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Chicago's Win: 112 Minutes, Two Empty Bruins, And One Pinball Wizard
This is what coaches say, over and over, as overtime stretches into a second overtime stretches into comical exhaustion: just chuck it toward the net, because you never know what can happen....
Mike McCarthy Believes In A Sense Of Urgency
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Good Old Sidney
Here's a story I wrote a few years ago about watching Dog Day Afternoon on TV late one afternoon with my Dad:...
Blackhawks Score In Triple Overtime To Win Stanley Cup Game 1
It took three overtimes and a double-deflection, but the Chicago Blackhawks kept the home advantage and drew first blood in the Stanley Cup. Andrew Shaw redirected the puck with his knee for the winning goal, and the Blackhawks beat the Boston Bruins, 4-3....
Outrage Over Racist Tweets About Anthem Kid Overwhelms Actual Racism
So 11-year-old Sebastien de la Cruz performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" last night before the NBA Finals game in San Antonio, and did a wonderful job. Alas, his performance brought the racist morons of the social media world out of their #tcot caves, and everybody got mad....
Phil Esposito On The Stanley Cup Final: "Doesn't Mean Shit To Me"
Phil Esposito was a five-time NHL scoring champion whose best playing days were with the Bruins. But he began his career in Chicago, where his brother, Tony, was a Hall of Fame goalie. That said, Esposito's rooting interest in this year's Stanley Cup final is easier than you think....
Puerto Rican League Game Delayed When Players' Families Start Fighting
We are actually big fans of Baloncesto Superior Nacional, the Puerto Rican professional basketball league that's become somewhat of a summer league stop-over for sub-NBA pro ballers. (Games are aired live on local TV here in St. Petersburg.) Last night's Humacao-Carolina vs. Ponce game, though, got...
This MLB-In-Australia Thing Is Really Happening
It was just a glimmering possibility back in October, but it's real now—the Dodgers and Diamondbacks will open the 2014 season next March with a two-game series at Australia's Sydney Cricket Grounds (above). Yes, those Dodgers and Diamondbacks. It'll be the first-ever regular-season game played in ...
She's No Jockette
Dig Martha Weinman Lear's 1993 New York Times piece on Julie Krone:...
Please Let Custom Facemasks Become A Thing
You're looking at a custom prototype facemask whipped up for Arizona by Bad-Ass Masks, apparently the Pimp My Ride of helmets. ...
A Collection Of Your Stories About Meeting Muhammad Ali
On Friday, we republished "My Dinner with Ali," Davis Miller's great story from 1989 about his life-affirming encounter with Muhammad Ali. Almost immediately, the comments section began filling up with readers' own accounts of meeting Ali. You can find a few of those through the links below, but you...
The Four Most Punchable Faces In Human History
Before we get to the Funbag, some notes of vital interest. If you're in New York tomorrow night, I'll be doing Scott Rogowsky's Running Late show over in Brooklyn. It's like a live talk show-type thing. You can buy tickets here. You get a free beer (not kidding) if you mention Deadspin at the door, ...
Anatomy of a Champion
Check this out—David Halberstam's 1996 Vanity Fair story on two Olympic hopefuls: ...
14 Innings And A Bench-Clearing Scrap: Just A Typical Red Sox-Rays Game
A nationally televised game that saw Tampa Bay overcome a 6-0 deficit, Boston take—and blow—a two-run 10th-inning lead, and a final out that wouldn't come until after midnight, and still all anyone could talk about was John Lackey plunking Matt Joyce. Here's a bold statement: Boston-Tampa Bay is the...
A <i>Coach</i> Live Blog? You're Goddamned Right A <i>Coach</i> Live Blog
Welcome back to the much-anticipated second chapter of our occasionally continuing coverage of the late-80s-mid-90s classic sitcom Coach. It's on Netflix. You can stream it and watch it with me and the other six or seven degenerates still hanging around....
Want Free Stanley Cup Tickets? Try Impressing This Craigslist Weirdo
Are you a Chicago Blackhawks fan who desperately wants to go to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals on Wednesday? Well this is your lucky day, because somebody is offering up two free tickets to the game on Craigslist. But don't go thinking that you won't be earning these tickets, buddy. Oh no, if you ...
Here Is Video Of The Latest Pacman Jones Incident
ESPN radio in Cincinnati got hold of the security footage that shows Bengals cornerback Pacman Jones hitting a woman after the woman first came toward him with what looks like a bottle. The altercation, which happened last week outside a Cincinnati bar, begins around the 1-minute mark of the video b...
