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Jungels alle Porte del sole, dopo due anni di buio

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Un'attesa lunga due anni, quella di - e per - Bob Jungels. Il miglior Bob Jungels. L'erede designato dell'ultimo grande lussemburghese Andy Schleck, forse non per caso l'ultimo suo connazionale a vincere una tappa al Tour, sul Galibier nel 2011. Per Bob, a Châtel Les Portes du Soleil è invece la prima in carriera alla Grande Boucle, dopo un paio di stagioni da incubo per una endofibrosi dell’arteria iliaca - la stessa patologia sofferta da Fabio Aru - che giusto un anno fa gli aveva fatto saltare il Tour. Già col settimo titolo nazionale a crono in giugno e col nono posto il giorno prima a Losanna, s'era visto che aveva la gamba giusta. E nella nona frazione se n'è andato alla sua maniera, come nella vittoriosa Liegi del 2018. Alle sue spalle, inutile il forcing di Thibaut Pinot di regalare ai francesi il primo successo in questo Tour. Jungels, trent'anni il prossimo 22 settembre, dopo sessanta km di fuga solitaria, ha colto la 25esima vittoria in carriera. ...

THE BIG Z AND HIS MISFIRING PISTONS

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https://vault.si.com/.amp/vault/1967/12/18/the-big-z-and-his-misfiring-pistons SINCE 1949 FRED ZOLLNER, OWNER OF THE DETROIT PISTONS , HAS JUGGLED PLAYERS, COACHES AND GENERAL MANAGERS IN SEARCH OF A WINNING TEAM. THIS YEAR HE MAY BE CLOSE TO THE RIGHT COMBINATION BY MYRON COPE Sports Illustrated - DEC 18, 1967 It is somehow fitting that the name of the Detroit Pistons' coach is Butcher . During 18 years in the NBA the Pistons have yet to win the league championship , and they have not won even a divisional title since 1956, when their home was Fort Wayne . Since moving to Detroit the following year, the team has never had a .500 season, and in the past four years it has finished last , last, next to last and last again in the Western Division. It is not as if the Pistons' management had not tried harder. Owned by millionaire Fred Zollner, who is known around town as the Big Z , the Pistons are generous to players, honorable in their dealings, classy in grabbing a tab, dying ...

The Birth of the Detroit Pistons

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https://www.vintagedetroit.com/the-birth-of-the-detroit-pistons/ by  BILL DOW  on  MARCH 5, 2011 Whenever the Davidson family finally gets around to selling the Detroit Pistons, which could be any day now based upon the negotiations with billionaire Tom Gores, the new owner would only be the third in the history of the franchise. Just how the Pistons were originally created is fascinating. The Detroit Pistons in action at Olympia Stadium in 1958, one year after they arrived in Detroit from Fort Wayne, Indiana. As a means to further employee relations and promote the Zollner Machine Works in Fort Wayne Indiana, a company that eventually supplied seventy percent of the world’s heavy duty aluminum alloy pistons for internal combustion engines, in the late ‘30s Fred Zollner sponsored a company basketball team in the local YMCA Industrial League. In February of 1941 the Zollner Pistons beat another local YMCA team the International Harvesters in overtime and earned the right t...