The Oklahoma City Barons were scheduled to play Game 4 of the AHL Western Conference Final on Friday night against the Grand Rapids Griffins. But instead of filling the stands to watch playoff hockey, fans were ushered down to the underground parking garage of Cox Convention Center as more...
No. 1 Star: Kyle Turris, Ottawa Senators
The Senators forward played a role in the game-tying and game-winning goals in Ottawa’s improbable comeback in Game 4 against the Montreal Canadiens. Turris picked up an assist on Cory Conacher’s tying goal with 23 seconds remaining, and his presence...
Ottawa Senators rookie Jean-Gabriel Pageau scored twice in nine regular season games and was pointless through the first two in their series against the Montreal Canadiens. With Game 3 knotted at one early in the second period, Pageau broke the tie with his first NHL playoff goal. It was a goal...
Somehow, the NBA survived its regular season and first round of the postseason with enough players to field eight teams, so we’re just going to go ahead and begin the conference semifinals. The minds behind Ball Don’t Lie are going to preview each second-round series, with Kelly Dwyer going...
WASHINGTON, DC – Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal was the fifth playoff game of Rick Nash’s NHL career. It was his first since April 23, 2009, and his first as a New York Ranger.
Like the previous four, it ended in defeat.
“I would have liked to win. But the first one’s out of...
The new College Football Playoff has a new logo, which will no doubt spark a whole summer — perhaps a whole year — of debate.
Last week, fans were given the opportunity to pick from four different logo choices and 38 percent of respondents decided that No. 2, the gold football, was the best...
Well, it took a while, but we're finally here, on the verge of the 2013 NBA Playoffs. Thirty teams have been whittled down to 16, eight from each conference, set to square off in eight opening-round series for the right to advance to the conference semifinals and take one step closer to hoisting...
Tom Brady's legacy: A quarterback's win-loss record, especially in a relatively small amount of playoff games, is nowhere near an accurate measure of a player's career. We all know that, right? Good.
Still, we see Patriots quarterback Tom Brady trudging off the field Sunday after another...
Jonny Gomes is no longer a member of the Oakland A's organization after signing a two-year, $10 million —*which will pay him the highest salary of his ten year career —*with the Boston Red Sox last Wednesday, but his most recent former club will still honor one very thoughtful request he made...
Just a fun question were you make your team as realistic as possible
1- Choose a city which is does not currently have a team. Give them a nickname as well.
2- Choose a color scheme.
3- Name your basketball stadium (Use a sponsor name if you want)
4- Pick 2 people to build your team around...
The Texas Class 5A football tournament, annually celebrated among the best in the nation (if not the best) hosted its first wild, improbable final minute upset of the year, and boy was it a doozie.
Facing fourth-and-goal from the 10-yard-line with just 16 seconds remaining in the game and...
Check out this half hour of baseball banter and predictions featuring two top notch Northern Californian sportswriters. Tigers | Yankees | Giants | Playoffs | Binders Full of Women
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Guys,its simple...who ya got???
ALDS-
Yankees vs.O's/Rangers. Yankees are riding the hot wave right just like the A's,so im going with them in 4 over O's/Rangers.
A's vs.Tigers. Rematch of the 2006 ALCS .With the way the A's are playing right now,i do not want to play them. Good luck...
Heading into the season's last three games, the National League is relatively a drama-free zone. The Cincinnati Reds and San Francisco Giants have already clinched their divisions and the Atlanta Braves are a longshot to force a NL East tiebreaker with the Washington Nationals. The St. Louis...
• It's not difficult to land on the Houston Texans as the muscle in the AFC right now, but they've got a little something I call the Northwestern Wyoming A&T problem — they haven't played anybody. They're like a big-time college program in that they've had two daisies on the schedule early, so...
The Greenbrier Classic didn't end on the Fourth of July, but American journeymen Ted Potter Jr. and Troy Kelly did their best to produce some Sunday afternoon fireworks at the Old White TPC.
Potter, who was already a mini-tour legend before this week, added another chapter to his incredible...
Finally! College football is officially a real sport now. After years of being stubborn, the bigwigs in the college football world have realized what everyone else on earth has known the whole time: College football needs a playoff system. Beginning in 2014, we will finally get the college...
There was no better playoff beard this season than the facial foliage that grew on Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Penner's face during their run to the 2012 Stanley Cup. Teammate Rob Scuderi was quoted as saying he'd never seen someone able to grow a beard around their eyes. That's how unique...