Most of the women I knew in my sport have had at least one abortion. Prioritizing athletic goals over the gift of life was the norm. It was all around me, but not until it was me did I realize many of these young women only wore a mask of indifference for something I can now testify requires deep thought and proper counsel. | | | | Nelson Cruz gobbles up a fly ball in the outfield.
(Jim McIsaac/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Most of the women I knew in my sport have had at least one abortion. Prioritizing athletic goals over the gift of life was the norm. It was all around me, but not until it was me did I realize many of these young women only wore a mask of indifference for something I can now testify requires deep thought and proper counsel.”
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| | rantnrave:// The way we understand sports has taken a drastic turn over the last few years. Leagues and broadcast partners have bought in on making analytics a part of the product and making the numbers rich and interesting. NFL broadcasts will show you a players' speed on a play, or you can check how many yards of separation a receiver averages. The NBA's stats page is now the home to next-level analytics, tracking small-scale categories like how much shooting room a player has. But not league has bought in like MLB. It has become the industry leader, through MLB ADVANCED MEDIA. STATCAST is not only helping baseball fans access stats, its team of analysts is creating some, too -- like exit velocity and spin rate. Statcast is opening a door to a deeper understanding of baseball. It's also changing the way teams evaluate players, how fans watch games on TV and how hitters swing. The fly ball revolution is a response to publicly available launch angles for hitters, putting an emphasis on swinging up. The sport has entered the age of big data and change has just begun. SportsSET: "The Statcast Revolution"... What a bombshell out of OKLAHOMA. Football coach BOB STOOPS is retiring -- what a scoop by THE OKLAHOMAN's BERRY TRAMEL. That's the second significant coaching change this week -- though Stoops' exit is a much bigger story. His retirement shakes up one of college football's powerhouse programs. Is that good for a school that had a scent of stagnation over the last few years? Or bad for a program that still managed to finish in the top 10 regularly?... Who should replace JERRY WEST as the NBA logo? It's an interesting but, I'd assume, limited conversation. MICHAEL JORDAN's Jumpman silhouette is world famous, but the NBA probably can't use it. NIKE might have a problem with that... ISLANDERS legend MIKE BOSSY's letter to his younger self... Inside the locker room for PREDATORS coach PETER LAVIOLETTE's pregame speeches... It's time for you to start working out. Your next job may depend on it... ACTIVISION BLIZZARD wants to be the king of competitive gaming. FORTUNE's MICHAL LEV-RAM offers a good look into the battle for supremacy in eSports. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| MLB’s Statcast is a breakthrough technology transforming what we know about—and how we play—baseball. It's changing the way teams evaluate players, how fans watch games on TV, and how hitters swing. | | |
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| The maker of hit videogames like "Call of Duty" and "Warcraft" thinks a new esports league could be the key to its future. | | |
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| Uninterrupted, a budding network of podcasts, documentaries and original series, is challenging an increasingly fragmented sports media landscape, betting that some of the most compelling content will be created by athletes. | | |
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| How to make an American prodigy who can finally (finally!) be worthy of the world's game: start 'em early (with a side of Doritos), put 'em on the second-best team, vacation like Messi and, above all else, have fun out there. Like so. | | |
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| How a proposed federal law from 1995 could end America's hopeless addiction to spending billions of taxpayer dollars on sports stadiums. | | |
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| Critics say former FBI director let Commissioner Roger Goodell off the hook in his domestic violence investigation. | | |
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| Bob Stoops is out at Oklahoma after 18 seasons, and just like that, there are only four coaches left who have won it all. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| JaVale McGee isn’t just the Internet’s Large Adult Son -- he’s Pamela McGee’s actual large adult son, and with his Warriors vying for the championship, the player known as the Great Adventure and the mother who raised him while playing professional ball are continuing a great basketball adventure of their own. | | |
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| Could a 45-year-old writer with no baseball experience hit a home run in a major league park? | | |
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| Imagine an online gambling ecosystem that is decentralized, meaning that it cuts out the typical middleman between a game-maker or betting operator and the player or bettor. That’s the pitch of Russian company DAO.Casino, a decentralized platform for online gambling operators that runs on the Ethereum blockchain. | | |
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| Chatted with Derek about his career so far, what a typical week during the college football season looks like, things that bug him about how TV ratings are covered. As for ratings, the junkies should love it. We go inside the inside of the inside of the baseball. | | |
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| The Isle of Man TT motorcycle race has claimed the lives of 146 riders, spectators and workers since 1907. Here are the deadly turns, colorful characters and rich history along the course. | | |
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| Baseball has Roger Angell. Boxing has A. J. Liebling.Yet soccer, puzzlingly, has no writer of such caliber, no one who has managed to find in the sport a comparably inexhaustible source of literary writing and intellectual inquiry. And it’s not for lack of suitors. | | |
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| Dear 14-year-old Mike. I write to you today as a 60-year-old man, and I have some news from the future that you probably aren’t going to believe. | | |
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| The Undefeated caught up with Siegel to discuss the backstory of the logo’s creation, his relationship with West and whether the NBA will ever respect the Hall of Famer’s wishes by making a change. Despite multiple attempts, West was unavailable for comment for this story. | | |
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| If the game report says it was warm and breezy, was that really the case on the field? | | |
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| All that matters is that Kaepernick is a man without a job who just saw the only iron he had in the fire get dunked into a vat of ice water. No other team has expressed interest in him. No other team has shown anything resembling the backbone to BECOME interested in him. | | |
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| Politics is in the air. Could Peyton Manning soon be on the ballot? | | |
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| It wasn’t just that he was a fan. He gave pro athletes a voice. | | |
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| This is a very good rabbit hole to be in. | | |
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