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The roundup:

The Penguins won the Stanley Cup last night, and since the Flyers beat them in the 2012 playoffs, the Pens have now won 11 playoff series while the Flyers have won none. Remarkable mismanagement of a workable core.

Here’s Patrick Hornqvist scoring the winning goal, with 1:36 to go, and reacting as if he just iced a mid-February tilt against the Isles:

Have we reached the Penguins are nonchalant about winning Cups phase of this pseudo dynasty? I mean, Crosby couldn’t even be bothered to accept the Conn Smythe from super villain Gary Bettman. The only thing worse than the Penguins winning the Cup is the Penguins getting used to doing so. Even Doc Emrick seemed indifferent to the scene playing out in front of him. And interesting, this year Pierre McGuire only allowed Sidney Crosby to finish on his face, rather than swallow, during the post-game interview. Is there some tension there?

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There is great:

 

Soccer goal:

[That announcer blows, by the way.]

The US spent the next 87 minutes (fuck, Crosby, it’s a sign) trying to prevent Mexico from scoring. The game ended in a 1-1 tie while the good guys built a figurative wall inside the box. Wonder why soccer has trouble catching on with a mainstream US audience? Look no further than the tactic of willfully playing for a tie, which, though correct, turns off US fans used to a KICK THEIR ASS! style of sports.

 

EA Sports made a bunch of announcements on Saturday. Here are the new trailers for Madden and Fifa, which now features the pheromones of Cristiano Ronaldo, which by the way is totally fine with me. And NBA Live, which no one will play. The videos:

 

This E:60 piece on the South America soccer team plane crash was absolutely amazing. Must-watch.

 

After winning four in a row, the Phillies have snapped back to their proper selves and have now lost five straight, and have been swept six times this season. The draft is today– please don’t fuck it up.

 

Yeah, sure, all those female commentators, officials and on-air hosts are completely excluded from sports. Liberals suck.

 

NFL Network wants its talent to use access to post on social media:

That piece of video was used as a case study for how NFL Media executives want their on-air talent to use social media. During a seminar for the NFL’s on-air personalities held last week in Santa Monica, Calif., the consistent theme the league pushed was that NFL Network talent should use their access and name recognition to build social media audiences.

“We want to be more nimble about creating content and using our talent as the boots on the ground,” Brady said. “They have a stronger level of access in a lot of cases. They have great relationships with the teams and the players. We want to leverage that using each of the social platforms.”

This is a great idea. A few months ago at a symposium at the Villanova School of Law, ESPN advertising exec Eric Johnson spoke about a similar ESPN mandate, which asks cameramen, producers, audio folks and others involved in the broadcast to use their access to capture footage which traditional cameras might not pick up and post it to an internal server that ESPN can pull from. In theory, this all sounds great. But the problem arises when teams or leages feel a line was crossed. Some local PR departments, particularly the Phillies, have been notorious about slapping reporters on the wrist for misusing access or taking photos when they shouldn’t (including during on-field stretching!). My guess is NFL Network and ESPN folks won’t run into those problems as much, but eventually some team is going to have a problem with a cable puller taking a picture of Tom Brady getting his knee iced. Still, this is a great use of the access these networks are granted, and I’d love to see CSN do something like it.

 

Carson Wentz talks about hunting wild goat and antelope in New Zealand. And that’s a sentence I wasn’t expecting to have to write.

 

Donald Trump has lied before about recording conversations.

 

Herm Edwards:

 

I feel like this is overstating it a bit, but I agree the Eagles’ offensive line will be pretty good:

 

The Lakers are not impressed… with Lonzo Ball.

 

I’m never sleeping again:

 

Today in unnecessary censorship.

 

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