Yeah, people banditing the marathon is a time-honored tradition and a victimless crime. Many college or graduate students talk openly about running bandit. I seriously doubt that anyone who ran the full 26.2 didn't get a medal.

You and me both. This screed is a prime example of what drove me away. Not only is there no evidence or data behind it, there's a blatant misrepresentation of the other side's beliefs. I've never in my entire hockey-crazed life heard anyone suggest that Quebec players are lazy or don't play defense. Russians, yes, but…

Great read, Barry. Anyone who plays hockey has been in this situation of having to make a snap decision to hold up or follow through. It happens so fast that it's not a cognitive decision, it's muscle memory and the "lizard brain" as you mentioned. Most players (most of the time, to be fair) have the ability to…

"While I don't think Seabrook's hit was intentional or dirty..."

On the flip side, how many hundreds of thousands of people in this country have bipolar disorder and how many of them didn't something this premeditated or stupid? It's also not his first brush with the law, apparently, and all the evidence is leading me to believe that while he has a mental illness there's more to…

Fair request, but be aware that this waste of DNA uses a gay slur in his own Twitter handle.

Barry, there's a pretty cool symmetry to Brodeur's history vs the Bruins.

"All you have to say is 'I was just kidding?' Those fuckers at TSN never told me that."

Damn. That's a cynical take but you might be on to something.

You seem like a lot of fun.

And that's fine. If you never want to win a Stanley Cup.

How did this man never make it to Congress during the Tea Party phase?

David Wright's crises of faith are the saddest crises of faith.

So we've just decided she represents Red Sox fans instead of, like, Texas? Ok.

Al MacInnis and Mike Bossy would be up there, too.

I understand all of this, but this is a league for which people have an insatiable appetite. Rather than NFL Europe (which fans never took to because Europe), I'd think of it more like junior hockey in Canada with the added expense of player salaries covered by the enormous disparity in market size between Canada and…

Can someone please make a supercut of all of Johnny Boychuk's injuries? He takes more abuse than any three NHL players than I can remember but always finds a way to bounce back. He's like a human crash test dummy.

"I've got very little patience for irresponsible journalists who put this stuff out and ruin my night," Schaffer said. "My phone is going nuts. I just wanna play hockey."

This and tonight's episode make me so angry that the KHL didn't have anything close to adequate medical care available when Cherepanov collapsed. Obviously not all cardiac events are the same but Cherepanov was failed at every step of the process. There was no ambulance in the arena, the arena didn't even have a…