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David Backes Chokes Up Talking About The Blues' Run
It was a very good season for a very good Blues team, a balanced roster that did everything well enough to get past two of the conference’s favorites and to make the NHL’s final four, but didn’t do anything quite well enough to make it further....
The Sharks Are In The Finals, Finally
Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau were the first two picks in the 1997 draft. They’ve played a couple thousand games in teal. They’ve both been captains, and both stripped of the “C” for perceived leadership failures and criticisms that for however good their Sharks were, they were never quite good e...
Yep, Michigan RB Was Run Over By A Forklift
Michigan running back Drake Johnson was injured under mysterious circumstances last month, with speculation centering around a freak forklift injury, but no one from the program willing to give any details. Now thanks to the Detroit News’ open-records request, we have confirmation: dude got run over...
Yasiel Puig Admires Single, Gets Benched
It was a majestic single, to be fair, arcing high into the Southern California night. It flew a solid 373 or so feet to the 375-foot mark of right-center, and if Puig could have been forgiven for thinking it might’ve been gone, his manager firmly made the point that he should have left the batter’s ...
This Water Bottle Flip Is The Best Damn Thing I've Seen In A Long Long Time
Might want to put down a tarp now, because your shit is going to fly everywhere after you watch this:...
It's Matt Murray Or Bust
On his very last day as a 21-year-old, on the very first shot he saw, Matt Murray allowed a goal. Then he got an early birthday present: a coach’s challenge showed Jonathan Drouin had been offside by the merest fraction of a second. It was back to 0-0, and Murray got down to business....
Kevin Durant On Draymond Green's Non-Suspension: "The League Is Pro-Business"
By anything resembling an objective standard—and that’s certainly tough to pin down—if the NBA suspended Dahntay Jones for one game for attacking Bismack Biyombo’s crotch, Draymond Green’s multiple assaults on Steven Adams’s fellas deserved the same punishment. ...
NFL Breaks Up Pete Morelli's Entire Officiating Crew After Bizarrely Terrible Season
There really is no way to describe Pete Morelli’s 2015 season other than as a nightmare. Blown calls—lots of them, and in very visible situations—led to the Morelli crew unsurprisingly being left out of the postseason, and now the league has come down with its strongest censure short of termination:...
That Was A Good Bartolo Colon Game
Bartolo Colon, who turns 43 years old today, threw an excellent outing last night, going seven innings and allowing one run on five hits in the Mets’ 7-1 win over Washington. But that is not why we are here. We are here for the comedy....
How Joe Pavelski Became A Tip Machine
It was, is, and will be for at least the next 36 hours the most important goal in Sharks history. Joe Pavelski’s redirection of a Brent Burns shot broke a third-period tie and stood up the rest of the way, the winner in a 6-3 victory that brings San Jose to within one game of the Stanley Cup Finals,...
Why Dahntay Jones's Unpaid Suspension Is Only Worth $80
The NBA suspended Dahntay Jones one game “without pay” for whacking Bismack Biyombo in the groin late in Game 3, and while the Cavs might miss the 1.9 minutes per game they’ve gotten from Jones (unlikely), Jones won’t actually miss his game check all that much....
Draymond Green And Russell Westbrook Are Beefin' Now
It’s fallout day from the nutkicking heard ‘round the world, Draymond Green’s second such assault on Steven Adams’s dick and balls in as many games. And as everyone patiently awaits word on potential discipline—a one-game suspension seems certain, unless the NBA cares more about protecting its stars...
Georges Laraque Helps Detain Suspect In Alleged Child Kidnapping Attempt
In broad daylight in Montreal’s busy Jeanne-Mance Park on Saturday, a 24-year-old man allegedly tried to walk off with a seven-year-old girl. The girl’s father and other family members tackled the man, and had a little help holding him until police arrived: former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque, who w...
Tom Brady Will Appeal Ballghazi Suspension, Again
In the year 2184, when Tom Brady’s head is thawed from cryostasis to testify against Robo-Goodell in Moon Court, your descendants may wonder how the longest-running legal battle in the history of sports ever got started. (Their neural visit to the electro-sapio-repository will tell them it was about...
Marc-Andre Fleury Is Back And Oh God That Went Poorly
This was certainly not the return Marc-Andre Fleury was hoping for. Starting for the first time since March, before a home crowd that cheered every time he made a save, Fleury, uh...didn’t make a lot of saves....
Deadspin Up All Night: Night Journey
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Here's The Best Sports Highlight Of The Day
Classic pre-summer Friday, not much going on in the sports world or at work, all your friends are probably off drinking outside or something fun like that. But be glad you’re still here, because you’re about to have your shit ruined by this sick crossover....
Brother Of Brussels Bomber Will Compete In The Olympics
Mourad Laachraoui is one of the best young taekwondo fighters in the world; the 21-year-old won the 54kg weight class at the European Championships yesterday, and will represent Belgium at the Summer Olympics in August—six months after his brother blew himself up in the Brussels terror attacks that ...
Mets Fans Booed Matt Harvey Off The Mound
The last time Matt Harvey and Stephen Strasburg faced off in Queens, fans spent much of the night chanting “Harvey’s better!” Last night, a rain of boos....