I am kneeling because I have to do something. Anything. We all do. | | | | | Shooting for their fourth WNBA championship of the 2010s. (Joe Bielawa) | | | | | | “I am kneeling because I have to do something. Anything. We all do.”
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| | rantnrave:// If major tennis tournaments ever introduce no-ad scoring (four points wins a game, period), you can blame millennial fans, who apparently aren't interested in epic matches that can take as long as BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN concerts. But you can't blame millennial players, who love playing those epic matches and see themselves as defenders of the sport's traditions. TENNIS MAGAZINE's PETER BODO checks in on a sport facing a familiar crisis, and reminds us that tradition-minded players also resisted the introduction of the tiebreaker half a century ago... NFL players, not surprisingly, are as divided as everybody else in the US when it comes to the presidential campaign. But here's a startling takeaway from B/R MAG's straw poll of locker rooms: Every white player they interviewed supports TRUMP and 91 percent of the black players they polled support CLINTON. Tensions are high, friendships have ended and, MIKE FREEMAN reports, "at least one coach has insisted there be no more player discussions of Trump—not a ban on politics in general, just Trump—while on team property"... The WNBA finals start SUNDAY (3pm ET on ABC), with the MINNESOTA LYNX, shooting for their fourth title of the decade, hosting the LOS ANGELES SPARKS, making their first trip to the finals since 2003. ESPN's MECHELLE VOEPEL has the lowdown on the battle of the league's two best teams, while SWISH APPEAL's CHRIS BULLOCK focuses on the series' two marquee players... ADIDAS had the inside track on signing LEBRON JAMES as an NBA rookie but lost him to NIKE by lowballing him. I'm trying to decide if the most amazing thing about this story is that anyone would ever lowball LeBron, or that we live in a world in which $70 million is considered lowballing (and this was more than a decade ago)... Seriously, NFL?!?... LEWIS HAMILTON, Snapchatter... Most amazing excuse for a positive drug test ever (and it worked). | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| Fights. Friendships ended. Racial divides. Requirements not to talk about a combustible candidate on team property. B/R Mag’s examination of the football locker room electorate reveals that America’s most popular sport is just as politically divided as the nation itself | | |
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| Millennials pose a special problem for a sport that embraces tradition as much as tennis does. The game’s leaders are worried that those celebrated four- and five-hour matches between titans like Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic will not captivate this younger audience. | | |
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| The two-time NBA champ and New York City icon talks custom suits, why his Puma sneakers have endured for forty years, and who he thinks is actually stylish in the league today. | | |
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| "I think I’m a good-hearted psycho." | | |
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| Can American pro wrestling make it big in the Middle Kingdom? | | |
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| The Tampa Bay Buccaneers started their NFL life with a record 26 straight losses. Who would stick with the NFL's least essential team for four decades? This guy. | | |
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| On his recent trip to the top of the world, polar explorer Eric Larsen didn’t so much hike as fight, slog, and swim. He’s now convinced that his will be one of the last on-foot expeditions to the North Pole. | | |
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| The early returns are in, and moving touchbacks from the 20- to the 25-yard line has not had the intended effect of reducing kickoff returns. | | |
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| Ode to the man who brought out the goodness in the game. | | |
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| I wanted to write something beautiful for my friend Josh Samman, a UFC fighter who died Wednesday at 28. | | |
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| The nation’s game-fixing scandal from 2006 to 2009 ruined careers and shamed many of those involved into hiding. Two star players share how they have sought to redeem themselves. | | |
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| TORONTO -- BMO Field, Toronto FC’s home stadium, is one of the first sights welcoming new arrivals to the city. From the stands, fans can regularly see planes gliding by in their approach to Toronto City Airport, their landing gear extended in anticipation. For the passengers, the pitch and maple | | |
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| Yes, TV numbers are down early in the 2016 season. But let’s channel Aaron Rodgers and R-E-L-A-X. Marquee players might be missing and the presidential race might be stealing eyeballs, but the league’s cash flow won’t be drying up anytime soon. | | |
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| Jane Doe, the woman who alleges that New York Knicks guard Derrick Rose and two friends raped her in 2013 and is suing them in civil court in Los Angeles, testified today that she doesn't remember much about that night. As she has said before, she mostly remembers flashes of the different men in her room. | | |
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| Advances in wingsuit technology allow pilots to go farther and faster, with more precision. It's also easier than ever for them to get in over their heads. | | |
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| The Ringer's Chris Vernon is joined by the godfather of grassroots basketball and former sports marketing executive for Nike and Adidas, Sonny Vaccaro, to discuss betting his job with Nike on signing | | |
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| There is no perfect way to protest. I know that nothing I do will take away the heartache of those families. But I feel in my heart it is right to continue to kneel during the national anthem, and I will do whatever I can to be part of the solution. | | |
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| Despite the forces that have chipped away at the Native American way of life, horses remain symbols of ancient tradition. | | |
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| 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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| What's in a name? Everything. | | |
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