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If Blackhawks can win, why can't other downtrodden teams?

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Monday, December 29, 2008

CHICAGO -- If you're the 0-for-'08 Detroit Lions, there's hope. The galactically dysfunctional New York Knicks and Dallas Cowboys? There's hope. The penny-pinched Pittsburgh Pirates, once-proud U-Dub Huskies, orphaned Oklahoma City Thunder … there's hope. Even a Donald Sterling-owned team or a roster managed by absentee exec Michael Jordan can walk a little taller today. That's because the perennially worst franchise in sports has performed reconstructive cosmetic surgery on itself -- a ...

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