Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. |
| | | | | In the ring. (Ari Bakker) | | | | | | | “Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.”
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| rantnrave:// DAN SHAUGHNESSY would like you to know that some of his favorite athletes, including his sister and his two daughters, are women. The BOSTON GLOBE columnist apparently spent the last couple days watching ESPN, which spent the last couple days tearing apart his now-infamous tweet that the UCONN HUSKIES are "killing women's game." Defensively doubling down with a column filed on MONDAY, as BREANNA STEWART and MORIAH JEFFERSON were leading UCONN to its ninth straight FINAL FOUR, SHAUGHNESSY said he has "enjoyed every minute" of the "thousands of hours" he has spent watching women's sports. And then he said the dominant men of legendary UCLA BRUINS, BOSTON CELTICS and GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS teams were all good for basketball because they merely won a lot, whereas the UCONN women are bad for basketball because they win BY a lot. Too good for their own good. Too good for everyone else's good. As if we would appreciate STEPH CURRY more if he made fewer shots. As if we wanted nothing more than to see RONDA ROUSEY lose. We don't. We like winners. Even us METS fans. And we loved watching the unstoppable power and finesse of the HUSKIES on MONDAY as much as we loved watching OREGON STATE and BAYLOR go down to the wire two hours later... You can say this, too, for the NCAA women: They're sending two teams from the western half of the country to the FINAL FOUR. The men's FINAL FOUR hasn't hosted a single team from the MOUNTAIN or PACIFIC time zones since 2008... The price of the price of a ticket, in MLB spring training and in non-league soccer... Hell yes to this trailer for "MONEYBALL TOO," TOM WILSON's documentary on the DODGERS cable TV war. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Two men entered the ring for their first professional fight. Then something went wrong. | | |
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| Battered and left for dead, Hugh Glass, as the legend goes, wriggled and stumbled with neither weapons nor supplies across 350 miles of feral upper Midwest frontier in 1823. That quintessential American legend of rugged individualism has been retold in print, in film and now, in spirit, on the like-bearded face of Cubs pitcher Jake Arrieta. | | |
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| A U.S. federal court in Minneapolis has unsealed a trove of sensitive emails sent between high-ranking National Hockey League executives, including one email exchange in which NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly links fighting in hockey to concussions, depression, and "personal tragedies." | | |
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| Take a moment and ask yourself a question. Why did you become a fan of professional wrestling? Was is the over-the-top personalities of the performers, the superhero-like outfits and physiques, the physicality of the action or the themes of good vs. evil? Or was it all of these things and more? | | |
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| Within the next year, we should get a peek at the future of how we will get our sports on television. The networks and three of the Power 5 conferences will have to make decisions that should offer clues about how we should expect to watch sports in 2026. | | |
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| It's not because they win championships every year. We love dynasties. It's not because they are female athletes. We love women's sports. It's because they have no competition. It's the margins of these victories. The defending champion University of Connecticut women's basketball team is virtually never tested. | | |
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| Normally when sports teams are dominant, we go out of our way to tune in. UConn is incredible, and yet many claim their dominance is why people shouldn't watch. | | |
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| While playing football and the disease are linked, questions remain about how much risk each player has of developing it, and why some are more prone than others. | | |
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| Baseball is the sport that gave the world "Disco Demolition Night," but that hasn't kept Minnesota's Trevor May from making some (surprisingly good) house music. | | |
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| My Colonials are in the NIT final four. How am I supposed to feel about that? | | |
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| Among all of the big men in boxing right now, there is one genuinely good heavyweight. And although--or, more likely, because--Luis "King Kong" Ortiz has looked impressive in his two most recent HBO fights, no recognized fellow champions seem interested in trying to pick up his WBA belt. | | |
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| How the process of a franchise making a draft promise to a prospect actually works. | | |
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| The role of fighting in the game is certainly divisive. Without fighting, it is argued, the game gets more violent, leaving players open to even more injuries. | | |
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| For all but the last month of his decade in the Mets organization, Daniel Murphy was a productive and mostly unexceptional player. Then came the greatest month of his career-a month that would be the best in practically anybody else's career-as he helped the Mets get to the World Series. | | |
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| Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay spoke for about 20 minutes to SportsBusiness Journal at the NFL owners' annual meeting about player health and safety issues, and his remarks were strong. His bottom line: Players know there is risk in playing the game, not enough research exists to attack th | | |
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| Forty teams were better than the Syracuse men heading into the tourney. | | |
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| While Roger Goodell continues his draconian approach to off-the-field substance abuse, a much larger elephant roams the room unabated. | | |
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| The radio broadcaster’s second channel represents a pretty noble attempt to give back some airtime to sports other than football. | | |
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| At each of Purdue football's spring practices, three players in bright yellow jerseys cycle through their turns under center. Boilermaker quarterbacks David Blough, Elijah Sindelar and Aaron Banks try to make the most of the snaps they receive every day. | | |
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| With Islamophobic attacks on the rise, Dazed goes inside one of the UK’s first self-defence classes for hijabi women. | | |
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