If last night's game is any indication, Tim Thomas can steal this series for the Boston Bruins. Although, if last night's game is any indication, he'll have to do it by winning 1-0 games. Thomas was brilliant, but Roberto Luongo wasn't too shabby himself as the Canucks won 1-0 on a Raffi Torres goal with about 19 seconds to play. (How many of you got the headline? If you did, you win a free copy of Raffi's greatest hits.) The late goal was set up by a great play by, who else, Ryan Kesler at the blue line. He found Jannick Hansen who waited until the exact right moment to feather a pass to Torres, who simply had the deflect the puck past Thomas (who, amazingly, very nearly got back to get a stick on it). Even though this was a tight game, I'm still sticking with my Canucks in five pick, because when all the jitters of being the favored team playing at home in the Stanley Cup Final wore off, the Canucks out-classed the Bruins. (The Province)
The Tigers may be streaky, but the Twins are flat-out bad, and that gives me a warm feeling in a special place. Sweeping the Twins is awesome. Winning nine straight against the Twins is awesomer. Having Rick Porcello as a pitcher on my fantasy team while he gets the win to sweep the Twins and make it nine straight over them is awesomest. (DetNews)
Game 2 of the NBA Finals is tonight, and a lot of the focus is going to be on a finger on Dirk Nowitzki's non-shooting hand. The beauty of hockey is that 1.) They never disclose injuries; and 2.) They don't have to, because any injury that's not on the face isn't visible. Sure, that doesn't stop teams from whacking at what they think is the injury, but at that point you're just guessing. For Nowitzki, though, all it's going to take is one well-placed swipe at the ball, and that's going to be throbbing. (Dallas News)
Ricky Rubio has signed to play with the Minnesota Timberwolves next year, which probably means the lockout is inevitable, because we all know that Minnesota is not allowed to have anything nice. But seriously, if you team him with Kevin Love and Derrick Williams, the T'Wolves might be onto something. Not like a championship or anything, but perhaps contending for a playoff spot. Eventually. OK, maybe not. (CBS Sports)
Oh, yeah. Shaq retired. That's an auto-play video, by the way, and if you leave it up, it will just go through Shaq's video library. I recommend leaving it up. But where does Shaq rank all-time? He's definitely one of the top five big men of all-time. He also changed the way we looked at big men, because he was huge-normous, and actually had quite a bit of athletic ability. Goodbye, big fella,
Apparently Terrelle Pryor's mom bought him his latest car. There are "documents" that "prove" this. I'm really only using quotation marks because I feel like it. This looks legit. But, his license has been suspended, so he should probably stop driving. (Columbus Dispatch)
Ready to have your mind blown? Previously unreleased Area 51 pictures? Previously unreleased Area 51 pictures. (National Geographic)
Today's Amazingness features Rihanna in an outfit that would kill any job interview ever: