Semper Annus Alter Erit | | | | How it ended.
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| | rantnrave:// ALABAMA, walkoff TD. You yelled too, right? Champions under NICK SABAN again (again) (again) (again) (again). Some kind of gumption to pull your starting QB at halftime of the national title game. The kind of move only a legendary coach with five national titles already might make. Alabama, down 13-0 to GEORGIA, benched JALEN HURTS to start the third. TUA TAGOVAILOA came in and led a memorable comeback. Why wasn't he playing all season? He's a funslinger. Redemption for Alabama. Lost to CLEMSON last year with one second left. Ended it in overtime this time. No chance to blow it. Best title game since last year's... I saw Saban smile. Then it rebooted... Receiver DEVONTA SMITH is never gonna pay for a meal in Alabama again, and the NCAA can't do anything about it... Smith, Tagovailoa, and leading rusher NAJEE HARRIS -- all true freshmen... ANDY PAPPANASTOS is a champion but Monday night is still going to haunt him. But Saban broke the cardinal rule of coaching: don't trust college kickers... Saban's ex-assistants still can't beat the master. They're 0-12 now, but nobody came closer than BULLDOGS coach KIRBY SMART. Doesn't matter. No win. No ring. All heartbreak... How many Georgia fans are FALCONS fans too? Which hurts more: 28-3 or 20-7?... UCF/Bama split national champs... MEKHI BROWN is going to be running gassers until spring practice... The only stadium proposal that isn't corny... The NBA has LAVAR BALL fatigue and it's causing an open rift between the league's coaches and ESPN. MAVERICKS coach RICK CARLISLE wants to stop ESPN from talking to Ball. WARRIORS coach STEVE KERR called him a KARDASHIAN and says he's emblematic of what's wrong with society. STAN VAN GUNDY is boycotting ESPN altogether. Are they trying to dictate coverage by bullying ESPN? How comfortable is the NBA to have its coaches in a rift with its TV partner? What happens if Ball continues his criticism of LAKERS coach LUKE WALTON? How awkward is this for LONZO? Can't believe the Lakers believed Ball when he said he'd stay quiet if they drafted his son... Another loss for US SOCCER. JONATHAN GONZALEZ chose to play for MEXICO internationally. Gonzalez, a 20-year-old defensive midfielder with potential, had played for the US for the U17 and U20 teams, but won't for the senior team. Would he have made a different choice if the US qualified for the 2018 WORLD CUP?... In creative battle... RIP DERBY. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Backup quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, a freshman from Hawaii who entered after halftime, threw the game-winning touchdown in overtime to secure the Crimson Tide its fifth national title since 2009. | | |
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 | USA TODAY |
| There is one takeaway for Georgia from Monday night, with 37 years of championship frustration on the verge of being erased. The Bulldogs blew it. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Pardon me if I skip the title game tonight-the showcase for an industry that generates billions of dollars through the efforts of young men who see a tiny sliver of that bounty. | | |
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 | The Athletic |
| “It starts,” says Jaron Madison, the Cubs’ director of player development, “with a guy and a field and a roster in his hand.” That’s the romantic view of it, anyway. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Abigail Rasminsky dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. Then she got hurt. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Scooters have long been scoffed at by the skateboarding community, but will a new generation of riders finally bring legitimacy to the sport? | | |
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 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| On Dec. 31, 1967, the Packers edged the Cowboys, 21-17, in a game for the ages. Here's the story of the Ice Bowl as told by those who played in it and witnessed it. | | |
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 | National Post |
| When TSN bought the rights to the world juniors before 1991, it was the broadcasting equivalent of a speculative mining stock. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| At the world's largest grooming show, dogs are transformed into fantastical works of art. | | |
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 | OZY |
| Whoever wins tonight's College Football Playoff National Championship will have company in UCF. Here's how they should settle the score. | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| He never had a dominant peak. He never won a World Series or break some long-established record. He ate innings, he pitched well, and he survived. Also: He was the subject of baseball’s most important medical experiment. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| There was a fear back in 2014 and 2015 that professional baseball was merely experiencing the early stages of a Tommy John epidemic. There were concerns that sports specialization, the focus on velocity over feel for the craft, was stressing arms even before they arrived in the majors. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| University of Idaho president Chuck Staben was home with his family in Boise on New Year's Day when he got an angry message from an alumnus. "Are you watching the Rose Bowl?" it read. "That's the sort of experience Idaho had before you made your awful decision." | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| When Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Olympic Games, few stories were more satisfying for the hometown crowd than Paul Gonzales' triumph in boxing. The oldest of eight children raised by a single mother in a Boyle Heights housing project, the 20-year-old light flyweight beat gang violence, poverty and a last-minute broken hand to take gold. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Thanks to his parents, Kirby Smart has had a lifetime to prepare himself for this moment. Thanks to Saban, he just might be ready for it. | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| Teams are averaging 2.9 goals per game, the highest rate since the 2006-07 season. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| The boldest gamble yet in esports starts this week, and the entire gaming industry and those still on the sidelines are watching closely. But despite the hype, Overwatch League executives and team owners are pleading for patience. | | |
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 | Very Smart Brothas |
| It didn't take much convincing for me to agree with my dad's plan, that it was in my best interests to leave Sterrett Classical Academy in the city and transfer to St. Bartholomew (a private Catholic school in the suburbs with a stellar academic and athletic reputation) and repeat the 6th grade when making the switch. | | |
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| The Athletic |
| "First, I will say, that I do realize that I am not obliged to share any of this information with you. I have the right to keep this in private, privy to just my family and a few close friends. I have done that for a very long time and although it has served me in my journey of up-keeping a certain image of myself…it serves me no more." | | |
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 | Katie Couric Podcast |
| Maria Sharapova has won five Grand Slams since becoming a pro tennis player at just 14 years old- and she's faced her share of setbacks, too. Sharapova joins Katie at 92Y in New York City to discuss highlights from her new memoir, including emigrating from Russia at age 6, her rivalry with Serena Williams, and the urine test that took her off the court. | | |
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