Tonight Lord Stanley’s Cup, the most famous trophy in professional sports, will be awarded after the first Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 since 2011. The recipient will be either the hated Boston Bruins or the St. Louis Blues (aka Not The Bruins). Founded in 1969, the Blues are the oldest NHL franchise to have never won …
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A swathe of news sites including The Guardian, the Washington Post, The Intercept, HuffPost, NBC News, the Toronto Star, the Christian Science Monitor and Breitbart News have reportedly been blocked in China. The Great Firewall of China already bars citizens from accessing non-Chinese social media sources including Facebook, Google, Gmail, Twitter and Microsoft’s Bing, and last month China also blocked …
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AT&T said it’s adding Locast, an app that streams local broadcaster TV for free, to DirecTV and U-Verse starting Thursday. Locast provides access to local broadcast stations including ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX to people with broadband-connected receivers. It’s available in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington DC, Houston, Boston, Denver and Baltimore. AT&T said it’ll still provide its free Local …
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The Chicago White Sox have not given South Siders much to cheer about in recent memory. Perhaps this is the year the club will begin to turn things around. José Abreu leads the offense again this season, but he should have help from shortstop Tim Anderson, third baseman Yoán Moncada and top outfield prospect Eloy Jiménez. White Sox fans who …
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The Oakland A’s remain a beacon of hope for all small market teams. Despite having the third-lowest payroll in baseball last year, the A’s won 97 games and qualified for the postseason, where, yes, they lost to the big-market New York Yankees in the Wild Card game. This season, the A’s might not be able to keep pace with the …
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Get your ridiculous hats and mint juleps ready — Derby Day is almost here. The 145th running of the Kentucky Derby takes place today, Saturday, May 4 — and the world’s best horses have already been flown in on their custom plane for the race. Last year, Justify won the Kentucky Derby and went on to become only the 13th horse …
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The San Francisco Giants play in the most beautiful park in all of baseball. I would pay good money to watch a Planet Earth-style documentary of an empty Oracle Park (previously Pac Bell Park, SBC Park and AT&T Park). The camera slowly pans across the outfield grass and rises up so I can catch a glimpse of McCovey Cove behind the tall …
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Ever wanted to take Kelly Kapowski to homecoming, survive detention with John Bender or test your detective skills with the Law & Order crew? Series: Your Story Universe, NBCUniversal’s new app, lets you play episodes of your favorite shows and movies and determine the outcome. Choose and customize your character to play different episodes of shows like Saved by the …
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The Philadelphia Phillies were the biggest movers and shakers in MLB baseball’s 2019 offseason. They signed former MVP Andrew McCutchen and traded for two All-Stars in catcher J.T. Realmuto and shortstop Jean Segura. And then they went out and dropped $330 million to bring Bryce Harper to Philadelphia. Phillies fans who have cut the cable TV cord and want to …
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This year there’s more ways to stream the Super Bowl live over the Internet than ever. And if you live in Bangor or Reno or Wilmington, you can now add one more to the list. Starting today, YouTube TV is available in 95 additional TV markets, including those three, and will roll out nationwide soon. Until now the $40-per-month service, which …
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