CFL Pickem Week 11: The Week of Blown Locks: The CFL Pickem resumes tonight with the Friday night tilt between two two-win teams: Toronto and Edmonton. Nobody scored a point last week because we all blew up so many locks (standings). Ouch!

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Knicks Owner Bans Thousands of Lawyers: James Dolan, the owner of Madison Square Garden and the New York Knicks, maintains an "attorney exclusion list" from his venues that uses facial recognition to keep thousands of them out of events. All attorneys at a firm that sues MSG get the banhammer. "We always are getting notice letters," said the personal injury litigator John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan. "I get letters. My wife gets letters. My kids get letters." He responded by setting up SueMSG.com looking for new cases.

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Enter SportsFilter's Fantasy Premier League: The Premier League returns Friday when Liverpool faces Bournemouth at 3 p.m. Eastern. We have a long-running league on the official EPL site. Choose a team within a budget that can include all players (no snake draft). Make roster moves throughout the season. Play tokens to boost a gameweek.

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CFL Pickem Week 10: Tiger-Cats on a Roll: The Hamilton Tiger-Cats bring their six-game winning streak to Thursday night's home game against the B. C. Lions. The rest of the four-game slate looks competitive aside from 5-3 Montreal playing 1-6 Edmonton Friday night. Ic23b leads the pickem by 6 after a week in which Tommybiden unlocked the secrets of the CFL universe, scoring 46. Make your picks.

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NFL Sells NFL Network, RedZone to ESPN for 10% Equity: The NFL Network and RedZone Channel, two of the largest entities in sports not owned by ESPN, are becoming the property of the Beast of Bristol. ESPN is giving the NFL a 10 percent stake in itself for the deal. ESPN is also acquiring Scott Hanson, his octobox and the witching hour.

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He Who Controls the Ice Controls the Universe: The Dallas Stars have used a monopoly on ice rinks in North Texas to take control of youth and recreational hockey, crush dissent by players and coaches and wring out ever-increasing profits from what used to be a community good. Some of their execs carried out a hotel kickback scheme for themselves. How far are they taking this insanity? When one dad explored coaching for an independent rink instead, a Stars official banned his daughters from all of their rinks. The girls are 5 and 7.

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Pitcher Switches Teams in Middle of Doubleheader: Seranthony Domínguez was just traded to the other team during a doubleheader. "After the first game, I was in there with the guys, and they call me and they tell me, 'Hey we got you traded. Go to the next dugout,'" Domínguez said. After being traded he pitched an inning for the Toronto Blue Jays against the Baltimore Orioles, who swapped him for minor league pitcher Juaron Watts-Brown. This happened once before in 1922.

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CFL Pickem Week 7: Garney Hensley Edition: The CFL's complete football monolopy on television has one last week. The Montreal Alouettes play the Calgary Stampeders tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, followed by Edmonton/Saskatchewan Friday, Winnipeg/Toronto Saturday and Hamilton/B.C. Sunday. Ic23b leads in the contest. Make your picks!

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CFL Pickem Week 6: Not Really Week 6 Edition: Our Canadian Football League contest returns for the Friday night clash between 4-1 Calgary and 3-1 Winnipeg. Pick that game and the two to come during the weekend. No one got any points in the last round that we picked, which is kind of amazing.

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Stratospheric Skydiver Felix Baumgartner Dies in Paraglider Crash: Felix Baumgartner, who in 2012 became the first human to break the sound barrier with only his body, skydiving from 24 miles over New Mexico and achieving a descent speed of 843.6 mph, died Thursday in a paraglider crash off the coast of Italy. He was 56.

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CFL Pickem Week 5: Clearly Canadian: The CFL week starts in under six hours when the undefeated Winnipeg Blue Bombers travel to McMahon Stadium to face the Calgary Stampeders. The temperate should be around 70 with only a slight chance of rain. I only say that because I looked up the forecast hoping it might be cold. In my head Canada is always cold and everybody has horses like on Heartland. Scooby leads the pickem. Make your picks.

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CFL Pickem Week 4: Countless Screaming Argonauts: The Montreal Alouettes travel to the Hamilton Tigers-Cats tonight in game 2 of week 4 and game 1 of our pickem. Scooby has a big lead in the contest after a 36-point week. Is that even possible? Make your selections.

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CFL Pickem Week 3: It Should've Been the Elk: The Montreal Alouettes take their two-game winning streak to Edmonton Thursday night to face the Elks. I'm in first in the pickem by 5 over Scooby. Make your picks.

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CFL Pickem: Week 2: The B.C. Lions visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers tonight to begin the second week of the CFL season. In the pickem four teams are tied for first with 36 points. Make yer picks.

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NBA Playoff Pickem: Finals: The NBA Finals resume tonight with the Oklahoma City Thunder needing a home win against the Indiana Pacers to even the series at 1-1. For our pickem, choose the series winner, number of games and several props. NoMich leads the standings with two players within five. Good luck!

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NHL Playoff Pickem: Stanley Cup Final: The puck drops on Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final when the Florida Panthers visit the Edmonton Oilers tomorrow at 8 p.m. Eastern. Pick the winner, number of games and several props. Jagsnumberone has a commanding lead in our pickem over three players with 99 or 98.

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Enter SportsFilter's CFL Pickem: Football returns to Canada on Thursday when the Ottawa Redblacks visit the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Pick the winners of each game, the spread and whether to lock each game to double your points. Make your picks, hosers!

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NBA Playoff Pickem: Conference Finals: A delightfully improbable quartet of teams are playing in the conference finals of the NBA, beginning tonight when the Minnesota Timberwolves visit the Oklahoma City Thunder and continuing tomorrow night when the Indiana Pacers travel to the New York Knicks. Howard_T has jumped into first ahead of NoMich and Werty. Make your knicks.

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NHL Playoff Pickem: Conference Finals: The next round of the Stanley Cup playoffs begins tonight when the Florida Panthers play the Carolina Hurricanes and continue tomorrow when the Edmonton Oilers face the Dallas Stars. Jagsnumberone holds onto first, 10 over NoMich. Make your picks.

posted by rcade to hockey at 02:10 PM - 9 comments

Dallas Mavericks Get No. 1 Pick Despite 1.8% Odds: The Dallas Mavericks, who previously had never moved up in an NBA Draft Lottery, won the first overall pick Monday night. They had 1.8% odds in the eleventh position going in. Christmas came eary to conspiracy-minded fans who believed the Mavs would get the top pick after making the insane trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers.

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SportsFilter NHL Playoff Pickem: 2nd Round: The puck drops on the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern when the Florida Panthers face the Toronto Maple Leafs. Jagsnumberone leads the pickem with 71, getting 6 of 8 series correct and earning 5 pop points on the Oilers scoring 6. Make your picks.

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SportsFilter NBA Playoff Pickem: Conference Semifinals: The second round of the NBA playoffs continues tonight with the Knicks/Celtics and Nuggets/Thunder playing game one of their respective series. The Pacers began the round with an upset win over the Cavaliers last night. Werty leads our pickem with 76 points. Make your picks and don't select Cleveland in 4.

posted by rcade to basketball at 10:39 AM - 16 comments

Gregg Popovich Hangs Up His Spurs: After 29 years, 1,422 regular season wins and five NBA championships, Gregg Popovich will no longer coach the San Antonio Spurs. He'll move over to being the president of basketball operations. At 76 he was the oldest coach in league history. Mitch Johnson, who already was the interim coach since November, takes over.

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SportsFilter Spring Cleaning: Bad bots and WordPress hacking attempts are filling up this server's disk space. I'm banning IP addresses and making some code changes to remedy the situation. If you experience problems, post a comment here. If you ever can't load the site at all, feel free to contact me in email or on my social media accounts.

posted by rcade to general at 10:27 AM - 2 comments

What in the Shedeur Sanders Is Going On Here?: Expected to be picked as the second or third quarterback in the first round, Colorado star Shedeur Sanders remains undrafted after three days in the NFL Draft and it's not certain he'll be picked at all.

posted by rcade to football at 08:56 AM - 6 comments