Spandex-Wearing Men Humiliate Defenseman, Selves
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• Reader Tim sends along this photo of two FX programming fans wildin' out in front of Kings defenseman Jack Johnson. The Canucks won the game on account of some Mikael Samuelsson goal-scorin'.
• The Canadiens upset Alex Ovechkin and the Capitals in OT, proving once and again that things will never go according to Jose Theodore's plans.
• Brandon Roy will undergo surgery on his right knee and sit out the Blazers' series against Phoenix.
• With the help of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, we now know which words were circled in the dictionary of the late David Foster Wallace. "Brevity" and "footnote" are delightfully missing from the list.
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