I'm going to the grocery store to pick up eggs for breakfast. But first I have to tag in and tell USADA [US Anti-Doping Agency] I'm going. | | | | | One way to go about sports doping. (Manuel) | | | | | | “I'm going to the grocery store to pick up eggs for breakfast. But first I have to tag in and tell USADA [US Anti-Doping Agency] I'm going.”
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| | rantnrave:// Could the entire RUSSIAN delegation be banned from the RIO OLYMPICS? A decision could come as early as today, after the release of a report on MONDAY confirmed government-sponsored doping -- and coverups -- across multiple sports at the 2014 SOCHI Games and beyond. The INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE called it a "shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport." Though RUSSIA has been under a cloud of suspicion -- and sanctions -- for some time, investigators said they were caught off guard by "the extent of State oversight ... in processing, and covering up urine samples of RUSSIA athletes from virtually all sports before and after the SOCHI Games." The timing of the report, which arrived less than three weeks before the RIO Games begin, is terrible, writes ESPN's BONNIE FORD, but she says the IOC seems to have little choice to but to follow up with a nationwide ban, as RIO hardly has room for another dark cloud... While we're on the subject of drugs, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has a lengthy multimedia package on retired NFLer RICKY WILLIAMS that suggests he's an even-better-than-you'd-have-expected advocate for the healing power of marijuana -- including in football -- and a probably worse-than-you'd-have-expected dad... If whitewater rafting doesn't get you sufficiently high, there's an adventure company in OREGON that will help you get actually high while doing it... Rapper LIL B THE BASEDGOD is "kind of like RUSSELL WESTBROOK, but I can’t dunk," he writes in an open letter to KEVIN DURANT formally welcoming him to the WARRIORS and reminding him that "Our one-on-one game still has to happen"... God I love this job sometimes... You don't have to wear NIKE shoes to play on the NIKE-sponsored US OLYMPIC basketball team, but if you don't, then don't expect your feet to make it into the official team photo... Quickie pro/con: NBC's JOHNNY MILLER, golf straight shooter or DEBBIE DOWNER?... RIP MATILDA RAPAPORT. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| A decade ago he smoked his way into becoming an NFL punch line; now 20 NFL teams play in states where some form of marijuana is legal--and that number will grow. A pothead reputation, Williams has found, is not such a bad thing. | | |
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| This is the most common argument against gender integration in sport; integrated sports teams shouldn’t exist because men are stronger than women. But is that actually true? And even if it is true, does it mean that a woman shouldn’t play on the same team as a man? | | |
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| With Monday's release of the McLaren report (aka "Sochi report") commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, here are some frequently asked questions and quick takes on an unprecedented situation. | | |
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| Emily Infeld disappeared into a tent. She'd placed second in the 10,000 meter race at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials, earning a spot on the U.S. Olympic team. Her adrenaline was still rushing, but she knew that wasn't what was needed at that particular moment. | | |
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| Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last year that there may not be another industry being so fundamentally transformed by data and digital technology like sports. Judging by the discussion at our inaugural Sports Tech Summit last week in Seattle, this certainly appears to be the case. | | |
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| When the Kingston Stockade take the field in a semi-pro soccer game, it looks like, well, a semi-pro soccer game. The level, the vibe, the surroundings, all of it is just about what you'd expect. But this team isn't quite like the others. Sure, players are trying to win games and further their careers. | | |
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| After taking steps recently to shorten the games, will Major League Baseball’s next significant move be to trim the length of the season?Sounds radical. | | |
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| For LeBron James, one play answered a lifetime of questions. | | |
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| Next to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, the biggest winner of the 2016 NBA Finals was arguably ABC, which averaged 20 million viewers for the seven-game series. However, based 25 miles away from Oakland's Oracle Arena, Instagram executive Brandon Gayle felt some of the Cavaliers' euphoria. | | |
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| Many of us know that physical exercise is good not only for our bodies, but also for our ‘soul’. It can give us a unique psychological buzz, especially when we do it with others -- just ask your nearest SoulCycle devotee or Tough Mudder initiate. | | |
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| The first time Adeline Gray stepped onto a wrestling mat, she was 6 years old and her long hair wasn’t the only thing that distinguished her from all the boys in the gym. | | |
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| Unequivocally, unambiguously, thoroughly and 100-percent innocent. | | |
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| On Sunday afternoon, Cleveland Indians catcher Yan Gomes hit an innocent-looking groundball to third base in the fifth inning of a game at Minnesota. Gomes busted down the line, and the throw pulled Twins first baseman Kennys Vargas into him. Gomes was out, but he tumbled beyond the bag, writhing with what turned out to be a separated shoulder. | | |
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| Many high-profile American basketball players have passed on the upcoming Rio Olympics, including the two biggest stars of the recent NBA Finals, LeBron James and Stephen Curry. All have offered their own reasons for removing their names from consideration for Team USA, with varying degrees of vaguery. | | |
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| Amelia Molitor walked around campus with her jaw wired shut and her dread running high. She felt insignificant. Ignored. Minimized. Forgotten. "I thought that every single person who looked at me knew me and hated me," Molitor said. Some did. Molitor already had deleted her Twitter and Facebook accounts. | | |
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| Computer chips in footballs will help the NFL to determine whether it's time to narrow its goal posts, Postmedia has learned. Dean Blandino, the NFL's senior vice-president of officiating, said in a phone interview this weekend that the league and its competition committee "continue to look at" making field-goal kicking more difficult. | | |
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| SAN DIEGO -- When you follow a game on Major League Baseball's website, it's there. When you watch a local broadcast, there's a good chance you'll see it. When you see an ESPN broadcast, it's part of the live picture. Graphics showing the strike zone, telling viewers immediately whether a pitch is good, are standard fare now. | | |
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| The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer |
| Where one stands in the debate on Qatar's hosting on the 2022 World Cup depends on from where on the globe from which one looks at it. There are cross-cultural and other striking reasons, why the 2022 FIFA World Cup should be played in Qatar despite outcries and claims that staging the tournament in the Arabian desert would be its demise. | | |
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| Familiar to all who have watched more than fifteen minutes of any game -- from youth level to professional --is the battle cry of all indignant football fans: "Ugh, that was such a dive!" That, and its equally popular counterpart "what a cheap foul!" are among the most common complaints logged by fans of all ages. | | |
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| There are people in the world who don't seem particularly to care whether minor leaguers make a living wage. They are unmoved by the idea that Major League Baseball, so cloying in its assertions of hard work and grit and the right way, isn't particularly interested in paying for those things. | | |
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