a perennial Norris Trophy candidate and one of the finest rearguards in NHL history, signed a contract extension this week that ensures that he'll remain in Motown through the 2009�10 season.

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26�7�3 55 124 79 19.55% 85.63%

2 OTTAWA SENATORS (2): After enduring a bit of a cold stretch in which he lost four straight games, netminder Martin Gerber has heated up again, wining five of his last six starts and reemerging as the Sens' best option between the pipes.

It's also an important moment in our history when voters can make the choices that could determine the future of our nation, including policy on the war in Iraq, energy, health care and taxation.

Those who don't think their votes count are mistaken. Take a look at the 2000 election between George Bush and Al Gore. If Gore had carried his home state of Tennessee, he would have won the presidential election that year, negating the argument over hanging chads and miscounts in Florida that had to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Closer to home, races for state House and Senate are under way, and Murfreesboro will hold elections April 15 for three City Council seats and Murfreesboro City School Board seats.

County general and state primary elections will be held Aug. 7 for state House seats and the 16th Senate District.

There are two players on the roster of the NBA Development League's Utah Flash who hail from the other side of the Atlantic. One is a powerful, defensive-minded center, while the other is a sharpshooting guard.One is from a nation with a well-established basketball history, while the other is from a country only recently gaining notice in the basketball world.Kyrylo Fesenko, of Ukraine, and Aleksandar Ugrinoski, of Croatia, probably couldn't be more different. But they share a common goal of finding success in the NBA, and fate has put them on the same team half a world away in Orem, Utah.Fesenko, the 7-1, 288-pound center who was picked by the Utah Jazz in the second round of the 2007 NBA Draft, already has a leg up as far as his NBA dream goes. He has a two-year deal with the Jazz worth a little more than $1.5 million, and there is a team option on the third year for $870,000.European centers are usually stereotyped as soft, perimeter-oriented players who shy away from contact inside.

They made history when Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul, Fred Thompson and Romney became the first presidential candidates to campaign in Wyoming before winning the party nomination.Still, none of the candidates were devoted in the way they are to Iowa and New Hampshire. Some top candidates, including John McCain and Mike Huckabee, didn't bother to visit at all.The lack of attention translated into only occasional mentions about the Wyoming conventions in the national media, and those sometimes came with a wink.Jim King, political scientist at the University of Wyoming, said the traditional early voting states have again proved too powerful for Wyoming. Timing was one problem, he said.With New Hampshire voting so soon after Iowa, the candidates didn't have a moment to spare in Wyoming.Even if Wyoming Democrats had joined the party in moving up their county conventions, it's unlikely that candidates, or the press, would have paid attention, King said."If they've got a choice between winning here and dong well in New Hampshire, they will take New Hampshire," King said.But Tom Sansonetti, 2008 state Republican county coordinator who helped develop the Wyoming strategy, said the early conventions have already been a success.The goal all along, Sansonetti said, was to convince candidates to pay attention to rank-and-file Wyoming Republicans, and that happened."Anything above and beyond that is icing on the cake," said Sansonetti, adding that he spent much of Friday giving interviews to reporters from C-SPAN, CNN, ABC radio the New York Times and other major news outlets.In addition, Sansonetti said, a candidate who does well in Wyoming today will have an opportunity to trumpet the results to the national news media tonight.

Brian Williams is the seventh anchor and managing editor in the history of "NBC Nightly News," which represents the largest single daily source of news in America. Recently, Williams became the most honored network evening news anchor. He received four Edward R. Murrow Awards, his fifth Emmy Award, the duPont-Columbia University Award and the industry's highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award. Most were given for his work in New Orleans while covering Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and all were awarded to Williams in only his second year on the job.

But that's bad news for a Republican Party whose leaders are looking at the GOP's future and deciding to walk away.

The sudden, simultaneous departure of both former Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott has been treated as a coincidence, not a trend. But congressional resignations tend to be an even more accurate forecast than Intrade. If you're checking the parties' vital signs, consider this: The GOP lost the two longest-serving congressional leaders in Republican history—in the same week.

Hastert served as speaker for eight years. The Republican whose record he broke, Joseph Cannon, has a House office building named after him (as does Nicholas Longworth, a Republican speaker for six years). While Hastert signaled his departure in the last Congress—in part to keep the caucus from sacking him as speaker—he left more quickly than expected.

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