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The Blackhawks Obliterated The Penguins
The Penguins might have to call up a third goalie, because I bet both Antti Niemi and Matt Murray suffered severe burns on the backs of their necks from that red light going on so many damn times....
Bryan Bickell Retires With Blackhawks On One-Day Contract After Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis
Nearly a year after he first announced that he’d been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Bryan Bickell signed a one-day contract this week to retire as a Chicago Blackhawk. After hosting a retirement press conference yesterday, he got one last chance to head out on the ice tonight, in a special pre-...
The Bulls Suck!
Yes, I know, it’s only the preseason, and the NBA has to shut up for at least another 10 days, if not all the days between now and Christmas. But schadenfreude never sleeps! And holy shit, man, the Chicago Bulls are gonna suck so amazingly hard this season....
Here Are The Most Interesting Guys Of The NL Playoffs
You may have checked out of baseball once your team’s season turned into a trash heap, but that’s okay! You’ve come back just in time for the best month of the year, as all the highest-stakes games with top-quality talent begin. Here’s a guide to the NL players you need to pay attention to as the po...
The Cubs Were Never More Themselves Than In 1979
The following is excerpted from The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse, by Rich Cohen....
Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Mike Glennon Masters Slapstick
Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....
Danny Trevathan Suspended Two Games For Crushing Hit On Davante Adams
The NFL has suspended Danny Trevathan two games for his brutal helmet-to-helmet hit on Packers receiver Davante Adams Thursday night:...
Cardinals Eliminated With Robbed Home Run In Extra-Innings Loss To Cubs
The Cardinals’ slim postseason hopes were officially put to rest tonight in an extra-innings loss to the Cubs, who had already clinched the division with a win over St. Louis yesterday....
Davante Adams Carted Off Field After Brutal Hit To The Head From Danny Trevathan
Packers wide receiver Davante Adams was taken off the field on a stretcher and left the stadium in an ambulance tonight after being the victim of a vicious hit from Bears linebacker Danny Trevathan. The hit—which was called as an unnecessary roughness penalty—sent Adams’s mouth guard flying as his h...
Packers Fan Suing Bears Gets On Soldier Field In Atlanta Falcons Jersey
The Packers and Bears resume the oldest rivalry in professional football tomorrow night, with the Bears visiting Lambeau Field for the teams’ 195th meeting. (The series, amazingly, is currently tied 94-94-6.) One man who will be in attendance for the game is Russell Beckman....
Jon Lester Is Not Happy About The Nacho Man
Last night, Cubs shortstop Addison Russell crashed into the stands and absolutely destroyed an order of nachos a Cardinals fan was eating. It was hilarious! Watch it again, or watch it for the first time....
Addison Russell Spills Cardinals Fan's Nachos, Brings Him New Ones As Peace Offering
By the end of the first inning tonight, the Cardinals were down 4-0 to the Cubs. Things only got worse from there. It was clear that fans would not be able to rely on the product on the field to sustain them tonight—they would need to seek not emotional fulfillment, but physical. Like that which can...
Report: Chicago Bulls And Dwyane Wade Agree To A Buyout
K.C. Johnson of the Chicago Tribune is reporting Sunday night that Dwyane Wade and the Chicago Bulls have agreed to a buyout, a move that will immediately make Wade a free agent. This was an inevitability virtually the moment the Bulls completed the Jimmy Butler trade back in June....
Marcus Cooper Fumbles Blocked Field Goal Return At The One-Yard Line
One of the weirdest plays of the NFL season so far just happened at the end of today’s first half in Chicago, when the Bears’ Marcus Cooper returned a blocked Steelers field goal all the way to the one-yard line. Cooper slowed up right at the end of his journey, and the special teamer suffered the c...
The Brewers Hit Two Clutch Dingers To Stay In The Thick Of The Wild Card Chase
The Milwaukee Brewers are the losingest National League team to still be mathematically alive for the postseason, clinging to the very bottom rung of the Wild Card chase with just seven games to go. ESPN gives them just a 16 percent chance of edging into that final spot. It’s all do-or-die from here...
Good-For-Nothing White Sox Spoil Ninth Inning No-Hitter With Pointless Double
Matthew Boyd took a no-hitter into the top of the ninth today against the Chicago White Sox, with the Tigers winning 12-0. Boyd had allowed one base-runner all day, on a third inning walk. Adam Engel led off the bottom of the ninth with a pop out to third; Kevan Smith, hitting for Rob Brantly, groun...
Cubs Battery Lose Their Minds Over Blown Strike Three Call
The call that got John Lackey going was a really, really bad one. With the count 2-2 against Carlos Martinez in the top of the fifth inning, Lackey threw a breaking pitch that sailed right over the middle of the plate. Catcher Wilson Contreras did a bad job framing it up, but it was a strike. Even M...
Mets Eliminated From Postseason Contention Not With A Bang, But With A Real Stupid-Ass Play
A spectacularly silly baserunning blunder is not necessarily the most Metsy way to get mathematically eliminated from postseason contention—it’s no “entire pitching staff mysteriously bursts into flames all at once” or anything—but it’s pretty damn close! And it’s how the Mets were eliminated tonigh...
A's Will Not Burden Fans By Asking Them To Buy Tickets For Game Against White Sox
Along with the rest of Major League Baseball, the A’s announced their tentative 2018 schedule today. That includes a partial list of promotions—many of them geared towards celebrating the team’s 50th anniversary in Oakland—and a very special one on April 17 means that fans will be able to see that d...
Cycles Are Good, And Jose Abreu Did A Good One
Before you come in here with your mew mew mew cycles aren’t valuable, a two-homer game is more valuable than a cycle routine, know this: cycles are good because they are unlikely and interesting. If an alien spacecraft were to land on the pitcher’s mound in the third inning of a meaningless Septembe...