Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over. |
| | | | | The view from right field, Yankee Stadium. (Arturo Pardavila III) | | | | | | | “Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.”
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| rantnrave:// Your schedule for this weekend: NCAA men's semifinal doubleheader on SATURDAY (TBS). NCAA women's semifinal doubleheader on SUNDAY (ESPN & ESPN2). MLB opening day quadrupleheader on SUNDAY. WRESTLEMANIA 32 on SUNDAY night (WWE Network, USA Network and streaming). Why go outside? Why even have a door?... Never-too-late department: PHILADELPHIA City Council officially apologizes for racial slurs hurled at JACKIE ROBINSON by the PHILLIES in 1947… How JESSICA MENDOZA prepared for her new gig on "SUNDAY NIGHT BASEBALL"… The problem with covering a team you love… How to fix the NEW ORLEANS PELICANS, voodoo style… Oops department: When you're filling out your nearly perfect NCAA bracket, try not to forget to pick a winner for the final game. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| The story of Bill May, the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his improbable quest for Olympic gold. | | |
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| Can you feel it in the air? This Sunday is Wrestlemania 32, and that means it is Christmas for dorks like me that love combat based morality plays. For its 32nd incarnation, WWE will present an unmatched night of spectacle that no other live performance can touch. | | |
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| For decades now, the U.S. women's national soccer team has made less money for better work. The players don't just deserve equal pay. They deserve back pay - about 25 years' worth. That's how long they've been fighting the U.S. Soccer Federation over their inferior treatment. Finally, they filed a federal discrimination complaint. | | |
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| In the aftermath of a leaked video of teammate Nick Young, a seemingly contrite Los Angeles Lakers guard D'Angelo Russell told The Vertical that he felt "sick" and "sorry" and insisted that he never considered that "these pranks that we pull on each other could have bigger consequences." | | |
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| Why do certain pitches break, what happens when the bat hits the ball, and why hits down the foul line always arc toward foul territory? | | |
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| Tom Brady. Roger Goodell. Robert Blecker. One of those names doesn't belong-except when it comes to the NFL's appeal of U.S. District Judge Richard Berman's ruling for Brady in the ongoing Deflategate saga. Blecker, a law professor at New York Law School and a former New York anti-corruption prosecutor, has authored and filed the only amicus brief in the case. | | |
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| 'New attracts young,' CEO says. | | |
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| Of all the things that could distinguish the four teams remaining in the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament -- record, size, talent, experience -- one factor may be undervalued: penmanship. | | |
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| Michael Jordan is the greatest of all time: if there were such a thing as a safely indisputable subjective claim in the basketball universe, surely this must be it. But the very consensus surrounding this claim means also that it is perhaps the most potent myth in basketball history: the myth of the greatest of all time. | | |
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| You might not know what the CIT is, but schools are willing to invest time and travel to fight for the chance to win it. Three tiers below March Madness, there is still happy, and there is still hurt. | | |
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| What the analogy gets wrong about football and corporate villainy. | | |
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| As parity spreads through the Premier League, the era of the ‘Big Four’ may be coming to an end. | | |
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| Is it possible to separate Leicester's sporting story from the indecent behaviour of their players? | | |
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| Throughout the month of March, WWE has been offering a free month of the WWE Network. This is nothing new. The company has offered a free month of the Network to new subscribers every month since last April. The free month trial was actually first offered in November of 2014 and then repeated in February of 2015. The company skipped last March, as that was the month of Wrestlemania in FY15. However, this year, Wrestlemania is free to new subscribers. | | |
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| LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant sat at the end of the Lakers bench, his left knee draped in heating pads and bandages, his right knee wrapped the same way, his left shoulder also wrapped. If his other shoulder had been wrapped, too, he could have passed for the Michelin Man. | | |
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| Throwing rocks, breaking windows, and slashing tires go back 30 years, and the Palos Verdes, California, cops having done nothing, a lawsuit says. | | |
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| Secretly, perhaps even subconsciously, N.C.A.A. officials must have been rooting against a North Carolina-Syracuse matchup in the men's Final Four. Any two teams but those. Any. | | |
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| Bill Simmons welcomes Keith Olbermann to discuss "the never-ending state of stupidity" in politics, learning to compromise in America, the impact of social media on cable news, baseball's future, Pedro's peak All-Star Game performance, how to fix "SportsCenter," and modern sports news. | | |
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| The Toronto visual artist sculpts a narrative about identity weighed down by the dark side of athletics. | | |
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| I grew up as a fan of the San Francisco Giants, which meant something very different then than it does now. In the 21st century, the Giants are an enormously rich and successful franchise whose fancy waterfront stadium and affluent, tech-economy fan base serve as a perfect illustration of the way baseball has been transformed - not to say gentrified, a loaded term that fits all too perfectly in this context. | | |
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