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Enter the SportsFilter NHL Playoff Pickem: The NHL playoffs begin Saturday at 6 p.m. Eastern when the St. Louis Blues go to the Winnipeg Jets. Pick the winner of each series, the games it will take and four props. I broke down and restarted YouTube TV for this. Make your selections.

posted by rcade to hockey at 09:44 PM - 8 comments

Enter the SportsFilter NBA Playoff Pickem: The NBA Playoffs begin Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern when the Milwaukee Bucks visit the Indiana Pacers. Tonight's play-in games will decide the opponents the Oklahoma City Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers will face on Sunday. Pick the winners of all eight series, the games required and four prop bets. The team scoring 130 prop has been retired because no team accomplished it in round one last season. Good luck!

posted by rcade to basketball at 05:36 PM - 8 comments

April 17, 2025

NBA Pickem Champion: rcade: The SportsFilter NBA Pickem champion is, ahem, me. Ufez Jones broke a lock picking the Knicks over the Cavaliers on the final Friday of the season, a 30-point swing that put it out of reach. NoMich wins the week and the Costanza. Fire Nico.

posted by rcade to basketball at 08:23 PM - 3 comments

April 16, 2025

Vladdy Jr gets tossed under the bus: Jomboy strikes again and calls rightly calls out the Blue Jays' coaching staff to not have Vladdy's back on a bad call by the umps. Featuring a great callout by a commenter that the Jays and O's were looking like Dumb & Dumber in their tuxedos.

posted by NoMich to baseball at 09:35 PM - 2 comments

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Rory McIlroy wins Masters in playoff to earn career Grand Slam: The 35-year-old from Northern Ireland overcame a shaky start -- and even more perilous finish -- in the final round of the 89th Masters at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday to defeat Justin Rose in the first hole of a sudden-death playoff to win a green jacket and become only the sixth golfer to complete the career Grand Slam.

posted by NoMich to golf at 08:17 AM - 1 comment

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The Denver Nuggets have fired head coach Michael Malone with three games left in the regular season: Malone had served as Denver's head coach since 2015 and was the fourth-longest tenured NBA coach, trailing Pop, Kerr, and Spoelstra. The Nuggets are a on a four-game skid and caught up in a Royal Rumble for seeding in the West as the playoffs near.

posted by Ufez Jones to basketball at 04:38 PM - 1 comment

A Losing Streak is About to End: The Yeshiva University baseball team is pitting its 99-game losing streak against Lehman College and its 42-game losing streak this afternoon. The loser will still have a long way to go to break the collegiate record of 228 games, set by Caltech in 2013. Yeshiva's coach, athletic director and players all refused to comment.

posted by rcade to baseball at 01:52 PM - 0 comments

April 07, 2025

Blue Jays, Vlad Guerrero Jr. agree to record-breaking 14-year extension : Not only has Vlad Guerrero Jr. taken a step to be a Toronto Blue Jay for life -- a desire he has expressed frequently -- he is about to sign the richest contract in Canadian sports history. The 26-year-old first baseman has agreed to terms on a $500-million US, 14-year deal with the Jays, a ground-breaking contract both for the team and in context of sports in this country. The contract is pending a physical.

posted by tommybiden to baseball at 09:45 AM - 5 comments

April 06, 2025

NBA Pickem Week 22: All the Marbles: There are nine games to pick in the final five days of the NBA season, beginning with Kings/Pistons Monday night on NBA TV. My lead in the standings has shrunk by 25. Ufez is only nine back. Locking the Magic to beat the Mavericks out of bitterness led to a 15-point swing against me. Make your picks.

posted by rcade to basketball at 06:23 PM - 11 comments

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Not the Same Bat Time or the Same Bat Channel: The New York Yankees opened the 2025 season by hitting a record 15 home runs in their first three games. Nine were hit by players using a new bat design dubbed the bowling pin or torpedo bat. "This bat is just trying to say: What if we put the mass where the ball is going to hit so that we have an optimized equation of mass and velocity?" said bat whisperer Scott Drake.

posted by rcade to baseball at 08:01 PM - 4 comments

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‘Our staff made a mistake’: Toronto Blue Jays fan tossed from Rogers Centre for sporting ‘Canada is not for sale’ hat: Etobicoke resident Dan Begley was supposed to be at the Rogers Centre on Thursday afternoon watching the Jays home opener with two of his buddies. Instead, the longtime fan said he was “escorted out of the stadium by two big security guards” just moments after the game began due to his choice of headwear. For today’s game, Begley, who is 70, wore a Blue Jays hoodie and a red ballcap with the slogan, “Canada is not for sale.”

posted by tommybiden to baseball at 09:25 PM - 4 comments