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Lance Stephenson Leaves Game After Making Impressive But Dangerous Shot
Lance Stephenson's writhing layup probably wasn't worth the two points—and the foul—but it was fun to watch. You can't tell if the crowd is saying "Ohhh" for the shot or his fall. Thankfully, Stephenson didn't look to be seriously hurt....
You Can Trade Losing Lotto Tickets For Florida Panthers Seats
Florida seems the appropriate place for an intersection of broken dreams and poorly attended hockey, but the Panthers are getting a bit literal: A new promotion allows fans to trade in $10 worth of losing scratch-off lotto tickets for seats with a face value of $20. You'd have to be a fool not to pl...
Vladimir Putin Would Win All The Gold At Sochi If He Wanted To
At last! We're finally on the cusp of the Sochi Olympics. It's a time to focus on all the extraneous inconveniences, both small and great, that, for better or worse, will be forgotten as as soon as the real action starts. But before we fully lose ourselves in a world of ice dancing and curling, we s...
Where Do Our Winter Olympians Come From?
This morning, the Washington Post published a map and list of the home states of the U.S.'s Winter Olympians. Commenter Jessica Minton wasn't a fan, so she took the data and created her own interactive map that breaks down the states' athletes by gender and by sport....
Like Most Sabres Fans, This Guy Showed Up Incognito
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Joakim Noah Takes The Time To Properly Curse Out The Refs
Joakim Noah suffered a mini-meltdown after being ejected last night against Sacramento, but he's a master craftsman, and so wasn't about to leave the court without individually telling each ref what he thought about them....
How The Transfer Window Makes Us Joyless <em>Football Manager</em> Drones
If you're still irrationally hoping, praying that one or two of those impossibly tantalizing rumors—David Luiz to Barça? Cavani to Chelsea?—comes true to legitimize the hours you spent throughout the month mashing the refresh button on The Daily Mail's transfer gossip page just as soon as you had fu...
Sochi-Bound Activist Jailed For Public Swearing
An environmental activist planning to present a report on Sochi's environmental impact, was taken into custody at a bus station and ordered jailed for 15 days, according to his lawyer. His crime? Swearing in public....
Why The Super Bowl Transit Nightmare Happened
New Jersey Transit regularly handles sell-out football crowds heading to MetLife Stadium for Jets and Giants games, and even more for concerts. So how did Super Bowl Sunday turn into such a disaster, with tens of thousands of fans stuck for hours in a hot, crowded train station? Let's figure out wha...
The Land Of The Permanent Wave
From Bud Shrake's classic Harper's story:...
How The Seahawks Defense Made The MVP Award Pointless
Here is the single most amazing and telling stat of the Super Bowl, via Pro Football Focus: The Seahawks blitzed on just six of Peyton Manning's 51 dropbacks. ...
Crying Broncos Kid Is The Face Of The Super Bowl
So, there you go. Though it was taken in the second quarter, this photo of a young Broncos fan crying as dad checks his cell phone is as lasting a Super Bowl image as we're going to get....
Lookin' Good, Gunslinger
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"Stone Cold" Matt Stairs Chugs Beers At Wing Bowl
Were you wondering what former MLB player/Phillies folk hero Matt Stairs was up to these days? He's living the dream, dammit....
Peyton Manning Somehow Isn't The Unanimous MVP
Peyton Manning had the best season ever for an NFL quarterback, so it wasn't surprising that he was picked for the AP MVP, his fifth overall. It was, however, dumb to find out that he wasn't a unanimous choice....
What Time Is The Super Bowl? No One Cares Anymore
In 2011, the Huffington Post cracked the code. It ran an SEO keyword-laden article headlined "What Time Does The Superbowl Start?", and cleaned up. By reaching the top of search engine results, it drew the clicks of millions of people searching for that phrase—style error and all. ...
Ian Rapoport Tries To High-Five NFL Fan, Hits Him In The Face Instead
Andrew Siciliano told fellow NFL Network employee Ian Rapoport to turn around and high-five some of the fans gathered behind him in Manhattan. Rapoport did his best, but one fan got the brunt of his poor execution....
Rams Owner Buys Stadium-Sized Site In Los Angeles
There have been so many rumors and pie-in-the-sky dreams about a Los Angeles football stadium that we won't believe it's happening until they actually cut the ribbon. But so far, nothing has come to nothing because those dreams were held by rich men hoping to lure an NFL team to L.A. This one's diff...