The Stanley Cup Playoffs begin on Wednesday night, and if you're lucky, your squad made the dance and is ready to make a run at the greatest trophy in sports. If you're like me, a long-suffering New York Ranger fan who was celebrating getting the No. 2 overall pick last night, or a fan of another team that didn't make it, you need a bandwagon to jump on. This is a blessing in disguise by the way, as I wrote last year on this exact day. The playoff anxiety is too much and I'm actually quite glad the Rangers have given me a few years off.
As good as it is to kick back and just enjoy the other teams' joy or misery, it's still nice to have a rooting interest. Enter the Tampa Bay Lightning, who are an overwhelming favorite to win the Cup based off their historic regular season. No, we're not telling you to bet on them, because that'd be silly as there is much better value with other teams and the pressure on Tampa to finally get it done is immense. Bu..

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please allow us to introduce you to James Holzhauer. Holzhauer is an ordinary guy just like you and me, except for the fact that he is currently in the throes on what those in his industry—professional sports gambling, to be exact—call a hot streak. Over the past four days, America has watched slack-jawed as Holzhauer has opened up a can of high-stakes whoop-ass on the gameshow grandaddy known as Jeopardy!. Tallying a whopping $244,365 over the course of his unlikely run, Holzhauer looks poised for a lengthy stay as long as the categories continue breaking his way. Regardless of what happens, however, Holzhauer etched his name in the history books on Wednesday with the single largest one-game cash total in Jeopardy!'s 55-year run.
How much you ask? $110,914…pre-Uncle Sam, of course.
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If you've yet to be introduced to Finn the Bat Dog, now's as good a time as any. The official bat dog for the Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators, Finn is a good boy who likes swimming, hot dogs, and, most importantly, fetching stray bats in the on-deck circle. Best we can tell, just about everybody loves Finn…except for Umpire Scrooge McDuckface, who robbed Finn—and by proxy, an entire stadium of fans—of one of the last pure good things on earth at the Aviators' home opener on Tuesday night. We hope you feel good about yourself, dickweed.
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Needless to say, this animate cinder block of a man thinks ketchup is too spicy and Zoolander wasn't funny. His idea of a good time is shouting obscenities at his future estranged children from the bleachers at pop warner games and when he needs a pick-me-up, he does push-ups to Ken Burns Civil War documentaries because Diet Coke makes him jittery. He's probably even a ca..

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The running joke with the great people of Canada is that they are too nice, too polite, almost kind to a fault. One of the shining examples of this in sports occurred this past fall, when Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly apologized to former New Jersey Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid after scoring a fluke goal on him. Rielly's fellow countryman Joey Votto one-upped him on Wednesday night during the Cincinnati Reds' home game against the Miami Marlins with an all-world nice-guy move of his own.
With a 6-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth, Votto stepped to the plate with a runner on second facing Marlins pitcher Wei-Yin Chen. On the very first pitch of the at-bat, Chen threw a 90 mph fastball directly at Votto's right shoulder. At first, Votto took a few steps forward appearing as if he was going to go after Chen and start the team's second fight this week. But kindness prevailed, as Votto picked up the ball, politely tossed it back to Chen and ran to first:
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