This is without a doubt the biggest result in Icelandic football history. We've shocked the world. | | | | | Would you give this man a second chance? (slgckgc) | | | | | | “This is without a doubt the biggest result in Icelandic football history. We've shocked the world.”
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| | rantnrave:// Player A was accused -- but not arrested -- of choking his girlfriend, pushing her against a wall and then going into his garage and firing a gun eight times on Oct. 30, 2015. He was suspended by MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL for 30 games. Player B was arrested 24 hours later -- but all charges were later dropped -- for allegedly grabbing his wife by the throat and pushing her into a sliding-glass door. MLB suspended him for 51 games. Both have served their suspensions and are playing baseball again. Player A is pitching well. Baseball writers are making light of how well he is pitching by comparing his fastball to the speed other athletes were driving when they were arrested for drunken or reckless driving (really). Teams are clamoring to trade for him. Player B is working his way through a minor-league rehab assignment and the general consensus is he's not the player he once was. It's unclear how much he has left to offer on the field. Baseball writers are incensed he's even being given the chance. His signing "sends the wrong message." He is an example of how "sports fans are great at compartmentalizing things." Why the praise for the YANKEES' AROLDIS CHAPMAN and the condemnation of the METS' JOSÉ REYES? Why is the young potential all-star deserving of a second chance, but not the past-his-prime all-star? Do we only forgive the players who throw a lot of strikeouts or get a lot of hits? Do you have to be as talented as, say, the CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS' PATRICK KANE to get a media-approved redemption arc? Does having that talent automatically give you the right to that arc? Does any athlete accused but not convicted of domestic violence deserve a second chance at the only profession he knows? All of them? Some of them? None? Who gets to be the judge?... Does LIONEL MESSI's retirement from the ARGENTINE national team require square quotes? Is there still a final chapter to be written? Can we believe anyone when they say they're retiring these days? It's so hard to know. So frustrating. I quit... MONDAY's retirement, which seems as permanent as a tattoo, is ENGLAND manager ROY HODGSON, the latest victim of ICELAND's Cinderella run through the EUROS... MARCUS WILLIS' Cinderella run through the first round of WIMBLEDON leads to a second round showdown with ROGER FEDERER... Things that are more difficult to buy and sell than guns in 2016: NEW YORK YANKEES tickets. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| There was a time when sports was considered a man's world-but that's ancient history now. Whether it's breaking records, influencing thinking, making money or striving past what were once thought to be the limits of human ability, these women represent the best in the game-whatever that game happens to be. | | |
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| In the wake of the Orlando shooting massacre, leagues continue to erase LGBT from their outreach message | | |
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| As Australian track cyclists prepare for Rio 2016, Kieran Pender is granted exclusive access to the Cycling Australia High Performance Unit in Adelaide | | |
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| Doping scandals have cast a shadow over the Olympic Games. Until we eliminate drugs from sports, we should at least update our athlete promos. | | |
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| Early July will produce plenty of anxiety in Oklahoma City. Less than a week out from the KD derby, let's analyze the competitors, from the scariest threats to the laughable hopefuls but starting with the incumbent. | | |
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| It’s with a healthy amount of irony that Lindros enters the Hockey Hall of Fame after a playing career in which many declared he fell short of those standards. It’s hard to imagine now, but less than a decade ago Lindros was still being chided for unrealized potential and being called “the best bust” in NHL history. | | |
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| Sports fans are great at compartmentalizing things. | | |
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| The Videotron Centre was built with one goal in mind: to play host to the reborn Nordiques, because NHL expansion wasn't going to consider Quebec City without a modern arena in place. Well, the arena exists, and Quebec City still isn't getting an NHL team. Money well spent? | | |
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| Nationwide Arena reports it will end its fiscal-year budget on June 30 with a profit of $316,000. That's a paper profit, courtesy of a public bailout and the kind of creative accounting that would land an ordinary property owner in foreclosure. | | |
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| Most professional athletes define their legacy exclusively by what they accomplish in the game. That doesn't work for Russell Westbrook. | | |
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| Takk fyrir Island. Thank you Iceland. Thank you for Gudmundur Benediktsson's epic falsetto commentary, for bringing one-tenth of the population to France to take part in this odyssey, for making Cristiano Ronaldo uppity and reminding the rest of us of the essential valour of the little guy's right to his aspirations, for competing so fearlessly against England. | | |
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| The Undeniables Boston's hero and Chicago's presumed savior is no longer a market inefficiency In the Internet Age, monoculture is unachievable. But there remain a few things that we can all agree on. The Ringer is looking at this rarefied group all week. These are our Undeniables . | | |
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| Still a 'floor' for ticket resale, and still no printed tickets allowed. | | |
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| ST. LOUIS -- At the end of the United States women’s gymnastics championships here on Sunday night, so many gold medals hung around Simone Biles’s neck that when she walked, they clinked so loudly it made her giggle. A few times, she grabbed her medals to silence them and laughed yet again. | | |
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| Welcome to “The People vs. LeBron James.” | | |
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| Like future college students, NBA teams shopping for free agents need reaches, safety options and a lot in between if they want to find the right match. | | |
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| At their recent NewFront presentation Time Inc. showed that they are way more than a print media brand. | | |
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| My gender has no bearing on my ability to race | | |
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| Join a conversation with basketball player Jeremy Lin on his journey to the top as the first Chinese-American NBA player, and the opportunity for sports leaders to be role models for the younger generation. | | |
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| Eight days after the death of Len Bias, Cleveland Browns star Don Rogers also died of a cocaine overdose. | | |
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