Boston GlobeNEWTON, MA – APRIL 16: Runners climb Heartbreak Hill during the Boston Marathon in Newton, Mass., April 16, 2018. (Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)The Boston Marathon is an event in which many thousands of people elect to run 26 miles of hills to Boston, so it’s already a little weird. But even by inhumanly strange standards, the 2018 edition provided an awful lot of bonus weird. Just a few of the things that happened on the Boston Marathon course/Ice Bowl/Rocky IV training circuit this weekend.
• First of all, America crushed. Sure, we’re a nice country that’s produced sweet soul music, pocket technology and Beyonce, but we’re not usually this collectively good at running, which is why supportive marathon signs usually say something like “You Are All Kenyans To Us!” Yet at Boston we stormed: Desiree Linden became the first American to win in 33 years, finishing in 2:39.54, running the last six miles uncontested and eventually consuming, we are as..

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In case NHL fans haven't mentioned this, the playoffs are wild, man. We're barely halfway through the first round and shit has already hit the fan. While all four games on Tuesday night's schedule were pure insanity, one stood out, that being game three between the Devils and Lightning, in Newark, NJ, a hockey hotbed.
After two dominating games in Florida by the Lightning, this series looked over before it even started, but the power of home ice was paramount for THE DEVILSSSSS on Tuesday. Both times New Jersey went down by a goal they came storming right back, eventually winning the game 5-2 in front of a raucous, sold-out crowd at the Prudential Center. It got so raucous that at the end of the game, the Lightning did what every team does that thought they had the series in the bag and no longer does – they started a bunch of shit that will carry over into game four. This makes Wednesday's game by far the most intriguing of the first round, mainly because someone m..

Jesse D. Garrabrant(Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)The Philadelphia 76ers and their #Process were considered a year away coming into this campaign, yet—off the back of a 16-game winning streak to end the regular season—the Sixers worked their way to the No. 3 seed in the East. It's inarguably the most surprising performance in the league, and with a core of superstars in Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid and young talent like Robert Covington, Markelle Fultz and Dario Saric, Philly should be an Eastern Conference tour de force for the foreseeable future.
But the franchise doesn't rely on fledgling firepower alone. Because Simmons is adverse 3-point shots—the (likely) Rookie of the Year hasn't attempted one all season, which goes against everything we know about modern basketball—the team had to get creative in its spacing to prevent clogging the lane. The solution, according to the Wall Street Journal? A 4-point line on the team's practice court:
“When..

One winter when I was in high school, my dad saw a deal where you could get free tickets to a Washington Wizards or Caps game if you bought enough Chex Mix. He bought 96 bags of Chex Mix and got 20 Wiz tickets so my brother and I could take a bunch of friends. But the Wiz were terrible so he switched that order to the Caps, and the Wizards front office didn't do their accounting, so we got 40 free tickets.
Well, he didn't technically buy the Chex Mix. He combined the store offer with a discount from Chex, so in the end Giant Food paid him a few cents for each bag on top of the free tickets. My brother and I were the ones who really paid for the experience, because we had to eat Chex Mix every day for like three months straight.
That's what Tax Day is like: Even if you're among the lucky ones, like me, who are poor enough to get a refund, you still have to go through the process. And unlike with money, the government can't refund you for the time you spend, but ..

Long-drive champ Jamie Sadlowski plays a grumpy old man who can hit the tar out of the ball in a promotional video for Cleveland Golf

What could possibly be better than the Mets' salt n' peppa celebration—already the best thing in baseball—you ask? Well, how about Blake Fraizer, son of MLB everyman Todd Fraizer, smacking an opp-field single during a Little League game this weekend and the topping it off with a little twist of the seasoning. WARNING: MAY CAUSE CUTE SEIZURES:
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Now The ToddFather is widely considered one of the best Locker Room Guys™ in the Majors. Last July, he joined the Yankees and they roared to an unexpected ALCS berth. This spring, he hopped a Flushing-bound 7 train, and suddenly the Mets can't lose. Hell, he even presided over a not terrible Cincinnati Reds team between 2011 and 2015, which is pretty much like winning a World Series anywhere else.
In other words, it's no surprise that Lil' Fraizer is already flashing his dad's Jersey charm and sneaky po..

Alright, fine, so you’re retroactively lukewarm on “The Force Awakens.” You’re still whining about Leia’s Mary Poppins space-sail in “The Last Jedi,” about how the humor wasn’t quit eat the level of a green puppet Yoda tossing around Luke’s snacks. There’s still plenty of reason to worry about “Solo.” You’re entitled to all those dumb opinions.
But holy sweet mother of the Rancor Keeper, take a gander at this clip from Disney’s forthcoming Millennium Falcon ride.
What you’re seeing here is leaked footage from the Falcon ride that’s coming to the “Star Wars”-themed Galaxy’s Edge parks in 2019 — one at Disneyland in Anaheim, one at Hollywood Studios in Orlando. (Here a more official glimpse of what they look like right now.) If this footage is legit, it shows that the ride isn’t a roller coaster, but a more immersive experience that will find guests PILOTING THE MILLENNIUM FALCON and SHOOTING AT TIE FIGHTERS and ATTACKING A BATTALION OF AT-ATs, once they successfully get through nine hou..

Ah, the tracksuit. Long the uniform of self-professed pickup artists and the nations of the former Eastern Bloc, the showy, flowy staple swished onto the runway this week with some help from an unlikely trendsetter: The Boston Red Sox. Part of a new MLB movement inspired by the Chicago Cubs' costumed hi-jinx, the Sox's upcoming road trip “dress code” is all tracksuit, all the time, and by the looks of things, the players are embracing it with clear eyes and full hearts.
Things started off innocently enough, with Xander Bogaerts, Eduardo Rodriguez, and Andrew Benintendi opting for a few clean, modern looks:
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Thankfully, things soon came off the sartorial rails, starting with Joe Kelly Jr. and this Dixie Cup-inspired look plucked straight out of a 1991 jet ski commercial…
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and Drew Pomeranz's velour thunder, which owes the late, great George Costanza a royalty check or..

Mr. McKay's friends claim he was intoxicated, “damaging the greens, scratching one with a flag and stomping golf balls into another.”