Today, my nightmare of an NFL offseason just got so much worse. Losing Tom Brady was hard enough to handle, but now knowing that Rob Gronkowski is coming out of retirement to play with him in Tampa Bay just put me over the edge. Getting a fourth-round pick for a player that was never going to play for the Patriots
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Well, the end is finally here. No, not the end of quarantine, but the end of our NHL 20 simulation. Am I sad that my life has come down to writing about a video game rather than writing about the actual Stanley Cup Playoffs? Absolutely. Am I still going to do it because I don’t know what to do with
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While there is still no news to report in the real-life sports world, we’ve reached the Conference Finals in our NHL 20 simulation. Missed anything from the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs? Don’t worry, I got you covered. Click here to catch up on the first round. Click here to catch up on the second round. All
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Yesterday would have been the start of the actual Stanley Cup Playoffs. Yet here we are, waiting to see if we’ll ever get the chance to watch this unfold in real life. Luckily, I’m here to take you to an alternate reality where the season was never put on hold and the playoffs are in full swing. That reality is
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With the NHL season on pause indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak, hockey fans are left wondering “what if?” What if the season wasn’t interrupted and teams were preparing for the Stanley Cup Playoffs to begin shortly? While we’re left waiting to find out whether or not the playoffs will even happen this year, I figured there’s still one way
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This quarantine has been going on for over a week now. Honestly, I’ve lost count of exactly how many days. I spent the first 6 hours of my day on Saturday thinking it was Monday. I’ve spent my days playing Xbox and drinking. I mean how else is anybody supposed to kill time locked up at home? But the longer
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Tom Brady is no longer a New England Patriot. I don’t even know if I’ve fully processed the news yet. I spent all of yesterday in denial after waking up to the news that Brady would still be playing football next season, but that it would be somewhere other than with the team he has called home for 20 years.
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For a guy trying to make a career in sports, went to school for Sport Management, and basically has based his entire life around sports, every league postponing or cancelling their season is just about the worst thing that could possibly happen to me. I’d rather take a Mike Tyson punch directly to the chin than live without hockey, especially
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Pekka Rinne got to live out every goalie’s dream on Thursday night. With time winding down in the third period of Nashville’s game against the Chicago Blackhawks, Rinne controlled the puck behind his own net and launched it down towards an open net. The rest, as they say, is history.
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I’m just going to start this off by saying that this season didn’t end the way I was hoping for, but I’m also not completely surprised how everything turned out. Regardless, it’s time to break down exactly what went wrong for the Patriots leading up to their Wild Card loss to the Tennessee Titans. It’s no secret that the offense
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