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SALT LAKE CITY — More fun stories from around the world of sports in today's From Left Field!
Diary of sports-induced madness
Sports can make some of us go a little bit crazy. In order to note exactly how crazy, one young girl chronicled her father's descent into madness during this weekend's Super Bowl loss. Note: he's an Atlanta Falcons fan, so it goes badly.
She took notes of her dad's reaction throughout the Super Bowl.
Explosive dunk ===============
The Sacramento Kings were without DeMarcus Cousins Wednesday, but despite that, they pulled off the upset over the second-in-the-East Boston Celtics. One huge play was this thunderous alley-oop from Willie Cauley-Stein:
WILLIE. CAULEY. STEIN.#SacramentoProudpic.twitter.com/B637mdhWc7 — NBA.com (@NBAcom) February 9, 2017
Wow, WCS gets up from so far away! That's impressive stuff.
Hidden ball trick
I've seen the hidden ball trick in baseball, but it does seem like it would work better in a sport like lacrosse, where the ball is partially obscured all the time and there's a lot of moving pieces. This ESPN game featured one, and sure enough, it fooled the goalie:
Joel Tinney @5tinman21 fools everyone & scores on a hidden ball trick pic.twitter.com/sclLahKUwd — Lacrosse Film Room (@LaxFilmRoom) February 7, 2017
Sports subterfuge is always entertaining. 
