Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. | | | | Lewis Hamilton looked good in Belgium but didn't win.
(Dan Istitene/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
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| | rantnrave:// MAYWEATHER-MCGREGOR: They are who we thought they were. The fight went as expected. Mayweather won. McGregor didn't get knocked out. They both got paid. Which was the real upshot of the fight. This was a performance, not a boxing match. The BATMAN VS. SUPERMAN of sports. I'd say buyer beware but everyone knew what they were watching. McGregor gets to say he was standing when the fight ended. Mayweather runs his record to 50-0 and retires with one last payday. He didn't get to be a billion-dollar boxer without knowing how to hit his marks. Boxing proves it can still produce big fights. But where will they come from now? How will GOLOVKIN-ALVAREZ do next month? The biggest question was how everyone watched it (once it made it on air)? A quick survey of a few friends: FACEBOOK LIVE, PERISCOPE, FIRSTROWSPORTS, and somebody at a party that bought the $100 PPV. It's a small sample size (yes, they were millennials), and SHOWTIME, the UFC, and the fighters surely made a lot of money. But how much money did they lose because of industrious viewers?... The best way to watch the fight? JASON GAY got high in VEGAS... GIANCARLO STANTON has 50 home runs. He's on pace for 63. Baseball's home run record debate might go from theoretical to actual real quick. The only way to have a legitimate debate is for MLB and its fans to reckon with the STEROID ERA. Believing BARRY BONDS' 73 HRs don't count as the real record is believing that today's game is completely devoid of PEDs. You're welcome to your debate if you want. But 73 is the record. MARIS didn't need an asterisk for 61 (BILLY CRYSTAL gave him one anyway). RUTH didn't get one for hitting his bombs before MLB was integrated. The numbers are black and white. Everything else is gray... YOOHOO showers for JAPAN, who crushed TEXAS. 2017 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES champs... A concussion epidemic is plaguing sports. High-tech helmets, safer tackling techniques, impact-measuring chips -- can anything help save athletes' brains? SportsSET: "The Brain Game: How Sports Are Trying to Solve the Concussion Crisis"... CARDI B has COLIN KAEPERNICK's back... Punting's AND 1 mixtape... The Jumbotron is the ultimate truth-teller... Been excruciating to watch the destruction caused by HURRICANE HARVEY. It's ugly in LOUISIANA and TEXAS. If you want to help the people hit by the storm, here's where and how. (SMU and BAYLOR are helping out the RICE football team, unable to return home to HOUSTON after opening its season in AUSTRALIA.) | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The New York Review of Books |
| To the uninitiated it can be hard to understand why anyone would go hiking. Today’s fleece- and Gore-Tex-clad masses may take for granted the attraction of spending weekends doing what, for most of human history, qualified as grunt work: trudging through the wilderness, a heavy pack on your back. “This is very hard work for a young man to follow daily for any length of time,” wrote John Meade Gould in 1877. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Lorraine Dixon is one of a growing number of women left to take care of men whose brains have been addled from years of playing football. This is the story of their battle for redemption. | | |
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 | WBUR |
| You might remember Devo for their 1980 hit "Whip It" … and for wearing flower-pot-looking hats and yellow hazmat suits on stage. Reporter Sean Cole tells the story of an equally colorful golfer who ended up being a kind of mascot for the band. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| Texas used to be a quarterback wasteland. Now the state turns out more ace QBs than any other state. Here’s how. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| Clasping heavy-duty handles closed may not seem like a serious endeavor, but for this strange sport’s athletes, it’s the ultimate testosterone test. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| A shift with radical implications for the game. | | |
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 | Tulsa World |
| Bob Stoops walked away from coaching at age 56, and everyone is still wondering: Why? Beneath the sturdy persona of a coach, there's a kid from Youngstown. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| When the 2017 U.S. Open begins in New York, the favorite to win the men's title will be 36-year-old Roger Federer, whose exquisite skills seem undiminished with age. He's artistic and magical—but also pragmatic and rational. And there's plenty to learn from his approach. | | |
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 | Aeon Magazine |
| The bashoiri - the arrival of sumo wrestlers before a tournament - unfolds outside a venue in Tokyo. With the sumo lifestyle still dictated largely by tradition and the Japan Sumo Association, the wrestlers emerge from cars that they cannot drive, wearing robes that denote their rank, and sporting chonmage haircuts, looking splendidly anachronistic as they interact with mobile phones and pose for photos with fans. | | |
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 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Interactive |
| Skateboarder Evan Smith is one of Pittsburgh’s unlikeliest residents. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Terry Funk, along with being a legendary professional wrestler, deserves recognition as a sort of godfather of the Boxer vs. Other fight, a matchup of differing combat disciplines of the type that will captivate the world for however long Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Conor McGregor lasts. | | |
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 | Literary Hub |
| At a baseball game in 1978, the writer who almost wasn't. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Mississippi State's Leo Lewis is at the center of the Ole Miss investigation and he can't escape. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Meet the not-so-secret weapon that offenses are using to flummox even the league’s best defenses: the run-pass option. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Katy is making headlines now, but bank-breaking stadiums are becoming the norm around Texas, turning the Friday night games many non-Texans imagine as a charming, pastoral tradition into big business. Most stadiums due to open in the next couple of years have $45 to $70 million price tags, and that's before inevitable construction overages. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| In a city of illusion and circuses, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor pulled off a boxing spectacle in Las Vegas fit for the times. | | |
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 | ADWEEK |
| Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Netflix and Twitter all have sizable monthly user totals that represent a new battleground over sports fans who make up one of the most valuable remaining live digital audiences. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| No player as young as Zverev has won the Open in this era. But the oddmakers think he has a chance. | | |
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 | AListDaily |
| With wrestlers like John Cena doubling as celebrities and practically being household names, the WWE brand is hot right now, and mobile game developers have caught on. In April, Sega announced a partnership to develop WWE Tap Mania, which released in July. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| A play-by-play of the historic 2014 ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover that almost didn’t happen. | | |
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