In Washington, fans are still dealing with the fallout of the Capitals' stunning ouster, writes Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post, while also roundly lauding forward Brooks Laich, who stopped on his way home from the crushing Game 7 defeat to change a tire for a woman and her daughter who got a flat on their way home from the game.
But in Coach Pat Riley's heart, Starks endeared himself by getting the Knicks home in the first place, and that best explained why Riley would not pull the plug on Starks even as he shot 2 for 18 in a crushing Game 7 defeat at Houston in the finals.
Popping into the local GAME or HMV would return the same old shower of fossilized, dust-covered Pikachus and Peaches, trying to pre-order the figures on Amazon became a soul crushing game of fastest-fingers-first, and the queue for one-per-person figures at NYC's Nintendo World regularly snakes around the block.
Last summer, after The New York Times Magazine lost a crushing softball game on a walk-off home run to New York magazine, its archrival-once-removed, I reflected on my favorite quotation from the Rosie Perez oeuvre: "Sometimes when you win," she told Woody Harrelson's character in "White Men Can't Jump," "you really lose.
I have to be, because I never, ever get to opt for the easy relaxation of a glass of wine or other substance to take the edge off at the end of a long day of crushing the game at home and at work.
On the other side, the mind-body-spirit-crushing game show The Krypton Factor returns to screens for the first time since being axed in 1995 New Yearr's Day, ITV1, 7.30pm).
King Digital Entertainment, developer of the female-friendly Candy Crush game, reached "a new quarterly high of 1.5 billion average daily game plays", according to its 2014 results statement.
Clairol is selling an AR "beauty product trial," Adidas is moving its Deerupt running shoes, King has an AR Candy Crush game and STX will try to get you to watch Amy Schumer's new comedy, I Feel Pretty.
Last year in the conference semifinals against Boston, they won the first two games in Miami, were crushed in Game 3, then came back to win the next two games.
The next inning, Venable spoiled the Mets' day, crushing a game-ending homer off Pedro Feliciano, who slumped over with his hands on his knees for several seconds as Venable rounded the bases.
But the Orioles loaded the bases against the Yankees starter Ted Lilly in the fifth, and Jeff Conine seemed to be waiting for the slider that Lilly threw him, before crushing a game-tying grand slam.
