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Your Saturday Open Thread Smorgasbord
Rangers-Devils Game 3 is in progress. Clippers-Spurs gets under way at 3:30 p.m. and baseball is always there. The Preakness will be later this evening and Oklahoma City-Lakers will carry us though the night. Enjoy....

Sunday Open Thread Smorgasbord
Lob City's walking wounded are playing now! And Game 1 between the Pacers and Heat follows at 3:30 p.m. Baseball is underway across the land and the Kings and Coyotes face off at 8:00 p.m. Enjoy it all while ignoring your mothers, you jerks....

Here Is Your Saturday Open Thread Smorgasbord
The NBA and NHL playoffs don't get underway until this evening, but there is still TPC Sawgrass, baseball and...this on the sports docket this afternoon: ...

Your Sunday Open Thread Smorgasbord
Baseball and the NBA playoffs start at 1:00 p.m. The Bulls and Sixers start the action at 1 on ABC and the Knicks and Heat follow up at 3:30 p.m. By then, the Kings and Blues will be underway in a potentially decisive game 4. Both leagues continue into the evening with the Hawks and Celtics at 7:00...

Your Saturday Open Thread Smorgasbord
Here is the open thread smorgasbord. The only NHL game of the day begins now as the Rangers and Capitals face off in Game 4. Baseball picks up at 1:00 p.m., followed shortly by the NBA playoffs starting with the Pacers and Magic at 2:00 p.m. From there we have more basketball, baseball and the Kent...

Sunday Open Thread Smorgasbord
As usual, we've got baseball getting started now and carrying on throughout the afternoon and evening. The NBA and NHL playoffs will follow soon thereafter. Talk, talk, talk below....

Saturday Open Thread Smorgasbord
The NBA Playoffs start now with the Sixers and Bulls. Baseball, as always, gets going at 1:00 p.m. as well. The Rangers and Capital start the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs at 3:00 p.m. and then we're off like gangbusters. Check in throughout the afternoon, talk about whatever and enjoy t...

Sunday Open Thread Smorgasbord
Hockey! Baseball! Basketball! Other marginal sports probably! talk about it all down below with your fellow commenters....

Saturday Open Thread Smorgasbord
We've got a lot of action today in the world of sports. The now omnipresent boys of summer play all day into the night. El Clasico gets underway at 2:00 p.m. on ESPN. The Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, beginning at 3:00 p.m. with the Capitals and Bruins, followed by the Devils and Panthers at 6:30 ...

Your Better-Late-Than-Never Chelsea-Barcelona Champions League Semifinal Open Thread
Do it to it, folks. The match is on FX, if you've been looking for it....

Your Sunday Afternoon Open Thread Smorgasbord
Whether you are looking to talk hockey, basketball, baseball or something else get nuts with each other in the comments below....

Just For Yu: Your Saturday MLB Open Thread
It's a lovely spring afternoon in April, and that means a full slate of MLB games. Yu Darvish has already thrown 27 fewer first inning pitches against the Twins than in his first start of the year. The Machine and his Angels are in the Bronx against the Yankees. Later today, the Rays play the Sox in...

Bryan Stow And His Son Participate In Ceremonial First Pitch At San Francisco Giants Home Opener
Bryan Stow continues on his path to recovery following a vicious beating at Dodger Stadium that left him in a coma resulting in severe brain damage. The San Francisco Giants had hoped he would be able to attend Opening Day, but he remains in a care facility....

Vin Scully Has A Cold
Which is why the Dodgers have announced he won't be calling this afternoon's home opener even though the team plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dodger Stadium—a park that opened 12 years after Scully starting broadcasting Dodgers games....

Amateur Hour For Drunks: A Dispatch From Opening Day In America
(This article was originally published at DesigNate Robertson. Photos by the author.)...

Pirates Fan Sleeps His Way Through Opening Day
Yesterday was the start of a new season of baseball in Pittsburgh, and that means the promise of another 90-loss summer. The fan in the yellow hat just over the left shoulder of Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz just couldn't contain his excitement....

It's Your Opening Day Open Thread
Here we go. At 1 p.m., It's fat guys versus beer and chicken, as the Detroit Tigers meet the Boston Red Sox. Discuss that and all the rest of today's baseball action in the comments....

Deadspin Does Opening Day, Again
Another day, another Opening Day! Here's your open thread for today's baseball games. And here's some more reading for you while the Red Sox waste time between pitches: Wait, when does the season begin, again? » | The historical events that could have happened in the time it took MLB to start its se...

Mets Fans Should Be Proud Of Not Selling Out Opening Day
If you're not doing anything today, why not head out to Citi Field to catch the Mets' Opening Day game? At last check, there were several thousand decent seats still available. To make it even sweeter, if you go today, you'll get free tickets to another game this weekend....

The Marlins Opened Their New Stadium In The Saddest, Most Awkward Way Possible
Marlins Park is the new jewel of Miami, and team owner Jeffrey Loria must've figured it wise to use a big-time celebrity with some Miami cred to deliver the ceremonial first pitch ball. (Also, it'd be a sly way of avoiding any boos on what was supposed to be a celebratory moment.) Loria's choice ...