Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most listen with the intent to reply. | | | | Fight of the century.
(Bettmann/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most listen with the intent to reply.”
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| | rantnrave:// The NBA's position on rest has taken a significant turn over the last five years. Commissioner DAVID STERN fined the SPURS $250k in 2012 for sitting their top four players and not telling anyone until it was too late. This summer, the NBA is making rest a company policy. It's dramatic progress. The league is cutting down the preseason, moving up the start of the regular season, and cutting down on the number of brutal back-to-backs and four-games-in-five-nights. It's as much an appreciation of the health of its players as it is protection of its business interests. NBA teams have gotten serious about rest and workload in recent years. It's not just a Spurs thing anymore. Teams are responding to science and the demands of stars like LEBRON JAMES, who are willing to sit out games to save their bodies no matter who's watching (which creates problems for NBA partners). Rest isn't just about the players; it's about fans, too. There are too many awkward nights when fans buy tickets to see their favorite visiting player -- who's sitting on the bench. The NBA isn't dumb. It knows what sells tickets and gets ratings. It know well-rested players produce a better product. If LeBron and co. were willing to sit out, the league and commissioner ADAM SILVER had to make a change. Other sports should follow suit. The MLB season is long and grueling and there should be more off days and fewer cross-country trips and day games after night games. Soccer's season seems to never end. Domestic league seasons go from August to May. International competitions in June. How do players not break down more often?... Can't wait to get my hands on WHAT MADE MADDY RUN. I've been looking forward to KATE FAGAN's book for a while. Mental health is a significant issue in the US, and one we're becoming increasingly aware of for athletes. MADISON HOLLERAN was a collegiate runner who committed suicide her freshman year. Her story speaks to a crucial group of athletes who should not be ignored by their schools or the NCAA. A famous example is ROYCE WHITE, a first-round pick who played only three games in the NBA. College athletes face tons of pressure at a vulnerable age. It's not enough to pay attention only when the high-profile athletes speak up... Bar trivia nights with JURGEN KLOPP... Stop asking women to take The Quiz... When athletes leave the playing field, they can find themselves in trouble. Here are the true crime stories that have ruined careers and lives. SportsSET: "The Sports Stars Who Turned to Crime." | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| He works with the Kardashians and recently added the Lakers to his roster. Here’s why the ur-celebrity trainer is still so in demand. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Five days aboard the world's fastest lobster boats. | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Brooks' friends and acquaintances still look for reasons that he cut himself off from his country, from them. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| The 2016 Summer Games were supposed to bring Rio and Brazil to new financial and athletic heights. What's left behind? A city and country shrouded by corruption, debt and broken promises. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| In a moving final five minutes of his Hall of Fame induction speech, LT drew on the story of his last name, and the slave and slave-owner who shared it, to convey a message of unity, acceptance and renewed purpose for the country. Here, he discusses his reasons, and the reactions he’s gotten. | | |
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 | Joe Posnanski |
| We have not shared many baseball memories. It’s no big deal. Elizabeth and I, we’ve had plenty of those father-daughter moments like when we went to see Hamilton. Baseball … well, Elizabeth likes baseball fine. So this was going to be another Elizabeth night at the ballpark except that at some point during Wednesday’s game, Ichiro Suzuki came up. | | |
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 | Medium |
| The devolution of the NFL is what’s keeping Colin Kaepernick unemployed. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Jordan Brand was once the coolest sneaker brand on the planet, but things have shifted and there have been pluses and minuses to the brand's business plan. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The Tuesday night quiz at the Freshfield public house on Massams Lane in Formby, England, is a popular affair. Teams of five or six huddle around wooden tables and hush descends upon the bar, with its award-winning selection of 14 cask ales, as a quizmaster clearly enjoying his authority reads out teasers. On busy nights at the 'Freshie' up to 100 residents pack this space. Bowls of curry, mini-hamburger platters and nacho sharers wait uneaten. Then Jurgen Klopp walks in. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Amid the nuclear threat of North Korea just 50 miles from the site of the 2018 Winter Games, Olympians weigh it against four years of grueling training for an unmatched apex and, well, shrug. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Barney Farrar has spent his professional life recruiting college football players; the NCAA has accused him of breaking rules to do so. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The Braves’ chose to relocate to Cobb County from downtown Atlanta’s Turner Field after only 19 years because of a $400 million public subsidy from Cobb taxpayers. The costs are almost certain to balloon thanks to some significant fiscal buffoonery on the part of Cobb officials, including a lack of a comprehensive transportation plan and forgetting to ask the Braves to pay for traffic cops. | | |
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 | Slate |
| How the greatest knocked out the U.S. Justice Department. | | |
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 | NBC Sports |
| I remember being the only girl watching the game with the boys. I remember the skeptical looks, the odd questions, and the doubtful comments. But by far, the absolute worst part of all was, and still is, The Quiz. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| With Audi and Porsche announcing intentions to move into Formula E there may ultimately be a convergence with Formula One. | | |
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 | The Kansas City Star |
| The Kansas City Royals beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on May 30, 2013 in a game that ended eight hours after it was scheduled to start. The Royals took the lead before a 4 hour and 32 minute rain delay, then helped get the field ready to finish the victory. It was a turning point in the Royals’ franchise fortunes. | | |
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| Yahoo Sports |
| Two hundred girls traveled to Rockford, Ill. in late July to do something that girls rarely get to do: play baseball with each other. | | |
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| ESPN |
| Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was born into baseball and raised by a future Hall of Famer. Now comes the hard part for the Blue Jays' No. 2 prospect: creating a legacy worthy of his name. | | |
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 | NFL.com |
| From Jameis Winston to DeSean Jackson and Mike Evans, watch the Buccaneers hit training camp in this full first episode of "Hard Knocks." | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| William Langewiesche talks to Felix Baumgartner about his brain trust, his daredevil streak, and what he felt every moment of his 24-mile fall. | | |
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