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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!...
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...
What Was Patrice Bergeron's Mystery Injury? Pretty Much Everything.
Bergeron, the Bruins' irreplaceable two-way center, was questionable for last night after being rushed to the hospital during Game 5. No one would say precisely what was ailing him, but after he had to watch the Blackhawks lift the cup, he fessed up: he was a broken man....
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....
Baby Does Not Seem To Appreciate Significance Of Moment
Baby in the Cup! - pic.twitter.com/aL87Dui3WA...
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. ...
Do Sleepy Hitters Really Lose Plate Discipline During The MLB Season?
Originally published in Baseball Prospectus....
A Win Is A Win, But The Blackhawks Have Been Fortunate.
Three out of the four Stanley Cup Finals games have been decided in overtime. The other one was decided by two goals. The Bruins and Blackhawks both have loads of talent, but good fortune's also played a part....
Your Cable Company Is Smugly Giving You Second-World-Quality DVR
Over at Slate the normally amiable Josh Levin is lighting torches and sharpening farm implements, trying to foment a revolution — and he needs your help! All it takes is a few minutes of your time to hector your cable company into offering you a basic service that such benighted Podunks as Ireland a...
Undead And Uptight: <em>World War Z</em>, Reviewed.
1. At this point, the zombie movie has gone through just about every permutation possible, from its low-budget schlock horror roots all the way into the world of comedy, faux-documentary, Western, even romance. The one thing we haven't seen yet from the zombie genre, at least until the release of W...
Long Gone
Tender story by David Davis over at SB Nation Lonform: "'She is Gone': The Search for the Gibson Home Run and for the Answers to a Family Tragedy":...
Reports: Warrant Issued For Aaron Hernandez's Arrest
Multiple stations in Boston are reporting that an arrest warrant has been issued for Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez. According to the station, Hernandez will be charged with obstruction of justice, which could be just a precursor to more serious charges....
Brawling And Boozing With The Rats Of Yankee Stadium
Lasting Yankee Stadium Memories, edited by yours truly, is out in paperback now. To celebrate, here's an essay from the late George Kimball. It's about Yankee Stadium II, Billy Martin, finks and phonies, brawling, and, of course, drinking with Bill "Spaceman" Lee....
Vindictive Hockey Fans Stiff Shoney's Employee On Tips
You might not think the people of Panama City, Fla., really like their hockey, but they do. Or at least three of them do. And when they go to the Shoney's in town, expecting to find the finals game on TV and do not? They get mad. They get frugal....
Report: Aaron Hernandez Was With Victim On Night Of Homicide
While police continue to investigate the homicide of Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro football player who dated Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's girlfriend's sister, MyFoxBoston is reporting that Hernandez and two other men were out at a bar with Lloyd just hours before he was killed....