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The Stanley Cup playoffs are underway and, with it, the drama of playoff overtime hockey. But extra time is not unique to the NHL. All four of our major sports can go long, and when those games occur we, the fans, must decide if we have the phys...

The NHL has proposed a realignment plan that would give the league four divisions instead of six. Yet while radical realignment has some detractors -- those who are really into the current Southeast division's Winnipeg-Tampa Bay rivalry, for exam...

After a four-month lockout, the NHL is set to finally drop the puck. Teams have been practicing for six days. Six whole days! And they've all had an intrasquad scrimmage, too. That's more than enough preseason hockey action to draw conclusions fo...

Sports fans love a good rivalry. Team versus team. City versus city. Athlete versus athlete. Blood feuds sustain us. But what if we stopped limiting rivalries to teams in other cities and opened up the disdain to teams within individual cities. O...

The new year is almost upon us. Here are a few resolutions the sports world should make in order to improve in 2013. Stop calling every fan base a 'nation' Red Sox Nation got this started in 2004. But Boston had a national following that o...

ESPN's NEXT determines the people who are primed to dominate the sports world in the coming years. Playbook's NOT NEXT determines who and what have almost no hope for the future. Here are some names, teams and things not to keep an eye on. Ho...

It's easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season and forget that we're all going to die. And not just because we're all mortals and will therefore one day, years and years from now, return to dust. I mean, like, pretty soon we'll ...

Looking for gift items for the NFL fan on your list? You're in luck! Monday isn't just a battle between the Panthers and Eagles, the preseason's premier Super Bowl/dynasty teams, it's also Cyber Monday -- the day in which Americans pretend to work...

EA Sports' "NHL 13" came out today. I have yet to play it because I have yet to purchase it. I am worried I will go to the game store and Gary Bettman will bar me from entering, intent on ruining my enjoyment of hockey season in every possible way. ...

Now that the NBA and NHL playoffs are over, many sports fans are just tuning in to baseball for the first time. It can be overwhelming. Thirty MLB teams, most playing every night, and near-constant action (if you have every game on at once). Go...

The 2012 NHL Awards are tonight in Las Vegas. The awards get a lot of buzz in hockey circles, but they're pretty much ignored in the mainstream. Maybe more people would pay attention if the NHL didn't always give away the same old, stodgy awards with...

Tom Brady's father says he "would be very hesitant" to let his son play football if he had to make the decision today. Just imagine if Brady had never played football. Many lives would have changed. Bill Belichick - Instead of being seen as a f...

The Los Angeles Kings have dispatched the top two seeds in the Western Conference in nine games. They are playing the best hockey in the NHL playoffs and are now heavy favorites to win the Stanley Cup at 2-to-1 odds. While goalie Jonathan Quick is...

FBS conference commissioners are reportedly getting closer to approving a four-team playoff system for determining the sport's national champion. Why they would give up their uniquely terrible current system to become like every other sport in the wo...

"Get lost or I'll send Shea Weber after you." "Excuse me. I don't mean to interrupt, but perhaps you of all people should realize that slamming someone's head off the ice can cause fairly serious injury." "Well, thanks for asking. I would proba...

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