I just signed your death warrant. I find that you don’t get it. You’re a danger. | | | | Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King talk before receiving honorary Doctor of Law degrees from Howard University in 1957.
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| | rantnrave:// Welcome CHIPPER JONES, VLAD GUERRERO, JIM THOME, and TREVOR HOFFMAN to the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME. Any complaints? Jones and Thome got in on the first ballot. Jones should make his induction speech at SHEA STADIUM instead. Guerrero gets in on the second ballot. Hoffman on his third. But no class is without controversy. No BONDS. No CLEMENS. Voters remain prudish about steroids. EDGAR MARTINEZ and MIKE MUSSINA are still waiting. JOHAN SANTANA fell off the ballot. ANDRUW JONES barely stayed on. See something wrong with that? Was Hoffman the fourth-best player on the ballot? Was he even the best closer? The voting process remains complicated and counter-productive. There are so many qualified candidates that voters have to make tradeoffs about who to leave off the ballot to ensure others stay on another year or get enough votes. Does it make sense 92.9 percent of voters said Guerrero is a Hall of Famer this year after he wasn't last year? Shouldn't it be a binary question: Is the player a Hall of Famer or not? Why string it out over 10 years? A suggestion to change the process: players get one year on the ballot. Either they're in or they're not. No limits on how many players are allowed on each ballot. Takes away the crush of candidates that suppress others from deservedly getting in. What's the benefit in prolonging the process? The Hall gets to ensure there's probably someone elected each year? Is this about selling tickets every summer? There is an argument for candidates earning votes over time. New stats allow voters to decide there are better ways of deciding greatness -- an evolution from OBP or WAR. But that doesn't need to be dragged out. Give the player another run on the ballot a decade later, so history can judge him again. The Hall of Fame voting process doesn't need slight modifications. It needs a jolt... BILL BELICHICK might be the best coach in NFL history. He's intelligent, paranoid, and mysterious. How has he built the Patriots dynasty and won five SUPER BOWLs? He'll never say. SportsSET: "Is Bill Belichick the NFL's Sith Lord?"... The story behind those too-realistic dog masks EAGLES fans have clung to as a sign of their success. AKA the story of CREEPYPARTY... Ask ALEXA which SUPER BOWL team she's rooting for... A legitimate question... These jerseys aren't kosher... If you build it, some schmuck will be a fake tough guy and try to ruin it. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Bill Belichick might be the best coach in NFL history. He's intelligent, paranoid, and mysterious. How has he built the Patriots dynasty and won five Super Bowls? He'll never say. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| When a survivor of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse makes her impact statement to the court, she is first asked to state and spell her name for the record. And then Judge Rosemary Aquilina asks her, "What would you like me to know?" | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| For reasons that are not immediately apparent, the kid a few seats down the row from us is trying to drink a can of Four Loko through one of the eyeholes of the pillowcase he's wearing over his head, and it's going about as well as you might expect. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| The dustup that marred the return of Chris Paul to L.A. was one more reminder of the dysfunction that hounded the Lob City-Era Clippers. But the Point God has a new home, a new running buddy and a group of teammates who feel like a family. | | |
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 | FanSided |
| A basketball game is made up of discrete actions -- quarters can be divided into possessions, and possessions into individual moves. Moves that score points, save points, create space, distribute the ball and embarrass defenders. The signature ones, the ones that define the NBA in the here and now have been collected in The Encyclopedia of Modern Moves. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Taking one more (maybe one last) shot at success in the business world, two friends started selling latex Halloween masks online. Then, a team’s victory 8,000 miles away in a sport they don’t follow changed everything. | | |
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 | The Indianapolis Star |
| Rachael Denhollander was the last of more than 100 survivors to testify at Larry Nassar's sentencing Wednesday (Jan 24). | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Thomas Lopez celebrated Mother's Day with his mom for the first time in 2017. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Spencer Dinwiddie was hungry. NBA games, after all, can be long, tedious affairs, especially for players forced to watch all 48 minutes of action--which in real time takes an average of two hours and 15 minutes-from a seat on the bench. | | |
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| In less than three years, Stacia Suttles became a champion, and then lost her crown. Will this Olympic hopeful get it together before Tokyo? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The two-time Olympic team captain is the spearhead of a shrewd, communal movement. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| When my oldest daughter was in eighth grade, she was picked for a traveling all-star soccer team, and I momentarily lost my mind. I stopped being a parent and started being a fan. The coaches became deities, their orders became gospel, and my faith became blind. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Jon Cooper is the NHL's second-longest tenured coach and his Lightning are the toast of the league. Tampa's bench boss dishes on what he learned from last year's letdown, why he quit a public defender job to coach hockey and Steven Stamkos' secret skill. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Gregg Popovich does a lot that seems simple, but is powerful. Those actions are powerful because men of his stature aren't known -- or in some cases, expected -- to behave this way. Take the recent decision to bench club legend Tony Parker for youngster Dejounte Murray. | | |
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 | USA TODAY |
| NCAA is hamstrung by narrowness of own rulebook, and decision to jump into fray surrounding the Larry Nassar situation just muddies the waters. | | |
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 | Goal.com |
| Ives Galarcep speaks exclusively to the ex-wonderkid, who says he "never came close to retiring” despite being a free agent for the last year. | | |
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 | Stick to Pods |
| You've probably heard of Althea Gibson, but do you know her story? Julie didn't. This week, she learns about Althea's life and legacy with special guest Professor Lou Moore of Grand Valley State University, who put Althea on the cover of his book "We Will Win The Day: The Civil Rights Movement, the Black Athlete, and the Quest for Equality." | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| When we think of soon-to-be Hall of Fame inductee Vladimir Guerrero's outstanding career, we might recall his 2004 American League MVP season with the Anaheim Angels, when he carried his new squad to the postseason with a scorching .363/.424/.726 triple-slash line in September. | | |
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 | Sunday Long Read |
| "Washington Post" columnist and four-time NYT best-selling author Sally Jenkins recounts the advice Billie Jean King gave her about dealing with sexism; shares her opinion of Lance Armstrong, Joe Paterno, and Roger Goodell; and explains why journalism is a civil religion. She and Don also discuss several pieces of advice for young writers. | | |
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| He was lauded as the must-see doctor who worked with America’s best gymnasts. Now Lawrence G. Nassar will spend the rest of his life in prison. Over seven days, women recounted his sexual abuse at a marathon sentencing hearing in Michigan. | | |
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