Month: October 2024

With the NFC Championship coming up, the Detroit Lions are two wins away from breaking one of the longest championship droughts in NFL history. Their opponents, the San Francisco 49ers, are looking to add to their trophy collection. The Niners haven’t been champs since the mid-90s. In honor of the potential history on the table, we break down the longest active championship droughts in the NFL. Arizona/Chicago Cardinals source: Getty Images Length of drought: 77 years Last championship: 1947 NFL Championship What happened since last championship: The entire history of color television (1953) Detroit Lions source: Getty Images Length of drought: 67 years Last championship: 1957 NFL Championship What happened since last championship: Alaska and Hawaii entered the United States (19…

Facing a tipping point to their season, the struggling Calgary Flames are shuffling the decks as they prepare to play host to the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday in a New Year's Eve clash. In an attempt to ignite a couple of key struggling forwards, it appears Jonathan Huberdeau will line up alongside Elias Lindholm and Yegor Sharangovich, switching spots with Andrew Mangiapane. Huberdeau, Calgary's highest-paid player, has not scored a goal in 17 straight games and been held without a point in 12 consecutive games. Mangiapane, who would play on a line with Mikael Backlund and Blake Coleman, has scored one goal in his past 17 games. Mangiapane and Huberdeau are in prolonged slumps, and this is the latest attempt to find something that elevates Huberdeau's offensive skill…

2013 was the year we argued over how to pronounce GIF and made a lot of them (almost 1,500). Here's the favorite GIFs we made the past 12 months, in no particular order. 50 Cent Tries To Kiss Erin Andrews Bears Fan Runs Into A Pole Girl Flips Bird, Gets Socked In The Face Weird Bob Ley Face Brewers Fan Moobs The Buttslide Nnnnnhh, Peppermint Roll! Denard Robinson's Friend Eminem Being A Weirdo Kimye Engaged Disappearing Klinsmann Klopp Rage LSU Bro Macho Man Browns Fan Max Papis Slapped Scared Pitino Popcorn Guy The Poor Boxer Another Poor Boxer Unconscious Rocky Tom Brady Left Hanging Unsafe IndyCar If your favorite isn't here, that's probably because we didn't make it. Comment below with anything we missed. …

It's the final week of 2012, so we're wrapping the year up the way movie people are supposed to wrap the year up: Lists! Wednesday, we each gave our five worst movies of 2012. Yesterday, we each counted down our No. 6-10 best movies of the year. Today, we finish off with our top fives. Just to remind: Here are our Nos. 10-6 from yesterday. As we established yesterday, as you read our top 10s know that neither one of us will be reading each other's. This is the first—well, the second, counting yesterday's—blog post that requires spoilers for the people who wrote it. Here goes. Grierson 5. It's Such a Beautiful Day, directed by Don Hertzfeldt.
Celebrated independent animator Don Hertzfeldt spent about five years handcrafting this story about an ordinary guy…

To give you an idea of just how nuts this was, we edited it down from 21 minutes to just under three. Wawrinka eventually won the game but Djokovic held on to win the match and advanced to his fourth straight U.S. Open final. …

data-mm-id=”_n37pm1loq”>In a game where the Packers' defense was gashed for a million rushing yards, it would be unfair to put the blame for the NFC title game loss squarely on Aaron Rodgers' shoulders. But there was a sequence in the second quarter where he made two costly mistakes that were just impossible for even a team led by him to overcome.The Packers a) had less talent top to bottom than the 49ers, and b) were playing on the road. There's a reason the game kicked off with Green Bay as 8-point 'dogs. In a one-off event it is possible to still win under those circumstances, but you need an immaculate game plan, error-free football, and some luck (how the ball bounces, a bad call going in your favor, etc). What the Packers could not afford, already down 17-0 mi…

data-mm-id=”_deilgen0c”>INDIANAPOLIS — The defensive side of the ball has become a lost art in the NBA when teams are putting up close to 120 points every night. Dallas Mavericks star Kristaps Porzingis still cares immensely about his performance on that end of the court, though.Porzingis and the Mavericks secured a big road win without Luka Doncic against the Indiana Pacers on Monday. The 7-foot-3 Latvian scored a game-high 38 points and pulled down 12 rebounds. However, on several occasions after the game, he mentioned his frustration with not playing up to par defensively. "I'm not too happy with my defense tonight," Porzingis said. "[Domantas] Sabonis scored too many times on me." While he was talking about his frustrations, the Pacers were talking about h…

data-mm-id=”_46dqputt5″>The Chargers released their new uniforms today and the reception has been unanimously positive. The colors pop, all the sets work together, and their color rush is possibly the best one ever. SHOP NOW: The new Chargers jerseys are live at Fanatics!However, while admiring the photo, I noticed someone missing. I just couldn't help but laugh because it's the person the Chargers have steadfastly backed this entire offseason as the man leading their team into this new era.???get yours » https://t.co/6NPU2Ppyrq pic.twitter.com/FNLsdkhbE6— Los Angeles Chargers (@Chargers) April 21, 2020The biggest surprise of this offseason has been the Chargers' reluctance to add any new quarterbacks after parting ways with Philip Rivers. With Cam Newton and Jameis W…

data-mm-id=”_tn0m8rrzg”>As things currently stand, the margin between the Western Conference contenders for the eighth seed in the playoffs is razor-thin. The Portland Trail Blazers are currently in sole possession of the final playoff spot at 34-39, but the Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs are all less than one game behind them. With only two more days of seeding games remaining, just about anything could happen.With that in mind, we should all band together and collectively manifest a Suns-Blazers play-in series. It's the best possible outcome, and while it's anything but assured, it's not as unlikely as you'd think! If the Blazers and Grizzlies both lose their final games but the Suns win, we'll get Phoenix vs. Portland, with Portland o…