Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. | | | | Ty Montgomery with the Lambeau Leap.
(Dylan Buell/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”
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| | rantnrave:// Love the @SportsPaperInfo TWITTER account. A collection of sports programs, tickets, photos, covers and random bits of nostalgia. One of my daily highlights. So simple. So fun. A sports throwback machine. Like falling into a wormhole once you start looking. Cover of the BILLS-OILERS program in 1962 is the perfect AFL kitsch. Can you imagine an NFL team putting this out today? Bring back the helmet cart. All are a cool way to see how leagues have changed, shedding their carnival-like veneer as they became multi-billion-dollar corporations. Each photo is like a time capsule when sports took itself less seriously. Sports is a cultural touchstone and this is the photo album. Don't know how CHRIS HOLMES finds all those gems but I hope he never quits... Baseball can be immune to logic and probability. Part of its charm. Why it's ruinous to bet on. But the DODGERS' 10-game losing streak is an epic case of the unexpected. ALEX WOOD and their pitching staff went haywire, CURTIS GRANDERSON and the offense suddenly slump. Still, the Dodgers are so good that they've lost 15 of their last 16 games and still have the best record in MLB. The odds of that losing streak before it began: 1 in 130,164. The odds of the INDIANS winning 18 straight: 1 in 44,166. Amazing.... Video games like MADDEN, FIFA and NBA 2K haven't just sold millions of copies, they've taught their sports to a new era of fans and bred the next generation of stars. They've changed how fans consume sports from bar to arcade to living room. SportsSET: "Nearly Real Sports: The Video Games That Changed Sports"... Geopolitics is wreaking havoc on BEIN SPORTS. The network has been scooping up soccer TV rights ahead of the 2022 WORLD CUP it'll host. But QATAR, which owns beIN, is at odds with some MIDDLE EASTERN and AFRICAN countries, led by SAUDI ARABIA. Soccer associations like the EPL and UEFA are caught in the middle, wading into international politics to ensure their games are broadcast... What happens when you're a major sports magazine and don't have any games to cover? How SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's post-9/11 issue came together... A fashionable offense... Everybody needs a portable beer pong table -- always keep one on you because never know when the right occasion hits -- but a light-up cornhole board is a little much... Grinnin' cause you winnin'. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Just as technology has reshaped so many aspects of daily life, it has brought new dimensions to the entertainment experience. From virtual reality to artificial intelligence and social networking, entertainment in the 21st century will engage all the human senses and connect people in new ways. | | |
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| Check out Rebecca Lobo''s full speech following her induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. | | |
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 | The Rich Eisen Show |
| Famed TV executive Don Ohlmeyer to talk about sports on TV, its evolution, his career, and more. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Rocky Seto leaves a successful NFL coaching career to become the pastor of a Southern California church | | |
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 | Racked |
| Women make up 40 percent of its fanbase. | | |
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 | Down East |
| Rafting pioneer Suzie Hockmeyer’s wild, 41-year ride. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| More players, more problems. | | |
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 | Steph Stradley |
| Houston lawyer and writer, Stephanie Stradley discusses Ezekiel Elliott case and explains how horrible the NFL domestic violence policy is. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The negative headlines of 2016, on and off the field, have intensified the suspicion that you simply cannot have it all at Notre Dame. That the school is a football anachronism, trying to thrive on an outdated model, fooling itself into thinking its three-legged stool can stand next to the one-pillar programs at Alabama and Ohio State and Clemson and Florida State and so on. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| Troy Aikman famously said he wouldn’t encourage his own child to play football. Tony Dorsett has brain damage. Earl Campbell, one of the most powerful runners ever, has trouble walking. And yet their love for the game endures. We surveyed some other legends of Texas football to gauge how they feel about the sport that shaped their lives, for better and worse. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| If you want to get boys into gymnastics, call them ninjas. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Foreign investors are snapping up clubs in Belgium’s second division. The question everyone from Tubize to Leuven is asking is: Why? | | |
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 | The Tao of Sports |
| Originally published in 1998, the book “Field of Schemes” has continued to be a hot topic for public stadium finance opponents in the 19 years since. Co-Author Neil DeMause talks about some of the issues surrounding the ability of teams to gain publicly financed stadiums, as well as the economic viability that each project actually presents to the community at large. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Honesty Scott-Grayson, back at Riverdale Baptist where her career began, and her mother experience the challenges of top-level high school basketball. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Zach talks to "The Wall Street Journal's" Sam Walker about his book on sports dynasties, "The Captain Class," analytics, the Warriors and Cavaliers, Michael Jordan, and more. | | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
| The Ezekiel Elliott case proves the NFL doesn't care about solutions for domestic violence; it only cares about power. | | |
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| Polygon |
| A great video game critic is both an archaeologist and a tour guide. | | |
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 | Americas Quarterly |
| No matter what you may have read elsewhere, Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games were a massive success.OK, so the event was billed by former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as Brazil’s time to shine, “an opportunity without equal, increasing Brazilians’ self-esteem, consolidating recent achievements and inspiring new progress.” On that front, it's had… well… mixed results. | | |
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 | Des Moines Register |
| Kylan Smallwood, Creston's varsity quarterback, was floored to see five of his teammates pose in a racist photo. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| Take a trip to Bhubaneswar, India, and witness the circus act surrounding Budhia Singh, the prodigy who ran 40 miles at age 4. This alarming, astonishing feat brought lots of questions-about his caretakers, his exploits, even the nature of celebrity. But first: Is his story a fable, a miracle, or a nightmare? Or all three? | | |
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