Smyth helps Avalanche beat Flames in OT

Craig Custance ESPN Senior Writer Close Senior NHL writer for ESPN The Magazine Wrote for Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wrote for The Sporting News Follow on Twitter PITTSBURGH — Those who have experienced it say it goes in phases. After you win a Stanley Cup, it’s a summer of celebration. Then comes a regular season in which an inevitable rough patch emerges when exhaustion kicks in. “You crash sometime in November, December or January,” said former Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma, who led the Penguins to a Stanley Cup in 2009. “You don’t have any energy. You’re walking zombies.” But the best champs persevere and then the playoffs arrive — another phase and a new life. “I remember thinking

For more than a century, one of Mississippi’s largest and most elaborate Confederate monuments has looked out over the lawn at the courthouse in the center of Greenwood, a Black-majority city with a history of civil rights protests and clashes. Protesters have demonstrated at the base of the towering pillar with six Confederate figures — some residents demanding removal amid a racial reckoning across the country, others advocating for the statue’s protection as a piece of history. Now, after years of debate, a new statue will be erected in Greenwood — one of Emmett Till, the Black 14-year-old who was brutally beaten and shot in 1955 by white men just 10 miles from the city.