If you’re not pissing people off, you’re not doing your job. | | | | Shaolin monks practice Kung Fu in London.
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| | rantnrave:// Nothing has affected college sports over the last decade more than TV. The boom in rights fees led to unprecedented revenue for conferences and athletic departments. It caused conference realignment -- the tectonic plates of college sports shifting to chase the money. Without TV's influence and dollars, would the BIG EAST have avoided years of chaos and retained its prominence? The avalanche of TV money caused revenues to climb so quickly that it probably helped turn the tide against amateurism. It created the NCAA's nonstop headache of having to explain why student-athletes aren't paid. TV is college sports' gift and its curse. JOHN CALIPARI gets a wide audience for KENTUCKY games and fat paychecks because of the SEC's TV deal. But he can rightly complain that it has caused him issues with scheduling. What will happen to college sports in five or 10 years when the nature of TV changes and networks are relying on bundles and fewer subscribers for their revenue? Colleges have given up a good deal of their autonomy over opponents and even what night they play in exchange for TV rights money. Will they get paid as much? And be as willing to bend to the whims of the networks? When the TV industry looks completely different, how will college sports look?... The WARRIORS aren't just NBA champions; they’re the NBA vanguard. They have the most talented team and a front office thinking steps ahead of the rest of the league. Their sixth man might be a future Hall of Famer. The Dubs reimagined how NBA teams are built, and how they play. Let us count the ways. SportsSET: "The Warriors Are Basketball 2.0"... Always read LEE JENKINS... The MLB DRAFT began Monday night and it might not have been a coincidence that the top three picks were high school players. It could be evidence that one of the big lessons of MONEYBALL no longer applies... No TIGER WOODS. No PHIL MICKELSON. The US OPEN will feel a little empty this month -- a preview of what golf will feel like once the previous generation of stars is gone. A preview, that is, of the not-too-distant future... Get your dad a soccer phone for FATHERS DAY. Put it next to his football phone. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| The Warriors are not just NBA champions; they’re the NBA vanguard. The Dubs reimagined how NBA teams are built, and how they play. Let us count the ways. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| For all practical purposes, the Warriors captured the 2017 title the night they surrendered the 2016 crown. It all started with a text message to Kevin Durant. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Becca Longo is 18. She can kick a football farther than you can. She's got a scholarship. And she's just getting started. Watch and learn. | | |
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 | Thump |
| The world’s largest sporting event has become a strange celebration of patriotism and sick drops. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The Stanley and the Astronauts jingle “Born Jamaican” that earned acclaim as the country’s National Festival Song for 1979 perfectly encapsulates the love affair that Usain Bolt and Jamaica have with each other. | | |
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 | Edge of Sports Podcast |
| This week, on the Edge of Sports Podcast, we talk foreign policy with 10 year NFL veteran Donté Stallworth. Also, I've got some choice words about the racist attack on LeBron James' home. In addition, we have a very special Kaepernick Watch with the biggest doozy of an excuse for why the quarterback has not been signed. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Chuck Jones, the classic Warner Bros. animator, used to say that we are all defined by our disciplines: When anything is possible, the things we don’t do are just as important as the things we don't. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| Over the past year and a half, Barstool Sports has gone from a niche blog with a cult following to a major player in sports media backed by a full-blown movement. And nowhere has Barstool’s crossover into the mainstream media been more evident than the meteoric rise of the wildly popular podcast, “Pardon My Take.” | | |
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 | PSFK |
| We interviewed ConBody CEO Coss Marte on how he went from selling drugs on a street corner to running a company on 5th Avenue. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| MLB takes seriously its designation as the national pastime. A certain responsibility comes with that. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Sid and Geno are the backbone of the repeat Stanley Cup champs. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Bob McGinn has left the Packers beat after 38 years in the press box. But he’ll never lose his passion for football--or the right way to do the job. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| Before the birth of his son, A.J. Daulerio tries to make peace with his own father -- and himself. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Finance |
| The Golden State Warriors are a perfect representation of Silicon Valley. | | |
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 | Waypoint |
| Story modes in sports sims shouldn't shy away from the difficult truth. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| A new comScore study out today has taken a deeper look at the behavior of cord cutters here in the U.S., in order better understand how this growing. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Zach Lowe examines how the Warriors got back on top, whether they can keep the team together and what to expect from their biggest challengers. | | |
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 | The Indianapolis Star |
| James Hardy's body was found in a Fort Wayne River on June 7. A few miles away, his mother is trying to cope with his mysterious death. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Angels third baseman Yunel Escobar wields a 36-inch, 34-ounce slab of wood cut from a maple tree, a relic of an earlier era, a monstrosity marveled at by teammates and opponents alike. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| We had a correspondent in the stands at Oracle Arena for Game 5 of the NBA Finals. He didn't always like what he saw or heard from Warriors fans who paid obscene prices to watch their team win a title. | | |
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