I can’t fault myself. I played for a major-league team that happened to be in Denver. If that’s a problem and if that’s going to be an issue for them, then get rid of the team and move it elsewhere if it’s going to be that big of an issue. No needles went in my (butt). I played the game clean, but I played in the ballpark and it’s almost like Coors Field is my PED. | | | | Marcus Allen carries the rock against Washington during Super Bowl XVIII.
(Focus On Sport/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I can’t fault myself. I played for a major-league team that happened to be in Denver. If that’s a problem and if that’s going to be an issue for them, then get rid of the team and move it elsewhere if it’s going to be that big of an issue. No needles went in my (butt). I played the game clean, but I played in the ballpark and it’s almost like Coors Field is my PED.”
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 | Variety |
| The year is 2034. The Olympics that have been a fixture on channels owned by NBCUniversal since 2002 have disappeared from TV altogether. Instead, the Winter Games stream live to your phone courtesy of Amazon, which bid the rights away from all of the biggest media companies. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The prospect of MLB's unsigned players forming their own team this spring amid a historically slow offseason might seem unprecedented, but in 1995, a collection of major league hopefuls left unsigned after the strike did just that. Meet the Homestead Homies, a 23-year-old blip no one wants to see repeat. | | |
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 | The Forward Podcast |
| Bryan Fogel joins Lance to discuss his Academy Award nominated Best Documentary, "Icarus." They discuss Bryan’s original vision of the film and how that changed. Bryan goes into detail about he got to know former Russian anti doping lab director Grigory Rodchenkov. They review the doping program that Bryan was on to compete at the Haute Route. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| LeBron loves him. Steph can't stop watching. And Russ has got company in OKC. This 19-year-old might already be a superstar, but he's doing his own thing. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| I'll look at my Chief Wahoo hat and drop it in the trashcan with all of the other things we've outgrown. And I won't miss it. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| To spend time with Hall of Famer Warren Sapp is to veer between competing personas--the unapologetic partier who has faced accusations of sexual impropriety and violence, and the serious-minded spokesman for CTE awareness who sits on panels with Malcolm Gladwell and Dr. Ann McKie. How--or whether--those two sides can be reconciled, that’s a little hazy. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The most moneyed Goliath in prep school athletics needed help from above, or from somewhere else, to vanquish a relative David in parochial hoops over the weekend. The box score says St. John's College High School, the favorite charity of alumnus and Under Armour founder and CEO Kevin Plank, defeated Archbishop Carroll, a once transcendent squad turned proverbial Little Sisters of the Poor, 53-51. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Colin Kaepernick rolled into Super Bowl XLVII in late January 2013 as the NFL's hottest new phenomenon. He enjoyed a week of media adulation, came within a few goal-line stops of winning the Super Bowl and left New Orleans looking like the new face of American sports superstardom: successful, marketable and almost completely uncontroversial. | | |
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 | Village Voice |
| The MTA is finally acknowledging what anyone with Google Maps can see for themselves: The massive Belmont Park redevelopment project and future home of the New York Islanders cannot easily accommodate frequent train service from Long Island. | | |
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 | Refinery29 |
| Sage Steele talks sports, being a female sports anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter, and why she doesn't like talking politics on the job. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| For years, I thought of exercise in terms of calories in and calories out: Eat too much pizza on Saturday night, take an extra spin class. Skip an hourlong run, skip a bagel the next day. Train for a triathlon, eat whatever I want -- because, hey, wasn't I burning like a zillion calories a day? | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The USWNT star is playing on her old college field for Sky Blue FC in New Jersey and couldn't be happier about it. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Thirty years ago, Doug Williams directed the most prolific quarter in playoff history to become the first black quarterback to win the Super Bowl. | | |
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 | Highsnobiety |
| Back in the mid '90s, Nike Air Max cushioning was in the midst of a rapid evolution. Sneaker designs were progressing quickly, with the Air Max 95 and Air Max 97 becoming the industry's aspiration for footwear perfection. The Air Max 98 has always played somewhat of a second fiddle to its predecessors, however. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| Back in April, this author argued that the new generation of ballparks is pushing us (well, some of us) away from the game. The retro-ballpark era has been universally praised for bringing wider concourses, greater amenities, and generally more charm to major-league facilities. | | |
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 | Baseball Prospectus |
| How one Toronto Blue Jays minor-league team made history. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| It's not even noon on a windy Saturday in Philadelphia, and Larry Poff is trying to get me drunk. "The Poffer" is a god for modern Philadelphia fans: a celebrity revived through a post-game video from a decade ago. You might know him as the face of the drunken-fan video Eagles Twitter has kicked around the internet all season. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| So much for "lifelong Clipper." Los Angeles hoped Blake Griffin would be its savior, but a rash of injuries and an arm's race in the West eventually forced them to acknowledge a harsh truth. | | |
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| Deadspin |
| Fabiano Caruana is the No. 2-ranked chess player in the world. He achieved Grandmaster status just before his 15th birthday back in 2007. In the 2016 Chess Olympiad he represented the United States on the first board as the Americans took home the gold for the first time since 1976. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| "Arguably, the first war room was when we did a hashtag for Audi during the 2009 Super Bowl. That kicked the door open." | | |
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