Everybody wears a uniform that they don't necessarily like, but you wear it. If you want to rip it after, you can rip it up after. I've seen guys rip it up after. | | | | | This is Chris Sale and this is a proper Chicago White Sox uni. (Dustin Nosler) | | | | | | “Everybody wears a uniform that they don't necessarily like, but you wear it. If you want to rip it after, you can rip it up after. I've seen guys rip it up after.”
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| | rantnrave:// It was a busy weekend. I mean, it's sports, it's always a busy weekend... WNBA president LISA BORDERS did the right thing and reversed her decision to fine several players for warming up in black t-shirts to protest recent killings. The tone-deaf initial response was widely criticized; the quick change of heart is a refreshing sign of league leadership listening to its critics... CHRIS SALE really, really didn't want to wear a certain throwback uniform. Unilaterally assuming the role of fashion critic, SALE, who clearly has deeper issues with the WHITE SOX, destroyed a locker room full of throwbacks to make sure no one else could wear them either. At this point he's as likely to get a job on E!'s "FASHION POLICE" as he is to ever wear any WHITE SOX uniform again (which is to say, both are still possible)... The IOC decided not to ban the entire RUSSIAN delegation from the summer OLYMPICS, a decision that's both controversial and defensible, but is continuing to ban middle-distance runner YULIYA STEPANOVA, the whistleblower who helped expose the RUSSIAN doping apparatus in the first place, which is weird... CHRIS FROOME won the TOUR DE FRANCE... JEFF GORDON finished in the middle of the pack at the BRICKYARD 400... And we learned that U OF KENTUCKY flagged point guard TYLER ULIS with an NCAA violation last year because he took a photo with DRAKE. Stop destroying kids' lives, DRIZZY... But none of that is what I'm here to talk about. I'm here this morning simply to acknowledge CRISTIAN GARCIA, a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA linebacker who police said helped stopped a rape THURSDAY morning in GAINESVILLE. "I hold strong moral values and I don't think anyone should be taken advantage of in that kind of way," GARCIA said after physically pulling the alleged attacker away from the victim. We see stories far too often about athletes on the other side of that headline, and coaches and universities who blindly defend them. It's nice to be reminded, every once in a while, that there are good guys out there, too... RIP DENNIS GREEN, TYREK COGER, SAM FOLTZ and MIKE SADLER. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Carried away by love -- for risk and for each other -- two of the world's best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back. (Originally published June 16, 2003.) | | |
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| The internet's favorite haven for illegal activity advertises that the fix is yours for the right price. | | |
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| Doping in sport is widespread and shows little sign of abating. Athletes are dropping out of the Rio Olympics like flies. | | |
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| After the White Sox suspended Chris Sale after he cut up the team's throwback unis, what's next in the drama between the team and its ace? | | |
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| Kevin Durant is not a hero for joining the Golden State Warriors-not outside of Oakland, California, anyway. He did, however, give the Oklahoma City Thunder one thing: clarity. | | |
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| In the summer of 1991 Sam Allardyce received a phone call that would change his life. | | |
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| Team USA basketball will begin their march to Rio on Friday night with an exhibition game against Argentina, and by now you know that they'll do it without some of their biggest stars. Everyone from LeBron James to Steph Curry, James Harden to Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis all elected to skip the Olympics for a variety of reasons. | | |
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| Insurance companies for the Rio Olympics are already serving notice that they may not cover every type of loss related to Zika. | | |
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| A historical look at the legacy of black gymnasts and their unconventional body sizes. | | |
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| A Hollywood stuntman who’s leapt out of planes for “Godzilla” and “Iron Man 3” will attempt his greatest, craziest feat yet-on live TV. | | |
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| Regardless of whether Russian athletes deserve to be punished, the games will be less entertaining and less fulfilling if they are not in Rio. | | |
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| Adam Silver’s league will continue to be a force for advocacy. | | |
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| "When I started out, I was command and control — do as you’re told. Now it’s about appreciating that you have two ears and one mouth: You should listen twice as much as you talk. Empowering and enabling people is far more compelling, and the results are always much better." | | |
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| With the trade deadline just a leg kick and a lunge away, it's time to make a bold proclamation: the Milwaukee Brewers are the most interesting team in baseball. That title can mean a number of things to a number of people: the team with the most talent, most wins, most oddballs, whatever. | | |
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| A wrenching portrait of New Orleans Saints hero Steve Gleason, who suffers from ALS, "Gleason" is the most stirring documentary in years. In theaters July 29th. | | |
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| Irresponsible aggregation has again set its sights on Houston’s superstar. | | |
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| In short, very. "If you took one of these racers and you presented him to a normal doctor, without telling the doctor that this rider had just been in the Tour de France, the doctor would think he was on the edge of becoming anorexic," says Jens Voigt, who recently retired from professional racing and is now the cycling analyst for NBC Sports. | | |
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| I caught up with Campbell to talk about the UFC sale, what it means for Lorenzo and Dana, and how he thinks it impacts the greater mixed martial arts landscape. | | |
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| What happens when a minor league baseball team name just isn't cool enough? | | |
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| French philosopher Roland Barthes' most seminal work, Mythologies, interrogates the social constructs that are often presented as 'natural.' For Barthes, "myth is a language," which means everything, including trusted signs like tree, dog, pen, as well as cultural artifacts like novels, fashion, and food, or institutions, such as marriage, are constructs that are naturalized, or, mythologized. | | |
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