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Once Again Proving Olympic Hockey Is A Mickey Mouse Affair
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How 18-Year-Old Mikaela Shiffrin Kept Her Nerve And Won Slalom Gold
This morning, 18-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin became the youngest skier to win gold in the Olympic slalom. Ever. How? She took on a course with the kind of calm usually shown by athletes who have been on the race circuit for, well, as long as she's been alive....
Russian Beers, Ranked
When we think of Russian drinking customs, we like to envision steely-eyed, furry-hatted folk guzzling vodka with silent partners, grim determination, and maybe a pickle. That image has a certain nihilistic charm. It's less romantic to acknowledge that too many of these sad bastards wind up taking ...
The Inspirational Note Canada's Women's Team Left The Men
When Team Canada entered their dressing room ahead of today's eventual 1-0 win, they found this note—left there by a group of players who already knew what it's like to beat the U.S. by a goal....
Canada Blows Out USA, 1-0
This was the game's only goal, a near-90-degree deflection from Jamie Benn early in the second period, a completely unsaveable puck for Jonathan Quick. Don't make the mistake of believing this was a fluke win, though; This was perhaps the most dominant 1-0 victory in recent memory....
We Have Discovered Proto-Nightmare Bear. He Is The Worst Nightmare Bear
The above photo was taken in July of 2007, and it is the oldest image of Nightmare Bear that exists in the AP image archive. Finally, we can trace the ever-evolving Nightmare Bear's birth back to this one dark day....
The Last-Minute Hater's Guide To Canada
If you're as dedicated as I am to not doing anything, you're surely spending this afternoon watching the United States square off against Canada in the Olympic ice hockey semifinals. CANADA! Those horse-mounting salmon eaters needed to bribe a fucking post yesterday just to beat our women's team. ...
Matt Lauer Asks Bob Costas If He'll Be Taking The Red-Eye Flight Home
Bob Costas joined Matt Lauer on The Today Show this morning to discuss the buzz in Sochi and at the end of the segment, Lauer casually asked Costas how much longer he was staying in town. Lauer waited for the response and then pounced all over him. ...
The Battle Lines Are Drawn
The CBC's Douglas Gelevan tweeted out the above photo, of the Mountain Broadcast Center. We are three hours away from the U.S. vs. Canada in men's hockey, and North America's best and friendliest rivalry is proving as divisive among the media as it is in whatever trolly corner of the internet you pl...
Was The Figure Skating Fix In? It Probably Didn't Matter.
Russia's Adelina Sotnikova delivered a shocking upset Thursday, when she–not reigning world and Olympic champion Yuna Kim, not former world champion Carolina Kostner, not even 15-year-old Yulia Lipnitskaya, who had been pegged for weeks as the co-favorite–won Olympic gold in women's figure skating. ...
Why Does NBC's Primetime Figure Skating Broadcast Suck?
For the past few weeks, I've been having a problem. My job, such as it is, has been to watch the Olympic figure skating competitions and to then write about it for this website. So nearly every day, clad in my pajamas and sporting my best last-panel-of-a-Cathy-comic hair, I've loaded up the NBC live...
Rob Ford Gets Air
Toronto mayor Rob Ford took a few hours off from not working to watch Canada prevail in the women's hockey gold medal game. This is the moment of victory at Toronto City Hall. For as bad as you may feel for the American players, save your sympathy for Ford's knees....
Which Winter Olympic Sport Has The Biggest Athletes?
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Canadians Freaking Out Over Winning Hockey Gold Is Just Fantastic
People spend their whole lives looking for something to love like Canadians love hockey. So what happens when you throw in a sudden death win for a gold medal? ...
Canadian Pride At The Women's Hockey Medal Ceremony
Here are the Canadian women singing, crying, hugging, celebrating their way through "O Canada." Congratulations to them. But this video is really for Americans. Click play. Force yourself to watch all the way through. ...
Here's Canada Celebrating Its Sudden Death Overtime Win For Gold
Canada beat the U.S. women's hockey team in OT for the gold medal, after coming back from an 2-0 hole with minutes left in the third and dodging an empty net rim-out. Marie-Philip Poulin—who also put in the equalizer—scored the winner on a power play goal after a Hilary Knight penalty. ...
This Is How Close The U.S. Was To Gold
Canada came back from a 2-0 deficit with two scores in 3:26, including Marie-Philip Poulin's equalizer with 55 seconds remaining, to send the gold medal game to overtime. It wouldn't have mattered if Canada's greatest hero—an inanimate goalpost—didn't come up with this huge save....