You’ll be told for the rest of your career that you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not that hot, you’re not that good—so they have to have their voice louder than everyone else’s and more positive than anyone else’s. | | | | Crash Davis is ready to hit.
(Matthew Naythons/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “You’ll be told for the rest of your career that you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not that hot, you’re not that good—so they have to have their voice louder than everyone else’s and more positive than anyone else’s.”
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| | rantnrave:// Entertainment or competition: What is sports? It's an important distinction. For athletes, coaches and execs, it's about the game and the result. Wins and losses matter. Dollars and jobs are on the line. What about for fans? It's harder to put all of them in the same boat. Are they watching because the outcome matters or because the game does? Is that too black or white? Does the wrong outcome spoil the experience? Your answer might dictate where you stand on replay and robots. Replay is everywhere. The MLS is the last major domestic pro league to add it. Getting the call right is important. But not if it takes too long. That's been the gripe in baseball since it added replay. Is that hypocritical? Always seemed that way to me. Or does accuracy have its limits? Can you put right on a clock? Do we need right at all? The NFL dropped instant replay for seven years before bringing it back. MLB has resisted the call for robot umps, which could erase human error behind the plate altogether. What's wrong with human error, though? DIEGO MARADONA says replay would have wiped out his HAND OF GOD goal and he's OK with that. I'm not. If sports is theater, then controversy is part of the plot. I want the right team to win. But I'd rather the game be interesting... What will sports look like decades from now? The industry has seen significant change over the last half-century. Will we see more volatility? How will football be played in 20 years? Will eSports be mainstream? How will we watch the NHL? Will unicorns roam the NBA? The future is coming sooner than you think. SportsSET: "The Future of Sports"... KATIE LEDECKY lost. Katie Ledecky lost?! Is Katie Ledecky allowed to lose?... Minimum salary for the new OVERWATCH LEAGUE: $50,000. MLS minimum salary: $53,000... The 2007 college football season was ridiculous. LSU won the national title with two losses. TIM TEBOW won the HEISMAN. The SEC's dominance over the sport set in. SB NATION dives deep into that wild year. We can only hope college football will be so good to us in 2017. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| How will football be played in 20 years? Will eSports be mainstream? How will we watch the NHL? Will unicorns roam the NBA? The future is coming sooner than you think. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| The world's top ultrarunners fight to compete in the Barkley Marathons, an ever-shifting race designed by a madman to break their spirits through 100 miles of hellish Appalachian Mountains. So far, only 14 people have completed it. | | |
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| Zoë Quinn spent much of her life playing and designing games. Then she found herself inside one -- a vicious, multiplayer real-time harassment bonanza. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Brian Koppelman is joined by ESPN sportswriter and broadcaster Bomani Jones. Jones talks about his upbringing as the son of two professors and the way that race shaped his perceptions of himself, and his perceptions of others, while growing up. He also talks about his early career, the humiliation of being fired, his reluctant background in economics, and his place in the world of sports. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| So far, however, Larry Nassar’s abuse has mostly been talked about through the lens of sports: He worked with gymnasts as a doctor for over two decades, and the vast majority of the former patients who have come forward with allegations were gymnasts. But Nassar derived his authority from another powerful institution: the medical establishment. | | |
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 | FanSided |
| The future of soccer analytics and what it might mean for the average fan. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| A book-sized roundup of interviews, retrospectives, alternate histories, podcasts, videos, and more, all on the wildest, weirdest, most memorable year in history. | | |
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 | Mediashift |
| Greg Bedard was swept up in the spring of sports writers' discontent. Laid off in March from Sports Illustrated, where he spent four years covering the NFL for The MMQB, he was at a career crossroads like many colleagues who lost their jobs at SI, ESPN, FOX Sports and most recently VICE Sports. | | |
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 | The Buffalo News |
| A quadriplegic since an accident last year, Dan Piccioli was unable to travel to watch his son compete in the World Series of Poker but he proudly cheered him on from the family home near Olean. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| A new episode of Next Level explores whether certain video games can improve cognitive function. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Hall of Fame center Yao Ming reached the pinnacle as China’s most prominent NBA player, but now Guo may begin the trend of smaller Chinese players finding their place in the league. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| India is just waking up to its women's cricket team, but their success has been many decades in the making. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Jonah Keri talks to The Wizard, Ozzie Smith. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| Inspired by Netflix’s "GLOW," EVE has shattered stereotypes to become the UK’s first female-focused punk wrestling organisation. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The humble football shirt has evolved to become both big business and high fashion, with culture, politics and cutting-edge design all playing a part as a new London exhibition demonstrates. | | |
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 | 30 for 30 Podcasts |
| How does a professional boxer, convicted of armed robbery in 1975, end up rising in the ranks of the sport -- from inside a state penitentiary? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| He’s still dancing, he’s still talking trash. But as training camp begins, Cam Newton is at a crossroads. The Panthers’ offense is evolving, moving away from the approach that made Newton NFL MVP just two seasons ago. Now, the quarterback’s future hinges on one question: Can Cam change? | | |
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 | The Scuttlefish |
| If a graveyard leering over a filthy, desolate and rocky surf break isn’t foreboding enough to keep you away, nothing will. Within a couple of hours these mild seas would build to double-overhead (12 feet +) and I’d be alone, fending for myself. | | |
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 | Jeff Pearlman |
| Fox Sports' fantastic sideline reporter knows what it is to be belittled based upon gender ("You’ll be told for the rest of your career that you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re not that hot"), so she's devoted herself to helping others find their voices. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The 2013 Kris Bryant Black Wave, along with the Blue Wave variation of this card (Bowman issues several colored "refractor cards," each numbered to a specific production limit), appears to have never been found in a pack or surfaced online--this card the sole known exception. | | |
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