Rome is a mess. The bus never comes, they don’t pick up the garbage and the cops do nothing. Now Totti’s leaving. It’s the last thing we need. | | | | Super Mario piled up the points during his career.
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Rome is a mess. The bus never comes, they don’t pick up the garbage and the cops do nothing. Now Totti’s leaving. It’s the last thing we need.”
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| | rantnrave:// I wasn't lucky enough to be able to open up SPORTS ILLUSTRATED every few weeks and find a new FRANK DEFORD story waiting for me but I can still remember opening up THE WORLD'S TALLEST MIDGET and reading his lyrical prose for the first time. Deford didn't write for sports fans -- he wrote for those who loved language and wanted to understand the depths of humanity, and also, maybe, sports. He could burrow into a subject's psyche as well as he could read a box score. Deford saw sports not as a diversion but as a reflection of society, and he proved that sports journalism, when done well, could resonate with anyone. He wasn't just a sportswriter -- he was THE sportswriter. SportsSET: "The Coolest Writer in the Room"... COLIN KAEPERNICK remains unemployed. Maybe he'll get a job at some point before the start of the 2017 season, but if he doesn't it will still be a testament to his character. Kaepernick has never shied from controversy -- following his convictions when it would be easier not to -- and controversy has also found him even when he hasn't courted it. Is he a good QB? Does he have too many tattoos to lead a team? Is he being blackballed from the NFL? Those questions have pestered him throughout his career, and still do. Simply by being himself, Kaepernick has exposed deep issues in both the NFL and the media covering it, and started conversations more crucial than the ones on sports radio. SportsSET: "The QB Who Risked His NFL Career to Do It His Way"... BRYCE HARPER is the best asset MLB has in the war for eyeballs and attention -- the yin to MIKE TROUT's yang. He's brash and vivacious on the field. Starting a bench-clearing brawl Monday doesn't hurt that argument, even if it is silly... TIGER WOODS's DUI arrest is another low moment for the golf legend. There's no need to find greater meaning, especially if we don't know what led to it. Impaired driving is sad and dangerous, period... When life isn't about candy, it's about hockey. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Frank Deford wasn't just a sportswriter -- he was THE sportswriter. His transcendent writing in Sports Illustrated — about Bobby Knight, Howard Cosell, Billy Conn, and many more -- influenced generations of writers who use sports as a canvas to explore life. | | |
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| There’s no such thing as one perfect diet. | | |
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| Nello Ferrara was being groomed to take the reins of a famed confectioner, but chose to cobble together a decade-long career with 19 minor league teams. | | |
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| Colin Kaepernick has always been a lightning rod for controversy. Is he a good QB? Does he have too many tattoos to lead a team? Is he being blackballed from the NFL? Meet the star who's always risked his career by being himself. | | |
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| Famously cold and frighteningly massive, Lake Superior contains 10 percent of the world's surface freshwater, holds the remains of 6,000 shipwrecks, and offers a lifetime of adventure. Stephanie Pearson sets out to circumnavigate America's most overlooked playground. | | |
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| Nashville likes sports. Hockey is a sport. It’s the Stanley Cup Final. Let’s not overthink ‘hockeytowns.’ | | |
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 | ESPN |
| The words swagger and cocky come to mind, but there's also a thoughtful, reflective side of Phoenix Mercury star Diana Taurasi, who opens up about her marriage to Penny Taylor and what's to come in her career as she closes in on the WNBA scoring mark. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| The Cavs and Warriors didn't break a sweat to make it to the NBA finals, thanks to some luck, and their unique manipulations of the NBA salary cap. | | |
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| Jacob DeVries is hoping to be drafted for a second consecutive June. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Hanah One is the natural way to get pumped up. | | |
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 | Chess News |
| The unforgettable Viktor Kupreichik passed away a few days ago at the age of 68, and with him one of the greatest creative minds in chess passed away as well. Alex Yermolinsky readily admits he was one of his fans from an early age, and later had the chance to face him over the board. Instead of trying to neutralize Kupreichik's wild play, he invited it, leading to a game he explains "is so insane I can't even annotate it properly." Have fun! | | |
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| In the second part of our series, we talk to the boxer about his 1974 loss to Muhammad Ali and how it changed him forever. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by author Chuck Klosterman to discuss the recent passing of Chris Cornell, the importance of film soundtracks, if super-teams hurt the NBA overall, LeBron's legacy, the NFL's rule change on celebrations, and the conspiracy theory on Michael Jordan's first retirement. | | |
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 | For The Win |
| ESPN has ramped up its NBA coverage as part of its new TV deal. | | |
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 | Tacoma News Tribune |
| Former Seahawks All-Pro running back, Curt Warner, and his wife, Ana, have focused their lives on treatments and therapies for their twin autistic sons. The demands of their care left them largely sequestered for nearly 20 years. ‘For a long time, we wondered how far we could go without breaking,’ Curt said. But together they’ve made it through fire and pain. | | |
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| LeBron James and the defending champion Cavaliers are in a third consecutive NBA final with the Golden State Warriors-and once more, the overwhelming opinion is that this championship is the Warriors’ to lose. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Buoyed by the success of car- and bike-sharing companies and fueled with cash, Chinese start-ups are entering what some see as a sharing bubble. | | |
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 | Smithsonian Magazine |
| 100 years ago, Jim Thorpe became the greatest American Olympian of all time, but not if you ask the IOC | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| “I’ve always felt like I was a triple threat: pass, rebound, score,” James tells B/R Mag. “But scoring has never been my concentration on things.” | | |
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| Even as a boy Pat Tillman felt a destiny, a need to do the right thing whatever it cost him. When the World Trade Center was attacked on 9/11, he thought about what he had to do and then walked away from the NFL and became an Army Ranger. | | |
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