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The Capitals Are Finally Champions
This year was different. The Washington Capitals are Stanley Cup champions....

Backstrom To Ovechkin Has Never Been Bigger Or Prettier
It’s 2-1 Washington as I write this, but the goals are coming fast and furious so let’s not spend too much time on this before the score changes. (No shit, Vegas made it 2-2 before I finished writing that sentence.) But the Caps have been scoring some of the prettiest goals of the playoffs—especiall...

Ovechkin And Fleury Say Hello, With Sticks
Alexander Ovechkin’s and Marc-Andre Fleury’s playoff familiarity goes all the way back to 2009. Fleury’s side has won every single one of their series (even if he happened to be on the bench for some of that). That could change tonight, obviously. Even before puck drop, they were sending each other ...

D.C.'s Chinatown Is Sinking Under A Sea Of Red
It has been a long, long while since the last time D.C. had any reason to throw a public sports watch party. With the Caps on a run through the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the weather around town holding up beautifully, Caps watch parties, taking place inside and around the Caps’ Chinatown arena, hav...

Getting It Straight: When Women Realized The AIDS Crisis Was Theirs Too
Sue Woodman’s feature on how the AIDS crisis impacted women was published in the Jan/Feb, 1987 issue of New York Woman and appears here with the author’s permission....

Ugly Schoolboy Football Feud Leaves Baltimore Powerhouse With Zero Opponents For 2018
If you can’t beat ‘em, blackball ‘em. That’s among the morals of the story of the dissolution of Baltimore’s prep football scene, which is now complete: St. Frances Academy, a historically non-athletic and financially strapped institution which is suddenly among the best football schools in the coun...

Temple's Still Getting Fleeced By The Eagles, And Locals Are Stuck With Both Bills
Temple has yet to start construction on a promised community jobs center, a project that was announced three years ago, but its plans for a controversial on-campus football stadium have only gained steam. This is thanks in part to some grade-A scuzzery courtesy of the Philadelphia Eagles....

Darren Rovell On Fake Headline He Wrote 12 Hours Earlier: "It’s Just Really Bad"
Darren Rovell, an AI who aims to drive Earth’s entire population insane through the banality of its observations, launched yet another attack on our psyches last night:...
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Sixers Allow Bryan Colangelo To Resign After His Wife Admits To Operating Defensive Burner Accounts [Update]
The Philadelphia 76ers and collar-loving general manager Bryan Colangelo have “agreed to part ways” today, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Last week, the Ringer dropped a bombshell report advancing the theory that Colangelo had been secretly operating five Twitter accounts to defend himself. They wer...

The Phillies And Their Dumb Shift Just Handed Third Base To Kris Bryant
The Cubs beat the Phillies 7-5 in a thriller on Wednesday night that culminated in a walk-off grand slam dinger from Jason Heyward. This came right after the Phillies had taken a 5-3 lead in the top half of that inning on a two-run smash from Dylan Cozens. The win-probability graph alone is exciting...

I’ve Had It Up To Here With Solemn Musical Sequences On TV<em></em>
The Americans had its series finale least week and if you’re worried about me spoiling the end for you, please have no fear. I’m not here to shatter your dreams or point out continuity errors. So, without giving any particulars away, I thought the finale was a perfectly fine ending to a well-done se...

Malcolm Jenkins Says A Lot Without Saying A Thing
The Eagles had a media availability today, the day after Donald Trump celebrated Philly’s Super Bowl title by honoring himself. As one might expect, there was a big media turnout:...

Former Michigan State Football Players Sentenced To Probation, Banned From Tinder
Former Michigan State players Donnie Corley, Josh King, and Demetric Vance were sentenced to 36 months’ probation Wednesday morning, bringing to a close the first of two sexual misconduct cases being faced by former Spartans....

Sounds Like Today Could Be A Big Day For Bryan Colangelo
Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo could be getting a little hot under the normal collar. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that Sixers ownership spent “hours” Tuesday night discussing whether to fire Colangelo....

Javy Baez Ruins Sweatshirt, Also Gets An Out
In the ninth inning of an otherwise pretty blah Cubs loss, Chicago shortstop Javier Baez made a daredevil catch along the Steve Bartman wall at Wrigley Field. The out came at the cost of a Cubs fan’s beer and his previously clean sweatshirt, but it was a worthy sacrifice for an acrobatic play....

Novak Djokovic Went Out Swinging Against A Relentless No-Name
Marco Cecchinato is 25 years old. Until this week, he had never won a match at a major—first-round losses in all four tries. Until last month, his biggest splash on tour might have been a 2016 suspension for match-fixing, later overturned on appeal. At No. 72 in the world, he has become the lowest-r...

This Obituary Is Ruthless
The Redwood Falls (Minn.) Gazette published the above paid obituary on Monday, both online and in print. Sometime Tuesday, the paper deleted the obit from its website. The Schunk and Dehmlow families seem to have some unsettled business, though I suppose this is one step toward a resolution....

Trump Unable To Remember Words To "God Bless America" At Performance Commissioned To Prove His Patriotism
Donald Trump’s hastily arranged replacement for the Super Bowl champion Eagles’ White House visit featured the president making a very brief appearance to talk about how great the economy is and, then, stand awkwardly while mouthing maybe half the words to “God Bless America” like a Yankees fan in r...

LeBron James And Steph Curry Say Neither NBA Finals Team Will Visit The White House
An impossibly stupid saga is raging in the NFL, and the NBA has already offered a response via its two biggest stars: Neither Finals team will visit the White House. LeBron James made that clear today in a press conference:...

White House: Philadelphia Eagles "Decided To Abandon Their Fans"
Donald Trump won’t leave this alone, because he can’t leave this alone, because this isn’t about patriotism or respecting the flag or honoring the troops or anything other than his own desire to stoke outrage and division in the name of political expediency. Via the White House press office:...