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Report: Tyler Seguin Guarded During Playoffs To Prevent His Partying
The Boston Bruins finally pulled the trigger on trading Tyler Seguin on Thursday, shipping him out—along with Rich Peverley and Ryan Button—to the Dallas Stars for Loui Eriksson, Reilly Smith, Matt Fraser and Joe Morrow....

Brandon Inge Is Weird
"What is Brandon Inge doing?" Our thoughts exactly, though we'd add "in the majors" to that query. ...

Holy Shit: Brad Stevens Is The New Coach Of The Boston Celtics
Humming along, day before a national holiday, late afternoon, nothing to see here—wait, holy shit, Brad Stevens just took the head coach position with the Boston Celtics. The 36-year-old Stevens had been in charge at Butler for six years, with two NCAA finals appearances, four Horizon League champio...

The Yankees Don't Have An A-Rod Problem; They Have A Yankees Problem
Originally published in Bloomberg View...

“Hey Ungrateful Quitter": Emails From An Angry Lacrosse Coach
Consider this your latest reminder that lacrosse is the worst. What follows is an email exchange, forwarded to us by a tipster, that took place between an angry lacrosse coach, one of his players, and that player's parents. It begins with the player telling his coach that he won't be able to attend ...

Laker Bros Featured In L.A. TV Celebration Of Being Named Bros Capital
Some website we've never heard of decided to rank the "best cities for bros," and Los Angeles unsurprisingly came out on top. After all, our favorite bros ever hail from the City of Angels. Laker Bros, indeed, found themselves featured this morning on KTLA's report about L.A. being named Capital Ci...

Vintage Interviews with Music Industry Legends
The Library of Congress presents the Joe Smith Collection. Includes interviews with Bo Diddley, Mick Jagger, Herbie Hancock, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Ahmet Ertegun, B.B. King, George Harrison, Linda Ronstadt and more. ...

The Odd Couple
From Jock magazine, here's a 1969 one-on-one with Bill Bradley and Calvin Hill. ...

Veteran MLB Umpire Brian Runge Fired For Violating League Drug Policy
MLB has fired 14-year veteran umpire Brian Runge for a violation of the league drug policy, according to the Associated Press. Runge is believed to be the first umpire punished under big league random drug testing protocols....

The Grierson & Leitch Top 12 Movies Of The First Half Of 2013
Shockingly, we are more than halfway through 2013. As always, the best, most "prestigious" movies won't be released until November or December, because the people who vote on the Oscars are senile and cannot remember anything they saw more than 20 minutes ago. But there have been plenty of outstandi...

Kobe Bryant Wants To Play Three More Years, Is Still A Bit Crazy
Not too long ago, Kobe Bryant was making some noise about the impending conclusion of his career, implying to CBS Sports that the expiration of his current contract after the 2014 season would likely give way to his retirement. But now Bryant has changed his tune, telling Lakers.com that he feels li...

The Cleveland Indians Are “Calling All Bros” To Bro Down In “Brohio”
The Cleveland Indians and Nick Swisher have created the Mannywood of Ohio and named it the Swishaliciously-perfect "Brohio." This is kind of like that time you heard someone's dad say he thought Juicy Fruit was "tubular" and you immediately stopped saying "tubular" and chewing Juicy Fruit....

The Final Two Goals Of The Stanley Cup, In Finnish
Earlier, we brought you a Doc Emrick-less version of all the goals scored in the Stanley Cup Finals. This is also Emrick-less, but we can make it up to you: it's the final two goals as called by Finnish broadcasters Antti Mäkinen and Jani Alkio....

Bryce Harper Homers In First At-Bat Off The DL
In his return from a stint—it's always a stint—on the disabled list for injuries including left-knee bursitis and a wall-negotiating impairment, Bryce Harper sent the second pitch he saw over the left-center fence and gave the Nationals a 1-0 lead over the Milwaukee Brewers....

Great Expectations
Head on over to the New Yorker and check out this post by Richard Brody on a new book of interviews with Orson Welles:...

All the Marbles
Dig Mark Kram's 1974 SI story: "Ring of Bright Marbles":...

Ticket to Ride
Robert Lipsyte describes the day Cassius Clay met the Beatles:...

