Lesson number one: don't think. It can only hurt the ball club. | | | | Cleveland can't lose.
(Jason Miller/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Lesson number one: don't think. It can only hurt the ball club.”
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| | rantnrave:// There's something surreal about a day in which the WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY says an ESPN personality deserves to lose her job for a tweet. ESPN may want to keep its political neutrality after JEMELE HILL called PRESIDENT TRUMP a "white supremacist," but what should it do if it's being used as a political target? Is this its GAMERGATE? When someone responds to the #StickToSports crowd by saying sports is political, we forget that politics has a use for sports, too. Did ESPN's response to Hill's tweets give it the distance the network wanted or earn it more scorn? Did it leave Hill out to dry to try to maintain a middle ground? Hill is smart, thoughtful, interesting and honest. That's why ESPN gave her and MICHAEL SMITH the 6pm SPORTSCENTER. She's the same person on social media. This RINGER profile by BRYAN CURTIS is great insight. Hill isn't afraid to talk about race or gender bias or how they influence the response to her show. She'll have a bigger platform now. ESPN should have been ready for what she said and the reaction it got. She and Smith have been targets for a while now. This was always going to bubble up... From dopers to sign-stealers to football-deflaters, sports is littered with famous cheaters. The RED SOX and their APPLE WATCHES join a colorful group of the accused. The 1951 NEW YORK GIANTS might have cheated their way to a pennant. LANCE ARMSTRONG doped through seven straight TOUR DE FRANCE titles. ROSIE RUIZ tried to hoodwink her way to a BOSTON MARATHON win. Athletes and teams are asked to push their boundaries and search for every competitive advantage. But where do you draw the line? Where do ultra-competitiveness and ingenuity end and cheating begin? SportsSET: "It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught"... The CLEVELAND INDIANS are a juggernaut. Notched their 21st straight win Wednesday. I'm out of adjectives. This is better than anything LOU BROWN could've imagined. They've peeled off all the sections. Longest streak in AMERICAN LEAGUE history. Might have tied the MLB record, depending which way you land on ties. A month ago the Indians were a good baseball team. They're contenders now... This is a lede... What would hockey players change about the NHL?... A bike ride a day keeps the doctor at bay... The husband of the head of the SMALL BUSINESS ADMINSTRATION was head-butted live on national TV Tuesday. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| From dopers to sign-stealers to football-deflaters, sports is littered with famous cheaters. But where do you draw the line? Where does ultra-competitiveness and ingenuity end and cheating begin? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The new cohost of ‘SportsCenter’ and her partner, Michael Smith, have been blamed for the network’s perceived liberal bias. Should they embrace debate or block the trolls? In an exclusive interview, Hill shares her side. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The MMQB’s Tim Rohan wore a Colin Kaepernick jersey to last weekend’s Bills-Jets game to gauge fan reaction at the tailgate and in the stands. The jersey elicited some sort of reaction from nearly everyone. | | |
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 | Freakonomics |
| The human foot is an evolutionary masterpiece, far more functional than we give it credit for. So why do we encase it in “a coffin” (as one foot scholar calls it) that stymies so much of its ability -- and may create more problems than it solves? | | |
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| When the NBA opened its first New York store it signed a low-profile e-commerce company to run it. We'll be interviewing the people in charge. Adam Silver was unanimously elected NBA commissioner in 2014 by the NBA Board of Governors, and presides over a league that is one of the largest providers of sports programming in the world. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Even after 21 straight wins, there’s evidence they have underperformed -- which is nuts. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| There’s no easy fix for a league with a majority of black players and a mostly white audience. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Koo, whose name is pronounced Young-hway, became even more of a story Monday night, making his debut as the Los Angeles Chargers kicker, the fourth Korean-born player in NFL history with John Lee, Hines Ward and Kyle Love. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| In his two seasons at the helm, veteran manager has made an impact on his team and on his players. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The prospect of the best player available signing one of the most piddling contracts makes it unlike any free agency sports has seen: One where it literally isn’t about the money. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Two weeks from Labor Day -- this Saturday (Sep 16) -- USC will play Texas for the first time since Jan. 4, 2006, when the Longhorns were able to mount a late four-quarter rally that made them national champions. The game reopens painful memories for USC, but for White, the raw hurt has never disappeared. He thinks about one play every day. | | |
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 | Block Six Analytics |
| The fact that the team received nearly double the amount of the second highest team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the fact that the deal is with Rakuten, a company few people in the U.S. have likely heard of until now, is surprising. Why would Rakuten spend this amount of money for a jersey patch deal? | | |
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 | Bloomberg View |
| James Dolan sees the declining financial future of pro sports franchises. Maybe he'll finally sell his team! | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| When Shuaib Sookia, an Overwatch fan who lives in the African country of Mauritius, posted to both the game’s subreddit and official forums about how much of a pain it can be to play Blizzard’s team-based shooter without servers located anywhere on the continent of Africa, he wasn’t expecting much in the way of response. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Red Sox were accused of using an Apple Watch to steal signs from the Yankees. Former MLB player Fernando Perez breaks down how sign stealing actually works-and how it is always changing. | | |
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 | CyclingTips |
| An interview with "Icarus" director Bryan Fogel about doping, ethics, and the definition of sport. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Last year's World Series rewarded Cubs fans for decades of undying devotion. But one fateful night in 1949, young star Eddie Waitkus found out what could happen when that passion got too intense. The moment altered a career, inspired Hollywood and fed belief in a franchise curse. | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| I worry that my son, who used to play football, will suffer repercussions for my own ignorance down the road. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| ‘Harry the Dog’ tells Donald McRae about losing a £2.5m bet in 2007, coming back from depression and why, ‘with all disrespect’, Ray Winstone should be ashamed of himself. | | |
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 | Charlotte Magazine |
| Cheryl Stearns was on a mission to collect her 20,000th skydive, until things down on earth got complicated. | | |
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