October 14, 2014
Ranking the NFL’s Non-Playoff Teams
Which NFL teams currently on the outside of the playoffs have the best shot at making the second season?
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The Captaincy: How It Can Be the NHL’s Scarlet Letter
What happens when an NHL captain has his coveted ‘C’ stripped away?
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Jonah Keri Podcast: Derrick Goold and Alex Pavlovic
Jonah Keri talks to ‘St. Louis Post-Dispatch’ writer Derrick Goold about the Cardinals’ success in developing prospects and to ‘San Jose Mercury News’ writer Alex Pavlovic about the Giants’ WWE-quoting leader, Hunter Pence.
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33 Crazy Predictions for the NBA Season
Forget records and playoff winners. Here are the prognostications about the NBA season that you need to know.
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The Grantland NFL Podcast: Week 6 Recap
Dominant defensive performances by the Cowboys and Eagles lead the morning-after recap of Week 6 on today’s Grantland NFL Podcast.
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How Will Rick Carlisle Get the Mavericks Into a Crowded Western Conference Playoffs?
Dallas’s roster has several new pieces, but also one of the best coaches in the league.
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NHL Opening Weekend: Let’s All Calm Down
A look back at the biggest games and emerging story lines of the NHL weekend. Theme of the Week: Not Overreacting There are always lessons to be learned from a season’s first few nights; it just takes a while to figure out which ones.
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NFL Week 6 Winners and Losers: How Do You Spell Elite? F-L-A-C-C-O
Plus, a ferocious Lions defense and the sad Victor Cruz injury.
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The 2014 Pigskin Pantheon: Week 7 College Football Awards
College football serves and is served by many gods, old and new. Here, week after week, we’ll build a temple to them, installing saints and erecting graven idols as we go. The temple is made of words and pictures from the Internet. Just go with it. Today: The Week 7 Awards.
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Don’t Call It an Upset: Your Weekly College Football Wrap
Mississippi State and Ole Miss have done it again. After so many consecutive ‘upsets,’ we’re not left with a fairy tale, or some kind of magic, but two damn good teams that look very much at home atop the food chain.
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We Went There: Landon Donovan’s USMNT Curtain Call
Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut, is a throwback to another time in the history of American soccer. It’s fitting that on a chilly Friday night, Landon Donovan ended his career with the U.S. national team there.
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Stolen Thunder: How Does Oklahoma City Move Forward Without Kevin Durant?
Kevin Durant can fill almost any hole. Now he’s gone for at least six weeks with a Jones fracture. What will the Thunder do now?
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Explaining the Kansas City Royals’ Postseason Offensive Explosion
Thanks to their improbably great postseason offense, the Royals are now just two wins away from making their first trip to the World Series since 1985. It seems mind-boggling, but if we drill down, we can pinpoint four main reasons for the barrage that’s shocked the baseball world.
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And the Gambling Gods Wept: A Visit to the Meadowlands for Broncos-Jets
Geno Smith made an enemy of every gambler between here and the Horsehead Nebula.
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Week 6 Wrap-up: Heavy Is the Head
After six weeks, which of the NFL’s eight division leaders have the best chance of holding on to that title for the rest of the season?
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MLB Overnight: Comeuppance and Other Myths After the Cardinals’ Walkoff NLCS Game 2 Win
Three thoughts after the Cardinals’ bonkers, 5-4 walkoff win over the Giants to knot the NLCS at one game apiece.
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