What’s driving the Islanders’ season-changing win streak — and reasons to think it can (or can’t) last
What’s driving the Islanders’ season-changing win streak — and reasons to think it can (or can’t) last
What a difference a week can make.
Seven days ago, the vibes around the Islanders were not great. Though they had snapped a losing streak by beating the Rangers — which always helps — they were below .500 and there were questions up and down the lineup.
Now? The Islanders (6-4-0) are on a four-game winning streak that includes a comeback victory over the defending champs. And their next two games…
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Behind the scenes of Super Bowl week, the sports media upheaval begins
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PHOENIX – The reason Super Bowl week brings me back to my days of covering baseball is because it’s like the winter meetings with all the talk, rumor and movement.
Let’s go back to a year ago in Los Angeles.
The game aired on NBC, and these were the top NFL announce teams at…
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Why it is time for the sagging Rangers to try something new
Why it is time for the sagging Rangers to try something new
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As the Rangers prepare to face two of the top teams in the NHL this week — Vegas and Colorado — the conversation surrounding the team is a lot different than it was expected to be for a club coming off an Eastern Conference Final appearance last season.
The questions were supposed to…
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The case for a Yankees roster reset if Aaron Judge leaves
The case for a Yankees roster reset if Aaron Judge leaves
The Yankees wanted to limit their bid on Gerrit Cole to eight years. They could have stayed there and hoped the right-hander — raised in Orange County, Calif. — wouldn’t really enlist with the suspect Angels or accept a Dodgers proposal littered with deferrals.
But Hal Steinbrenner badly wanted an ace, feeling it was the missing piece to a championship team. Thus, rather than try to suss out…
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football fans who say that women have ruined the sport by having crushes on footballers need to get fucking real. ur gonna put gavi - a young, handsome, fit, sweet boy in front of me and expect me NOT TO LIKE HIM? ok ......
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Shidou is the one who teaches Sae that it's okay to have boundaries in relationships and helps him feel safe, if you even care. Sae is used to being hit on, touched by fans and interviewers since he was 11. Sae is used to people wanting him and his body and his fame. He can handle that aspect of Shidou.
What really gets him is when Shidou starts asking questions. There's no expectations and yet he asks if this or that is okay, he calls him just to ask how he's doing. Sae gets this throbbing anxiety in his chest whenever he wants something as simple as a hug. Afterall, he's the badass soccer prodigy. He shouldn't crave affection when he has such a fulfilling career. Or at least that's what he believes until his new boyfriend gently slips his hand into his at a cafe. And suddenly he's remembering all the time he spent denying his sexuality, all the times men and women so much more experienced than him told him to just suck up his pain because this was all the love he was going to get. All the times he felt unsafe expressing the slightest bit of affection for another man in public and intentionally distanced himself.
It's like you don't even like me, his past flings would whine. Why do you flinch away, his exes chided. They simply hadn't seen what he had, hadn't heard the locker room talk about what one of his teammates would do if he found out he was on a team with a queer person. Shidou scares Sae sometimes with his loud makeup and dyed hair. But damn, does he feel like home. His hand is warm too, feeding Sae's skin hunger. That comfort doesn't stop him from slipping out of his grasp and shoving his hand in his pocket though, glancing around to see who saw them.
Shidou just smiles and leans back. Sae doesn't have to apologize or say anything. He doesn't know what Sae's been through yet, but he can feel the anxiety coming off of him in waves. He doesn't know this yet, but he's the first person who's been gentle with Sae. Who understands that jumping hugs and private comments look much different off the field. No, he doesn't take offense when Sae flinches at pda, and that just makes Sae want him more.
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mclaren marketing could invite the czech breakdancer and the dutch gymnast op81 doppelgangers to the next race… just sayin…
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would you ever consider putting together a workout guide?
at this point I'm convinced the only way to get a bunch of terminally online gay ppl into weightlifting is if I draw cute OCs doing it so probably
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