Rick James said it best. 'Cocaine is a hell of a drug.' It’s a hell of a drug. | | | | Don't take your eye off the ball.
(Matthias Hangst/Bongarts/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Rick James said it best. 'Cocaine is a hell of a drug.' It’s a hell of a drug.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's all but official: the OLYMPICS are coming to LOS ANGELES. Probably 2028. Is that good? The excitement is muted except for the city's mayor and the committee trying to lure the Games there. The announcement will come close to the year anniversary of the 2016 Olympics, which could put it in line for a harsh comparison. A year out from the RIO Games and BRAZIL seems to be in disarray. Its legacy is ugly. Neighborhoods were razed. Budget overrun is the norm -- and the IOC won't help pay back the debt. The poor and homeless feel the brunt of the pain -- like in ATLANTA in 1996. Will L.A. regret hosting? The city’s bid committee argues that costs will be down because the city already has the facilities it needs. Stadiums won't sit empty and decaying after the Olympics leave. This time they'll stay on budget. L.A. has the infrastructure in place to avoid calamity. Maybe they're right. But there's a reason fewer cities are making Olympic bids than before. Hosting the Olympics has historically been a bad investment. Will L.A. be different?... DISH is suing UNIVISION because the network will livestream LIGA MX matches on FACEBOOK. DISH argues its agreement stops Univision from distributing the games for free over the internet. Univision says its differentiating the product by airing the Facebook games in English. The lawsuit could have implications for what a rights-holder can do with its coverage outside of linear TV. Will media companies be more aggressive in gobbling up rights if DISH wins and Liga MX is pulled off Facebook?... The top business schools in the US don't have sports-oriented programs but sports' influence there is growing. They're not adding sports management programs but they are adding classes and grabbing distinguished speakers. HARVARD or STANFORD MBA degrees are opening more doors for students than those with sports-centered degrees from lower-rated schools... There's no better place in sports than your own arena. The players come and go, the uniforms change, but home is where your seat is. SportsSET: "Home Sweet Home"... The L.A. RAMS want you to laugh with them, not at them. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| When I woke up in the hospital room in Nevada, I couldn't move. I couldn't talk. I was trapped inside my own body. My throat hurt like hell. I looked down and I had all these tubes coming out of my mouth. So I panicked. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Aaron Gibson weighed 480 pounds, but a life of lingering pain -- and pill-popping, and the disappointment of the NFL -- weighed on him heavier than that. Then came love. Then 30,000 calories a day turned into 1,500 sit-ups --- and abs. | | |
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 | espnW |
| Although her outsized sense of pride has undeniably led to trouble, it has also led her to the threshold of her biggest fight yet: a would-be UFC champion, a dozen years into her career, fighting for the title she has always wanted. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| Meet Gaston Grant, one of the very few black owner-trainers in horseracing-and almost certainly the only one who also works full-time at UPS. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| George Foster had been a professor at Stanford's business school for about a dozen years, long enough to be established after moving to the States from Australia, when the sports bug tugged at him hard enough that he thought about developing a sports management course. Fond of the co-teaching | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Santos and Flamengo are two of the most traditional, well-known football clubs in Brazil. They have been home to some of the greatest talents to emerge from this football-mad corner of the globe, and the likes of Pele and Zico will be synonymous with the success they enjoyed in the famous black-and-white stripes and rubro negro, respectively. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| The firings of Dave Gettleman and John Dorsey follow a trend, for better or worse. | | |
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 | Golf Digest |
| En route to victory at the British Open, the now three-time major winner displayed a short-game that is currently without peer. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Apple’s new iOS will kill off many beloved old games. Will anyone be able to save them? | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| With the all-new rod, Orvis hopes to change the game for anglers at all skill levels. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Superhuman flamethrowers, supercomputers, genius GMs and all-seeing statistical formulas. If we could travel back in time 30 years, it wouldn't be hard to blow an MLB fan's mind with what's to come. | | |
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 | The Orange County Register |
| The kid from Hong Kong travels across America alone, scarfing fast food, hopping cheap flights and seeing as much Angels baseball as possible. He's 17, and since July 13 he's been a Pacific Ocean away from home. Sometimes, things get weird, like the time he was walking out of McDonald's in Anaheim and a man approached him. | | |
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 | Nautilus |
| The father of information theory built a machine to game roulette, then abandoned it. | | |
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 | Compete |
| In the Super Smash Bros. Melee community, how you play can matter far more than who you are. Recently, a top Melee player made his grand re-entry into the game’s competitive scene a little over a year after assaulting a Florida gas station clerk, causing a rift among fans and pros over whether it’s proficiency or personality that matters most. | | |
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 | The Denver Post |
| Butt wants to tell me a story about the heavy price a player will pay for the love of football. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Swamp soccer. Wife carrying. Phone throwing. The country used to be formidable in traditional sports, but has pivoted hard to the bizarre side of competition. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Revisiting the Rio Olympics cover-up that ruined a career. | | |
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 | Tablet Magazine |
| As another Jew sweeps the game’s world series this year, a look back at a forgotten and troubled champion. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Since being laid off, the sports journalist has tweeted about Colin Kaepernick and Black Lives Matter, about President Trump and Made in America week, and says she finally feels she can say what she believes. | | |
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| Bleacher Report |
| With the exception of a TMZ airport ambush and a handful of Instagram posts from the other side of the world, NBA fans haven't heard a word from O.J. Mayo since last July, when the league announced his dismissal for an unspecified violation of its anti-drug program. One year later, it seems no one in or around the NBA has heard from him, either. | | |
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