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Sens Rookie Jean-Gabriel Pageau Lost a Tooth While Scoring His First Career Playoff Goal (Video)
During the Stanley Cup Playoffs, success comes at a steep price. A team doesn’t succeed without a 100% buy-in from each of its players, and an individual doesn’t succeed without a willingness to get gritty and take a few lumps. And nobody complains. That’s just how it is, and it’s all worth it if you [...]
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Son of Horse Trainer Doug O’Neill Was a Total Gangsta at the 2013 Kentucky Derby (GIF)
Last year, the horse trained by Doug O’Neill won the Kentucky Derby. That horse, of course, was I’ll Have Another, and he then went on to win the Preakness before pulling out of the Belmont at the last minute. Unfortunately, his success didn’t turn O’Neill into a rock star in the world of horse racing. [...]
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There Was a Kayak Selling Hot Dogs in McCovey Cove During the Giants-Dodgers Game Last Night (Video)
The San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park is famous for a number of reasons. Its picturesque setting and rabid fan base make it one of the best ballparks to take in a game. It’s the place where Barry Bonds made his historic steroid-fueled assault on baseball’s home run record. It’s the place where fans chiseled a [...]
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Roberto Guerrero’s Dad Says Floyd Mayweather Jr. “Ran Like a Chicken” (Video)
I don’t know about you, but when Ruben Guerrero, father of boxer Roberto Guerrero, called Floyd Mayweather a “woman beater” last week at a press conference, I didn’t really have a problem with it. I mean, Mayweather is a woman beater. He’s been arrested three times for domestic battery and, if he were not one [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 6th) — Hartford Whalers
It was on this day in 1997 that Hartford Whalers owner Peter Karmanos officially announced that the team would be relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, and be known as the Carolina Hurricanes. Karmanos was frustrated with the team’s poor attendance figures as well as a lack of corporate support, which prompted the move to North [...]
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Canadiens and Senators Engage in Epic Playoff Line Brawl (Videos)
You generally don’t see as many hockey fights during the playoffs as you do in the regular season. The reason is that, during the playoffs, every single minute is crucial, and every single player is needed. If a guy isn’t deemed absolutely crucial to his team, then he isn’t in the lineup. So teams just [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/5/2013 — Jean-Gabriel Pageau
While most of us will probably remember Game 3 of the first round playoff series between the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Canadiens for the ridiculous number of penalties that were handed out in the third period, Jean-Gabriel Pageau will always remember it as the game when he scored his first career NHL playoff goal and recorded [...]
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15 Things You Might Not Have Known About the Kentucky Derby
This Saturday is the first Saturday in May, so you know what that means: it’s time for the 139th running of the one and only Kentucky Derby. The most famous horse race in America has long been billed as “the most exciting two minutes in sports,” and whether or not that is actually true, there [...]
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Washington Capitals Fan Takes a Nap During Exciting 3-1 Playoff Victory (Photo)
NHL fans are already a pretty wacky bunch, and when the Stanley Cup Playoffs roll around you can usually count on them to take things to another level. However, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. last night, there was one guy who was just not feeling it. Despite the fact this his team, the [...]
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Dad Catches Foul Ball With Hat While Holding Baby (GIF)
Catching a foul ball with your hat is impressive. What’s even more impressive is catching a foul ball with your hat while holding a baby with your other arm. One brave father attempted to do just that during last night’s game between the Detroit Tigers and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, and it was a great [...]
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Turkish Soccer Player Gets Knocked Out Cold by Flying Kick to the Head (GIF + Video)
In soccer, there are reckless challenges, and then there are insanely vicious challenges. The challenge that Manchester United’s Nani put up against Real Madrid’s Alvaro Arbeloa in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16—the one that got Nani sent off, enabling Real to score two more goals and knock Man U out of the tournament? [...]
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Julio Borbon: Decent Ballplayer, Terrible Actor (Video + GIF)
The flopping epidemic has already spread from soccer to hockey and basketball. In fact, it got so bad in basketball that the NBA now fines players for flopping. Now it appears this flopping business has even spread to baseball. However, ballplayers are still new to the flopping game, so they have yet to hone their [...]
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Senators Steal Win over Canadiens, But Eric Gryba’s Dirty Hit on Lars Eller Steals Headlines (Video)
Last night the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators beat the second-seeded Montreal Canadiens 4-2 to snatch a one-game lead in their opening round playoff series against their regional and divisional rivals. However, they only did it after one of their players knocked a top Montreal forward out of the game and, in all likelihood, out of the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 3rd) – Big Brown
It was on this day in 2008 that Big Brown won the 134th running of the Kentucky Derby. Big Brown entered the race as a 2-1 favorite and would defeat Eight Belles by four and three-quarter lengths. After finishing in second place, three year old philly Eight Belles was euthanized immediately following the race due [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/2/2013 — Craig Anderson
Hockey goaltenders that allow two goals against over the course of a 60 minutes game are rarely awarded the “Stat Line of the Night,” but there is always the occasional exception. Take Craig Anderson‘s performance during Game One of the Ottawa Senators’ first round playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens, for example. You see, while [...]
