Sports is really good in the moment. So you want to watch the game, but the afterlife of a given show is quite small... It’s hard to transform sports with the internet. I mean, you can carry it over the internet, but what does that do for you? So think of it as the internet doesn’t yet add much value to the sports experience. | | | | Jackie Robinson is safe at home.
(Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Sports is really good in the moment. So you want to watch the game, but the afterlife of a given show is quite small... It’s hard to transform sports with the internet. I mean, you can carry it over the internet, but what does that do for you? So think of it as the internet doesn’t yet add much value to the sports experience.”
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| | rantnrave:// Game 1 got these NBA FINALS off to a roaring start. That first half was awesome, but frantic. Like it was played at 1.5x speed. Give me six more games of that (though I don't think we'll get that many). But the second half was a little more depressing, though not unpredictable. The WARRIORS are a juggernaut. The inclination after Thursday night is to wonder where the team stands in history, not just in this series. It's attractive but still a little too early. But as the Warriors showed us in the second half, things can turn quickly.... I'd watch a SPORT SCIENCE on KYRIE IRVING's layups. I'm not sure I understand the physics of them. Actually, I know I don't. He puts so much English on them he's got a PhD by now... The mentality of missing shots. A cool NYLON CALCULUS study on how LEBRON JAMES and STEPH CURRY respond to missing shots. Interesting to see how much closer to the rim LeBron moves after missing and how much further back Curry moves after making one... Was talking to someone Thursday about MLB's star dilemma. Baseball is overflowing with talent right now. And despite years of pronouncements that baseball is dying, it's not. The NFL had $13 billion in revenue in 2016; MLB neared $10 billion. But its players aren't selling as well as those in other major sports. How many high-profile MLB players can you name? It would help if MLB stars got more coverage online but MLB doesn't get as much traffic as other sports, which then precludes more coverage. That makes MLB's decision to monopolize its video content on TWITTER and other social media confusing. MLB should let its fans trumpet the league as often as possible. That's the best marketing it can get... Read KERITH BURKE on the ugly situation female broadcasters are sometimes boxed into on air and the script that follows... A word about those compression tights you bought. You may want to see if you can still get a refund... What was MR. MET thinking?... How much would you pay for your child to win the SPELLING BEE? Spelling coaches for the competition are the new thing. What a world we're in... Hug a tree today. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Esquire |
| Coming to terms with exercise bulimia. | | |
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 | Minnesota Monthly |
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 | Outside Online |
| As our writer cheered on his three-year-old at the Strider Cup in Texas--a merciless race replete with tears, anxiety, and elation--he had one question: Is intense competition good for the tiniest of competitors? | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| At 14, Sylvie Lamontagne can’t compete this week. But she can coach - and charge high prices for younger kids seeking an edge. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The goofy, glorious, extremely '90s NBA anthem hasn't appeared on television in 15 years, and yet it has also never left. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The tennis player who groped a reporter is a reminder that no matter the progress we women in sports make, there are some who will only ever see us as skirts. | | |
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 | NPR |
| In the late summer of 1982, one man worked around the clock to program the video game version of Steven Spielberg's "E.T." in just five weeks. The result wasn't pretty. | | |
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 | recode |
| Showing football on Twitter, versus off Twitter, may have benefits after all. | | |
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 | Men in Blazers |
| Rog talks with Mexican National Team manager Juan Carlos Osorio about his journey from the A League's Staten Island Vipers conditioning coach to head of El Tri, taking on the USMNT at the vaunted Azteca next week, and how the 90s Chicago Bulls changed his coaching philosophy. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Either Donald Trump Jr. is a world-class athlete or, as several members of the online CrossFit community have claimed, he’s fudging the numbers a bit. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| How two alarming injuries and a move to the Bay Area opened up Kevin Durant to a life outside of basketball. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| As he nears 600 career home runs, Albert Pujols isn't the slugger he once was, but he's still pretty good. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Stop trying to beat Alabama's Nick Saban in the boardroom. It won't keep him from beating you on the football field. | | |
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 | ESPN FC |
| On May 15, 2002, Zinedine Zidane scored one of the Champions League's greatest ever goals for Real Madrid. To this day those who saw it remain in awe. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| "No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is -- it’s tough." | | |
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 | Compete |
| Over the last seven years, at least six high-profile esports players have been struck with a debilitating and serious medical condition called spontaneous pneumothorax-a collapsed lung. Some had to withdraw from matches. A couple kept playing, even though it probably wasn’t a great idea. Why is this, of all injuries, common in esports? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Just take it from Cristiano Ronaldo. He said so himself. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| The delightful story of how the Scripps National Spelling Bee found a home on a sports network. | | |
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 | CNBC |
| How ex-Grantland's Bill Simmons can make a comeback after flopping with HBO. | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| With increasingly sophisticated data available, major league hitters are focusing on getting the ball in the air. | | |
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