Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas… It took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. I know a manager who still believes that iodine is the panacea for sliding burns. It is the hardest thing in the world to get big league baseball to change anything — even spikes on a new pair of shoes. But they will … eventually. They are bound to. | | | | Forrester Osei gets swole during the English Weightlifting Championships.
(Justin Setterfield/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas… It took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms. I know a manager who still believes that iodine is the panacea for sliding burns. It is the hardest thing in the world to get big league baseball to change anything — even spikes on a new pair of shoes. But they will … eventually. They are bound to.”
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| | rantnrave:// The BUCKS fired JASON KIDD. Simple enough as a transaction. They're 23-22 despite GIANNIS ANTETOKOUNMPO and playing in the middling Eastern Conference. Makes sense. But it's another blip on Kidd's weird and interesting career. He benefited from a HALL OF FAME playing career to become the NETS' head coach immediately after he retired. Getting that job right after the end of a playing career is rare enough, and BROOKLYN gave him what it thought was a title-contending team. Kidd then tried a coup to gain power in the organization, lost, and pivoted to the Bucks. It remains one of the most audacious power plays in recent sports history. Trying to undercut the GM one year into your new job is as overconfident as it gets. That's been the underlying theme of Kidd's career. He operates as if he's his own man, hardly fearing consequence. He was a great teammate, one of the best passers of all time as a point guard, and somehow maintained a positive public profile despite multiple arrests. TONI BRAXTON helped push him out of DALLAS early in his career. He was arrested for domestic abuse and a DUI. There was tension in MILWAUKEE too. In a way, it would be remarkable if Kidd gets another coaching job. A power-hungry coach with a marginal record and a history of not playing well with others doesn't make for an attractive candidate. But who knows with Kidd. He keeps getting work despite a tarred resume... The NFL NETWORK's sexual harassment investigation continues and grows. Two more execs put on administrative leave. Is the NFL Network the first of many more investigations to come? Sports media execs told SPORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL this might be a "ticking-time bomb" in the sports world, and there's still more to come... HULK HOGAN vs. ANDRE THE GIANT. The Monday Night Wars. The Attitude Era. THE ROCK and STONE COLD. The WRESTLEMANIA moments, heel turns and feuds that took wrestling from regional shows to global tours. SportsSET: "Off the Top Rope: Wrestling Oral Histories"... Universe not sure how far it wants to go to avoid another PATRIOTS SUPER BOWL win... When you say the in-your-head thing out loud... Quack. Quack. Quack... Springtime in SAN DIEGO, by BILL WALTON. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| On Jan. 22, 2006, Kobe Bryant gave the world his Mona Lisa with one of the greatest individual achievements in sports history. Here is the compelling oral history of Bryant's virtuoso 81-point performance. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Hungarian prime minister has been lavishing public money on his favourite sport for years. Could it be his undoing? | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| The microbes in our digestive systems can affect everything from our mental health to our weight and vulnerability to disease. So why not athletic performance? New science is set to revolutionize the way we eat, train, and live. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Broadly speaking, America has never been great on shame. Pride has always been a strong suit, and fucking things up in shameful and improbable ways was the national pastime long before a more racist version of Slimer from Ghostbusters got elected president, but shame just sort of never caught on here in the way that it should have. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| In various interviews over the last month, a number of top executives worry that these issues are a ticking time bomb in the male-dominated sports world -- especially in its various sales departments and TV production trucks, which are areas that historically have carried frat house-style reputations and have been the focus of rumors for years. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| MLB Advanced Media started out managing websites. Now it’s developing its own video game. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Minnesota had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to play a Super Bowl at home against the Patriots. But nope. Here's Drew Magary on the anguish of fandom. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Three members of USA Gymnastics’ Board of Directors resigned Monday as the full impact and scope of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse continued to be exposed during a sentencing hearing in Ingham County (Mich.) Circuit Court. Chairman Paul Parilla, vice chairman Jay Binder and treasurer Bitsy Kelly all stepped down. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Gymnasts he abused are telling their stories. They damn more than just the doctor. | | |
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 | Sports TV Ratings Podcast |
| It was great to talk to ESPN’s Burke Magnus. Two sections to this podcast. The first 15 minutes is a straight one-on-one interview with Burke. Then I brought in Matt Sarzyniak, who spends a lot of time focusing on men’s college football and college basketball schedules for some scheduling related questions | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Roger Goodell sends a message — and it couldn’t have been worse. | | |
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 | Talk Of Fame Radio. |
| Cornerback Everson Walls is a Pro Football Hall-of-Fame finalist for the first time in his 20th and final year of modern-era eligibility. Which begs the question – if Walls was indeed a Hall-of-Fame talent, why did it take him 20 years to get into the room for the first time as a finalist? | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| The Spurs’ legend still has nights of unquestioned magic. | | |
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 | Medium |
| In 2016, I started collecting material for what I envisioned would be a book on -- for lack of a better term -- journeymen and glue guys in the NBA. That is, players who weren't superstars or All-Stars but who nonetheless managed to make a career of it, sticking in the league for 10+ years and being contributors wherever they went. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| One of the oft-mentioned reasons for the slow free-agent market this winter is that teams are thinking on the same wavelength when it comes to evaluating players. One of the tenets of this theory is that free agents are bad bets because of the aging process. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| There’s plenty to dislike about the New England Patriots, as people remind each other annually at this point in the season. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Something strange is happening with the baseball hot stove this winter. Not only is it not hot, it almost seems like it's off. Available stars who would ordinarily have been snapped up long ago are still sitting on the shelf, which has the MLB Players Association panicking -- and looking for answers. | | |
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 | Newsweek |
| The story behind 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin's famous theme revealed. | | |
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 | The Nation |
| The team referred to as Team Trump is far more complicated than its critics would admit. | | |
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 | BUST Magazine |
| Sports are a reflection of the political landscape that helps to shape society. As the US women’s soccer team and other teams around the world fight for equal pay, it’s important that sane and rational human beings support them. | | |
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