Court Report: Grab some pine, Stephen Jackson
The Bucks are 3-0 in games where Stephen Jackson hasn't played a minute, including back-to-back wins over the Pistons (103-82) and Lakers (100-89) over the past two games. S-Jax served a one-game...
View ArticlePenguins: No fracture for Sidney Crosby, but neck injury possible source of...
One hour before the NHL All-Star Game on Sunday, news broke that Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby had an "abnormality" of the C1 and C2 vertebrae in his neck, discovered via an MRI while...
View ArticleAll Peyton Manning knows about his future is that it will include delicious,...
ESPN was very excited about its exclusive Peyton Manning interview Tuesday afternoon. It sat down with Peyton in the Gatorade lair in Indianapolis to talk about all sorts of important things: Peyton's...
View ArticleSomehow, Bill O’Brien is more interested in the Super Bowl than Penn State...
Most college coaches will spend tonight pacing in their bedrooms, race to the office at 5 a.m. and spend most of the day Wednesday hunched obsessively over a fax machine, watching as the fruits and...
View ArticleTim Duncan wears a pretty nerdy Punisher knee brace
For as great as he is at playing basketball, Tim Duncan has never been a favorite of the casual NBA fan. That's because of his game, for one thing, but also that he's never seemed totally psyched...
View ArticleJordan Payton completes the All-American exodus from Cal’s recruiting class
How much difference can one assistant coach make? Maybe we should ask California's rapidly unraveling recruiting class. On Jan. 7, just a little over three weeks before they could make it official,...
View ArticleNine things to do at the Waste Management Open
Let's face it, the Waste Management Open is 20 percent golf tournament, 65 percent party, and 15 percent headache the next day. Few golf tournaments outside of majors get this many people excited for...
View ArticlePuck Previews: Team Chara, Team Alfredsson redux; Hawks-Canucks; Islanders to...
Back by popular demand, here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when...
View ArticleSky Sports News’ Jim White with a transfer deadline slip of the tongue
When transfer deadline day rolls around, Sky Sports News' Jim White gets more excited than a puppy attached to a leash made of bacon. So excited, in fact, that sometimes his mouth is so overeager to...
View ArticleRockets adjusting to lockout schedule with typical Rockets approach
The compressed lockout schedule has been tough for everyone associated with NBA teams, from players to coaches to marketers to young bloggers who would maybe like a night off from the NBA every once in...
View Article‘We are Mizzou’ video inspires a clever satirical Kansas rebuttal
Whether it's Missouri fans printing T-shirts championing a Civil War raid as "scoreboard" or Kansas declaring victory by forfeit in the rivalry after Missouri announced it was SEC-bound, the Border War...
View ArticleDays of NBA Lives: Wherein Jodie Meeks made a terrible mistake
At this point, seemingly half the NBA is on Twitter. It's a wild world of training updates, questions as to which movies they should go see, and explanations of their Call of Duty prowess. Every so...
View ArticlePenguins’ Michalek bumps into his goalie; Maple Leafs’ goal waved off for...
Great play here by Phil Kessel, as he backs off the Penguins defenders before coming to a sudden stop along the half-wall, circling back, then making a savvy pass to Tyler Bozak for the goal....
View ArticleDennis Seidenberg caps off Bruins’ comeback with a red line slapshot (video)
With 21 minutes to go in Tuesday night's game, the surprising Ottawa Senators led the Boston Bruins 3-1, and they looked well on their way to starting off the back half of the season with an impressive...
View ArticleSuper Bowl XLII hero Tyree is back in the spotlight
LostLettermen.com, the college sports fan site and ex-player database, regularly contributes to Shutdown Corner. Here's a look at the current whereabouts of former Super Bowl hero David Tyree. If it...
View ArticleHockey prodigy Oliver Wahlstrom, 11, strikes again with incredible lacrosse...
Remember Oliver Wahlstrom? In 2009, the then-9-year-old hockey prodigy scored a spin-o-rama lacrosse-style goal in the TD Bank Mini 1-on-1 tournament that landed him everywhere from "SportsCenter" to...
View ArticleTraining Day: On the Krebs Cycle & Real Strength
Through the NFL Draft, Shutdown Corner's Kristian Dyer will be training at TEST Sports Club in Martinsville, N.J. along with roughly 20 players. All of these athletes are prepping for the NFL Combine,...
View ArticleLinks! And Falcao as a Spartan warrior in 300!
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award-winning Dirty Tackle... DirecTV Colombia inserts Atletico Madrid's Falcao into 300/the way Pepe actually sees football matches....
View ArticlePaul Gaustad asked Max Pacioretty ‘Where’s Chara?’ during Sabres win over...
Near the end of the Buffalo Sabres' 3-1 win at the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night, Buffalo center Paul Gaustad started running his mouth near the Habs bench. His target was Montreal's Max...
View ArticleLigue 1 fans support porn site with match banner
Amidst attempts to pass legislation that would destroy Internet freedoms and the U.S. Department of Justice's takedown of file-sharing site MegaUpload, Internet users around the world are rightfully...
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