I went to Google, asked 'How do u start soccer team from scratch?' There was nothing, we made it up. | | | | Sparks fly at F1's Singapore Grand Prix.
(Lars Baron/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I went to Google, asked 'How do u start soccer team from scratch?' There was nothing, we made it up.”
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| | rantnrave:// The AARON HERNANDEZ story gets sadder. The former PATRIOTS star was posthumously diagnosed with severe CTE. His lawyer said Hernandez's brain damage was akin to players who had a median age of 67. What does it mean for the NFL that a 27-year-old who was supposed to be mid-career -- not the retired and aging ex-players we've been accustomed to hearing about as CTE victims -- died with his brain in that condition? Did that drive the behavior that sent his life into a downward spiral? It's impossible to tell now. Is it too speculative to put those pieces together when there's no way to get answers? It's another data point in a life people are still trying to understand. SportsSET: "Aaron Hernandez's Rough Rise and Fast Fall"... What's wrong with the NFL? Ratings remain high but have dipped from last season. Is it something the league did? Athlete activism and KAEPERNICK? The flow of viewers away from linear TV? Is it the games themselves? Is quality of play worse? The RINGER's KEVIN CLARK says the NFL isn't fun anymore. ESPN's DAN LE BATARD thinks teams are playing it safe on offense and boring fans. SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's ROBERT KLEMKO blames the NFLPA and 2011 CBA, which cut down practice time and made veterans more likely to be replaced by less-experienced players. Players are younger, on average, than ever. Quarterbacks are more accurate. But points are down. Is the NFL caught in the same dilemma as MLB? The analytics movement changed baseball. Home runs up. Strikeouts up. Walks up. The three true outcomes. Is it efficiency at the expense of aesthetics? Commissioner ROB MANFRED is trying to speed up the pace of play amid arguments that baseball is too slow, too static. Should ROGER GOODELL be doing that, too? Teams are happy to dink and dunk. Youth means an inexperienced and diluted talent base. Should there be a debate about quality of play? Will people keep watching if the games aren't as good? Will fantasy football and gambling be enough for fans to keep watching? Why watch anything but highlights and RED ZONE if that's all you care about? The NFL may have a reckoning coming. Maybe it's not the one we expected. Which will be worse for the NFL's future: a concussion epidemic or boring football?... LYNX-SPARKS is the WNBA FINALS we deserve. Will the Lynx get their fourth title in seven years and rival the WARRIORS for best pro basketball dynasty going? Or will LOS ANGELES beat them for a second straight year? Let's just hope the series goes the distance and gives us another buzzer-beating ending. It starts Sunday at 3:30 pm ET on ABC... And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those pesky kids... The best goal you'll ever see. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | National Geographic |
| Trophy hunting fees help fund conservation. Critics say the benefits are exaggerated and that killing big game animals is wrong. | | |
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 | Mercury News |
| Lincecum is believed to be back here inhabiting the shores of Lake Washington, although no one with the Giants could say for sure. Someone thought maybe he was in Arizona. When the team tried to invite him to throw out the first pitch before a playoff game against the Chicago Cubs last year, Lincecum was in Hawaii. Wherever he is now, he’s keeping a low profile. The Freak is now The Ghost. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| No one knew if it could be done. But when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed Mount Everest without oxygen in 1978, they smashed one of the last barriers of human performance. Almost 40 years later, both legends talk about their first ascent by “fair means”-and the long-running feud that followed. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Based on his violent outbursts, mood swings and self-medicating ways, it comes as little surprise that Aaron Hernandez suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), as his lawyer alleges in a new lawsuit against the NFL and the New England Patriots. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Forest Green is the first completely vegan professional sports team in the world, but its ethos extends way beyond food. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| A new technique could revolutionize how a neurodegenerative disease afflicting contact sports is treated. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| Magna Report: Out-of-Home deliveries erased 2016 NFL ratings deficit. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| What nostalgia looks like in 2017 isn't what it looked like at the dawn of video games. The virtual worlds in which we play have long hinged on callbacks to outdoor things, countryside adventures, wooded escapes or play-fighting in the grass. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| In 2008, a group of Seattle businesswomen bought the Seattle Storm from Clay Bennett and kept it in Seattle. What's happened since is remarkable in ways big and small. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The poor play that has marked the opening of the 2017 season is a direct effect of the 2011 CBA, which is squeezing out mid-tier players in favor of young, cheap labor. | | |
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 | Men in Blazers |
| Rog talks with rock climber Tommy Caldwell about free climbing El Capitan's 3,000-foot Dawn Wall, being taken captive by militants in the Kyrgystan mountains, and his book, "The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk, and Going Beyond Limits." | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Phelps, who confronted mental health problems three years ago, has opened his home to Grant Hackett, a friend and fellow Olympian with similar troubles. Phelps has also lent an ear to Tiger Woods. | | |
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 | Foreign Policy |
| Gift Ngoepe was the first African-born player to make it to the big show. Major League Baseball is betting he won't be the last. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Mark Cuban certainly thinks so, and he’s looking to follow the lead of FC Dallas, which boasts the most comprehensive youth development program in America. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Two dramatic streaks will define the Dodgers' 2017 season -- unless they can pull off something even more memorable in October. | | |
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 | Yahoo Finance |
| Two planned NFL stadiums, in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, have projected costs higher than $2 billion-- and it's unlikely these structures will have a positive impact on the local economy. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Her career may be near the finish line, but the trailblazing driver will leave behind a unique legacy as an instrument of male and female fantasy. | | |
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 | Sierra Club |
| Probably, says new research. | | |
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 | WWE |
| Sasha Banks returns home to Boston for a revealing interview about her marriage, her family's struggles and much more while shopping for new sneakers at BODEGA. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| For the Bosa family, life is lived on the edge. Quarterbacks: You can thank the Bosa father for that. | | |
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