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The NBA's young stars balled out in the second round of the playoffs
The boisterous people of Sacramento were not a part of the second round, but the basketball as a whole was no less exciting. As predicted, the Miami Heat and New York Knicks matchup was late 1990s NBA without the fights, but the 2020s NBA was at its best in the other series....
Jamal Murray has been instrumental in Nikola Jokić’s playoff transcendence
Nikola Jokić’s first two MVP seasons were snapped short by title contenders with heavier artillery in the lineup. A year ago, Golden State broke their spirits by targeting Jokić defensively. In 2021, a shorthanded Denver Nuggets team got trounced in a four-game sweep by the Phoenix Suns. ...
The Sports Nihilist: Like life, defense shouldn’t matter
When someone goes for 85 points in an NBA game this season, please don’t downplay the accomplishment. I know Kobe Bryant’s 81 is immortalized, and Lakers fans don’t have much to keep them warm at night nowadays, so they’ll cling even harder, but it feels like someone is going to approach the modern-...
So Derby winner Rich Strike was a heart-warming story for less than a week
I wish Vegas would’ve given the public odds on how long Rich Strike’s feel-good story remained feel-good. While it didn’t take a turn to Cancel Town in the first 15 minutes after the race, it did get there during trainer Eric Reed’s 15 minutes of fame, so my unders bet would’ve hit....
🎵Now, this is a story all about how the life of Seattle Kraken DJ... is awesome🎵
The in-stadium experience is what makes going to sporting events fun. The energy that radiates from other fans of your favorite team, the mascot’s antics, and fan interaction through graphics on the jumbotron and the in-stadium camera crew make attending a live sporting event an unforgettable experi...
Commissioner For A Day: It's Time For A Four-Point Shot In The NBA
It is not a good practice, just as a general rule, to steal Big Ideas from widely maligned and mostly forgotten MTV stunt-programming. But people that play by the general rules or adhere to best practices or “have actual ideas of their own” seldom make history, and I was not going to spend my one hy...
Saint Mary's Beat Gonzaga And Now They're Not Just Some Weirdos
There’s been no stranger team in the current generation of college basketball than the Jock Landale-led Saint Mary’s Gaels. During Landale’s career (he’s now a senior), the small California school has run an offense that looks straight out of the 1950s. They give it to the tall guy under the basket,...
Texas A&M Receiver's Indecent-Exposure Defense: "Bad Case Of Jock Itch"
According to Brazos County court records, Texas A&M receiver Kirk Merritt was charged with two counts of indecent exposure on Nov. 16. Merritt pleaded not guilty to the charges on March 27, and recently requested a waiver of arraignment. The Houston Chronicle first reported on Merritt’s arrest, and ...
The 300-Year Journey From Classical Standard To Gay Disco Anthem To The Most Iconic Anthem In Soccer
The first leg of the 1994 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc Des Princes was rife with the tensions of early ‘90s provincial fandom. “The Boulogne Boys [PSG’s right-wing hooligan supporters] were looking for Arsenal fans to attack in the build-up to ...
Please Return Cassius Marsh's Stolen <i>Magic: The Gathering</i> Cards
I’ve never lost my Magic: The Gathering cards to anything more malicious than a sofa cushion, but I can fathom the pain Seattle Seahawks linebacker Cassius Marsh is feeling after his Land Rover was broken into on Tuesday night. What follows is a tragic sequence of events, and a translation....
Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever
Everyone knows someone who’s run the marathon. Today’s big-city races—in places like Boston, New York, Berlin, and London—draw Olympic hopefuls competing for hundreds of thousands of dollars and hordes of weekend warriors raising money for their favorite charities or just hoping to check off “compl...
Jockey Picks Absolute Worst Time To Jump Off His Horse
The jockey you see getting smoked by a fence in the GIF above is named Lewis Ferguson (don't worry, he's not dead), and this happened during what was apparently his first-ever race with fences. Poor Lewis made some mistakes....
Cops: Horse Jockey Climbed Onto Apartment Porch, Jacked Off, Got Shot
Police say a 21-year-old jockey allegedly masturbated on the deck of a second-floor apartment in Bensalem, Pa., broke in when a woman called 911, attacked two people in another apartment, and got shot in the chest....
Your Worst Jockstrap Horror Stories
Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Email Drew here....
Hey Mike Burke, Don't You Wish You Were The Boss Of The Mets?
From Jock magazine, here's Stan Issacs' 1969 story on Mike Burke....
Bama Fan Pol Accused Of Soliciting Sex From Child Pleads Impotent
Former Mobile County commissioner Freeman Jockisch is facing charges of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl on Craigslist, but he's not letting those accusations get in the way of his Alabama fandom. A crimson-clad Jockisch told WPMI he can't possibly be guilty of trying to have sex with a child...
NBA Live 14: A Pain In Your Ass For No Good Reason
We've gone years without a proper update to NBA Live. This wasn't exactly worth the wait. Kotaku's Owen Good pegs Live 14 as unnecessarily complicated, difficult to learn, sub-par visually, and not a compelling alternative to NBA 2K14. ...
Here's Dusty Baker's Version Of How He Got Fired
This morning, the Reds announced that Dusty Baker is out as Reds managers after six seasons. It was ostensibly a "mutual" decision, but no one bought that. Now Baker gets to tell his side of the story, and if you believe him, he threw himself on his sword to save his hitting coach....
Fox Sports 1's Debut Will Be Headlined By Terrible Fights
Past the public rhetoric about jockularity and fun and providing an alternative to the tweedy intellectualism of ESPN (no really), Fox Sports 1's strategy is simple and sensible: air sports people want to watch. You're not going to conquer America with Champions League soccer, Major League Baseball,...
The Jockey
Slide on over to the Times and check out "The Jockey" by Barry Bearak. Article and video are worth your time:...