Fans don't boo nobodies. | | | | FC Barcelona played a home game in an empty stadium.
(Manuel Queimadelos Alonso/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Fans don't boo nobodies.”
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| | rantnrave:// Now it's the NBA's turn. What kind of political statement will the league and its players make as the preseason begins? Will players prefer to use their voice or their time on the court before the anthem to deliver a message? LEBRON JAMES says his words carry more weight than a knee. What about non-stars? Commissioner ADAM SILVER made it clear he expects players to stand for the anthem, hoping they'll steer their activism into the community but away from fans, sponsors and TV partners. Will his stance be problematic? NFL commissioner ROGER GOODELL didn't go that far. Will anyone ignore him? Should someone take a knee? What would the right punishment be? BLAZERS star DAMIAN LILLARD thinks the rule puts players in a box -- that it says the NBA values players' athleticism, but not their minds. The NBA and Silver have been leaders in social consciousness and progressivism in sports. Does this rule clash with that? Is it hypocritical for the NBA to applaud its players as societal leaders but tell them to keep it off the court?... Was helping my parents clean out their house to move and found my basketball and baseball cards collection. Does anyone collect cards anymore? Are they relics of the past? I wouldn't sell mine unless I was desperate for cash. Not that it would get much. Makes me think of MIKE OZ's great 25-Year-Old Baseball Cards series, where he opens packs with current and former baseball stars. Makes me feel ancient. And I'm not that old... MOLLY LAMBERT's grandmother, MARGARET BERGMANN, was a GERMAN high jumper who couldn't compete in the 1936 OLYMPICS because she was JEWISH. Lambert wrote a great, poignant story on the modern parallels to her experience. Will the legacy of the 2028 LA GAMES be the Olympics' majesty or the damage it can leave behind?... Playoff baseball is here. Few things are as exciting as the wild card game. But does it make sense? A 162 game season with a one-game kicker... The SMASHING PUMPKINS sound like an '80s tag team... JAROMIR JAGR will play until we're dead... We've seen too much tragedy lately. Help if you can. How to help victims in LAS VEGAS. How to help PUERTO RICO. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| From the 1936 Games, in Berlin, to the 1984 Games, in Los Angeles, the glare of Olympic glory has obscured darker stories. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| This is the extraordinary story of Shae Brown and Fred Miller, of strength and courage, grieving and living, perspective and perseverance, as they prepare for the Chicago Marathon. | | |
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 | Toronto Star |
| It symbolizes the struggle between man and beasts. The three acts of the drama are the entry, the planting of the banderilleros, and the death of the bull. A Canadian at ringside. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| For a long time, most bobbleheads resembled their real-life counterparts as much as the Tom Brady Deflategate courtroom painting did the New England Patriots quarterback. But the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team that produces more bobbleheads than most other Major League teams, has also managed to make theirs some of the most accurate in professional sports. | | |
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 | Tablet Magazine |
| How a baseball stats nerd came to ‘interrogate the database’ of a Soviet prison in search of clues to a 70-year-old mystery. | | |
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 | Advertising Week |
| How new platforms are growing the sports business and tech industry. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Barça’s nuanced identification with Catalonia is part of what gives the club an explicitly socio-political dimension. And that meant this was always going to be more than a match … even if in the end it was less than one. | | |
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 | Inc.com |
| How the brothers behind the scrappy startup FloSports are going big by going small. For now, at least. | | |
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 | espnW |
| After a wave of team-wide anthem demonstrations engulfed the NFL last weekend, the WNBA was notably absent from the conversation -- not a surprise to anyone who's studied the historical disregard of women's contributions to social movements. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The NFL has become increasingly central to how America perceives itself, which means that struggles over race and identity will always take place between the lines. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Episode 139 of the Sports Illustrated Media podcast features three independent sports journalists: Dejan Kovacevic, the founder, editor and writer of DKPittsburghsports.com; Paul Kuharsky, the founder and writer of PaulKuharsky.com, and c, founder and columnist for BostonSportsJournal.com. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Zach Lowe breaks out his comprehensive guide to the most watchable (and least watchable) NBA teams, ranked from 30 to 16. | | |
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 | recode |
| Strava is big with cyclists. It wants to be big with everyone else, too. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| It's less about the NASL's survival than the structure of the sport as a whole. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In the aftermath of the showdown between Donald Trump and the NFL, the disinformation tactics that rocked electoral politics have reached the world of sports. | | |
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 | The Tao of Sports |
| Seth Shapiro joins the podcast to discuss the world of sports filmmaking, fresh off of a trip with the NFL in China. Shapiro talks not only about the air of filmmaking, but also the production angle, where there are time limitations. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Utah Jazz don't have the firepower many NBA teams have, but they do have the philosophy to keep up. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| Three years ago, this author, then employed as a major-league beat writer by the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review," traveled to Cincinnati for the final series of the regular season. The Reds were hosting the Pirates in games No. 160, 161, and 162. | | |
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 | SLAMonline |
| The NBA awaits, but for the next several months, Marvin Bagley III is out to prove his ranking as one of the best young players in the country is deserved. | | |
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 | The New Statesman |
| The sport, both real and dramatised, is now seen as a way to reach new markets. | | |
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