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Stat Line of the Night — 3/27/2013 — Kemba Walker
Kemba Walker entered the NBA in 2011 fresh off an NCAA Championship and Tournament MVP honors, but he’s had to learn the hard way that wins in the pros won’t come quite as easily as they did during his college career. In his first season with the Charlotte Bobcats, who drafted him ninth overall in [...]
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The Cheerleader Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament
The Sweet 16 of the 2013 NCAA Tournament has been selected, and the college basketball action resumes on Thursday at 7:15 P.M. eastern. However, if your team is out, your bracket has gone to hell, and all you’re really looking forward to is the college basketball cheerleaders, there is good news: you don’t have to [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 27th) — NCAA Tournament
It was on this day in 1939 that the first ever NCAA Basketball Tournament Championship was awarded. Oregon would go on to win the championship, beating Ohio State in the finals. Only eight schools were involved in the first ever NCAA men’s basketball tournament, as opposed to the 68 that are involved in today’s tournament. [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 3/26/2013 — Nikolai Khabibulin
Prior to the start of the lockout-shortened 2012-13 NHL season, Sports Illustrated ranked the Edmonton Oilers as the top team in the Western Conference, and the third-best team in the entire league, behind the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New York Rangers. But with two-thirds of the season in the books, the Oilers once again find [...]
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Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer Take on Kung Fu Crime Syndicate in New EA Sports Commercial (Video)
Don’t look now, but it looks like Tiger Woods is Tiger Woods again. By that I mean, of course, that Tiger Woods is starting to look more like the guy he used to be before his predilection for cheating on his wife with porn stars and cocktail waitresses went public, and his golf game went [...]
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The 13 NHL Goals Scored by Goalies
Last week, New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur scored the third goal of his illustrious NHL career. Well, over the weekend, I happened to overhear a couple of gentlemen discussing the issue of goalies scoring goals at a local drinking establishment that I sometimes frequent, and they were all wrong. One said that the last [...]
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Watch a Texas High School Senior Bench Press 700 Pounds (Video)
If an NFL player had bench-pressed 700-pounds, we’d probably tell you about it—seeing as how Larry Allen‘s 705-pound lift is still considered to be an unofficial NFL record. So it goes without saying that a Texas High School football player bench-pressing 700-pounds is certainly newsworthy. The feat was accomplished by Pilot Point High senior, Matt Poursoltani, [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 26th) – Michigan State Spartans
It was on this day in 1979 that Michigan State would play Indiana State for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Michigan would defeat Indiana 75-64, lead by point guard Magic Johnson, who was also named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. To this day, the 1979 championship game is still the highest-rated college basketball game in [...]
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Epic Brawl Between Parents at Minor Hockey Game in Tweed, Ontario (Video)
Sadly, fights between parents and other spectators at youth sporting events are quite common. Whether it’s because people are overly protective of their kids, or too wrapped up in their lives, or too inclined to bring a 12-pack of beer to kids baseball games, these fights happen. However, no parents fight like hockey parents. Sure, [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 3/25/2013 — John Wall
During Saturday’s game against the Golden State Warriors, the Washington Wizards’ John Wall was ejected from the game after picking up his second technical foul following a skirmish with Klay Thompson. He would play only 24 minutes that game and the Wizards would go on to lose by a score of 101-92, but that sequence [...]
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Help Us Send This Man to Space!: Vote for Adam Mirra as Canada’s Representative at the AXE Apollo Space Academy
You see that man rocking out on the mic in the above image? That’s Adam Mirra. Those who have met him usually go on to consider themselves privileged to have had such an opportunity. And those who have never met him don’t know what they are missing. Anyways, the fact of the matter is this: The world [...]
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50 of the Most Gruesome Sports Injuries of All-Time
Nobody likes seeing their favorite player go down with a groin injury or a high ankle sprain. However, while those kinds of injuries can keep players on the disabled list for a long time, at least they usually don’t endanger their careers. Not all sports injuries are so mild. In fact, some are so gruesome [...]
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Streaker Interrupts Ski Jumping World Cup Final (Video)
Apparently streakers are getting tired of interrupting baseball games and tennis matches and are now setting their sites on more exotic sporting events. Just a couple of weeks ago, we told you about a brazen fellow who dashed out onto the ice during the intermission at a Calgary Flames game. That was pretty different. And [...]
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NASCAR Fight: Joey Logano Brawls with Tony Stewart, Sends Denny Hamlin to the Hospital at Auto Club 400 (Video)
Remember last week, when we told you about the Ford City 500 and the brewing NASCAR feud between Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin? If you recall, we suggested that you, dear reader, keep an eye on this situation. Well, I hope you heeded our advice and tuned in to the Auto Club 400 at Fontana [...]
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Lewis Hamilton Races for Mercedes Now, Stops In McLaren Pit Anyway (Video)
After finishing in second in the Formula One Drivers’ Standings in his first year with Vodafone McLaren Mercedes back in 2007, and first place in his sophomore season, Lewis Hamilton failed to finish on the final podium in each of his next four seasons. That led him to bid farewell to McLaren and make the move [...]
