Baseball fans slog through the dead of winter because there is a singular light at the end of the tunnel — the dawn of a new MLB season. Well in 2016, the Dodgers travelled to San Diego for an Opening Day game that packed 162 games worth of disappointment into …
Read More »Gordon Hayward’s half-court attempt for the National Championship deserves a deep rewind
Duke is leading Butler by two in the closing seconds of the National Championship. The Bulldogs have no timeouts but they still have one final chance at upsetting Coach K’s Blue Devils. With the ball in Gordon Hayward’s hands, there was just enough time to get off a prayer that …
Read More »How the Buccaneers fell apart after dominating the 2002 Super Bowl | Collapse
In 2002, Jon Gruden was hired away from the Oakland Raiders and became the new head coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was hired to take the Bucs that extra mile, and he did. In his first season as head coach he beat his former team in Super Bowl …
Read More »Jon Jones’ beef with Daniel Cormier has fights, death threats, and sex pills
Jon Jones’ beef with Daniel Cormier has almost everything. A clear origin story. Real, sanctioned fighting. Real, unsanctioned fighting. Endless Twitter roasts. A moderate amount of drugs. The one thing missing is an ending, which at this point might never come. Special thanks to Esther Lin for use of her …
Read More »Alex Rodriguez ruined his friendship with Derek Jeter … and then they became teammates
Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter weren’t just great young shortstops at the same time– they were best friends. But that friendship got complicated when Rodriguez played better, Jeter won a lot more, and then A-Rod got the biggest contract in MLB history and used the occasion to kinda disparage his …
Read More »Shaq and Olajuwon’s Game 1 battle in the 1995 NBA Finals deserves a deep rewind
The 1995 Finals had a ton of star power – a very young Shaq and Penny for the top seeded Orlando Magic, Hakeem and Drexler having a mini Phi Slama Jama reunion in Houston, and Horace Grant’s extremely awesome rec specs. And while the series didn’t deliver as a whole, …
Read More »The worst NBA playoff game was over 48 minutes of garbage time
When the Denver Nuggets visited the New Orleans Hornets for game four of their 2009 playoff series, hope still existed in the world. But as soon as they tipped off, that flew out the window…or tried to fly out the window but completely missed, hitting the side of the arena, …
Read More »The search for the saddest punt in the world | Chart Party
To punt is to give up, and in the 21st century, NFL teams have given up nearly 50,000 times. Most of those punts were reasonable decisions. But a few were so cowardly, and in such defiance of all reason, that they must not be forgotten. In this episode of Chart …
Read More »The Atlanta Braves’ last-ditch comeback vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates needs a deep rewind | 1992 NLCS
Game 7 of the 1992 NLCS was a perfect representation of the ongoing battle between the Pirates and the Braves. It was close, it was tense, and it had tremendously high stakes. For the Braves, it meant the chance to prove they weren’t a flash in the pan. For the …
Read More »The worst NBA 3-Point Contest was a hideous mix of bad shooters and great shooters failing miserably
The NBA always has enough shooting talent to stock a solid 3-Point Contest, but sometimes things just don’t line up right. In 2000, great shooters like Jeff Hornacek, Ray Allen, and Dirk Nowitzki underperformed, and some other shooters shouldn’t have been there in the first place. Allen Iverson may or …
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