When it comes to historic pants-shittings, they usually get to be known by the name of the place they took place. It was Germany 7-1 Brazil, and any fan with a reasonable amount of soccer knowledge will know it. Germany was the best team in the world and Brazil was a deeply flawed team that was lucky to get that far. Wrigley Field is known for a lot of things, but for a long time it was the name that rang the bell against the Marlins. The Cubs won less games than the Marlins. You could see the cracks in the barfed chicken. What stadium? The boulder of shame started rolling downhill when the Sox were on the road. There are a lot of reasons for what happened in other places. Some were balancing the two. Others were not at home. The Suns did a great job on Sunday night. The players will tell you that they play for the right to have a Game 7 at home. Even in the NBA where home court doesn't give you all that much, no last chance or last at-bats, you might be used to it. You would think the Suns would be ok with adding a seventh win. They were the top seed. The conference champ. They were supposed to have an advantage in coaching, and they had done it before. They were thrown into the air and hit with various satellites and space trash.
You have to go out of your way to be down 30 in the first half of a game you supposedly worked on all season to host. Chris Paul got all the attention when he went against an 8-seed, but the Suns never should have needed it without Booker. The Mavs are not an 8-seed and made him look 97 years old.
The Warriors didn't know the measure of winning a series and didn't want to waste time on the road and wait for a home game. You should bring your A-game to the winner-take-all. The Suns never even looked at hope, getting doubled up 10-5 in the game and never getting close again.
Luka Don practices his grimaces and glares in the mirror before every game. Rickey Henderson used to take swings naked in front of the bathroom mirror before every game, and he probably annoyed his opponents, but no one. As he stomped the Suns skull into mush, Don appeared to be having the time of his life. Larry Bird and Michael Jordan loved being the cause of broken hearts as visitors. It was more important to them. It was a good deal. To Luka, this was a lot more intense. It doesn't bode well for anyone facing him in the future, if this is how much he's going to get his rocks off. You can't ever feel good about playing someone who takes joy out of life. Don was draining threes as if the Mavs really needed them and was enjoying it as if it were a ritual. His thirst may never be known.
It is probably a market correction. The Suns were always a contender. The foils are the ones who light the way for a true champ along the way. They rose to the top when there weren't many teams around. The Warriors seem rebuilt, the Grizz are coming, and the Mavericks laid down a marker. The Suns probably won't stop jobbing out to a Western team that goes onto perform in front of the bright lights.
Not every team will be known for a long time. The Suns had lost the Finals a couple times before Sunday. Now we will all hear that a team will hit out its intestines by the end of the first quarter in a Game 7 on their own floor. That is not nothing.
Theo Hernandez of AC Milan did a pretty mean impression ofConnor McDavid on a soccer field.
This was a monumental goal, as it sealed a win for Milan that puts them just a draw away from the title next week. It's rare for a player to get to go coast-to-coast like this, less a fullback who has less business cutting through the middle of the field than a border collie. The freekick and yellow card are usually given up by someone who hacks him down. No one can do that to him. It's impressive to come up with such a cool and clinical finish when the lungs had to be on fire after running 70 yards in the dying minutes of a game. It is the goal every kid dreams of, and the asshole in your pickup game is always trying to score. It was against one of the better teams in Italy that he did it.
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