I want my kids to remember me playing football. My wife said, ‘I also want you to remember football.’ | | | | It's a party. It's a party. It's a party. Oh.
(Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I want my kids to remember me playing football. My wife said, ‘I also want you to remember football.’”
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| | rantnrave:// Whoa. A huge NBA deal in August out of nowhere. KYRIE IRVING to BOSTON. ISAIAH THOMAS and BROOKLYN's unprotected 2018 first-round pick to CLEVELAND. Two all-stars. One possible top-3 pick. The two best teams in the East dealing with each other. One superstar traded in his prime. Boston GM DANNY AINGE finally pulled the trigger. CAVS GM KOBY ALTMAN threaded the needle to win now and build for the future despite a surly trade demand. Almost a bigger summer blockbuster than WONDER WOMAN. Think Kyrie is gonna wanna drop 40 on LEBRON in next year's playoffs? The CELTICS spent some of that draft wealth they kept in their bunker for a proven star instead of playing the lottery. Trading Thomas hurts but it keeps them from having to decide whether to give him a big extension next summer, which could've been awkward. This is a win-win deal, or one where neither team can say it's definitely better off. It's hard to decide right now. Kyrie is a great scorer and a huge name but flawed. Crowder was vital depth and a great contract. You can argue the Cavs got better next season and have a long-term building block if/when LeBron leaves next July. But will Thomas be able to replace Kyrie's bucket-getting in the playoffs and is he good enough to do it against the WARRIORS? The postseason is all that matters. And the Cavs are still the East favorites. First game of the 2017-18 season: Boston at Cleveland, Oct. 17... KATIE SOWERS is a pioneer... What do you consider the single-season home run record? 73? 61? 60? You might be right any which way. SAM MILLER says it's all about the argument you make. To me, it's BARRY BONDS' 73. The HR record is a product of its era as much it is an absolute. Bonds may have juiced but he wasn't the only one. He was better than everyone else no matter what they were taking. So put that in the record books and save the asterisk... How was the NIGHT KING's technique?... If the 2017 NFL ratings drop I have a theory: more daily fantasy ads. They're back. DRAFTKINGS is planning to pump up its ad buy after a merger with FANDUEL went sideways. If it's anything like the firehose of ads during the 2015 season, I might stop watching anything but REDZONE... PRESIDENT TRUMP has as many SUPER BOWL rings as VLADIMIR PUTIN... Runnin' plays. Runnin' plays... RIP RAFAEL "FELO" RAMIREZ. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| Indy ball’s Salina Stockade barely have a past and likely don’t have a future. They’re never the home team. They’re way out of their league. They and their renaissance-man manager know it. And they don’t give a damn. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| Back in the mid-’90s, EA bit off a bit more than it could chew | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| When Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson faced off in the 100-meter finals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the race to determine the world’s fastest human was the marquee event of the Games. It was America vs. Canada; the lithe Lewis against the hulking Johnson; the reigning Olympic champ against the reigning world champ; Lewis’s personal-best 9.93 against Johnson’s world-record 9.83. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| As Conor McGregor prepares for his $100m boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather, Donald McRae uncovers a complex genius with the help of those who know him best. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| High school football participation is down nearly 5 percent over the last decade, causing schools in many parts of the country to give up their teams. | | |
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 | AListDaily |
| With pay-per-view (PPV) buys, ticket and merchandise sales, sponsorships and closed-circuit viewing, the sports spectacle is projected to rake in upward of a gaudy $600 million for a maximum of 36 minutes of in-ring work at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.For a fight that’s on pace to become an unprecedented success in revenue and viewership, brands are quickly aligning their marketing motives for a potential knockout. | | |
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 | The Set Pieces |
| Though certain fanzines have found an audience and continued to thrive, others have ceased to exist. The explosion of football ‘content’ on the internet has meant the traditional printed mag, to many, is no longer the essential purchase it once was. Meanwhile, podcasts, the dorky younger brother of fan media, are constantly increasing in popularity. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| After 11 hours of shuttling between sets in a hotel ballroom for ESPN and the SEC Network, interviewing and analyzing coaches and firing the occasional verbal volley at sportswriters for asking inane questions, Paul Finebaum seeks refuge from another day of college football madness by settling in at a restaurant far removed from the Southeastern Conference media days in suburban Birmingham. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| Ballyhaunis is a traditional farming town in County Mayo in the west of Ireland with a population just over 3,000. Due to an immigration influx over the past several decades, it also happens to be the most ethnically diverse town in the country, with the majority of children speaking a language other than English or Gaelic at home. | | |
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 | Outsports |
| ‘One of the most important things is to be true to who you are,’ she says. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| White NFL players are showing support for protesting black teammates. It’s a start. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| 'We felt that he took a knee for us, so we need to stand up for him.’ | | |
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 | Fresno Bee |
| BASE jumper Austin Carey says Yosemite allows high-risk sports such as hang gliding and climbing, but not BASE jumping. He wants to change that. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Profane yet poignant, the HBO show is reality television done especially well. We rank the show's 12 seasons. | | |
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 | The CUSP Show |
| Bryant McBride joins Joe and Tom this week for a conversation on his company Burst and all things sports tech. Bryant has over 20 years of experience as an executive, entrepreneur and investor. In the past 10 years, he has focused on building and nurturing technology businesses where family and sports have been strategic growth drivers. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton says 61 is still the "legitimate" mark for long-ball greatness. As he takes aim at an asterisk-free 62, the true MLB record for round-trippers remains in the eye of the beholder. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| At July’s Coke Zero 400 race in Daytona Beach, the sport reckons with its past--and future--amid shifts toward a more national scope. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Review Of Books |
| Does MMA champion Conor McGregor have a puncher’s chance against Floyd Mayweather? No. And yes. | | |
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| Polygon |
| What does it mean to be cool? | | |
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