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For the Devils, Shootouts Become a No-Win Mind Game
The New York Times: The Devils have a case of the yips. Not your garden variety, as with a golfer losing his putting touch. This one runs through the whole team and has been going
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They Fill a Tribal Need
The New York Times: In this era of mobility in professional sports, fans can sometimes feel like they are rooting for the color of the uniforms rather than the players that wear them. This is
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Celtics won’t hit bottom of the league
The Boston Globe: The Celtics beat the once-great Pistons, 118-111, at the Garden Sunday night in front of a hearty sellout crowd. Yowza. In Tankville parlance, we’d call this a 4-point game — in reverse.
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The Art of the Staredown
Fox Sports: Nobody can quite remember when staredowns became a major part of the UFC’s hype machine. Back in 2001, shortly after Zuffa bought the company, opposing fighters weren’t even required to stand in front
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Does the ‘Hot Hand’ Exist in Basketball?
The Wall Street Journal: It was a shooting performance so incredible, even veteran basketball experts had never seen anything like it. In a game last month at then-No. 4-ranked Villanova, Creighton senior Ethan Wragge swished
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Brain Trauma Extends to the Soccer Field
The New York Times: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head, has been found posthumously in a 29-year-old former soccer player, the strongest indication yet that the condition
