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Your NBA Eastern Conference Championship Open Thread
Mare Bear's back. She doesn't much like anybody who plays her Chicago Bulls. You know this. The Bulls now this. And now, the Lebrons know this. Here, Mare breaks down the 21-point Game 1 victory with Wooden-esque nuance and insight. Example:...
Chris Berman On <em>You're With Me, Leather</em>: "Mr. Kornheiser Chose To Run With It."
While the long-standing Kornheiser-Berman beef doesn't have the same initial draw of, say, Beadle-Andrews, its appearance in Those Guys Have All The Fun does lead us to the alleged root of everyone's favorite alleged pick-up line: You're with me, Leather....
Hue Jackson Needs To Sell You Some Raider Tickets
There's this lockout thing, see? And with no football, the football teams that usually make money off of football, they can't make money. So that's bad for people who work for the teams, and not just the players: the coaches and execs and secretaries and janitors too. So a lot of teams are cutting s...
More Misplaced Rhetoric From Pro Football Talk
De Smith says the NFL is the "first league in the history of sports that has ever sued to not play their game," which, like a lot of slogans, isn't entirely accurate (the NFL hasn't sued), even if it accurately conveys the sense that the NFL is taking great pains to get its lockout. Mike Florio has ...
Who Wants To See Daniel Tosh Get Punched In The Face By Manny Pacquiao?
We don't really know who Daniel Tosh is, but we are vaguely aware that he has a Comedy Central show called tosh.0 and that a lot of people think that both he and his show are awful. So we'll assume that a lot of people will want to see him get punched in the face by the best boxer in the world....
For Just $3,000, You Can Own LeBron's Japanese Handprint
When you think of LeBron James, what's the first thing that comes to mind? If you are precisely no one, the answer is $3,000 Japanese handprints. But, lo, a presumably fine fellow from Upper Deck passed along a press release today announcing the sale of those very handprints. There are only 26. In t...
Derek Boogaard, The Quintessential Goon
This is Derek Boogaard, younger, still the same player....
The Mystery Of The Mets Manbaby
At Citi Field last night, something...was....
The Photo Of Taj Gibson's Dunk On Dwyane Wade Will Replace Bruce Lee Posters Across America
Via the NBA Photo Twitter feed, we present to you the posterization of Dwyane Wade (click here to see the full view), who is usually the one doing the posterizing. To his credit, Wade has been only complimentary and self-deprecating about the dunk that was seen 'round the American couches and barsto...
Joe Girardi Explains Growing Old Together To Jorge Posada While His Mistress Bats Leadoff
A play, courtesy of the New York Yankees, in six vexing acts:...
This Is The Only Woman In The World Who Knows What It's Like To Get Caught Between Two Tim Tebows In Her Underwear
Your morning roundup for May 16, the day that Hickey got his edits from Lady Gaga. Tebow photo via @Lisa_Altobelli, who has the full shot....
ESPN Book Excerpt: Keith Olbermann, The Asshole Genius
GQ called dibs on the first exclusive excerpt of the gigantic Miller-Shales ESPN oral history, Those Guys Have All The Fun, but we've been given an excerpt of their excerpt just because nobody wants us running any more unapproved excerpts. We'll play along. So read this, then pop over to GQ for the...
Here's The Taj Gibson Dunk That Inspired Reggie Miller To Quote Martin Luther King On Air
The Bulls beat the Heat by 21 points at home in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals this evening. Taj Gibson, who finished with nine points and seven boards off the bench for Chicago, had the two best dunks of the game. The first left Reggie Miller speechless, and presumably on top of Steve Ke...
Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread
Neither the San Jose Sharks nor the Vancouver Canucks have won the Stanley Cup. Ever. Hell, the Sharks haven't even been to the finals. But first team to beat the other four times will fight for it against either Boston or Tampa Bay, who have both won it before. (And just like that, you have the fi...
Your NBA Playoffs Open Thread
The only thing better than Game Seven of an NBA playoff series is Game Seven of an NHL playoff series, Game Seven of MLB playoff series or an overtime playoff game in the NFL playoffs beyond the wild-card round. So, brace yourselves for the 3:30 p.m. Oklahoma City Thunder/Memphis Grizzlies winner-t...
Watch People Cheer For A Suicidal Turtle At The Players Championship
Your morning roundup for May 15, the day Lazy Cakes, Kush Cakes and Lulla Pies start becoming Public Enemy Nos. 1-3....
Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread
Depending upon when you read this, game one of the Eastern Conference Finals is just about to start, has already done so or did so long ago. Which means you either have no idea, are finding out or long ago learned whether the Tampa Bay Lightning or Boston Bruins are leading the series. Tense action...
The Grizzlies Were Prince To The Thunder's Morris Day Last Night
Your morning roundup for May 14, the day after a homeless Bulgarian man beheaded an elderly British woman in a Spanish supermarket, walked away "clutching the head by its hair, leaving a trail of blood dripping to the ground," but got caught after an Italian motorcyclist threw a helmet at his face....
Your NHL Playoffs Open Thread
Game Seven. Red Wings. At Sharks. Fun fact: San Jose has already had three chances to close the series out, so they probably won't be feeling much stress in a low-pressure game....
When Is A Choke Not A Choke? A Premature Requiem For The Sharks
This is an existential question that should be on every Sharks fan's mind today: is it even a choke if everyone's expecting you to choke?...