Comparison is the thief of joy. | | | | Johnny Quinn can pose with the best.
(Patrick Smith/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
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| | rantnrave:// What will we see on NFL sidelines this Sunday? A return to normal? Or was last weekend a new normal? Will PRESIDENT TRUMP continue to use the NFL as a political prop? Will there be as forceful a rebuke? The league-wide protests were fueled by anger and solidarity. Has a week calmed emotions and split up unexpected allies? Who will define the meaning of the protest? When COLIN KAEPERNICK knelt, he was protesting racial injustice and police violence. Is that what it still means? Has that message been diluted and co-opted? When COWBOYS owner JERRY JONES took a knee before MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL it felt as if the protest had been whitewashed. Cultural appropriation on a football field. Is the media complicit? Will it continue to pay attention? What were NFL owners standing up for, exactly? What does the NFL mean when it talks about unity? Unity against the inequality that Kaepernick protested; or only against a common enemy -- Trump -- for the weekend? If players try to re-frame the protests, will owners continue to stand arm-in-arm? Is the era of "stick to sports" done? BLEACHER REPORT tries to predict what comes next. Will some team give Kaepernick a job? And would that mean the NFL is really ready to support his cause?... I'll always stop whatever I'm doing if WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP is on TV. Doesn't matter the time or day or what else is on. It's my not guilty-about-it-at-all pleasure. Not the best sports movie ever but the most fun. That backdoor cut from WESLEY SNIPES and Harrelson. Gotta check when it's on next... We let them into our living rooms every night. They don't just call the games, they are a part of the experience. And they have some stories of their own to tell. SportsSET: "Soundtrack of Sports: The Stories Behind the Voices"... There's no chicken and beer but MARC CARIG reports a texbook example of how a baseball season goes awry and a beloved manager loses everybody... Baseball like it's 1917... APPLE WATCH is already obsolete. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | TSN |
| Since his retirement in 2011 after a series of concussions, Paul Kariya has been a veritable ghost, keeping his distance from a game that he once ennobled with his gentlemanly play, his speed and his scoring touch. In November, Kariya will join former linemate Teemu Selanne when they are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, thrusting him once again into the spotlight. | | |
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| For three years, college basketball -- from coaches to sneaker companies -- was in the FBI's crosshairs. By using wiretaps, surveillance video, undercover agents and cooperating witnesses, the scope of their work and the sport's corruption came to light. | | |
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 | The Stacks |
| This interview, from 1969, is part of The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods, an ebook anthology that also includes conversations with Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Bill Jean King, Barry Bonds, and more. | | |
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 | Victory Journal |
| David Roth on Shohei Otani, the Japanese baseball phenom who could redefine baseball. | | |
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 | Axios |
| Can machine learning one-up standard Moneyball? | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Like, why are the feds investigating college basketball? Is bribery widespread? And where will the NCAA go from here? | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Baseball isn't football, but concussions remain part of a catcher's job all the same. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| If the NCAA doesn't let players earn what they deserve in the open, the market will continue to run rampant in the shadows. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| After five years of Sweat Science, a summing-up of what really matters. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| The story of how Phil Niekro returned to the Braves for one last game, healed an old wound and got proper closure on a Hall of Fame career. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| Despite being this year’s installment of what the Steam store description calls “the highest rated annual sports title,” "NBA 2K18" has a “Mostly Negative” rating with over 3,000 reviews and counting. I investigated. The psychedelic spectacle it unfurled unto me shocked me to the core of my guts. I’m speechless. Just watch the video, please, for the sake of all that is holy. | | |
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 | Yahoo Finance |
| What's your (football) fantasy? Dan Roberts goes in deep on fantasy football: the money, the obsession, the laws and the league's attitude. Special guests: DraftKings CEO Jason Robins and FanDuel CEO Nigel Eccles. | | |
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 | Crain's Detroit Business |
| The Athletic has launched a network of websites in a handful of American and Canadian cities, including Detroit since June. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Top Rank's president on the future of the business of boxing. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The duo discusses the Rockets, the Pelicans, the state of Canadian basketball, and the idea of "sticking to sports." | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| For these young boxers in West Texas, learning to fight means more than throwing a punch. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The big iron gates swing open, and from the front door on the other end of the long concrete driveway a voice cheerfully hollers, "Come on in!" It is late on a Saturday afternoon and a sweltering 87 degrees in the quiet here after Hurricane Harvey ripped through two weeks ago. | | |
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| Bloomberg |
| It was in a Las Vegas hotel room where, prosecutors claim, the head of an elite youth basketball team from Florida and a coach from the University of Louisville planned their strategy to steer a young phenom to the Cardinals. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The co-opting of protests against racism has a storied history in our country. | | |
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 | The Victory Press |
| Very few sports fans want to participate in a rigged game. However, pro sports leagues are rarely confronted with challenges to their concept of "fairness" -- to the fact that the game they built was designed to benefit only a select few. | | |
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