I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up. | | | | No diving.
(Matthias Hangst/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I never did say that you can’t be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I’d trip her up.”
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| | rantnrave:// When I go to a game, I'm a finicky fan. I need food and drinks but I also need fast wifi, easy access to an outlet and an experience that goes beyond schlocky (but funny) JUMBOTRON videos. And I'm sure I'm just demanding the basics. Going to a stadium in 2017 means spending money to leave home, where I can watch the game with a big TV, comfortable seating, the right temperature and a second or third screen. It takes a lot to get fans out of the house and pay hefty prices for tickets. Teams have had to adjust. From ordering food from their seats to scouting out short bathroom lines via an app, fans have seen tech revolutionize sports stadiums. They crave more than just beer and a good game. Now, fans get an experience that's worth leaving home for. SportsSET: "Stadium of the Future"... But the latest technology isn't always the best answer. I'm reading THE REVENGE OF ANALOG (thanks for the suggestion, DAVID HOLLANDER). A fascinating look at how analog products continue to thrive in the digital era. Can the sports world learn something from this? I was at MSG when the KNICKS played a half without any music or piped in noise -- just shoes squeaking and shots clanking off the rim. Liked it. Give me more. There's a middle ground between highlighting the sport and providing the technological innovations fans want. We go to games for the games. Technology shouldn't dilute that. It's there to fill in the dead spots, not to overwhelm the moments when the clock is running... Here are the companies, consoles, and titles that ate your quarters and bruised your thumbs. MediaSET: "Ready Player One: Video Game Oral Histories"... I love the NBA DRAFT. The NFL DRAFT. Any sports draft. But I see the inequity of it and the way it's unfair to players. It cuts down on freedom of employment and is a bit of a relic. Drafts began when leagues didn't have salary caps or the structure they do now. It was an way to prevent one team from grabbing all the top prospects. That's not the case anymore. Turning the draft into free agency would be fun. No mock drafts but lots of game theory on how to pay players and value the money under the cap. But what would replace all the TV programming hours?... Thursday's draft did not disappoint. The 76ERS can now start the process of winning. JIMMY BUTLER is reunited with his old coach after a BULLS-T'WOLVES trade. KRISTAPS PORZINGIS stayed put. And LAVAR BALL got what he wanted: LONZO in L.A... GLOW drops today on NETFLIX. Will I be done binging by Monday morning? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| From ordering food from their seats to scouting out short bathroom lines via an app, fans have seen tech revolutionize sports stadiums. They crave more than just beer and a good game. Now, fans get an experience that's worth leaving home for. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Head injuries suffered in a controversial fight in Northern Virginia altered the life course for the Puerto Rican boxer, as well as his father Richard and mother Nieves. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| In search of the origins of the phrase "trust the process," we discovered that Theo Epstein possibly first brought the term into the sports lexicon. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Netflix’s new series is a show about wrestling, but it has the potential to be much more. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| The women at Wylder Goods had a big dream: to create the world's first outdoor-gear retailer for women, bust into an industry overrun by bros, and save the planet. All in four not-so-easy steps. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| For a decade, the NFL staged an exhibition to determine third place. Vince Lombardi famously called it “a hinky-dink game,” while others just labeled it the Losers’ Bowl or the Toilet Bowl. But it still played a significant role in shaping the sports landscape of the 1960s. | | |
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| The NFL leads the charge on international expansion as games go global. | | |
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 | Compete |
| As more and more money has flooded into the esports industry, player rights have been a hot topic across multiple games. Careers in esports can be extremely short, making it all the more important to ensure that players receive their fair share of the profits their work generates. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| In response to questions about MLBl’s record-setting home run pace, commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday (Jun 21) said surveys by the league show that fans have enjoyed the uptick - and that a 10th consecutive year of record strikeout totals pleases them likewise. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Joe had thought that after college he might study graphic design or open a restaurant. Instead, he’s now playing professional ball in Taiwan. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Magazine |
| Ketchum-Downtown YMCA Tennis Center’s long and secretive run comes to an end this month. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Few predicted how important this 2011 draft pick by Golden State would be. | | |
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 | Digital Sport |
| No longer a pipe dream of years gone by, AR and VR is at our fingertips, and sport is an industry that is seeing some of the biggest uptake. | | |
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 | NYup.com |
| To understand where Beane's belief in himself comes from, listen to people who know him best from his hometown of Norwood, N.C. | | |
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 | Mashable |
| 'Rocket League' debuts on television this summer. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| In a vibrant family of Cuban transplants, a grandfather's beloved game became a beacon of peace and comfort, and a tutorial for savoring the small things. | | |
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 | Monumental Sports |
| Ted Leonsis dishes on his view of the future of sports broadcasting. | | |
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 | Broadly |
| As part of my quarter-life crisis, I decided to become an extremely chill skateboarder in a bucket hat. Unfortunately, skating is very hard--and skate parks are filled with terrifying teens. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| It's Day 1 of the 2017 NBA Draft Combine-a day focused on what's to come, months before Phil Jackson said he would consider trading 21-year-old Kristaps Porzings. Over 100 scouts, executives and coaches are packed into Chicago's Quest Multisport Complex to examine the dozens of prospects running up and down the court. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Jack Kyle’s parents weren’t happy when he ditched his exams for a four-month tour but he paid them back with tries against the All Blacks and the Wallabies. | | |
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