November 15, 2013
Please, Basketball Gods, Let the Thunder and Warriors Play in the Western Conference Finals
Man, this has been a weird little season so far. Everybody looks terrible on the second night of back-to-backs, and back-to-backs are happening all the time. Miami looks human, Indy looks unbeatable, Brooklyn looks old, J.R. Smith hates Brandon Jennings, and the tank division — Phoenix, Charlotte, Philly, Orlando, and Boston — is actually pretty […]
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NHL Grab Bag: OH GOD STAMKOS NOOOOOOOO
Welcome to a weekly grab bag of thoughts and observations from the past few days and/or decades of NHL hockey. The Three Stars of Comedy Recognizing the NHL personalities from around the league who produced the most comedic fodder for fans. The third star: Rich Clune The Predators tough guy appeared to get bloodied in […]
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About Last Night: The Comeback Colts
In case you were rocking a CFL jersey in court, here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday: Andrew Luck and the Indianapolis Colts once again used their comeback magic to eke out a 30-27 win over the Tennessee Titans. “Wow, we were pretty fortunate to get that win,” Luck said after the game. When […]
Read moreNovember 14, 2013
Week 11 Fantasy Football Preview: Marc Trestman Signed This!
Forrest Gump’s mother has clearly never played fantasy football, because the only way life is like a box of chocolates for a fantasy player is if that box exclusively contains torn ACLs and first-round busts. I mean, even the good chocolates eventually succumb to fractured ankles, or something. The fantasy pitfalls can sometimes seem endless, […]
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FIDE World Chess Championship! GET PSYCHED!
It’s time to get prepped for your new November obsession: the FIDE World Chess Championship finals between Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand. This is the most hotly anticipated chess match since Garry Kasparov’s prime. Aside from matches involving the Russian grandmaster, this is the most anticipated match since Bobby Fischer squared off against Boris Spassky. […]
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For Some USMNT Players, the Work to Reach the World Cup Has Just Begun
In January 2006, Freddy Adu was 16 years old and training with the United States senior team for the first time. Head coach Bruce Arena called the starlet into the team’s January camp, a three-week training stint that played a massive role in determining who would make the roster for the upcoming summer’s World Cup […]
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I Suck at Football 2.10: Where I Was Drunk
I fly to New York with Lonely Bunny in my pocket. Lonely Bunny is one of my daughter’s finger puppets. He makes the tip of your finger look like a white rabbit popping out of a gray top hat. I document Lonely Bunny’s trip and send the pictures to my wife’s phone for my daughter […]
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The Growing Legend of Lance Stephenson
The Pacers are destroying the league behind a terrifying defense and two max-salary franchise cornerstones, proving, rather emphatically, that the crucial improvements they flashed in last year’s playoffs were real — and indicative of more to come. The bench is better, which is to say it now features players who can catch and dribble regulation […]
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The Beautiful Mind of Andrew Luck
Andrew Luck may be the future of the NFL, but on Sunday afternoon, he didn’t look the part. He was a losing quarterback, with sweat-drenched hair glued to his forehead and a scraggly, mustache-less beard barely clinging to his chin. The Rams had just hammered the Colts 38-8. Luck was the worst he’d been all […]
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NBA Shootaround: Mad Men
So much amazing is happening, and the Shootaround crew is back to help you keep track of it all. You’ll find takes on moments you might’ve missed from the previous night, along with ones you will remember forever. It Was This Kind of Night
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Forget Cabrera vs. Trout: Put This Bit of Crazy in Your Bottomless MVP-Debate Pipe and Smoke It
If baseball’s MVP voters allowed objective criteria to guide them, we wouldn’t have much of a debate about which two players deserve to win the award. But without debate, why bother caring about sports? Often, the empirics are so overwhelmingly in favor of one conclusion that the rest of us have to make up retorts […]
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About Last Night: Clippers KO OKC
In case you were busy waiting for some good news in the world of football, seriously, any good news, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday: In a chippy Western Conference matchup that saw Matt Barnes and Serge Ibaka get ejected, Blake Griffin’s double-double proved the difference as the Los Angeles Clippers beat the […]
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