Whas happened in sports last night. NBA: The last time we saw the Boston Celtics, they were celebrating their throttling of the Los Angeles Lakers for the NBA crown. Last night they reaped the reward as they were able...

World Series Game Four: Word to the Tampa Bay Rays—if you want to win a World Series game, it’s probably best not to let the 1-8 hitters in the Phillies lineup go up during the first inning. That’s what...

When we try to figure out and analyze an athlete, sometimes we go too far. Fans always think it’s the system or the upbringing or a string of losses that makes an athlete just lose his shit during inopportune...

The Spike TV’s “Guy’s Choice” awards were held last week in Los Angeles during the NBA Finals and Boston fanatico Matt Damon didn’t care that his audience was predominantly pro-Lakers when he decided to say Boston was going to...

Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling has become quite the persona non grata in Los Angeles. After being called “gutless” by the LA Times’ TJ Simers for questioning Kobe Bryant’s leadership skills, it was Bryant’s turn to address the issue,...

So, um… what exactly are they feeding the columnists over at the LA Times? Because whatever it is, it’s gotten their group feisty over this LA-Boston NBA Finals match-up. First, Bill Plascke decides to call out the fans who...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Finals:The Celtics show the Lakers how to come back from 24 points down, beating LA, 97-91. They’re up 3-1 in the best of seven series and look to close out the series...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night While We Were Delayed And Couped Up In A New York Airport NBA Finals: The Los Angeles Lakers finally beat the Boston Celtics for the first time this year, though it wasn’t the...

There’s no question that the Lakers/Celtics rivalry is as iconic as Ali and Frazier. Well, at least that’s what the NBA wants you to believe (so ratings aren’t in the cellar). Yet, Hot Clicks may have discovered this year’s...

Expect a volatile reaction every single time you decide to wear a visitor’s jersey at a home team’s court. Frankly, if you’re brute enough to even think about wearing the visitor’s jersey when you’re at the home squad’s ballpark,...

As a currently east coast fraternity, we at MachoChip really miss our Los Angeles upbringing (except the new guy—he’s from Queens). But we’re not talking about late-night Jack In The Box here. No, it’s the fact that the games...

Lets get something clear: the refs during Game 2 of the NBA Finals decided Kobe Bryant’s slight elbow to create space, and anything like it, would result in a foul; but Rondo’s constant slaps on anyone driving passed him...

When LA Times columnist Bill Plaschke decided to wonder out loud whether Paul Pierce’s Game one knee injury was authentic, he probably understood what he was getting into with Celtics fans. “How dare the Angeleno columnist question the authenticity...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Finals 2008: That headlines could have read “Zam! Boom! Powe” or “Boston’s Got The Powe-r” Hey, it’s better than “The Lakers Got Leon-ed to the max.” The Celtics are still undefeated against...

This year’s Lakers-Celtics NBA Finals matchup has Machochip Contributing Editor Alex Ferreyra wondering what ever happened to the tube socks and short shorts he donned as a child to emulate Lakers forward Michael Cooper for Halloween. [Ed. note: I’d...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Finals 2008: Game 1 had us enthralled from tip-off. The Lakers came out swinging and the Celtics responded fiercly. Then, Paul Pierce went out for the count, but made a comeback the...

Not to get all USA Today on you, but the last time the Lakers and Celtics met in the NBA Finals (1987, as if the media hasn’t bludgeoned that home enough), a gallon of gas cost .95 cents, a...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Playoffs 2008: Once Ray Allen starts poppin’ threes, there’s really no turning back for the Celtics. Detroit clawed their way back in the final minutes of the game, but it wasn’t enough....

Whas Happened In Sports This Holiday Weekend NBA Playoffs 2008: A long weekend without blogging duties meant a lot of time dedicated to actually watching sports. Case in point, watching the Celtics get burned is a much more satisfying...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Playoffs 2008: Detroit flexes their muscle and beats Boston 103-97 to give the Celtics their first defeat at home. This series is going seven for sure, which means Boston will have played...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Playoffs 2008: According to Paul Pierce, the Celtics have learned a lt about themselves from already playing 14 playoff games. The Detroit Pistons forgot they were even in the playoffs. Boston 88,...

Whas Happened In Sports This Weekend NBA Playoffs 2008: Boston can breath a sigh of relief after the Celtics hustled their way to the Eastern Conference Finals. Somewhere, Larry Bird is proud. Boston 97, Cleveland 92. [AFP] MLB 2008:...

NBA Playoffs 2008: The Cleveland Cavaliers were basically handed their obituary after the team went down 2-0 to Boston and Lebron was 2-890 shooting. Good thing they play seven-game series’ in basketball. Cleveland tied the series last night with...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night While We Were Getting Crunked NBA Playoffs 2008: Lebron James & Company scored a combined 49 points over the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters. That’s not going to get them far against the...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA Playoffs 2008: Lebron James shot a pitiful 2-18 and scored a measly 12 points against a defensive-minded Celtics team. Expect a surge from “The King” in game 2. Boston 76, Cleveland 72....

Oh, Paul Pierce. We guess you can take the boy out of LA, but you can’t take the LA out of the boy. Fresh off his gang-sign toss against Al Horford Saturday, and subsequent $25K fine, a Boston “street...

When Al Horford began to taunt Boston’s Paul Pierce, Pierce threw back what appeared to be a gang sign. The explanation for the clip above is here, but we’d watch our back from here on out if we were...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: Remember back in the day when the Clippers were the laughing stock of the NBA? Memories. Boston Celtics 104, Clippers 76. [LATimes] Premiership: Everton nudge Liverpool from the fourth spot on the...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: In his debut, Pau Gasol proves he can put the ball in the basket. Gasol scored 24 points in the Los Angeles Lakers 105-90 trouncing of the New Jersey Nets. [LATimes] World...

It’s funny how time changes things. We remember the 2000 Super Bowl when the upstart Patriots beat the supposedly unstoppable St. Louis Rams. Oh man, what a feel-good story that was. Now, eight years later, and the same quarterback...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night All the blogs, Newcastle fanatics and pot-heads were praising the return of coach Kevin Keegan to Newcastle. Shhhhh. Arsenal 3, Newcastle 0. [Telegraph UK] NBA: How will the Miami Heat end a 15...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: The result of the Super Bowl will be the same, except the score will be slightly lower. Boston 109, New York Knicks 93. [ESPN] Premiership: Liverpool come from behind and steal every...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: Three days, two games and two wins against the Boston Celtics. Spread the word, Washington. Washington Wizards 88, Boston Celtics 83. [AP] NHL: Evgini Malkin loves him some hat tricks. NY Rangers...

Lakers forward Lamar Odom decided to spear tackle the Celtics’ Ray Allen after his shot was gracefully rejected by that tall glass of water named Kevin Garnett. The foul will cost him a one-game suspension and about $120,000. It’s...

Los Angeles is the land of gimmicks. It is the place that will turn tricks to increase media attention. This is what we want to believe after Los Angeles went all retro and brought out their vintage 1980’s thigh...

Whas Happened In Sports This Weekend NFL: The New York Giants didn’t listen to a damn word we said. New England Patriots 38, New York 31. [FoxSports] England Premiership: Did Nery forget to save enough money to purchase a...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: Chauuuuncey! Chauuuuuncey! Maybe Boston’s just trying to ease into greatness. Detroit 87, Boston 85. [AFP] Copa Del Rey: 12th string Real Madrid team scrambles for a 1-1 draw against Alicante. Starters were...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night Uefa Champions League: Hey Eto’o! Welcome to the party. Stop picking fights with Ronaldinho. Now score! Barcelona 3, Stuttgart 1. [Sporting Life] NBA: Did the Sacramento Kings have Vlade Divac at center last...

ESPN, the same network who can’t go fifteen minutes without talking about the Patriots or Red Sox, has decided they’d take the Boston sports scene down a notch. On their website’s Page 2 section Friday, ESPN.com decided to ask...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night Uefa Champions’ League: Them Romans and their bludgeoning. When will it end! No animals were hurt during this slaughtering. Roma 4, Dynamo Kiev 1. [SkySports] NBA: Didn’t Shawn Kemp just celebrate a birthday...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: Isiah Thomas and Stephon Marbury kiss and make up; but Knicks still lose. New York 81, Clippers 84. [Espn] Spain’s Copa Del Rey: Real Zaragoza’s 1-0 defeat to third division team Pontevedra...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night Copa Sudamericana: Club América defeat Millonarios from Colombia 2-0 to advance to finals. All ten fans allowed to attend were ecstatic. [Univision] Spain’s Copa del Rey: FC Barcelona struggle against third division side...

Whas Happened In Sports Last Night NBA: So is Boston going to start whining because they win too much? Boston Celtics start season 3-0 and take out Denver 119-93. [Yahoo] European Champions’ League: A Figo-less Inter Milan cruise to...