Smiling doesn't win you gold medals. | | | | It's a Nashville party for the Predators.
(John Russell/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Smiling doesn't win you gold medals.”
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| | rantnrave:// The SPURS beat the ROCKETS and the math. It's not that simple, obviously, but it's a reminder that as much as we live in the age of analytics, there's still a place for old-school thinking. Look at the Spurs and CUBS. SAN ANTONIO has been the most progressive team in the NBA but understands what system works for them, even if it's not trendy. They've won with mid-range shots and bigs. The Cubs won the WORLD SERIES leaning in on team chemistry and character. Take that for data. The lesson isn't to just be adherent to numbers but to be open to all ideas. And to have GREGG POPOVICH... Fantasy sports helped the NFL grow, and it should help the WNBA, too. You can now fill out teams on FANDUEL. I'll give it a whirl... I like what THE RINGER is doing with its podcast network. It has grown slowly but decisively. LARRY WILMORE is the latest addition. Podcasts have become a part of the rhythm of my day and it still seems like an unsaturated market... The Congresswoman going to war with the NFL over its player health protocol... Why PATRIOTS owner ROBERT KRAFT remains friends with PRESIDENT TRUMP... I'm jealous of PAT NESHEK's card collection. Mine is stored somewhere in my parents' house. It's too valuable to throw out. Not monetarily, of course. Can't put a price on sentimentality or all those 1990s baseball and basketball cards... THE CAPTAIN CLASS, by SAM WALKER, looks like it's going to be good. This HARDBOUND presentation of the book is a neat product, too. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ESPN |
| Backed by FIFA's tacit support, Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has woven soccer into its grisly campaign of oppression, tearing apart a generation of players. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how? | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| She's spent her career championing underdog causes. Now Schakowsky is taking on the biggest bully in sports. | | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
| “We invest in things we think will succeed.” | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| There's no pressure on baseball to protect fans closest to the field from foul balls and broken bats. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The rookie GM is staring down a major rebuild with one of the NFL’s most prestigious franchises. And it started with the biggest day of the year, a GM’s Super Bowl: draft day. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The Ringer's Ben Lindbergh and Michael Baumann talk to Red Sox executive vice president and chief financial officer Tim Zue about how teams are using data to optimize ticketing, marketing, concessions, the fan experience, and more, and the ways in which baseball business analytics are similar to and different from baseball operations analytics. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Before this past Saturday’s fight (May 6), in which his son was thoroughly dominated by Saúl “Canelo” Alvarez, Julio Chávez Sr. assured anyone who would listen that his son had changed. Chávez Jr., he insisted, no longer was the apathetic boxer who woke up for an early evening bowl of cereal while wearing pink underwear instead of getting in some early morning road work. | | |
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 | Digital Sport |
| One of the most pressing issues that the biggest sporting events -- and mostly Premier League football -- have to worry about is piracy. | | |
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 | Cleaning the Glass |
| Tthis isn’t another article about how the analytically-savvy Rockets crunched the numbers and redefined basketball. Instead, it’s a look at a different team, a team that’s defying this trend and going in the opposite direction: staying big, living in midrange, and playing a seemingly anachronistic style of basketball. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Nike's attempt to break the 2-hour marathon and came up short in more ways than one. | | |
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 | espnW |
| Writer Rachel Piazza explores the confidence gap theory, interviews athletes and coaches of various sports on the topic, and offers a possible solution to "closing the gap." | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The Grizzlies, or any NBA team, can’t fix what systemic racism created. | | |
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 | Mercury News |
| Not the first time for this, but the people who seem to know the absolute least about Colin Kaepernick and his football career are yelling the loudest and most right about now. And leaking the most. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| John Ridley’s doc about the L.A. Riots is foregoing the Emmys in favor of the Oscars. | | |
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 | Open Culture |
| The record label Melodiya--the only record label in Soviet Russia--and the album’s artists managed to get 1984’s "Aerobic Exercises" certified by the “USSR Sports Committee,” who, writes Terry Matthew at "5 Magazine," “envisioned these records as a sort of robot replacing athletic trainers.” | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Mitch Trubisky and Deshaun Watson are lucky Wyoming QB Josh Allen pulled out of the draft at the last minute-Allen could have been the No. 1 pick. | | |
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 | Vice |
| New Zealander Steve Butcher on how he gets the skin tributes so lifelike. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| ‘American Race,’ the NBA legend’s new TNT docuseries, spends a lot of time “starting a dialogue” that’s hardly new and rarely illuminating. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| A Michigan dentist’s improbable transformation. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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