It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great. | | | | Bobby Orr captured for posterity.
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it great.”
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| | rantnrave:// The CAVALIERS are the argument against stability and smooth-sailing as pillars of success. They fired their coach and won the NBA title last season. Now they're letting GM DAVID GRIFFIN walk. It's easy to let management churn when you have LEBRON JAMES. And chaos seems to follow owner DAN GILBERT. Griffin shouldn't be overlooked for some of the riskier moves he made and for being a source of calm. So who operates the team during the draft? Will someone be hired in time for free agency? The NBA offseason is fun. Goes from 0-to-60 like a FERRARI... ESPN's look into the lives of Latinos in MLB is fascinating and important. BEISBOL EXPERIENCE fills a gap in baseball coverage. Latino players are under-covered, with too few reporters able to speak Spanish and too few willing to make an effort to provide content about them. That creates a significant hole. NELSON CRUZ and ADRIAN BELTRE should be bigger stars. Only six Latino players are represented on MLB's top 20 selling jerseys and of the 17 leading vote-getters for each ALL-STAR GAME position, just five are Latino. This series, led by MARLY RIVERA, is a great look into their experience. How to learn a new language, adapt to a new culture, infuse it with your own personality, and much more... The NHL's expansion draft Wednesday night is going to be fun. Already, teams have announced which players they're willing to lose for nothing. Soon, we'll know which ones the LAS VEGAS KNIGHTS want. Sports teams usually try everything to mask how they feel about a player. In an expansion draft so much is in the open. I only wish it happened more often. Having a wild scramble every few years would be good theater. The expansion draft might be the best argument for expansion... Offensive names can be trademarked, the SUPREME COURT ruled in a case about a rock band called THE SLANTS. That's a win for WASHINGTON's NFL team, mostly. Though the decision was unanimous, the justices were split in their reasoning. That could diminish its impact on future legal battles. A deeper analysis of the decision and implications... Never read the comments. Unless it's PFT COMMENTER. The genesis story of sports media's best satirist... FIFA never changes. Only the names do... THE ATHLETIC is expanding again, this time to DETROIT. Enjoy seeing a subscription-based media model working... There might be a whole new world out there. Wonder if it has cheap cable TV bundles. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ESPN |
| In 2017, Latinos represent over one in four players in MLB and have shaped America's pastime as much as it has shaped them. We asked prospects, starters and future Hall of Famers to share their stories and perspectives. What is it like to learn a new language, crack the game's code of unwritten rules and deal with political turmoil in the United States and back home? Here is their béisbol experience. | | |
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 | WTF with Marc Maron |
| Marc sits down with his coworkers Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin to take stock of the time they spent shooting the first season of the new Netflix series "GLOW" and to learn a bit more about each other now that they're not in character anymore. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| Grade-school chess teams from Franklin County, Mississippi, blow past stereotypes about who can play chess and win national recognition | | |
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 | Golf |
| One of Koepka's go-to lines to reporters is, "I'm not a golf nerd." No, he is 6'0" and 205 pounds of whoop-ass. Last week he clubbed into submission the U.S. Open. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| On the cusp of fame and fortune, the D.C.-area native is still fueled by doubts and slights -- real and imagined -- which have propelled him to potentially the brightest star in the NBA draft. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Darvish is a damn fascinating case as teams look at the 2017-18 free agent class almost as an appetizer for the pig-on-a-spit feast of 2018-19. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| An unusual arrangement between MLB and the Mexico League might be helping the relentless Cubs. | | |
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 | GQ |
| In risking his career and reputation, the former Philadelphia GM remade the Sixers on his own terms. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| Comment sections are generally known as the cesspools of the Internet. But if nothing else, they also gave birth to the funniest Twitter parody account in sports: PFT Commenter. | | |
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 | The Ring |
| What exactly does Top Rank have up its sleeve? It's slowly coming into focus, and Manny Pacquiao's next title defense is set to kick off the new series. | | |
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 | Timeline |
| The move was banned from college basketball in 1967. | | |
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 | These Football Times |
| It's case of “So long, kid, we hardly knew ye” for Brazilian fans, who rarely get to see their greatest talents in the flesh before they leave for Europe. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Forget football, the world’s fastest-growing sport is live video gaming. But increasingly its impact is proving harmful to those in its thrall. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| John Skipper confronts declining subscriber numbers, soft ratings and rising rights fees and possibly annoints a successor with three promotions. | | |
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 | Tube Filter |
| What if Disney had bought Twitch instead of Maker Studios? For one thing, ESPN would be in a much better spot. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| Josh Martin of Martin Shapes infuses his dad's legacy into every board he makes, while also leaving space for his own artistic inspiration. | | |
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 | Sports360AZ |
| June 17, 1992 was the day that changed Phoenix sports forever. It was the day, 25 years ago, a trade sent Charles Barkley from Philly to the Phoenix Suns. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| While VAR has been accurate at the Confederations Cup, it’s also been slow. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Phoenix Mercury guard just became the WNBA's all-time leading scorer, adding to an impressive list of career accomplishments. Is she the best ever? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Such was the reaction to the death of Len Bias, a Maryland All-America and Celtic-to-be. An autopsy showed that cocaine was involved in the tragedy. | | |
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