Tag Archives: rivalries
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Flyers Fan Wears T-Shirt Expressing His True Feelings About Sidney Crosby (Photo)
You can have your Bruins-Canadiens, Rangers-Devils, or Blue Jackets-Predators*. For my money, the best rivalry in hockey right now is Penguins-Flyers. Last spring they gave us a bizarre, violent, goal fest of a playoff series, and so far this year, in three meetings, they’ve given us a 3-1 game, a 6-5 game, and a 5-4 [...]
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Duke-UNC Managers Game Was Won by a Three-Point Buzzer-Beater (Video)
Last night’s big game between Duke and North Carolina at the former’s Cameron Indoor Stadium was a good one. The #2-ranked Blue Devils brought out the best in the unranked Tar Heels, but pulled away just a bit at the end to close out a 73-68 victory. That wasn’t the only game involved in this [...]
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Carmelo Anthony Was Pissed and Waiting for Kevin Garnett by the Celtics Team Bus After Last Night’s Game (Video)
In general, I’m a little sick of hearing about the Boston-New York sports rivalry, mostly because this rivalry often exists almost entirely in the heads of the fans of those cities, and I live in neither Boston nor New York. However, last night during the Knicks-Celtics game at Madison Square Garden, the Boston-New York rivalry [...]
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15 Pro Athletes Who Joined the Enemy
It’s one thing when one of your favorite athletes leaves your team. It’s another thing altogether when he leaves and goes to your most hated enemy. However, that’s what happened last week when former Red Sox Nation favorite Kevin Youkilis agreed to a one-year, $12 million contract with the—gasp!—New York Yankees. Sure, the Red Sox [...]
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Atlanta Airport Workers Egged the Saints Team Bus Last Night
It’s not uncommon for travelling sports teams to receive inhospitable welcomes from opposing fans. It’s all part of the fun—booing and heckling your team’s rivals as they board or get off the team bus on the way to or from a game. In fact, the New Orleans Saints received one of these inhospitable welcomes just [...]
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25 of the Most Unusual Trophies in College Football
Every sport at every level has its cherished rivalries, and often those rivalries turn into major events. In baseball, for example, you have the Yankees-Red Sox and the Cubs-Cardinals. In the NFL you have the Cowboys-Redskins and the Giants-Eagles. In soccer you have Real Madrid-Barcelona and Lazio-Roma. And in college basketball you have Duke-North Carolina [...]
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9 Best Rivalries In College Basketball (2012 Edition)
Sports rivalries don’t exist in a vacuum. You can say this or that rivalry is the biggest before the season starts, but once the games are played things have a tendency to change. Inevitably, some rivalries that are great on paper won’t live up to the hype; others, meanwhile, will come out of nowhere and [...]
