Author: Michael

While fighting in the National Hockey League is in a decline, those who are good at it like Philadelphia Flyers forward Nicolas Deslauriers are trying to get their money’s worth.
And, boy, did he ever on Thursday night against the Ottawa Senators.
Deslauriers dropped the gloves with Ottawa’s Austin Watson for a pretty long, spirited bout.

Wow, TWO Nicolas Deslauriers fights and some jawing in the penalty box. pic.twitter.com/f9Mfb8ZkM7
— NBC Sports Philadelphia (@NBCSPhilly) March 31, 2023

That was a good one between two fellas who both had 11 fights going into this one.

Of all the matches that have taken place on WWE’s grandest stage of them all, few have been more personal than a battle on this year’s card between a father and son that’s been 20-plus years in the making.
After months of verbal and physical altercations, Rey Mysterio will face Dominik Mysterio for the first time on Night 1 of WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium. The highly anticipated clash between the Mysterios in Los Angeles marks the second father-vs.

The Tampa Bay Rays have taken society’s “participation trophy” mindset to a whole new level, by celebrating the lowest form of mediocrity.
The 2022 Rays earned an American League Wild Card but then lost in two straight games to the Cleveland Guardians.
During Thursday’s season opener, the team unveiled its 2022 AL Wild Card banner for all Rays fans to cringe in unison over.
Honestly, I’m embarrassed for their fanbase.

The Rays just unveiled a 2022 Wild Card banner at the Trop…
In a series they were swept 2-0, scoring just one run. Make it make sense. pic.twitter.

Former South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of the 2013 murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was denied early release by a parole board in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, according to a report from The New York Times.
Pistorius was convicted in 2014 of the Valentine’s Day murder of Steenkamp, his 29-year-old girlfriend, whom he shot through the bathroom door of his home. Pistorius argued he thought Steenkamp was an intruder who had broken into his home and was hiding in the bathroom.

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No. 1-seed Virginia Tech will take on LSU in the first of two semifinal games on Friday night.
LSU and Virginia Tech will face off in the first semifinal game Friday night, battling for a spot in the NCAA women’s national championship.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET and the game will air across ESPN networks. You can catch the game with a subscription to SlingTV.
The Hokies enter Friday night’s game 31-4 and are coming off an Elite Eight win against Ohio State.

Dusty May’s story begins underground. It starts in the mines of southwestern Indiana, where the coal boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s attracted laborers from surrounding states. More than a century ago, Dusty’s great-grandfather moved from Ohio, pitched a tent in a field in Jasonville, Ind., and went to work as a miner.
Generations of May men followed in that line of work, including Dusty’s dad. Donald “Duck” May worked 27 years in a Greene County coal mine—some of it below ground, some doing surface strip-mining—before retiring.

1. One of the worst days of the year to be on the internet and social media is April 1. Uncreative and unoriginal people try to get you with lame April Fool’s pranks that are never funny, and it’s just painful.
Athletes are especially bad at this, tweeting that they’ve retired or been traded. It’s brutal.
This year, April 1 falls on a Saturday, so the antics won’t be as prevalent, but there is an added twist. Elon Musk has decided that the day to take away everyone’s blue check mark to signal a verified Twitter account will be April Fool’s Day.

How tight is the race between Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid? Can Giannis Antetokounmpo play spoiler?

When José Altuve broke his thumb in the World Baseball Classic, Astros fans all over the country were devastated that he would miss a few months to start the season. Many fans would literally give their health to Altuve if they could, and that apparently includes non-Astros fans as well.
Actor Mark Wahlberg, who is a Boston sports fan but seems to have jumped on the Astros bandwagon, told media that he would love to help Altuve if it was possible.
“I am also willing to donate either of my thumbs to José Altuve, for sure,” he said. “We’re all good. I’m a big fan.”

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Major League Baseball is back and the new rules have games moving along at rapid rates, which is great for fans. 
You know what isn’t great for fans? Bad umpires. And those are still very much around. 
MLB has had issues with bad umps since basically the beginning of time. But it feels like they’ve only gotten worse in recent years (I’m looking at you, Ángel Hernández). 
The umps in Thursday’s Mets-Marlins game made a very questionable pitch clock violation call, which had MLB fans rightfully irate.