It's like peanut butter and jelly. We just go together. | | | | Penny Coomes and Nicholas Buckland go for a spin.
(Joosep Martinson/ISU/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It's like peanut butter and jelly. We just go together.”
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| | rantnrave:// Hard to make a counter-argument against extended netting at MLB stadiums after you read this story by the NEW YORK TIMES' BILLY WITZ. He talks to the dad of the one-year-old girl struck by a batted ball at YANKEE STADIUM last month. She's recovering from several facial fractures and still has an imprint of the baseball on her forehead. Horrific. The YANKEES finally agreed to add netting for the 2018 season that will extend at least the length of the dugouts. Half of MLB teams are still holding out. Why haven't the rest committed? Safety vs. visibility. What's more important: fans at risk of getting hit by foul balls that could be coming in at 100 mph or more, or fans complaining about an obstructed view? Should it be a question at all?... Great story by DON VAN NATTA and SETH WICKERSHAM capturing the debate amongst NFL owners while they tried to figure out a response to mass anthem protests. One of their ideas: get the players to stop by trading in protests for a "Team America" uniform patch. Wonder if this would've been the logo. NFL could've gone with another motto: Blame CANADA... Bribe or good-faith offer?... LYNX. SPARKS. Game 5. Wednesday night. One game to crown a champ after a dominant Game 4 win by MINNESOTA while facing elimination. LA couldn't close it out on their home court. Are we going to see a repeat? Sound familiar? Is this gonna be deja vu?... The reviews of AMAZON's NFL debut are in. Rough start, strong finish. The NFL UK stream is a winner. How it compares to TWITTER's audience last season... The NFL is a myth-maker. Stories of the STEELERS’ dynasty, AARON RODGERS and BRETT FAVRE under center in GREEN BAY, and ODELL BECKHAM JR.’s famous catch have helped turned the league into a giant. Hear about its stars and their scars in their own words. SportsSET: "4th & Inches: Amazing Oral Histories From the NFL"... THE JUICE is loose... Do millennials like your sport?... Wanna play the slots? Stop, if you can. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| How Clay Travis rode the Trump wave from ordinary sports blogger to well-paid darling of the alt-right. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Sneaking into Game 7 of the NBA Finals? Check. Mayweather-McGregor? Check. Welcome to the art of ticketless fandom. Just don't say we sent you! | | |
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 | Toronto Star |
| There were fewer than 30 Black NHL players last year in the NHL, the whitest of the four major sports and one largely removed from the issues of the anthem protests. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The WNBA is 21 years old, and it’s seen a total of 15 regular and postseason dunks (five more have come during WNBA All-Star Games). Laeticia Amihere and her cohort of viral girl and women dunkers are helping debunk excuses for keeping women below the rim while introducing a new set of rules for girls looking to get airborne: the same ones the guys have been using all along. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| The duo discusses building a brand, tanking in sports, and an array of other topics. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| How the NFL and its team owners, famous for ironclad control, grappled with losing it after an attack by President Trump and a rise of player protests during the national anthem. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| When Antarctica hits you with the worst storm in decades, sinks your boat, and drowns your crew, there’s only one way to react: get another ship and go back for more | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| But now I’m starting to understand what it means. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The World Artistic Gymnastics Championships that take place the year after the Olympics have the reputation of being something of a letdown; with the next Olympics three years away, it’s highly unlikely that you’re going to meet the sport’s next mega star there. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The unraveling of NCAA sports started with a financial adviser who wanted to work with football stars, make movies and produce a bit of country music. | | |
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 | Advertising Week |
| Leading entertainment companies are developing more than shows to deliver superior value for fans, advertisers & distributors. They are creating powerful experiences connecting content with community across live, on demand and digital. With the NFL, the Olympics, the Premier League & other sports, NBC Sports delivers many of the world's most compelling sports experiences to fans. | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| An antitrust suit against the NCAA’s price-fixing amateur model would benefit players -- and rid college sports of the worst corruption that plagues them. | | |
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 | CBS News |
| The 19-year-old from Pennsylvania is already a millionaire pro-soccer player in Germany, but his U.S. coach says he could be the sport's "first American superstar" | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Shohei Ohtani is Japan's biggest baseball star, a physical specimen at 6-foot-4 and 215 pounds who at 23 years old is a pitcher and hitter. The Dodgers are among the MLB teams interested in him. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| It doesn't make sense that a league that presents itself as progressive and forward-thinking discourages civil methods used to bring about awareness. | | |
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 | Mashable |
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 | NJ.com |
| The behind-the-scenes drama of how 3 teachers secretly smuggled a pair of desperate Nigerian teens out of Paterson during the height of the Eastside High basketball scandal. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| We asked fans what teams they back and who they vote for. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As the movement has spread to include coaches and NFL staff, the performers charged with belting out the patriotic song themselves are split over whether to kneel along with them. | | |
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 | Sports TV Ratings Podcast |
| It was a real treat for me to talk to Origin's James Andrew Miller. | | |
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