Suddenly I realized that there were tears just flowing down my cheeks. I’m not a crier. But now I just couldn’t help it. I remember watching those athletes, and remembering what it was like for me in 1936, how I could very well have won an Olympic medal. And through the tears, I said, ‘Damn it!’ | | | | Sleep like a champ.
(Frank O'Brien/The Boston Globe/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Suddenly I realized that there were tears just flowing down my cheeks. I’m not a crier. But now I just couldn’t help it. I remember watching those athletes, and remembering what it was like for me in 1936, how I could very well have won an Olympic medal. And through the tears, I said, ‘Damn it!’”
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| | rantnrave:// The brains of 111 ex-NFL players tested for CTE. 110 were positive. Is this a bombshell? Or confirmation bias? It's definitely news. It's bad PR for the NFL. And football. It's not shocking, but it's important. Playing football can lead to CTE. We've known that for a while. The NFL has admitted that. It's not just NFL players. That same study tested 202 football-playing brains in total and 87 percent had CTE. Football can be treacherous at any level. The more evidence we have, the better. Parents have to decide whether to let their kids play football. NFL, college and high school players have to decide whether to keep playing. Football fans have to decide whether to keep watching. I'm more squeamish when watching football now. I cringe at big hits. I worry about the concussion crisis. I can't enjoy the sport like I used to. Getting jacked up used to be a highlight. Now it's cause for concern. Yeah, there are qualifiers. The study's author admits it. The sample size is self-selective. Only families worried that football ruined lives donated brains. But the results are hard to ignore. Football doomsdayers will say the league is approaching an existential crisis. Football fans can say the sport has never been bigger. Have you seen NFL revenue? The NFL keeps growing but how long can that last? Youth participation rates are worth worrying about. Basketball, baseball, and soccer offer less physical risk. NFL players are griping about salaries. Want to get paid? Go play in the NBA. This latest study isn't groundbreaking. It won't kill the NFL. But will it accelerate its decline?... The EDWARD JONES DOME sits silently in ST. LOUIS. The coliseum the RAMS left behind when they bolted for L.A. is now the country’s biggest warehouse. WILL LEITCH paid a visit. The Dome is a reminder that heartbreak is always lurking in pro sports. Fandom is about loyalty but teams don't always keep their end of the bargain. SportsSET: "Abandonment Issues: When Sports Teams Say Goodbye"... DAVE CHAPPELLE built this house... Inside the TEXAS foosball championships. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| The latest twist in the Ole Miss saga involved an unlikely combination. This is the story of how an attorney for Houston Nutt and a Mississippi State fan revealed a phone call to an escort service that led to the ouster of the Rebels coach. | | |
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| Forget threatening to call the White House. Forget the Maserati incident. Hell, forget Bo Jackson and definitely forget the Rams. This star running back wants to be remembered. He also needs a job. | | |
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| The players are used to battling on and off the court, and they’re not going to stop any time soon. | | |
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| The NFL’s non-superstar ballers aren’t sharing in the wealth the league generates. | | |
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| What happens to a stadium when it gets abandoned? A structure once home to screaming fans and football becomes an eerie relic of times past. Now that the Rams have left, St. Louis is stuck still paying for a mostly empty dome that takes up way too much space. | | |
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| Since January, nearly 100 U.S. Soccer players have had sophisticated blood analysis in an effort to aid performance, recovery and injury prevention. | | |
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| Of the ways Michael Jordan's daddy might have died late one summer night at the intersection of I-95 and US 74 in Robeson County, North Carolina, the least likely is that two boys, Daniel Green and Larry Demery, just walked up and shot him. | | |
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| Cheryl Reeve has been around the WNBA for a long time. As the fiery head coach of the Minnesota Lynx and one of the most successful and outspoken coaches in the game, Reeve has a lot to say about the WNBA’s early days, where the league is at now, the need for more consistent media coverage, and how she handles a conversation with the average naysayer who says, “women’s basketball is boring.” | | |
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| Since his childhood in Huntington, West Virginia, Patterson has been entranced by a day at the movies. His father, Buster, a Navy veteran, frequently worked weekends at Walmart, and Tywanna would take her son to the ornate old Keith-Albee Theatre. He'd see kiddie flicks and comedies -- and the occasional grown-up drama -- and he fell in love with it. | | |
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| For the past two years, baseball’s power surge has turned anonymous middle infielders into 30-home-run hitters and made power-happy rookies look like the second coming of Babe Ruth. The long ball has become so ubiquitous that it’s hard to recall that just three seasons ago, pitchers ruled the earth. | | |
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| A year after the Olympics in Rio, we re-visit Vila Autódromo, a neighborhood that was demolished in the name of the games. | | |
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| International soccer star Neymar goes Sneaker Shopping with Joe La Puma at Flight Club in Los Angeles, and talks about meeting Michael Jordan and spends a record-setting $18,000 plus on shoes. | | |
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| Judge would be a surprising choice to be the face of a sport that’s perennially diagnosed as suffering from a lack of personality. | | |
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| Here’s what A-Rod, or Alex Rodriguez, formerly of the New York Yankees, has in store for us next. | | |
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| A decades-long swell of wave-generating technologies is finally catching a break. | | |
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| The Texas State Championships of Foosball gathers thousands of table soccer players from across the country. | | |
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| How different are dogfighting and football? | | |
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