Newspaper Congratulates Bears on Winning the Stanley Cup

The Chicago Blackhawks’ victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Stanley Cup Final has prompted congratulations and headlines all over the world, but at least for one newspaper, things didn’t go according to plan.

In Wednesday’s print edition of the Korea Times, the newspaper made a glaring error in their headline in congratulating the Blackhawks…..

 
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Today's Korea Times (h/t @dcschrader) Posted by Jim Romenesko on Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Um, oops.

To be fair, the story was correct in saying that the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, not the Chicago Bears, and at least they had a team in the correct city. Unlike this newspaper that didn’t even get the species of Oakland A’s pitcher Pat Venditte right:

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