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Biggest Award Robberies in Pro-Sports History
“Are you serious??!” “Wait….hold up, he won?” ” (Player X) did better than him, how dafuq did he win?!” Sound familiar? Well to all you sports fans out there I’m sure you’ve muttered these phrases at some point upon finding out a well deserving player was snubbed out of an award by a player that’s also very good but shouldn’t have won an award over him. “Well run yo trophy bruh, I gots ta have it”. We’ll take a look at some of the biggest robberies of awards in pro sports. I’m sure you have plenty of your own, so be sure to leave them in the comments section. Let’s…
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Kobe at it Again? Somebody get This Brotha a Onesie
“Kobe Bryant’s wrath hasn’t just been felt by the front office this season. His poor teammates have certainly not been spared, according to Nick Young: Nick Young shares Kobe Bryant’s recent trash talk: “I don’t talk to players on teams that are 20 games under .500.” – Excerpt courtesy of SlamOnline.com I wrote an article on Bryant last season questioning whether he was a good teammate or petulant whiner. Well he’s at it again, this time chiding his teammates for having a losing record. I’m not going to go into another Kobe rant but that quote says it all right here. You know what… I will rant one more time (I think). The bottom…
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Best Individual Sports Teams to Never Win a Title
There have been many heart breaking moments that sports fans have gone through: Your team missed a last second shot; the opposing team scores a winning touchdown in the closing seconds; losing a back and forth game in a close finish; or just simply getting blown out in a winner take all game. Nothing is more heart breaking than having your hometown team put up spectacular numbers, being the odds on favorite to win a championship and…. falling short. Here we go, with the best team to not win a title during that season. Some of these are truly gut wrenching and the list is in no particular order. (*…
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Top 5 Most Tortured Sports Cities
After winning the World Series in 2004, thus breaking their own 86 year title-less drought, the Boston Red Sox celebrated in the locker room. Pitcher Curt Schilling raised a bottle of champagne in the air & cried out “Why not us!?” Well, the cities home to these sports franchises have to be saying “Why Us?!” These are cities with teams that have long playoff droughts and/or never won a championship. 1. CLEVELAND Browns: After many ups and downs from the 1950’s through the 1970’s, they were on an upward trend through the early 80s’ peaking in 1986 going 12-4. The Cleveland Browns had a good offense and an even better defense. Their starting QB Bernie Kosar had…
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Lord of the Rings: Phil Jackson a Legend or Lucky S.O.B.?
“This year there’s no maybe” was Phil Jackson’s answer heading into the 2010-2011 season when asked if it was his last year ever since The LA Lakers single-handedly embarrassed him on his way out of the NBA with their uninspired play and unprofessional conduct on the court (Lamar Odom and Andrew Bynum both being ejected). They suffered a 122-86 game 4 evisceration from the Dallas Mavericks (Dallas swept the best of 7 series 4-0). We all thought he was done with coaching. After all, he’s 5th all time in wins with 1155, and has won 12 NBA titles, 11 of them as a coach. He has guided the careers…
