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Jack Skille's one-timer off a terrific pass from Josh Engel gave the University of Wisconsin a 1-0, triple-overtime win over Cornell in Sunday's NCAA Midwest Regional final.

When Skille's blast got past Cornell goaltender David McKee, the 8,086 red-clad UW fans nearly blew the roof off the Resch Center.

The victory earned the Badgers an April 6 date with Maine in the NCAA's Frozen Four at Milwaukee, and it rewarded the UW fans for enduring more than 111 minutes of nail-biting hockey.

The second-longest game in NCAA Tournament hockey history proved to be one of the greatest.

The Badgers embraced Skille, and then they mobbed goaltender Brian Elliott, as the game's icebreaker doubled as its clincher.

Just too tiredAfterward, UW coach Mike Eaves joked he was too tired to make an opening comment in the postgame news conference.

"That's a college hockey game that everybody will be talking about for a long, long time," Eaves said.

"When you play in a game like this, the will has to be greater than the skill and the will of both teams not to give in was just tremendous to watch." The Badgers' Elliott and The Big Red's McKee combined to save 99 shots before Skille's goal brought UW fans out of their seats and Cornell's season to an end.

Elliott is MVPElliott, who had 40 saves, was named tournament MVP after helping the Badgers notch a school-record third straight shutout.

While Cornell's defense was brilliant, the Badgers' defense...

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After decades of paternalistic administrations that dwarfed and confused Mexican’s ability to understand democracy, citizens were elevated during the 2000 elections to the position of deciding their own leadership.

Many saw Vicente Fox’s presidential victory as the democratic milestone for Mexico’s advance into its third century.

Now some consider it another of many squandered opportunities.

After the 2000 elections, Mexico’s political establishment that included the administration, Congress and political parties, set about to continue its “business as usual” style of government.

Although Fox made inroads by advancing some democratic principles, many bureaucrats, legislators and parties acted conventionally.

Perhaps the establishment’s main fault was refusing to identify changing demographic trends that started in the 1980s.

Then, Mexico became a nation of around 50 percent juvenile population.

Along with their vibrant potential, they had no background in the country’s discreditable political past and they were fertile for new ideas.

Unfortunately the political structure, acting inflexibly, was non-responsive to the young.

Refusing to change it simply offered opportunities to those who would accept the existing status quo, leaving many frustrated.

Management and employees too were caught unprepared for the skill changes most new North American Free Trade Agreement attracted companies required....

... icNorthWales - Wrexham 2, Chester City 1 icNorthWales Motors Homes Jobs Wales Dating Search The Web icNorthWales for Home page News Entertainment Jobs Wales Homes Motors Dating Wrexham FC Messageboard News League table Fixtures and results Sport Business Finder Golfers' Chronicle Play Bet and Win Online shop ExPats Money Business Communities Tourism & travel Weather Web Cams Our newspapers Classifieds Contact us Bingo News Wrexham 2, Chester City 1 Mar 27 2006By Mark Currie, Daily Post IT was a close-run thing, but Wrexham ended more than 20 years of waiting for a home league win against cross-border neighbours Chester City at the Racecourse yesterday in a fiercely-contested clash that could have coined the phrase "a game of two halves." The Dragons dominated the opening 45 minutes to carve out a comfortable 2-0 advantage, despite Matt Crowell's missed penalty, and looked to be well on course for a valuable three points in their pursuit of a League Two play-offs spot.

But the visitors, who entered the fray bottom of the pile and fighting for their Football League survival, produced a superb second-half fightback that deserved at least a point as the home side were made to look distinctly second-best and left them eventually delighted to hang on for all three points.

However visiting boss Mark Wright, previously on the losing side to Wrexham this season when in charge of...