As father fights terminal cancer, NHL fan slams lockout in jarring clip (VIDEO)
There are provocative videos about the NHL, made by angry fans with a message for both owners and players. And then there's this video by 'eamu99' on YouTube: stunning, jarring minute-long clip in...
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Ball Don’t Lie’s 2012-13 NBA Season Previews: The Cleveland Cavaliers
For the first time in two years we'll have an orthodox, full-length NBA season to look forward to. No lockout nonsense, and precious little obsession as to whether or not LeBron James will ever win...
View ArticleBest of Midnight Madness: Anthony Bennett leaps giant cardboard Mike Moser...
Midnight Madness produces some memorable moments each year, so The Dagger is chronicling the best ones from this October. If you spot something we missed, let us know here or here. Anthony Bennett's...
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Concession Speech: 2012 Los Angeles Dodgers
With the regular season over, teams are facing an offseason filled with golf rounds and hot-stove strategy. But we're not going to let them get off that easy. No sir. No way. In an attempt to bring...
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Giants send Barry Zito to mound with season hanging in balance
ST. LOUIS — Barry Zito earned his $126 million contract the moment the San Francisco Giants offered it to him the winter before the 2007 season. No matter what happens until the deal expires after...
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Tip Drill: Another bye-week buying opportunity arrives
As we've mentioned before, more than once, the ideal time to acquire elite players via trade is when they're headed into bye weeks. In fact, depending on the player in question, this might be the only...
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NHL cancels regular-season schedule through Nov. 1; clock ticking to save...
After two days of meetings between the NHL and NHLPA, the two sides have yet to agree to meatier parts of a new CBA and thus the league has gone forward with postponing another chunk of the 2012-13...
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Timberwolves fan/tallest man in U.S. gets life-changing $25K custom Reeboks
Back in April, Alex Conover of the Minnesota Timberwolves' official website wrote about a trip to the Target Center taken by a unique visitor: Igor Vovkovinskiy of Rochester, Minn. who at 7 feet, 8...
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Phil Davis steps in against Forrest Griffin at UFC 155
With Chael Sonnen coaching "The Ultimate Fighter" and fighting UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones, Forrest Griffin needed a new opponent for UFC 155. Today, he got one in the form of Phil Davis, who...
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Dirk Nowitzki’s knee surgery will keep him out six weeks, and it was a long...
Larry Bird played 41,329 minutes in his career, combining playoff and postseason totals, and his body was an absolute wreck by the time it was over. Oscar Robertson managed 47,559 minutes in his...
View ArticleAlabama football mom arrested at varsity practice after walking on field to...
The mother of a teenage football player decided to take matters into her owns hands when she heard that her son's football coach lifted him up by the shoulder pads and berated him, walking directly up...
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Roger Goodell recuses himself from Saints bounty process, appoints former...
After applying discipline on two separate occasions in the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, and hearing from many that he was not qualified or authorized to do so, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has...
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What to watch, Week 8: Johnny Football, meet LSU
Johnny Manziel has been tested by a great defense already this season. Back on Sept. 8 the Texas A&M freshman quarterback faced Florida. The results weren't bad, but he made very few of his...
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Injury Wrap: Waiting game for Ahmad Bradshaw; Steelers down to Harris-Bleier...
We get one break with the Week 7 Sunday schedule: most of the games are early. As things sit right now, only three games will come after the first segment (the Pats and Jets, the Raiders and Jaguars,...
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Danica Patrick disappointed with 2012 results
KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- With four races to go in the 2012 Nationwide Series season, Danica Patrick is 10th in the points standings, two points ahead of Joe Nemechek, who has run one fewer race. She has...
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NHL CBA blame games; USA hockey will never catch Canada (Puck Headlines)
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Nicklas Backstrom joins...
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Trevor Mbakwe avoids jail time, enabling him to continue his career at Minnesota
Trevor Mbakwe's basketball future was on the line Friday in Florida when the Minnesota forward appeared before Judge Jose Fernandez due to a parole violation stemming from a July DUI in Minnesota....
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VOD: Here’s video of Wyoming coach Dave Christensen’s vulgar blowup, and it...
You don't often see two coaches almost come to blows after a game, you pretty much never see that happen when one of the coaches is with a service academy, it's unheard of when one coach calls another...
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Ball Don’t Lie’s 2012-13 NBA Season Previews: The Detroit Pistons
For the first time in two years we'll have an orthodox, full-length NBA season to look forward to. No lockout nonsense, and precious little obsession as to whether or not LeBron James will ever win...
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Christian Ponder confirms he’s dating ESPN’s Samantha Steele
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Christian Ponder confirmed on Friday that he is indeed dating ESPN sideline reporter Samantha Steele, whom he had met on the set of "College GameDay" several months ago,...
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