Posts by Spike Friedman
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About Last Night: Rockets Get Thunder Struck
In case you were busy being the guy who started icing bros again, much to the chagrin of everyone who knows you, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday. James Harden and the Houston Rockets gave the Thunder their best shot, overcoming a 15-point, fourth-quarter deficit, but Oklahoma City held on late to win, […]
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About Last Night: Warriors Feeling a Mile High
In case you were busy mixing up Davy Crockett with Daniel Boone, much to your own embarrassment and chagrin, here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: The Golden State Warriors, powered by Stephen Curry’s 30 points, beat the Denver Nuggets, 131-117, to even up their first-round playoff series at a game apiece. Curry, who […]
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Champions League Underdog of the Week: Borussia Dortmund
In Joe Posnanski’s recent profile of San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich, there’s a quote from Bob Spear, Pop’s old coach from his playing days at Air Force: “A team could do anything as long as the players just kept moving.” The theory is the same in football: create and exploit space through motion, […]
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About Last Night: Chris Paul’s Flair for the Dramatic
In case you were busy because no one at the game of Celebrity you were playing could get Lark Voorhies, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: Chris Paul scored his team’s last eight points, including an acrobatic runner with 0.1 seconds remaining, as the Los Angeles Clippers edged the Memphis Grizzlies, 93-91, to […]
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About Last Weekend: Miami Ready for an Encore
In case you were busy devising an elaborate fake game show so you could injure otherwise forgotten celebrities, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: LeBron James flirted with, but fell two assists shy of, a triple-double as his Miami Heat throttled the Milwaukee Bucks, 110-87, to begin their NBA title defense. “Yeah, I […]
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About Last Night: NFL Schedule Always Wins
In case you were out avoiding any Coachella spoilers before the second weekend of the music festival, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: The NFL schedule was released on Thursday, and wow, WOW, wow, what a schedule it is! Not only will every team currently in the NFL play 16 games, but each […]
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About Last Night: The Playoff Picture
In case you were busy scaring little children by reciting Mariners hitting stats from the past decade, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: The Utah Jazz were eliminated from the NBA playoff picture after an 86-70 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. But don’t worry, people of Salt Lake City, you still have a […]
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About Last Night: Everybody Loves Boston
In case you were busy living on easy street … wait — OH, I FORGOT ABOUT MY TAXES — here’s what you missed in sports on Tuesday: The Boston Red Sox rode a seven-run second inning to cruise to a 7-2 win over the host Cleveland Indians. Red Sox starter Felix Doubront, who got the […]
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About Last Night: Boston Forevah
In case you were busy spending time talking to loved ones, here’s what you missed in sports on Monday: Mike Napoli hit a game-winning double as the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-2, at Fenway Park on Patriots Day. After the game, a pair of explosions struck Boylston Street near the finish […]
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About Last Weekend: Men at Work
In case you were out busting people’s chops and bringing them down a peg or two, here’s what you missed in sports last weekend: The Masters has a new champion: Adam Scott defeated Angel Cabrera in a tense two-hole playoff to win his first major at Augusta National. But don’t get too comfortable, Mr. Scott. […]
