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This Week's College Football Viewing Schedule
The 3:30 time slot is overrun with compelling, high-stakes contests that will directly affect playoff spots and division championships. Noon used to look half-decent, but now is really only good for complaining about how this guy can play and this guy can't. And late, a top-ten Arizona team is an un...
Today's College Football Viewing Schedule
It's an early-fall cornucopia of college football delight today, with four ‒ four! ‒ games featuring two top-15 teams, and an undercard featuring two more games between two top-25 teams. It may be a crisp, clear fall day where you are, perfect for ogling foliage, but do yourself a favor and stay hom...
Today's College Football Viewing Schedule
Recommended games are bolded, and today, those are few and far between. I feel like I've even been generous with my bolding. There are zero games today featuring two ranked teams, and and if you need further evidence of the lackluster nature of today's slate, Syracuse is playing in primetime on ABC....
Today's College Football Viewing Schedule
It's not a slate packed with marquee games, but when there's a load of expected blowouts, you know one or two underdogs are going to rise up and bust some heads. Let's hope, somehow, that Purdue is one of them....
Today's College Football Viewing Schedule
The rest of the college football world was good enough to get out of the way of Stanford vs. USC at 3:30, and that was very nice of them. The only exceptions were a handful of Ohio and Kentucky schools who just had to make 3:30 today the time when all Ohio vs. Kentucky football beefs were settled....
Minor-League Pitchers Combine To Finish Very Strange No-Hitter
Logan Darnell of the Rochester Red Wings, a Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins, put the finishing touches on a no-hitter against the Durham Bulls Monday night. Darnell only pitched the last six innings of the game, though, and the man who originally started the game isn't even a member of the...
Red Wings Generously Agree To Accept Huge Sums Of Money From Public
Yesterday, the Detroit Red Wings unveiled plans for their brand new publicly subsidized $450 million arena development. The arena, which promises to include $200 million additional investments in mixed-used development, will break ground in September. The Ilitch family, which owns the Red Wings and...
Loyalty In Sports Is Stupid
This is about hockey. Not that other thing....
Deadspin's Johnny Manziel Obsession, Visualized
Both the ESPN and NFL Network draft broadcasts Deadspin and Regressing blogrolls were Johnny Football-obsessed tonight last night, but the Worldwide Leader and everyone around here was especially interested in the Heisman-winning Texan. Led by a drooling Jon Gruden a drooling Samer Kalaf and Tim Bur...
Zdeno Chara Laughs At Puny Humans Who Want To Fight Him
Detroit defenseman Brendan Smith has been a target of abuse through the first two games of the series. He decided to take out his frustrations on the nearest Bruin. The nearest Bruin just happened to be the tallest NHL player ever....
Here's Milan Lucic's Nutshot On Danny DeKeyser
This is why no one feels bad for the Bruins after Game 1. ...
Pavel Datsyuk's Slick Moves Put Detroit Up 1-0 Over Bruins
Just 30 seconds before this play, Detroit goaltender Jimmy Howard watched Milan Lucic 's redirection of Jarome Iginla's shot/pass on goal harmlessly trickle through the crease. It was the Bruins best chance of the night and on the pendulum swing back, they were down 1-0. These things always seem to ...
At Last, Andrei Kirilenko Is Bringing Hooters Restaurants To Russia
Good news, Russians. Is time for Hooters!...
Children's Drawings Of The Phillies' Lineup Are Adorably Goofy
Reader Alex sent us photos from today's Phillies game against the Marlins. As an event for the first Sunday home game, the team used children's drawings of the players for the pictures accompanying the lineup on the Jumbotron. The doodles are pretty cute, and—oh no, what happened to Marlon Byrd's ey...
Unkillable Red Wings Make 23rd Straight Postseason
By earning a point last night in a shootout loss to Pittsburgh, the Detroit Red Wings clinched their 23rd straight postseason berth. They salvaged that point on this goal from center Riley Sheahan. Riley Sheahan wasn't yet born the last time the Red Wings missed the playoffs....
The Red Wings Won On A Buzzer-Beater
Last-second winners aren't just for basketball. Daniel Alfredsson was credited with the goal with 0.4 seconds left in overtime against Pittsburgh, and Detroit nabbed a crucial two points in a pants-poopingly tight playoff race....
Do NBA Players Really Get Arrested More Than Usual? (No, Stop This)
Because this is an enormous waste of everyone's time and brain energy, but also because you should have at least a functional grasp of how stupid it is, here is a very quick rundown on how often NBA players are arrested, compared to the rest of the country....
Detroit Scam City: How The Red Wings Took Hockeytown For All It Had
The following is excerpted from a feature running in Next City's weekly Forefront series on urban issues. ...