Posts by Spike Friedman
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About Last Night: You Got Spur’d
In case you were out meeting the Mets, meeting the Mets, stepping right up and greeting the Mets, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: The Golden State Warriors blew a 16-point lead, and San Antonio’s Manu Ginobili hit a game winning 3-pointer with 1.2 seconds left in the second overtime as the Spurs […]
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About Last Weekend: LeBron … Again
In case you were busy stirring up debate, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend. LeBron James was a near unanimous choice for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award, securing 120 of the 121 available votes. About Last Night is all about starting debate, not shying away from controversy, and being real with the […]
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About Last Night: Goin’ Back to Brooklyn
In case you were busy making a new nonalcoholic mixed drink that’s half soda water, half tonic water called the Van de Velde, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: Playing without Luol Deng, Derrick Rose, and Kirk Hinrich was too much for the Bulls, who fell 95-92 to the Brooklyn Nets. Bulls head […]
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Six Takeaways From the Champions League Semifinals
Let’s take a look at what we learned (aside from “fear the rise of Germany”) from four matches in which we certainly learned to fear the rise of Germany. Life After Gotze Borussia Dortmund midfielder (and soon to be Bayern Munich player) Mario Gotze was subbed off after less than 20 minutes of their second-leg […]
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About Last Night: Back to Boston
In case you were busy having an adorable cat on your chest and being unable to move, or breathe, or — hey, this cat’s trying to kill me! — here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: We’re headed back to Boston after the Celtics held on for a 92-86 win over the New York […]
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About Last Night: Nuggets Get Chippy
In case you were busy dusting off the old Maypole a few days early so you can really get your Maypole dancing where you want it in time for May Day, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: Denver kept its playoff hopes alive with a chippy 107-100 win over the Golden State Warriors. […]
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So Who Else on Borussia Dortmund Is Going to Get Bought?
Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund side has had an eventful week. On the eve of their Champions League semifinal first leg against Real Madrid, it was announced that midfielder Mario Gotze would transfer to Bundesliga rival Bayern Munich after this season. Dortmund took the news in stride, beating Madrid, 4-1; the scoreline somehow both flattered the […]
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About Last Night: Collins’s Courage
In case you were busy eating all of the pretzels just because they were there, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: Free-agent NBA center Jason Collins became the first active member of a major American professional sports league to come out as openly gay. This was a brave decision, but rather than go […]
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About Last Weekend: The Lake Show Gets Canceled
In case you were busy on eBay trying to unload your Tim Tebow Jets jersey, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: The San Antonio Spurs dispatched the Los Angeles Lakers, 103-82, to advance to the Western Conference semifinals. Lakers center Dwight Howard, who was ejected from the game after getting two technical fouls, […]
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About Last Night: It’s Getting Drafty
In case you were out changing the world with the first-ever mass-produced backyard eagle coop (patent pending), here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: On a day when men in the trenches were in demand, the Kansas City Chiefs selected OT Eric Fisher out of Central Michigan with the first overall pick in the […]
