I don’t know what his status is in the NFL, but I’m glad the NBA doesn’t have a politician litmus test for our players. I’d like to think we encourage our players to exercise their constitutional rights. | | | | Bow down to the world's fastest man.
(Antonin Thuillier/AFP/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I don’t know what his status is in the NFL, but I’m glad the NBA doesn’t have a politician litmus test for our players. I’d like to think we encourage our players to exercise their constitutional rights.”
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| | rantnrave:// This was not how it was supposed to end for USAIN BOLT. The Sprint God got beat. He took bronze in his final 100 meter race, behind two US sprinters, because for once he couldn't muster that rocket-fueled comeback after his usual slow start. JUSTIN GATLIN, twice banned for doping, took gold. The loss did nothing to lessen Bolt's legacy. Like Gatlin, we all bow at his career-long supremacy. Bolt is the rare sprinter bigger than his sport. Charismatic. Playful. Dominant. The last three OLYMPICS revolved around Bolt on land and MICHAEL PHELPS in the water. His 100-meter performances were works of art. Because he was usually slow out of the blocks, he seemed even faster when he blew by other sprinters in the middle third of the race. Like he was toying with them. His biggest (perhaps only) weakness was the first act he needed to set up drama. Bolt was also brilliant at 200 meters, a reminder that he actually began his career running longer distances. His long strides gobbled up the track. Bolt won the 100 and 200 over three straight Olympics, when it had been 20 years since someone did it once. He walks away the world's fastest man and a rock star... Congrats to the NFL's HALL OF FAME class of 2017. LADAINIAN TOMLINSON is the most valuable fantasy football player ever, and a stud running back. His speech was poignant. JERRY JONES is the NFL owner who won't stop talking. JASON TAYLOR is one of the best pass rushers the sport has seen. MORTEN ANDERSON is here to rep the kickers as just the second pure placekicker in CANTON. KENNY EASLEY pressed for social activism in his speech, which had to make the NFL squirm. TERRELL DAVIS and KURT WARNER are controversial choices whose inclusion might redefine who gets elected. Each was great but not for long. Warner had just three seasons where he played all 16 games but he quarterbacked one of the best offenses ever and had a resurgence in ARIZONA. Davis' career was pretty much done after his fourth season but he got in thanks to two SUPER BOWLS and a 2,000 yard season. Does the Hall now judge players on their peak and disregard longevity? That could cause issues, but they belong. We should honor the truly dominant, even if it is short-lived. Davis and Warner are two of the best I've seen. The bigger regret is they couldn't do it for longer. But can we put TERRELL OWENS in already?... MICHAEL EISNER is the new PORTSMOUTH owner. The former DISNEY CEO gets a down-on-its-luck club with a championship history that was competing in the EUROPA LEAGUE less than a decade ago. And he might be getting it on its ascent. It won LEAGUE TWO last season and is a level closer to an EPL return. Can Eisner get them there?... The DOLPHINS signed a QB. It wasn't COLIN KAEPERNICK... RIP DARREN DAULTON. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Mashable |
| Buying shoes used to be as easy as going to the store. Now, it involves a smartphone, GPS, augmented reality, and a little bit of grit. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| In a fading town in rural Texas, one girl took the field in the struggle to keep a high school football tradition alive. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| Forty years after stumbling into sports law, the prominent antitrust attorney is fighting to reshape college sports -- and get players paid. | | |
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 | Seattle Met Magazine |
| It’s called the World Famous Suicide Race, a harrowing horseback contest between Native American riders in Washington’s most infamous rodeo. This year, one teenager has four days to defend a way of life and keep a family legacy alive. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Cycling, running, and obstacle course racing are dominated by white-collar workers. Sure, the extra money makes competing a little more feasible, but researchers are starting to understand that there's something psychological as well that draws these types of people to painful endurance sports. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| When ESPN streamed the professional indoor lacrosse playoffs for pay-TV subscribers last year, about 4,000 people tuned in on average. This year, the National Lacrosse League averaged almost 344,000 viewers for each “Game of the Week” streamed on Twitter Inc. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The governing body of track and field has until the end of September to furnish evidence on whether high levels of testosterone give athletes like Dutee Chand an unfair advantage. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| The problem with opt-out settings is that it puts the onus on consumers to ensure that their privacy is being respected, and lets companies off the hook. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| No one absorbs more shots from the media than the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. So why does he keep coming back for more? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| If you told sprinters fifty years ago that someone would run the four hundred metres in less than forty-three seconds, they’d have said, “Where will you bury him?” | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Lily Abdullayeva, who says she had prize money stolen and was tricked into taking drugs after moving to Azerbaijan, reveals the dark side of athletics where African runners are bought by Arab and Middle Eastern nations and exploited. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Don't tell the big man in Dallas that he's "arrived"--but don't you dare call him the next Tom Brady either. Inside the making of a Cowboys QB built to last. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| American Sara Vaughn juggled her commitments until she found a way to have it all. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Almost two dozen women have recruiting careers in the SEC and ACC alone. | | |
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 | Houston Chronicle |
| After an expansion of emergency housing, Houston has far fewer homeless people than it did five years ago, but the estimated 1,000 who remain on the streets are the most difficult to help. Oluwabusayo Franccessa Osho, the woman who sleeps across from the Astros' ballpark, shows why. | | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
| For the WNBA's Seattle Storm, sports, business, and social justice work in cohort, not conflict. | | |
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 | TheFootballGirl.com |
| It's ok, fan. What you ate for breakfast will have no impact on your team's performance. Superstitions have a much more suitable replacement. | | |
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 | VQR |
| Roller Derby as Political Act. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| It has been that sort of season for the Dodgers, a year of talismanic bats, prophetic texts, clubhouse pranks and an endless supply of indelible moments. The team owns the best record in baseball. | | |
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