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Bendtner To Villa: Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
Arsenal 1, Aston Villa 1 — When you get right down to brass tacks, Arsenal scored two goals, while Villa couldn't even get one. That sounds about right. Now, the story of who kicked whose ball into whose net shouldn't matter. The fact that the team in red scored on each side of the pitch was symmetr...

Watch That Winning Streak Fade Into Nothing
What are Joel Przybilla and Pau Gasol looking at? The Cloverfield monster? An upper deck blowie? Danny Noonan's putt? Whatever it was, it helped the Lakers end their 10-game winning streak in Portland....

Kick His Ass, New Sea Bass!
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

The Madness Begins Tonight
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....

Kobe Won't Stop Looking At DWade
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who freaking slept through the Mavs/Spurs game but then woke up for the Heat/Lakers game and therefore wants you to please, please kill him. When he isn't begging for death, he can be found seeking it out at Basketbawful. Enjoy! • Tim Duncan + Doing Everyth...

Yet Another Reason To Loathe Starbucks And Ridicule Dumb Defensemen
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

Emmeneck'er? I Hardly Know Her!
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....

LeBron Is Human After All
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who isn't going to cover the Blazers/Clippers game, because of the pain it caused my eyes to watch. (Although I will tell you that Portland won 82-80.) When he isn't recovering from the ugliness of professional basketball, he can be found making fun of it at...

Maybe Pittsburgh Didn't Get Bitch-Slapped After All
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

Bruce Pearl Is Still No. 1 In Our Search Engines
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....

Pat Riley Feels Like A Mosquito In A Nudist Colony. Seriously
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who loves zombie movies and is really ticked off that Diary of the Dead came out in a limited release. Oh well. Hopefully World War Z will come out some time in the next year. Anyway, when he isn't obsessing over flesh-eating ghouls, he can be found feasting...

Does It Look Like We're Excited About Today's NHL Trade Deadline?
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

College Coaches Are Straight Pimpin'
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....

Where Five-Point First Quarters Happen
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who thinks he could probably score five points in a quarter if he was in the NBA. Or...not. When he isn't suffering from delusions of grandeur, he can be found keeping it real at Basketbawful. Enjoy! • Five points. Five points! There was a five-point first ...

A Test Of One's Intestinal Fortitude
David Hirshey writes regularly for Deadspin about soccer....

Streaking Devils, Silly Sundin And Tasty Suds
Since tedious analysis is the stuff of "power rankings," each Monday NHL Closer writer Greg Wyshynski uses a form of universal expression: Success in terms of beer. Before we get to how wickedly selfish Mats Sundin is, welcome to The Brewmeister Ratings......

Delirious About La Salle? Lemme Know
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....

Cleveland Fans Rejoice, Suns Fans Weep. For Today, Anyway.
The NBA Closer is written by Matt McHale, who blah, blah, blah-diddy-blah. Who cares, right? When he's not forcing you to read useless factoids about himself, he's doing it to a completely different set of readers at Basketbawful. Enjoy! • Shaq has done the impossible. In only three short games, Th...

Philadelphia Fans Slowly Shift Focus To Hating Mets, Booing Eagles Draft Pick
The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer....

Highlanders! There Can Be Only One!
The College Basketball Closer is written by the gang at Storming the Floor....