My life sucks. It’s no fun being in this body right now. Everything hurts. | | | | Tori Bowie leans in for the win in the 100 meter dash at the IAAF World Championships.
(Martin Rickett/PA Images/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “My life sucks. It’s no fun being in this body right now. Everything hurts.”
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| | rantnrave:// What's it like to be a retired NFL player or his wife, watching as our understanding of the risks of football grows? With all that we know about the link between the sport and brain injuries, does it feel like waiting for a bomb to go off? KEN BELSON takes us inside a private FACEBOOK group for NFL wives. These are the women married to men on the decline or bracing themselves for it. This is the front line for the battle we usually don’t hear about it until after it’s lost. It's tragic. A clear view that the concussion epidemic doesn't just hit the players. Imagine what it must be like to read about CTE and to wonder whether your loved one will have it. Or if he already does. Everyone sacrifices if you play in the NFL. Or even if you play for free in high school or college. JIM PLUNKETT, like other ex-NFL stars, has been ravaged by injuries and lives in constant pain, but he is also waiting to see if there are worse days ahead. "If it happens, it happens. I don’t know how you stop it at this point," he said. Brain injuries aren't reserved for the pros, either. And our sympathy shouldn't only be earmarked for the players. Suffering can be a team sport... BARRY BONDS' line in 2007: a 1.045 OPS and a league-leading .480 OBP. At 42. And then his career ended, as unceremoniously as is possible. No team wanted a historically great slugger who was also a cheater. And no one really asked why. It's wrong to call it collusion without damning evidence. But MLB had done it before. Bonds broke HANK AARON's career home run record that year. One last stamp on the sport. Ten years later, baseball is still trying to figure out what to make of Bonds. He's not in the HALL OF FAME, but he did get a coaching job. He's able to slip a foot in the door but he hasn't been embraced. MLB still has trouble making sense of the PED era. It's about time MLB stops giving Bonds the cold shoulder. He's the best hitter most of us have ever seen... ESPN 8: THE OCHO. Bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them... RIP DON BAYLOR. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ESPN |
| Long after he escaped Dublin, Conor McGregor still rebels against its psychic barriers. Small wonder he's crazy enough to box Floyd Mayweather. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| How does a town go from logging and livestock to bits and bytes? Tiny Prineville, Oregon, is finding out as huge data centers from Apple and Facebook transform the timber town into a recreational hub of mountain bikers and craft brewers. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Unadulterated swag: The quarterback broke two 50-year-old records and played a historic 2002-03 NFL season -- in basketball shoes. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| A trope from pop culture can be stopped in games | | |
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 | Mercury News |
| Jim Plunkett won two Super Bowls with the Raiders and the Heisman Trophy at Stanford but now says he is in constant pain from the years of playing football. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| It should have been an enduring moment to be celebrated. Instead, the anniversary of the record-breaking blast is an occasion to recall the great slugger's misdeeds and why they'll follow him throughout history. | | |
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 | AListDaily |
| AListDaily sat down with Frederic Chesnais, Atari’s CEO and chairman of the board, and Michael Arzt, chief operations officer of Atari Connect, to talk about how the brand plans to rise again after being relegated to the bottom of the video game rung. | | |
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 | Petrolicious |
| Dive headlong into the fascinating life of a farmer, racer, character, David Piper. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Highlighting the best X’s and O’s breakdowns from the famously terse head coach. | | |
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 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| Social media is a way for fans to get inside, to see professional athletes behind the scenes. But in Marquette King’s case, it’s a means to get out, a chance for the Raiders’ punter to break free and express himself. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports John Hackworth can't forget the first time he saw Andrew Carleton. It was November 2014, and Hackworth was running his first camp as the new coach of the United States Under-15 boys' squad. Early in the session, Carleton, whom Hackworth hadn't seen play before the camp, took a long, diagonal pass from across the field. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| If like any red-blooded American capitalist you measure success by growth, these are boom times for Major League Soccer. North America's top soccer league has gone from just 10 teams in 2004 to a whopping 22, with two more clubs in Los Angeles and Miami set to come online in the couple of seasons. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| The first U.S. Olympic 1500 gold medalist since 1908 is running for the American record. But first, he needs to check his Twitter timeline. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Batters are taking a base on balls, striking out or hitting homers -- the three true outcomes -- more than ever. It's changing how the game is played, and how long it takes. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Los Angeles is a city of dreamers and pragmatists, which makes it the perfect venue for hosting the 2028 Olympic Games. | | |
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 | BTIG Research |
| On Thursday, July 20, we gave a presentation at the 2017 Global Sports Summit (GSS) entitled “The Future of Sports Media: The War for Consumers’ Time and Attention” (our entire 63 minute video, embedded at the bottom of this blog). The GSS is an annual event for owners of sports teams and their senior staff including NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, etc. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| But Rachel Atherton, the best female downhill mountain biker in the world, is going to try. | | |
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| ESPN |
| The news of June 7 was so stunning, it was hard to believe, even for those inside the OU football program. Bob Stoops' retirement was a closely guarded secret. In the days before his retirement, the drama quietly unfolded. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| USC's star quarterback ambushed college football with nine straight wins and an unflappable cool a year ago. Now he's set up to be the top pick in next year's NFL draft—if anyone can get him out of SoCal. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| How far would you go to preserve your life as a runner? Would you cut off your own leg? That’s exactly what Tom White did. This is his story. | | |
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