If I have a chance to change the world, I’m going to do everything I can to change the world. | | | | | The Titans were a yard short at Super Bowl XXXIV. (Tom Hauck/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If I have a chance to change the world, I’m going to do everything I can to change the world.”
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| | rantnrave:// What is the purpose of sports in these times? If you're in a panic-a-day state, do sports give you an outlet to get away or fortify your beliefs? If everything is just fine for you, are outspoken coaches an encroachment? Athletes are no longer apolitical, by choice or by happenstance. In the SUPER BOWL, the PATRIOTS are TRUMP's team and the FALCONS have become the hashtag of resistance by no choice of their own. The NBA community has given some of the most enthusiastic Trump criticisms, so does the NFL's silence, for the most part, mean it is fine with the status quo? The WASHINGTON POST's JERRY BREWER wrote an interesting column. He was going to bash those players who eschewed politics MONDAY in HOUSTON but realized that there is virtue in silence sometimes. Still, the message is clear: If you're not talking, you're failing to take a side. So these are the demands on athletes now, to speak or be held in contempt. If that's the case then what is sports now but just more politics?... The Falcons were once worried about their painkiller problem... What's the line between selective credentialing who and censorship? The NFL pulled credentials this week from BARSTOOL SPORTS because their talent once staged a sit-in protesting DEFLATEGATE at the league office. Could the NFL get away with this if Barstool was the NEW YORK TIMES?... The LEBRON JAMES who fears no wars is the best kind of LeBron... Legalized sports betting could hinge on who PRESIDENT TRUMP picks as solicitor general... UNDER ARMOUR had a bad day... The NFL rejected GNC's Super Bowl ad. You can understand why the league and its union wouldn't want to air a commercial for a company that's associated with products its players are banned from using... Is this the most worried a Georgian has been of intellectual theft since Jimmy Carter? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Vice Sports |
| We spoke with scouts about why heavy players, tall catchers, and short pitchers have a hard time catching on in the big leagues. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| The most famous pencil in the NFL -= which may also be the only pencil in the NFL -= is a wood-cased, Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2. It sits, as always, stuffed behind the right ear of Matt Patricia, the defensive coordinator for the New England Patriots. It’s become a notable, if odd, football image. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research raise questions about the threat that bots pose to the online gambling industry. | | |
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 | For The Win |
| Minor league veteran Kyle Johnson struggles to support his family due to the sport’s low pay. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Before lamenting the political silence from NFL stars, ask whether we really need more noise. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| During the Ray Rice scandal, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell drew a line in the sand. B/R Mag investigates what’s happened since | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| This week marks the deadline for the next round of MLS expansion bids. But many cities are questioning whether clubs should use public funds. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Recruiting reform could mark the end of college football's love affair with the faxed national letter of intent. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s obsession with the mystical advice book, “The Four Agreements.” | | |
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 | The Set Pieces |
| Duncan Jenkins’ death is better known than his life. The mortal wounds were inflicted on Wednesday 22nd August, 2012 over a two-hour meeting at Evuna, a low-key tapas restaurant on Deansgate in central Manchester. Two months later, a senior Liverpool official was revealed as the man across the table, marking the end for Jenkins and the start of surreal, tragi-comic scandal. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Behind Marvin Gaye’s NFL tryout. | | |
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 | The Orange County Register |
| The NBA catapulted live streaming in virtual reality, or VR, toward the mainstream early in the fall, announcing that Newport Beach-based technology company NextVR would broadcast a live game every Tuesday night during the regular season. It is available to subscribers of NBA League Pass, which, for $200, allows fans to watch any out-of-market regular-season game. | | |
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 | Toronto Star |
| NFL media night circus goes on in Houston, but feels wrong amid U.S. refugee ban chaos. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| USA Football, responding to safety concerns and declining participation, is developing a version called modified tackle, with fewer players on a smaller field. | | |
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 | Victory Journal |
| Kyle Lowry's weaponization of words in Trump's America. | | |
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 | Slate |
| The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard averages a triple-double. He also stands accused of padding his stats. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Welcome to the education of a coach’s son. | | |
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 | USA Today |
| Avengers coaches groom players for 4-year schools and try to keep their own rosters full. | | |
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| B/R Mag |
| Despite throwing a state-record 56 TD passes with only two interceptions for his state championship team, small town Georgia QB K'Hari Lane waits for a major college scholarship offer that may never come. | | |
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| Yahoo! Sports |
| Jimmer Fredette is a sensation again. He hadn’t expected this to happen, certainly not in Shanghai, where he signed to play for one of the Chinese Basketball Association’s worst teams. But then came the 40-point nights, Shanghai’s unexpected rise from the bottom to the top and another group of fans halfway around the world was chanting his name. | | |
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