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The 11 Most Unlikely Final Four Teams Ever
Over the weekend, the Wichita State Shockers defeated both La Salle and Ohio State to reach the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1965. Was this a shocking* outcome? No, not quite. I, for one, suspected that the Shockers might be capable of a deep run. However, their trip to [...]
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This Day In Sports History (April 2nd) – MLB Players Strike
It was on this day in 1995 that the Major League Baseball players’ strike officially came to an end. The strike lasted 232 days and was responsible for the cancellation of over 900 games. The strike began on August 12th 1994 due to the fact that the owners wanted a salary cap to protect the [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 4/1/2013 — Clayton Kershaw
Clayton Kershaw entered the 2013 MLB season as a favorite to win the National League Cy Young Award, but after his performance on Opening Day against the San Francisco Giants, he may have his sights set on NL MVP honors as well. The Dodgers’ ace was dominant on the mound against the defending World Series [...]
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Agnieszka Radwanska Gives Us the Best Tennis Shot of the Year So Far (Video)
Tennis, like golf or race car driving, is one of those sports that the general public doesn’t pay much attention to until the major events. Thus, unless you’re a huge tennis fan, you probably didn’t even know that the 2013 Sony Open is being played right now in Miami. You do now, however, thanks to [...]
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Boxer Adrien Broner Pays Woman $200 for Her Spot in Line at the DMV (Video)
Everybody hates going to the DMV. In terms of things people dread doing, renewing drivers licenses is right up there behind having a root canal and getting audited. Of course, there’s nothing really painful about actually renewing a drivers license or buying license plate tags. You walk up, you look at some stuff, you answer [...]
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25 Bone-Crushing Hockey Bodychecks GIFs
Some people might say that nothing gets a hockey crowd excited like a fight. That’s certainly what the goons who drop the gloves right after a faceoff think. However, for my money, nothing can take the energy level in an area from a zero to sixty faster than a good old-fashioned bodycheck. I’ll take one [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 28th) — Marquette
It was on this day in 1977 that the Marquette Golden Eagles won the NCAA Men’s Division I Tournament. They would defeat Dean Smith’s North Carolina Tar Heels by a score of 67-59 in the finals, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The win gave the Golden Eagles their first ever men’s basketball title, and [...]
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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 [...]
