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The streaks Chicago, Boston, and St. Louis put together weren't even close to as successful as Detroit's. And Detroit's streak has spanned multiple lockouts and a salary cap. Four Cups, two other Finals, a record 62 wins and the only team to make the playoffs every year in the cap era > St. Louis doing nothing of note for 20 straight years.

Tigers are 6-0 and continue to score runs in bunches. Miguel Cabrera is hitting .520 - and isn't leading the team.

Nah, I hated it too. Gonna give it another try though since I got tired of Bix badgering me about it.

Uh... no. The assist - which was not BS - came on a goal with the goalie in the net.

Thank you NHL Gamecenter: I flipped to the Dallas game and got to see Jamie Benn take the league scoring title by notching two points in the last 2:30 to pass Tavares.

Same here. I laughed a ton at the ridiculous stunts and crazy getaways. Why not? It's not like it's meant to be serious

Even if I liked them before, their ads would be enough to change that. Good grief.

The "Department of Player Safety" reviewed the video, and decided that crosschecking a dude in the back of the neck is okay if the puck is near him. I guess the added rubber in the area takes away from the danger to someone's neck.I gotta be honest, I don't see that as suspension worthy. 2 minutes or 4 minutes, nothing more.Don't worry about it, it's what they do: Whine about how the Blues are pure evil while having a complete inability to realize there team isn't exactly clean. Oh, the Jets are definitely not a clean team, they have a well deserved rep for shenanigans. I think 4 games was a bit harsh, but I fully believe that Buff should have been suspended. Doesn't change the fact that the Backes crosscheck was exactly the same, save for the fact that the puck was somewhere in the vicinity. Same general idea but the one by Backes wasn't even remotely the same severity.

But what the heck happened to Jordana Brewster?

Most ridiculous movie of all-time. Loved every second.

Eh, that game will get delayed again.

Since we're using spoiler tags on movies that have been out for 15 years

The "Department of Player Safety" reviewed the video, and decided that crosschecking a dude in the back of the neck is okay if the puck is near him. I guess the added rubber in the area takes away from the danger to someone's neck. I gotta be honest, I don't see that as suspension worthy. 2 minutes or 4 minutes, nothing more.

I'm halfway through John U Bacon's "Fourth and Long", about the state of college football in 2012 and it's great. Love his work. He's got a book on the Brady Hoke/Jim Harbaugh stuff at Michigan coming out in September. I'll be buying that for sure. After 30 years without one, we get TWO different Ty Cobb biographies in the next couple weeks. I'm eagerly anticipating both. One of them, "Terror on the Basepaths" is by Tim Hornbaker, author of the massive book on the NWA. He's also done a book on Charles Comiskey that I have not yet read.

The local Cubs broadcast apparently handed their intro to a clueless intern: Too fast for ya?

And they put Joe Nathan on the DL. Hard to tell if that's bad news or good news.

Tigers on pace to all-time records of 162 wins and 0.00 ERA. WHOO!

I don't think so. I think he was a guy who had just never really thought about it.

I love that story.

There's been a Henrik Zetterberg sighting! Hank finally decided to play well again and his 2 pts (including 2nd goal in last 28 games) helped Detroit to a win over Carolina. Which would have guaranteed a playoff berth if Pittsburgh hadn't gagged away a 3-0 lead over Ottawa...

And now comes this: NCAA VP: Oh, we saw it, just not the view that actually would have changed the decision

For those questioning whether Duke gets favoritism from the NCAA: NCAA officials have admitted that the on-court referees did not the see the TV replay that showed Duke deflecting the ball out of bounds. Viewers at home and the announcers all did but the referees did not. This despite the fact that they're supposed to get the same views as the ones TV viewers get. After turning back to the court, the alternate referee saw the angle, realized they were wrong and...decided not to call back the on-court refs to look again, something that was within his rights/powers. He "didn't want to change the balance of the game". Uh...

In case you're still pissed off over last night's game, the Christian Laettner doc is now on Netflix streaming.

Ya know what, let's do a couple more documentaries: I Am Street Fighter - Originally produced as a pack-in for the 25th Anniversary Street Fighter package, Capcom eventually released this doc as a freebie into the wild. This generally focuses on the players and tournaments for SF, rather than the games themselves. Obviously, there's a lot on the games but that's not the focus. And that's OK. What's here is very good and interesting. Profiles of several top players, tournament directors, and so on. There's a lot of stuff with one hardcore SF-related collector. And there's lots of discussion on USA vs Japan as far as skills and why things are what they are (fewer arcades in the US = less in-person competition and, thus, lower skills, etc). All in all, I liked this one a lot. I like the SF games and have played just about all of them. If you're a fan, you'll like this. 8/10. Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story - Wanna see Lance Armstrong get eviscerated for 90 minutes? Well, here's your movie! This movie tells the story of Armstrong's career while also telling the story of his PED usage in parallel. There are interviews with Greg LeMond, Betsy & Frankie Andreu, and several others - all of them just shredding Armstrong. The depth and breadth of the manner in which his legend is torn down is pretty amazing. There's also some stuff in here on the media and its canonization of Armstrong as well as plenty of stuff on Lance's (in)famous vindictiveness towards those he believes wronged him. I mean, we're talking about a guy who sued people for defamation for saying he was using PEDs - while he was using PEDs. Amazing. Anyway, on the whole, there's not a ton of new stuff here since we all know the Lance story already, but it's still very good. 8/10.