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| | rantnrave:// Is augmented reality going to be part of the in-game fan experience soon? APPLE unveiled an AR feature with its IPHONE 8 debut Tuesday. Hold your phone up to the field at a baseball game and graphics pop up identifying players and stats. That sneak peak might not be adding that much (that's what the JUMBOTRON is for) but the possibilities are cool. Something like this would be great for NFL games where players funnel in and out quicker. Useful for golf, if you can get an idea of range to the hole and hazards from where you are on course. These are short-term wishes. What's possible as the tech evolves? STATCAST numbers in real-time? Identifying routes and blitzes as they're run? The in-game tech experience has to catch up with the in-home. The demo was for a baseball game but with MLBAM working on it, it could spread around several leagues the company is aligned with. Hope it'll be available for those of us on team ANDROID one day... MLB’s STATCAST is a breakthrough technology transforming what we know about—and how we play—baseball. It's changing the way teams evaluate players, how fans watch games on TV, and how hitters swing. SportsSET: "The Statcast Revolution"... What your NFL on AMAZON experience will look and sound like. Appreciate the second ENGLISH language stream. Football games can get too cluttered with cliches and verbiage that it makes it hard for potential new fans to jump in, watch and become invested in the sport. Most of the time, like if REX RYAN is on the broadcast, it's empty calories. It might attract new viewers worldwide. Could help bring in new ones in the US. Some who are already football fans might stick on that channel too... Do NFL decision-makers have a racial bias in hiring coaches? The DENVER POST's CAMERON WOLFE lays out the argument, and why upward mobility is harder for some than others. The ROONEY RULE has had its successes but the issue runs deeper than getting an interview. It's about getting coaches in a position to be considered for that interview. Can't be a head coaching candidate if you don't get a job as an OC. Probably can't be an OC if you're not given a chance to coach quarterbacks. And so it goes. We only notice the top-line problems but it goes deeper than that... RUSSELL WESTBROOK lost a basketball game to a late night TV host. Should've passed more... If KOBE stuck with No. 8 this wouldn't be awkward. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| A multibillion-dollar market started by Gatorade has become a proving ground for the science of hydration. | | |
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 | The Denver Post |
| It's the Thursday morning before Super Bowl LI, where three days later New England will rally past Atlanta in the biggest comeback victory in Big Game history. Falcons running backs coach Bobby Turner sits at a round table, reading a newspaper, alone for most of the 45-minute media scrum. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| After a grueling rehab from foot surgery, unseeded Sloane Stephens rediscovered her love for the game and surprised even herself in winning a historic U.S. Open. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| Get inside the head of the man behind 2017’s most successful game. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Marion "Suge" Knight's original terrordome was the defensive line. It's where he starred for four years at Lynwood High School, 20 minutes from Compton, California's much-loved Tam's Burgers. The scariest man in rap was a star lineman at UNLV -- and a scab Los Angeles Ram. | | |
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 | Star-Telegram |
| Taxpayers in Texas’ largest suburban school districts are funding six-figure salaries for their high school football coaches. Or almost double what they’re paying teachers. | | |
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 | Golf |
| When Father Time comes calling, some are lucky enough to be around the game they love. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| When the Giants announced that they would be inexplicably resuming their game against the Dodgers--delayed by thunderstorms for nearly three hours, after a single pitch had been thrown--at 10:50 p.m. PDT, I had to go. | | |
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 | The Set Pieces |
| For the Azeri state, the Champions League represents prime advertising space, a once in a lifetime opportunity to parade the Qarabag name in Europe as being synonymous with Azerbaijan in spite of the Armenian dominion over the Nagorno-Karabakh mountains. When so much blood has been spilled for the cause, it is hardly surprising. | | |
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 | Bloody Elbow |
| Karim Zidan delves into the history of judo in Japan and Russia, how its sports culture connected the two nations, and why it is being used as a modern tool for diplomacy. | | |
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 | Unusual Efforts |
| In Philadelphia, the Unity Cup, which brings together teams from the city's various ethnic communities, is a celebration of coexistence and collaboration. | | |
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 | Toronto Star |
| It's tough to stay focussed on the Games in South Korea when North Korea and the U.S. have been playing their own games. | | |
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 | Sports TV Ratings Podcast |
| It was great to finally get to talk to Peter Schrager. Note: we taped this on August 28, but I have same old school notions about editorial calendars so I held it back for the first Sunday of NFL season. If anything seems dated already, that’s my fault not Peter’s. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Underpaid and overexposed to injury, NFL running backs have seen less and less love in recent seasons. But as defenses adapt to stop spread offenses and motivated young backs enter the league, the ground game is experiencing a resurgence. Just survey its seismic impact in Week 1. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Forget the Golden State Warriors and Real Madrid. Thomas Dimitroff wants Atlanta to be more like Team Sky. | | |
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 | The CUSP Show |
| Bil Rasmussen joins Joe and Tom this week for a conversation on the creation of ESPN in September 7, 1979, ESPN was launched. Entrepreneurial daring, irrepressible enthusiasm and a dash of good luck gave the world the first 24-hour television network. Once unleashed upon sports fans, ESPN's impact forever changed the way we watch television. | | |
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 | Charlotte Observer |
| Carolina Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly is wearing an experimental ‘Q Collar’ on the field in an attempt to limit concussions. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The league is looking at a plan to reform the lottery, but it could come at a cost for small-market teams. | | |
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 | Planet Money |
| Most athlete endorsements make a product more expensive. But what happens when an NBA All-Star uses his name to make a sneaker much, much cheaper? On today's show: How that worked out. | | |
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