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Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread
The Sabres, Predators and Canucks all have a chance to win their series 4-2 today. Buffalo hosts the Flyers at 3 p.m.; Nashville hosts Anaheim at 6 p.m. and Vancouver visits the Chicago Blackhawks at 7:30 p.m. All times eastern....
Your NBA Playoffs Open Thread
Today, the Heat can sweep the Sixers and the Celtics can do the same to the Knicks. Tonight, the Hawks and Lakers can take 3-1 leads over the Magic and Hornets respectively....
Marriage License: Chris Bosh Is Officially Spoken For. Chris Bosh: No I'm Not.
Your morning roundup for April 24, a day Gabrielle Giffords continues struggling to recover, but recovering she is....
Addicted To What The Sticks Did
Golf, in real life, never took root in me. I had friends who played, and invited me along. As a young sports writer I covered a couple of exciting tournaments. In college, I enrolled in a golf class my senior… [Kotaku] ...
We Are All Dave McKenna LXXVIII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until Snyder's dumbass libel suit contracts comes down with a debilitating case of necrotizing fasciitis without access doctors and/or antibiotics....
Your MLB Open Thread
Look at the Angels fans throwing balled-up dollar bills at Carl Crawford like he's a dayside pole dancer named Chantrice. About this, intrepid boots-on-the-ground tipster Ryan C. writes:...
Here's Video Of A Seattle Sounders Leg Getting Broken During Last Night's Game
In the third minute of what would ultimately be a 1-0 road win, Steve Zakuani of Seattle Sounders was taken off the field on a stretcher after what's being deemed a cheap-shot sliding tackle by Brian Mullan of the Colorado Rapids broke his right tibia and fibula....
Your NBA Playoffs Open Thread
Starting at 2:30 p.m. eastern, the Chicago Bulls can commence their closing out of the Indiana Pacers. From there, Portland attempts to get even with the Mavericks (5:30 p.m.), the Spurs and Grizzlies fight for a 2-1 series lead (7:30 p.m.) and the Nuggets attempt to get their first win against th...
Dolphins WR Brandon Marshall's Wife Allegedly Stabs Him, But He Claims He Fell Onto A Broken Glass Vase
As referenced earlier, Dolphins WR Brandon Marshall is in an intensive care unit, where he's recovering from a stab wound to the stomach. Per the Miami Herald, his blushing new bride Michi Nogami-Marshall was arrested last night on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in a domestic di...
Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread
The Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals and San Jose Sharks can all advance to the next conference semifinals with victories today. Another way to put it: Today could be the last day of the season for the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings....
Doctor Writes That Pinkeye Is Most Certainly Not To Blame For Tony LaRussa's Frightening Face
Here's an email which came in response to Thursday night's post about the state of St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa's mug....
Here's The Scene That Awaited The Orlando Magic's Jason Richardson After Last Night's Pimp-Slap Ejection
Your morning roundup for April 23, the day we hear about how a Tennessee woman's heart stopped beating for five minutes as a Lady Gaga tribute....
Stop Your Judgmental Infield Chatter While I Handle The Pill, Softball Pitcher Pleads
Here's another overwrought email sent to a company softball team wherein one rookie pitcher had himself a tough outing. For some reason this young fireballer also ended up in a dugout scrap with one of his teammates who started heckling about his performance. Then, of course, he felt compelled to wr...
The Brief Local Nightmare Of A City Whose Mayor Is Kevin Johnson Is Over For Now
Emma, your esteemed video editor, remarked earlier today, as the Deadspin team was on its way back from the Glenn Ligon exhibition at the Whitney, that we just had seen a strange relic....
David Foster Wallace Wrote A Book About You
When David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest was published in 1996, the publicity-shy author was catapulted into the literary spotlight and heralded as the heir to Thomas Pynchon. The thousand-plus page novel—whose plot is vastly sprawling and fantastic but essentially revolves around a lethally ...
We Are All Dave McKenna LXXVII
Here's your daily link to Dave McKenna's brilliant "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," which we'll be posting until [Daniel] Snyder's dumbass libel suit leaves Brown because of incessant teasing....
How Not To Get Caught Cheating
Welcome to Great Moments in Drunken Hookup Failure, where we showcase five heartwarming true stories of drunken love gone horribly awry. Off we go....
So It's Come To This: Mets Fans Wearing Paper Bags
Things are coming to some kind of head in Flushing. Wednesday, fans begin to show up with brown paper bags over their heads, probably the most evocative visual for this team since that Post cover of sad Mr. Met. Even the media started tuning the losses out....
No One's Going To Baseball Games, But Here's Why MLB Isn't Concerned
Baseball Prospectus's Neil DeMause noticed recently, as had we and others, that something weird is going on with baseball attendance this season....