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High School Basketball Coach Tells Team He's Gay
Worth your time: MSG Varsity has a thorough report on 35-year-old Anthony Nicodemo's decision to out himself as a gay man. Nicodemo is the basketball coach at Saunders, a high school in Yonkers, N.Y. He was inspired to come out after having met Jason Collins at a recent LGBT sports summit in Oregon....
Big Trouble with a Capital "T"
From Lenny Shecter, dig this 1963 Sports Illustrated piece on Rubin "Hurricane" Carter:...
Here's Every Stanley Cup Finals Goal As It Sounded In The Arena
It's no secret we're fans of Mike Emrick here. (Well, most of us.) But we're giving "Doc" the day off here, in order to show you what it was like to be a spectator in United Center or TD Garden for each goal scored in this year's Stanley Cup Finals....
What Those Two Goals In 17 Seconds Were Like At One Chicago Bar
At the Pony Inn in Lakeview, where holyshitthegameistied! was followed almost immediately by holyshitthehawksaregoingtowin!...
Mark Sanchez Looks Like He Had A Grand Old Time Last Night
Napa! Women! Mark Sanchez dance party. This is the Jets news America needs right now....
Maurice Jones-Drew Will Not Face Charges For Bar Fight
The state attorney in Florida's seventh judicial circuit has decided not to prosecute Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew for his alleged role in a bar fight in which a bouncer was knocked out with a single punch....
Bruins Fan Gets His Office Turned Into A Blackhawks Shrine
This picture comes to us from reader Noah, who had it sent to him by his father this morning. "Architects have fun, too," he explains. They sure do, Noah. They sure do....
PHOTOS: Chicago's Stanley Cup Celebrations Got Slightly Out Of Hand
After their second championship in three years, Blackhawks fans flooded out of the bars and into the streets of Wrigleyville to celebrate with each other, to drink, and in a few noteworthy instances, to bust shit up....
The CBC Put A Bow On The NHL Season With This Excellent Montage
Throughout the Stanley Cup playoffs, the CBC’s Hockey Night In Canada has been doing fantastic work producing pregame videos (this one is my personal favorite), and last night the show ended its coverage with an excellent montage spanning all of this year’s playoff action. You might want to look aw...
Someone Wrote The World's Dumbest Column About John Wall's New Tats
This, from the Washington Post's Jason Reid, is not so much a column as it is an extended pageant answer. It's as if someone had just asked: "Miss DC, do you think the Washington Wizards should give John Wall a max contract in light of his recently revealed predilection for body art?" And Miss DC h...
Straight, No Chaser
Last week, we featured an excerpt from Eliot Asinof's fine baseball novel, Man on Spikes. Today, here's more on Asinof....
Elated Blackhawks Fan Won't Stop Wagging Tongue Near Reporter's Face
Poor Michelle Gallardo of ABC 7 was live on the scene in Wrigleyville. "Everybody has been very well behaved," she said. ...
Andrew Shaw's Bloody Face Is The Face Of The Stanley Cup
Andrew Shaw was the Game 1 hero, but that's not what he does. He's a pest. An agitator. A player who gets his hands dirty, and his face bloody, and raises a Cup....
How The Blackhawks Made It Back To The Top
The Chicago Blackhawks, the first two-time champions in the NHL's salary-cap era, could tell you better than anyone: It takes an entire team to win a Stanley Cup, but nothing is possible without the right core....
Chicago Blackhawks Win Stanley Cup In Insane Finish
That was just about the nuttiest Stanley-Cup-clinching game you're likely to see. With 1:30 left in the game, the Blackhawks trailed 2-1 and Corey Crawford was heading for the bench for an extra skater. One minute and two Chicago goals later and it was Tuukka Rask heading for his bench. ...
Andrew Shaw Took A Puck To The Face
With just about four minutes remaining in the first period of Game 6 in Boston, Shawn Thornton fired a shot into the Chicago zone that deflected off Andrew Shaw's stick and into his face, leaving blood on the ice. He went down immediately and stayed down for some time before eventually skating off....
Antoine Walker Really Wants You To Know He'd Like To Coach The Celtics
In case you were wondering:...
Here's Allen Iverson Talking About Playing Russian Roulette
On a recent episode of Adrien Broner's online reality show, About Billions, Broner and his crew ran into Allen Iverson while they were partying in Atlanta. Above is Iverson's brief cameo—flagged by Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang—and it will make you miserable. ...
Brek Shea Posted—Then Quickly Deleted—This Very American Photo
Why yes, Shea is from Texas, how did you guess?...