John Tortorella wrapped up combative press conference with “I won’t have to say a damn word to them” and a guarantee
"I won't have to say a damn word to them before. No, no. We'll be back here for Game 7."
Georgia’s official football Twitter account got suspended on the day of their spring game, and everyone had suspension jokes
This fits into a long history of offseason Georgia suspensions.
ESPN’s analysts all picked the Trail Blazers over the Pelicans, and the Pelicans called them out on Twitter after completing the sweep
All 22 ESPN analysts surveyed picked Portland, and the Pelicans remembered.
Bryant Gumbel’s interview with Derek Jeter got a bit heated when Gumbel asked about tanking
An exasperated Jeter called Gumbel "mentally weak."
Ranking all 54 nationally televised games on the 2018 NFL schedule
Of the 256 NFL games each season, 54 will be nationally televised across the country.
Canadian columnist takes shot at foreign hockey player, forgets Canadian did the same thing, deletes tweet
Sportsnet's Mark Spector launched some jingoistic criticism at Alex Ovechkin for a first-round guarantee, but missed that Canadian Claude Giroux did the same thing.
John Sterling debuted a new Giancarlo Stanton home run call, and there was singing involved
Sterling crooned, "Non dimenticar, that ball sure traveled far," to the tune of a 1958 Nat King Cole song.
Boston Globe suspends columnist amid accusation that he fabricated details of marathon bombing
Kevin Cullen's work seems to imply he was at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing. Kirk Minihane claims he was not.
College Jeopardy! contestants present thoroughly terrible imaginary basketball intro
This imaginary basketball intro did not go over so well on social media.
Many Fox stations appear set to preempt the Man United-Spurs FA Cup semifinal to cover Barbara Bush’s funeral
Many Fox affiliates look set to televise coverage of Barbara Bush's funeral from noon to 3 p.m. Eastern instead of the FA Cup semifinal.
Peyton Manning reportedly didn’t want to criticize Eli twice a year, and Fox was willing to move Giants’ games for him
Fox was reportedly willing to try and move Giants' games off Thursday night for Peyton.
This Week In Hot Takes: Stephen A. Smith compares Colin Kaepernick to Donald Trump
"Here you have a white billionaire who wanted to be part of the league and couldn't get in! Colin Kaepernick couldn't get back in!"
Monday Night Football vs. Thursday Night Football: Which package wound up with better games?
If you could watch one of these two packages but not both, which would you choose?
Borg vs. McEnroe is surprisingly good, portraying two tennis icons not as different as believed
Don't dismiss this movie because of Shia LeBeouf.
Viewing Picks for April 20, 2018
Three NBA Playoff games on the ESPN Family of Networks and three NHL Playoff games on the networks of NBCUniversal
