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Champions League: Real Madrid vs Atletico Madrid
Here are the goals and highlights from Real Madrid’s 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League semifinal. Cristiano Ronaldo finished with a hat trick.
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MLB Rumors: Red Sox, Mets & the Crippled Rotation
This has been a so-so start to the season for the Boston Red Sox, and a bad one for the New York Mets. Part of the problem has been injuries to their starting pitchers, with the Red Sox dealing with Steven Wright’s knee problems, and the Mets once again facing a Noah Syndergaard absence.
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NFL Rumors: Detroit Lions Interested in Bringing Back Anquan Boldin
Despite the emerging 37th birthday, Anquan Boldin has no plans to retire and put an end to his NFL career. Instead, he’s waiting for training camp to be just around the corner, with a Detroit Lions reunion looking very likely.
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The Los Angeles Clippers Have Two Options – And They’re Screwed Either Way
With a second consecutive first-round playoff exit for the Los Angeles Clippers in the Doc Rivers era, the franchise, meaning the man at the top of the pyramid Steve Ballmer, has a big decision to make on the direction it’s going: Tear it up and start from scratch, which includes quite a bit of tanking, or keep the current group of players together (as much as possible) and try to find a way to breakthrough in the West.
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10 Best Memes of the Chicago Bulls Eliminated by the Boston Celtics
And so it ends for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA playoffs; with a whimper of an effort to stay alive against the Boston Celtics, and mainly plenty of memes noting how pitiful they looked the moment Rajon Rondo went down with an injury.
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24 Best Memes of the 2017 NFL Draft
The first round of the 2017 NFL draft provided us with one predictable and one surprising piece of comedy: Everyone knew Myles Garrett was going to the Cleveland Browns, but Mitch Trubisky going to the Chicago Bears was the real driving force behind the draft night memes.
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Do NFL Rookie Starting Quarterbacks Last Long in the NFL?
There were three quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 2017 NFL Draft: Mitch Trubisky (2nd overall, Chicago Bears), Patrick Mahomes II (10th, Kansas City Chiefs) and Deshaun Watson (12th, Houston Texans). Trubisky and Watson have a very good shot at starting right off the bat as rookie quarterbacks, while Mahomes is probably the Chiefs way of letting Alex Smith know he’s not going to be their starter forever.
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Reckoning Day for the Bulls, Clippers & Hawks
Three of the remaining first round series in the 2017 NBA playoffs head into game 6, and three teams are playing with their backs to the wall: The Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers and Atlanta Hawks, all down 3-2 in their series. For the Clippers it’s an even more difficult situation, because game 6 is on […]
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NBA MVPs Don’t Get Knocked Out in the First Round (Unless You’re Dirk Nowitzki and Probably Russell Westbrook)
In the era of 7-game first round series in the NBA, only one eventual regular season winner has been knocked out along with his team without winning a single playoff series that season. Pretty soon, we’re probably going to have two of them.
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What Happens Now With the Oklahoma City Thunder & Russell Westbrook?
The first round exit of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Russell Westbrook wasn’t a surprise considering their opponents and the team’s overall ability this season. Westbrook is the favorite to win the NBA’s regular season MVP for his impressive one-man show and statistical efforts, but this never looked like a team capable of going far in the playoffs.