I want them to go out. Playing guilty is a big part of being a really good player in the (NHL). We don’t do that anymore. Heaven forbid! We have agents, and their whole entourage making sure you drink that carrot juice, and all this stuff. | | | | Fly, Eagles, fly.
(Al Bello/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I want them to go out. Playing guilty is a big part of being a really good player in the (NHL). We don’t do that anymore. Heaven forbid! We have agents, and their whole entourage making sure you drink that carrot juice, and all this stuff.”
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| | rantnrave:// PATRIOTS-EAGLES. The SUPER BOWL has a familiar feel. That would be BRADY and BELICHICK. Their eighth Super Bowl together. Dynasty is too simple a compliment. Their run isn't just dynastic, it seems unparalleled. Fawning over these Patriots isn't new but it's necessary. Can any team in modern pro sports match this kind of success over such a lengthy run? If this weekend was supposed to be a referendum on the value of quarterbacks in the NFL, it only reinforced the status quo. They remain insanely important, despite the inevitable questions. The great quarterback remains the difference between playoff team and championship contender. A very good defense or collection of super-talented skill players can get you so far. In the AFC, Brady over BORTLES was the margin between winning and losing. In the NFC, NICK FOLES had the game of his life and CASE KEENUM flopped. It's possible to make an argument that neither Foles or Keenum is all that good. Put inconsistent players into difficult situations and expect volatility. It's unlikely that Foles would play as well as he did. Great players bring predictability and stability. The VIKINGS can ride Keenum to the NFC championship game and never be sure that at some point he won't regress back into pre-2017 Case Keenum. This goes for the Super Bowl too. The Eagles have a terrific defense, a destructive running game and a strong offensive line but who's willing to bet on a faulty QB to beat Brady? ELI MANNING only happens twice... Congrats Eagles and Patriots fans... Hardest hit the Eagles took all night... Is this the season we should finally worry about the CAVALIERS? It's mid-January so this question is right on time. But maybe this is it. The end of the run in CLEVELAND. LEBRON is blasting warning signs. Could be time to panic. Then again, we've been here before and it usually ends with the RAPTORS losing in five or six. Maybe this year is different. But no way to tell yet... We let them into our living rooms every night. They don't just call the games, they are a part of the experience. And they have some stories of their own to tell. SportsSET: "Soundtrack of Sports: The Stories Behind the Voices"... The photo I wanted to run atop this newsletter... Maybe NFL ratings are falling because we can't watch any more "Dilly Dilly" commercials? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| How is this not a bigger scandal? Perhaps because most people only care about gymnastics once every four years — and all the victims were girls and women. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| The fitness phenomenon once taught women how to radically improve their sex lives. | | |
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 | SportsDay |
| 'I want them to think that': An inside look at the former Ranger's motivations for a comeback at 53 years old | | |
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 | Wired |
| ESL is bringing two of its leagues exclusively to Facebook Watch. Are no-scope 360 headshots the new "meaningful interaction"? | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| When I first started covering Michigan State football and basketball for the Detroit Free Press in the late 1990s, one of the ways I got to know people on my beat was by attending the football coach's radio show, which was broadcast live every week at a local bar. | | |
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 | Cricinfo |
| For all the pessimism about the sport, in many ways it is in better shape than ever | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Dana White was all set to wrap the title belt around the defending heavyweight champion. Stipe Miocic had a different idea. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| At just fifteen years old, the Ukrainian phenom is already hitting some of the hardest forehands in the game. | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| The biggest, loudest sports party that Philadelphia had thrown in nearly a decade looked and sounded like this Sunday night: people wearing green shirts and dog masks screaming and whooping until their lungs burned and the building shook. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| A few weeks ago, the former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson offered a cautiously revealing insight into life at Burnley under Sean Dyche. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| They sit in the top deck of Dodger Stadium. It's the cheapest section in the building. It's steep and uncovered and so, so far away. Yet this winter the Dodgers reached all the way up there and slugged their loyal fans in the gut with a hefty price increase. | | |
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| In all, 11 of the 14 players on CLA's 2008-09 basketball roster exceeded 6'3". Eight of them were born, and lived until the year before, in foreign countries. How Wright pulled it off is a tale of single-minded determination, even as the school he ran solely to achieve his basketball master plan fell into chaos. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| It starts with a “shower thought” and becomes a glorious, unrehearsed performance. | | |
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 | Detroit Free Press |
| Former players swear by him, ex-teammates love him, and old colleagues insist it would be a home run for the Detroit Lions to hire Matt Patricia. | | |
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 | Quartz |
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| The Undefeated |
| O’Ree knows the story of the league’s first black player could have gone another way. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| As the island continues to rebuild in the hurricane’s wake, the persistence of winter league baseball brings a ‘spiritual and emotional’ lift. | | |
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 | Montreal Gazette |
| Red Fisher, the chronicler and the conscience of Montreal hockey whose career touched seven decades, died on Friday at age 91. | | |
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 | WBUR |
| In high school and college, Kate Landau was a nationally ranked distance runner. Everyone expected her to go pro. But, then, an eating disorder threatened to take all of that away from her. | | |
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