New Jersey lost their second game of their Eastern Conference Final series to the Rangers, and in an eerily similar fashion to the first. While some aspects to their effort improved, the Devils have to find a way to get pucks past Henrik Lundqvist. If a Game 2 victory Wednesday night had somehow helped the New Jersey Devils to forget the frustration
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Trade Andrew Bynum? If the All-Star center ever wants to truly blossom, he needs teammates who won't ignore him in the fourth quarter of must-win games. He needs to get away from Kobe Bryant. Whenever the words "Andrew Bynum" and "trade" come up in the same sentence, they are usually uttered by fluttering L.A. Lakers fans who seek to upgrade their f
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Concerned about the Spurs' defense going forward? That 24-0 run in Game 3 against the Clippers, in which a Chris Paul team was held scoreless 14 straight times down the floor, should help ease your mind. The San Antonio Spurs' offense has not been in question at all this season. San Antonio finished with the league's best offense in the regular seas
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Our idea for a quick fix: Instead of lining segment winners up 1-2-3-4, why not have them start 4-3-2-1 for the final 10-lap shootout? Through 80 laps of Saturday night's All-Star Race, I wanted to high-five the NASCAR executive who came up with the new event format. It seemed brilliant: By giving the drivers incentive to go hard in each segment, NA
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Yani Tseng will have plenty of time to work on her putting before next month's ShopRite LPGA Classic. The 49th-ranked player in the world upset No. 1 in the third round of this week's match play contest. Candie Kung, the 49th-ranked player in the world, stunned top-ranked Yani Tseng Saturday with a 3 and 2 knockout punch in the third round of the LP
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Signed by New Jersey as an undrafted free agent in 2005, David Clarkson took the long road to the NHL. Nearly seven years later, the rugged power forward is a big key to the club's chances to qualify for the Cup Final. "Good things come to those who wait." It's an age-old saying that attempts to prove the virtue of being patient and how patience can
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The new bowl game partnership between the Big 12 and SEC is neat and all, but we could be just a couple moves away from something huge. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}
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A Bo Jackson retrospective, relegation in college football, an interview with Mark Mark and more longreads from the week that was in sports. We're back with another collection of weekend reads -- the longer pieces you may have missed, or just may not have had time to sit down and enjoy throughout the week. From a Bo Jackson retrospective to a massiv
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A win in Saturday's Champions League Final could kickstart a "Bayern Era" in Europe. "In 2020 the Allianz Arena will be paid off. Then we will be the richest club in the world." "We have a stadium that is worth half a billion Euros, an extremely valuable squad and a bulging fixed deposit account." "When the financial fair play rules come in it will
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Andres Gonzales is all about having fun. If his score at the Byron Nelson is any indication, he's really enjoying himself this week. If you don’t recognize Andres Gonzales from his awesome Fu Manchu and long, flowing tresses, just look for the golfer at this week’s Byron Nelson Championship who’s having a blast on the course. &ldqu
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The 2012 Indy 500 isn't until next weekend, but qualifying begins Saturday. The 2012 Indy 500 isn't until Memorial Day Weekend, but Indy 500 qualifying will begin this weekend, on Saturday, May 19, with IndyCar drivers looking to get position up front for next Sunday's race. All of the drivers are starting new, turbocharged engines this year, and 20
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Rory McIlroy has everything a sponsor could ask for -- a major championship, a warm smile, and a beautiful girlfriend. Bubba Watson may be a popular winner of this year’s Masters Tournament, but he’s no Rory McIlroy when it comes to raking in dough for sponsors. So says SportsProMedia, which tapped the young golfer from Northern Ireland
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The Washington Redskins finally have a franchise quarterback. How quickly can Robert Griffin III lead his team back to the playoffs? The Washington Redskins have had more coaches in the last ten years than winning seasons. Actually, the dry spell in DC goes back even further, another decade, punctuated by three playoff appearances and just four win
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We really need to stop using the words 'swag' and 'swagger'. Forever. But before we kill swagger, we need to celebrate it. We need to stop using the word [redacted] and its derivative cousin [redacted]. They are words that make me angry every time I see them, because I'm reminded of Tim Tebow, Drake, SportsCenter, Soulja Boy, Justin Bieber, and eve
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The NHL and NHLPA went through a formality this week, as the league told the union that it wishes to modify the current CBA. You can allow lockout fears to consume you if you want, but it's really not time for that just yet. It's not that the current collective bargaining agreement between the NHL and the NHL Players' Association has treated them po
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As Chelsea prepare to take on Bayern Munich, they know that they will be facing one of the scariest players in world football. As football fans living in the future, we are assailed on all sides by numbers. Pass completion percentages, successful dribble tottage, chance creation ratios, interceptions per moon phase ... if it exists, it can be measur
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There are 16 possible matchups for the 2012 NBA Finals. LeBron James figures heavily in the best ones. But will his Heat make it? The NBA playoffs are reaching their midway point, with semifinal series on either side heading to potentially decisive games this weekend. And so, it is time for us to figure out which NBA Finals matchups would be good an
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The NFLPA Rookie Premiere had a dozen draft picks visiting a Los Angeles high school where they reversed roles and became coaches running drills for the students. Over 30 2012 NFL Draft picks have made their way to Hollywood, Calif., for their official coming out party, which has been dubbed the NFLPA Rookie Premiere. Rookies representing over two d
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You never know what can happen in match play. Just ask Suzann Pettersen, Paula Creamer, and Brittany Lincicome. Winless since last August’s Safeway Classic, defending champ Suzann Pettersen lost in Thursday’s first round of the Sybase Match Play Championship to Jodi Ewart. Pettersen, ranked third in women’s golf, was unable to get
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Those who watch will be champions. Those who watch this week's edition of Shutdown Fullback, that is. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs")
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Qualifying for the 2012 Indy 500 begins Saturday and we break down the two-day process. The 2012 Indianapolis 500 is quickly approaching, but before we get to the May 27 race, the drivers first need to qualify. Over the years, the Indy 500 qualifying process has varied slightly, but the current process has been used since 2010. Unlike previous year
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Dan Majerle caught a baseball, a pacifist started beating people up, and Andre Iguodala made one of the worst passes ever. It was a good week for sports, and for animated GIFs. Cast your vote, and help us determine the very best. Hello, friend, and welcome to the second edition of THIS WEEK IN GIFs. (If you missed last week's GIFs, you can catch the
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Dominant play from Kings centers Anze Kopitar and Jarret Stoll -- oh, and Mike Richards too -- leaves opponents powerless to match lines or win the puck for long. The Los Angeles Kings notched another close yet authoritative victory in the Western Conference Final Thursday night, but what else is new? They're simply 11-1 in the playoffs, methodicall
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Dwyane Wade had the worst playoff game of his career in Game 3 against the Pacers, and the Heat stumbled to their second-straight playoff loss without Chris Bosh. But that's only part of where things have gone wrong. "Dwyane Wade came into this game averaging 26 points," Hubie Brown said late in the second quarter. "Taking 22 shots a game, getting
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No other coach in the league consistently turns lead into gold the way that Popovich does, taking cast-offs from other teams and transforming them into productive elements of the magical Spurs offense. The Wikipedia entry for alchemy includes the following description: The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the
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As lame as it may sound, all parties really do appear to be better off after a wild day of trading. This time last year, Danny Califf was the Philadelphia Union's captain, Juan Agudelo was poised to be the next great American star and Heath Pearce was leading a revamped Chivas USA defense. Oh, how far we've come. While the pair of trades that sent C
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Tiger Woods may be past his prime on the golf course, but he's still the guy to beat on Forbes Celebrity 100. His game may be in transition, some golf fans may wonder why TV cameras follow his every on-course move even when he finishes 40 spots off the top, and he may come off as a lout in former coach Hank Haney’s memoir of their time togethe
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Chelsea lack youth, have experience; Bayern manage both. Just like England and Germany. It is seldom A Good Idea to reduce any narrative of contest to one of England vs. Germany; like ‘economising’ a la bin-bag sans bin, doing so tends to attract rats. And in any case Saturday’s Champions League final, between Chelsea and Bayern Mu
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In the first episode of "Bomani & Jones," we chronicled the #BEATEMDOWN Ryan Braun and the MLB Players Association put on baseball in his steroid case. Well, it turns out the man who made it possible, the arbitrator who swung the vote to Braun's side, was fired by MLB. But get this -- that arbitrator, Shyam Das, is also the arbitrator handling Bount
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There are things you can predict every year in college football and in life. Please stop doing that, because you're perennially wrong. This is a list of things you're wrong about. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widge
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John Tortorella has been here before. He knows what he's doing every time he steps up to the microphone for a press conference, and he doesn't care what the media thinks about it. After watching John Tortorella's press conference after Game 2 on Wednesday night, the one thing that stuck with me was the reaction of the NBC Sports Network studio crew
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Marines don't use foxholes. Foxholes, as any drill instructor will loudly inform you, are used for hiding from predators. So Marines dig fighting holes. The term may seem clunky -- an unnecessary nit to pick -- but it's representative of the Corps's warrior ethos: even in a defensive position, Marines must possess an offensive mindset. In the newest
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with years of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Thursday: CFB after seven years of relegation. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with years of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Thursday: CFB after seven years of relegation. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with years of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Thursday: CFB after seven years of relegation. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if
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Ryan Moore and I recently had the opportunity to discuss his thoughts on American golf, winning young on the PGA TOUR, and other current events in professional golf. Every so often I have the opportunity to correspond with a PGA Tour player and pick their brain regarding current events in professional golf and the status of the Tour. This week's gue
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with years of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Thursday: CFB after seven years of relegation. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with years of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Thursday: CFB after seven years of relegation. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with eight years' worth of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.creat
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Let's take a look at how relegation would actually work in college football, with eight years' worth of simulations ready to go. Monday: Why CFB needs relegation. Tuesday: How does relegation work? Wednesday: The CFB relegation system. Follow @SBNationCFB !function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.creat
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