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Rockets Fans Express Their Confidence
I mean, can you really blame them?...

The Penguins Have A Random Dude In Goal And The Rangers Might Be Doomed Anyway
Even if he never plays again, there may not be a better feel-good story in these playoffs than Jeff Zatkoff, a third-string goalie thrust into action by injury, who responded with a confident, capable start that, backed by a Patric Hornqvist hat trick, gave the Penguins about as strong a 1-0 series ...

Blues Take Series Lead Over Blackhawks On Fluke Overtime Goal
You take it. It doesn’t matter how lucky or unpretty a goal is, or how little it has to do with the person credited with it, you take the score. Especially in the playoffs, especially in overtime, especially against a Blackhawks team that’s about to get Duncan Keith back. You take the 1-0 series lea...

Korean Announcers Lose Their Shit Over Dae-Ho Lee's 10th-Inning Walk-Off Dinger
The Mariners stopped their five-game skid in the most emphatic way possible: by walking off the winners after a big ole’ dinger in the tenth inning against a division rival. You can watch the official MLB version of Dae-Ho Lee’s home run against the Rangers if you want, but we recommend these Korean...

Will This Character Finally Make His Debut On <i>Game Of Thrones</i>?
One of the most engrossing facets of George R.R. Martin’s five-book A Song Of Ice And Fire saga is just how big the world is. The experience of reading the ASOIAF books is one of constantly checking the map inside the front jacket to orient yourself and checking the roster inside the back jacket to ...

Bulgarian Soccer Guys Prove That Splashing Around In Puddles Never Gets Old
I would tell these guys playing deep in Bulgaria’s lower leagues on the bog that passes for a pitch to grow up, but it all looks like so much fun that I’m just mad me and my friends don’t jump and kick around in big puddles anymore:...

Wild Soccer Game In New Zealand Ends With 7 Goals, 6 Red Cards
Welcome to the Oceania Champions League, where the stakes are high, the fuses are short, and the goals and red cards flow in almost equal measure. The above highlights come from a match between Kiwi FC and Nadi FA, which began like any other soccer match, only to eventually devolve into chaos....

Pro Cycling's Most Harrowing Race Is A Day In Hell
You can’t drive your car over the cobbled roads of Northern France. They’re jagged anachronisms from a past era of transportation, and the only vehicles that still traverse them are tractors and, one Sunday a year, hundreds of professional cyclists. The 114th running of Paris-Roubaix will take place...

This Is The Among The Best Victory Celebrations In Cycling History
You may glance at the headline above you and reflexively gag at the hyperbole. However, you would be wrong to do so, for Astana’s Diego Rosa really did the shit....

The Portland Trail Blazers Are The Feel Good Team Of The Season
The Portland Trail Blazers are forever confounding expectations. In 2013-14, they were supposed to build upon their 33 wins from the previous season, and if things broke right, challenge for the playoffs. Instead, Damian Lillard leapt to stardom and Robin Lopez was a revelation, and the Blazers won ...

Do You Have Sam Hinkie's Stupid 13-Page Resignation Letter? Give It.
Philadelphia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie resigned this evening, after 76ers ownership attempted to reduce his role even further and bring in additional front office executives....

DA: LeSean McCoy Won't Be Charged In Bar Fight
Bills running back LeSean McCoy won’t be charged for his role in a fight with off-duty cops at a Philadelphia bar in early February, District Attorney Seth Williams announced today. In a release, Williams wrote that there wasn’t “enough evidence to meet the legal threshold to issue charges.” William...

Inside The Room For Tommy John Surgery, Baseball's Most Important Cut
The following is excerpted from The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Passan, available April 5 from HarperCollins....

Walmart Fucks Up Maryland Shirt; Literally Truthers The Shape Of Maryland
In case you missed it last week, an enterprising Twitter user pointed out to Walmart that they were selling University of Maryland shirts with the nickname TERPS jammed into what is clearly an outline of Massachusetts:...

Regular-Season Baseball Team Victories, Ranked
1. Win No. 1 (We’re not going to lose all our games)...

All Hail Peter Sagan, Who Is Too Strong For Tactics
Halfway between the Paterberg and the Tour of Flanders finish line in Oudenaarde, Peter Sagan was slowing down....

Actually, This Is the Best Sports Moment of All Time
Vicki Gunvalson got nailed in the head by a football during the fourth season of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Orange County. I don’t know why Deadspin hasn’t covered it before now. ...

Report: Yao Ming, Who Was Awesome, Elected To Basketball Hall Of Fame
The Vertical reports that Yao Ming will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, having won election from a newly formed international committee that took into account his 13 seasons in the CBA and NBA, and his influence on the game in both countries. Because while Yao may not...

Duncan Keith Given Match Penalty, Ejected For Hitting Charlie Coyle In The Face With His Stick
Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith was given a match penalty—and therefore automatically ejected—after hitting Wild forward Charlie Coyle in the face with his stick....

Guy Falls At The Start, Gets Trampled, And Wins World Half Marathon Championship
Now this is how to win the World Half Marathon Championship. Kenyan ace Geoffrey Kamworor’s ripping victory in 59:10 (that’s averaging four minutes and 30 seconds per mile for 13.1 miles) at Sunday’s race in Cardiff, Wales, is a thing of physiological wonder. That any human could scissor his legs ov...