February 7, 2014
Your Super Bowl Hangover NFL News Roundup
With all the Super Bowl craziness, we’re guessing there was some football news from the past couple of weeks you might have missed. No worries. That’s why we’re here.
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Cheap Heat Podcast: With Special Guest Jim Ross!
Legendary announcer Jim Ross joins the boys as they discuss CM Punk’s departure, the ‘WrestleMania’ card, and the Hall of Fame.
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NHL Grab Bag: Olympic Games Edition!
With the Olympics now under way, I figured this would be a good week to choose an obscure former player from the 1980 Miracle on Ice team. But that ended up being harder than it sounds.
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About Last Night: Cat Eats Duck
In case you were busy getting busted by customs trying to smuggle a raven into the Winter Olympics so you could say “That’s Sochi raven,” here’s what you missed in sports on Thursday.
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Grant Runs Out of Luck (and Time) in Cleveland
Chris Grant did some good things as general manager of the Cavaliers, a job he got in 2010 after a half-decade of working there under Danny Ferry during those shiny LeBron James days. We won’t hear about those things today, because the Cavs are a dysfunctional stink bomb so smelly that the team elected to fire Grant.
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All-Star Saturday Night Is Already a Success
“Wait, Damian Lillard can dunk?” Damian Lillard can DUNK.
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The Designated Player: DayVid
Celebrities have their best angles, and the best ones know them well. David Beckham, too, knows his best angle.
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Run the World: Let’s All Get Amped for U.S. and Canadian Women’s Hockey
Right now, you could make a strong case that Canada vs. the U.S. is the best rivalry in hockey, period. Men or women, international or NHL. And again, it’s all been building toward what will almost certainly be a one-game gold-medal showdown.
Read moreThe Arsenal manager oversaw two bids for Suárez last summer, the second of £40,000,001, which was an attempt to trigger what Arsenal were led to believe was a release clause in the striker’s contract … Wenger subsequently admitted that the bid did look provocative and was “not the most subtle thing we have done.” The Guardian
The Delicate Balance of an NBA Defense
Smart teams have basically solved NBA offense. The deeper mysteries involve defense, where we are still in the early stages of understanding how doing one thing impacts a team’s ability to take away something else — and how all the strategic stuff interacts with a team’s roster makeup.
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Triangle Cheat Sheet: Alabama Wins Again, Cavs GM Fired, #SochiProblems
A midday review of everything you need to know from the world of sports.
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NBA Shootaround: Clash of the Titans
LeBron and Blake go hammer, Spike and Felton have their revenge, and the Wiz go Wiz.
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National Signing Day 2014 Wrap: The Iron Bowl Comes to February
Did Alabama just sign an Auburn spy? Is Malik McDowell going to let his mom ruin his college years? Could an actual cardinal put together a better recruiting class than Bobby Petrino? Find out in our National Signing Day Wrap!
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Wichita State: The Mid-Major You Can’t Ignore
The age of being amused and delighted and a little bit condescending when small schools make the Final Four are over. We know these teams can win. We know they can make Final Fours. And we haven’t seen it yet in the modern era, but we know they can win a national title.
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About Last Night: Clipped by the Heat
In case you were busy downing a bottle of Fireball at 12:12 in the afternoon, here’s what you missed in sports on Wednesday.
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