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| | rantnrave:// The LOS ANGELES DODGERS are MONEYBALL with a trust fund. They are fearsome. Maybe the best Dodgers team ever -- and they've had a few good ones. Might set the record for most regular season wins. The Dodgers have perfected the 2017 model of team building. They've got enough money to burn -- and have the sunk costs to prove it. They've got stars in the front office with experience running small-market teams. They're smart enough to invest in prospects and cheap players and rich enough to sign them later on. Will it get them a title? Baseball is too cruel to make guarantees. The MARINERS won 116 games in 2001 and didn't make the WORLD SERIES. LA is a fascinating construction of ex-scrubs and young stars. COREY SEAGER and CODY BELLINGER are 23 and 22 and two of the best players in the sport. They're also part of a pipeline that will keep L.A. good for years. JUSTIN TURNER and CHRIS TAYLOR are found money. Turner nearly washed out. Taylor started the year in the minors after four unremarkable seasons to start his career. Turner leads the NL in hitting; Taylor is a stud. And I haven't mentioned CLAYTON KERSHAW yet. Fixating on whether the Dodgers win a ring misses the point. They've built a freight train of an organization. The AMAZON of MLB. Greatness isn't always rewarded in trophies. Enjoy them now and don't wait for OCTOBER's validation... The PREMIER LEAGUE is back Friday. Are you ready for some football? The access US fans have to English football is amazing. I can watch every CHELSEA game this season. Sometimes it's good to take a step back and appreciate our riches. Thanks to a flush TV deal, the EPL has become one of the top leagues in the US without playing a single game here. Soccer fans are beneficiaries of the EPL's foreign push. TV money has made it the wealthiest soccer league in the world. It's helped the EPL expand its global footprint and made everybody rich. But can money buy happiness? SportsSET: "Can a Soccer League Be Too Rich for Its Own Good?"... The PGA CHAMPIONSHIP is the only major standing between JORDAN SPIETH and a career grand slam. Will it be his white whale? ARNOLD PALMER and TOM WATSON couldn't win it. Did their career suffers because of it? Spieth is only 24 but in heady company, whichever way his fortune falls... Forget the noise. ignore the clutter. What do the numbers say? That COLIN KAEPERNICK should have a job by now. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| TV money has made the English Premier League the wealthiest soccer league in the world. It's helped the EPL expand its global footprint and made everybody rich. But can money buy happiness? | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Doris Burke has never spoken a single word to Drake. And they never had dinner together, despite what the Internet says. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Dodgers Rally Granny living life like she always has, right on the edge and always fun. | | |
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 | SURFER Magazine |
| Praia do Norte's enormous surf was once greatly feared by the townspeople, but now it’s becoming their greatest resource. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| The counterintuitive theory has pervaded books, studies, and Reddit threads and is something of a rally cry for LCHF converts. But while there may be some benefit to monitoring insulin levels, there's no need to cut out all carbs quite yet. | | |
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 | Longform |
| David Gessner is the author of ten books. His latest is Ultimate Glory: Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth. “The ambition got in my way at first. Because I wanted my stuff to be great, and it froze me up. But later on it was really helpful. I’m startled by the way people don’t, you know, admit [they care] … it seems unlikely people wouldn’t want to be immortal.” | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Lane Kiffin, Dabo Swinney, James Franklin and other coaches share the good, the bad and the just plain weird from their countless autograph requests. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Having spent decades as an affluent but 'typical, institutionalised, educated Western man', the neurologist John Kitchin radically reassessed his life after finding that he was losing his eyesight and had grown unsatisfied in his work. Emerging from a bout of hopelessness with the realisation that all he wanted to do was 'the basic things and skate', he gave up his practice. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| The Rams QB is sick of losing and does not want you thinking he's soft. The recovering No. 1 pick is gonna do L.A. his way-even if he takes some licks in the process. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| TV money has changed more than just transfer fees. It's changed the competition too. | | |
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 | Unusual Efforts |
| "Taking a knee" drew Americans' attention to the ways in which sport and politics mix, but sports have been a means of resistance for over a century. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| The PGA was the tournament that killed Arnold Palmer’s dreams of a career slam. Can Spieth do what The King couldn’t? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| When John Wall, Steph Curry, or Russell Westbrook need help with their games, they turn to Rob McClanaghan. | | |
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 | Pre Snap Reads |
| The NFL is a league built on conventional wisdom. Its thinking is conservative. Its practices are uniformed. It's not a coincidence that the most successful coach in the league is the one who bucks conventional wisdom most often. | | |
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 | Motherboard |
| I tried yoga tech gear to see if it enhanced my practice. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Satchel Paige reached out to the 20 Major League Baseball teams about the prospect of joining them in 1968. The 62-year-old pitcher needed only 158 days on an active roster to reach the five-year minimum required to receive his pension. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Josh Rosen is right. High-end athletics and school don't mesh. Not easily, and not without major compromises along the way. Something always has to give. | | |
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| ESPN |
| With Super Bowl titles in 2002, 2004 and 2005, Bill Belichick had built a dynasty. In 2007, though, Spygate changed his reputation, and his quarterback began to mature into the GOAT as we know him today. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| How "Sports Illustrated" told the story of the life and early demise of hockey player John Kordic in the 1992 story, "Death of a Goon." | | |
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 | Bklynr |
| A homegrown boxer sets his sights on the big time. | | |
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