If you’re waiting on potential, you’re waiting on losing. We can’t wait on potential any longer. | | | | The Nationals make it a series.
(Win McNamee/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If you’re waiting on potential, you’re waiting on losing. We can’t wait on potential any longer.”
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| | rantnrave:// The nights when hype becomes reality are special. Take Friday night for the US MENS NATIONAL TEAM and CHRISTIAN PULISIC. A 4-0 win over PANAMA puts them in good position to secure a 2018 WORLD CUP spot. Pulisic had everybody buzzing. He's only 19 and even if he's getting steady time for BORUSSIA DORTMUND, seeing him do it in a USMNT uniform was something different for US soccer fans. USMNT has had prodigies before and it's had players with legit EUROPEAN careers. Has it ever had anyone like Pulisic? LANDON DONOVAN and CLINT DEMPSEY had their time in the EPL but Pulisic's ceiling might be higher than either one. Can he become the world-class star the USMNT has hoped for? Is he ready now to lead its attack? SportsSET: "I Saw US Soccer Future and Its Name Is Christian Pulisic"... Who gets to use the national anthem as protest? Players have used anthem protests to condemn racial inequality and police violence. VICE PRESIDENT PENCE used the anthem to send a message that their protests are not welcome. A political stunt? 49ers safety ERIC REID called it "systemic oppression." What do we call COWBOYS owner JERRY JONES telling players they won't play if they "disrespect the flag?" Does that include kneeling? What did it mean when the Cowboys and Jones kneeled two weeks ago? Other teams might be instituting their own rules. Were the owners making empty gestures when they joined their teams last month? NFL players and owners are in a battle over the meaning of the anthem and flag. Will either blink?... LIGHTNING winger J.T. BROWN raised a fist... The best PEYTON MANNING stories you've never heard... All playoff baseball games should be a minimum of 12 innings. But no longer than four hours... "When you are talking about Ishiguro, you are talking about a special, special talent. You are talking a once-in-a-generation talent, OK?"... WASHINGTON HUSKIES football coach CHRIS PETERSEN vs. ESPN... For sale: a 2016 CUBS WORLD SERIES ring... WESTERN MICHIGAN 71, BUFFALO 68 -- in football... Make some noise... This touchdown celebration is a home run... OJ SIMPSON tries out BUMBLE... RIP CONNIE HAWKINS. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Motherboard |
| How a room full of guys and one joke created a big controversy and a video game that made nobody happy. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| Car companies used to keep video game makers at arms’ length. For the new Forza, Porsche went all-in to help, but its security measures were extraordinary. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Memories are made in the wins, the losses and postgame parties. But decades after the games end, the meaning of a high school sports experience lies in the bonds built, relationships revived and in a community where everything and nothing has changed. | | |
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 | The Indianapolis Star |
| You know Peyton Manning came to Indy, won a Super Bowl, got Lucas Oil Stadium built and turned Indy into a football town. Here are the stories you don't know. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| In a cavernous conference room in one of the countless convention centers here in Washington, D.C., a crowd of nearly 200 awaits Anquan Boldin's words. They've already watched a documentary, Walking While Black, about racial profiling. And they've just heard the film's director, A.J. Ali, ask Boldin why he decided to walk away from the NFL. | | |
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 | Cincinnati Magazine |
| Marty Brennaman has been the voice of the Reds for more than four decades. But his most impressive feat has been keeping a voice of his own. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| A behind-the-scenes look at why Dale Earnhardt Jr. decided to become a podcast host and how it's preparing him for his upcoming role with NBC. | | |
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 | The Independent |
| The app has long been the European NFL fans' safe refuge but since deltatre took over Game Pass this summer, users have vented their anger at the inferior product. And the developers now admit they used underhand tactics to try and salvage the app's reputation. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Shannon Reed thought she knew what kind of fan she was, until she moved back home to Pittsburgh. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The Seahawks defensive end talked to Larry Wilmore about the national response to recent upheaval in the league. | | |
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 | The Boston Globe |
| There was a very brief and private ceremony that Russell had resisted until the end. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Apollo’s Josh Harris and Blackstone’s David Blitzer this week established Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, a holding company that’ll guide their sports investments. The man in charge at HBSE is Chief Executive Officer Scott O’Neil, who talks about a host of topics, including cable television and new media, what presiding over "Linsanity" taught him and whether the Philadelphia 76ers strategy of stockpiling draft picks was a good one. O’Neil also discusses esports. | | |
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| The Indianapolis Star |
| Vice President Mike Pence's planned walkout at the Colts game over an expression of free speech is chilling. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| You may think NASCAR is reactionary and stupid, but look, it’s the only sport where the women compete directly with the men. And hold their own. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| It is a story Lou Carnesecca has probably told a thousand times by now, because Looie is, always was, one of the great curators and protectors of New York City basketball. The funny thing was, the longer the distance got between moment and memory, the better the story got. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Some public schools are telling student athletes they can't kneel during the anthem - but that's unconstitutional. | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| Do you even remember watching baseball when there was no Twitter? | | |
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 | Africa is a Country |
| I remember the Iranian-Dutch writer, Kader Abdolah, once saying that when he first mentioned to a fellow Iranian immigrant that he wanted to be a writer in the Netherlands, his countryman told him, "Your dream is large but this country is small." A Nigerian would have told him to "cut your coat according to your cloth." | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Thousands of players wash through the system every year, leaving behind shattered dreams of a professional career. Are clubs doing enough to look after them? | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| It dates back to 1952 when local fish market owner Pete Cusimano chucked the first octopus at the Red Wings' former home, Olympia Stadium. The unique custom carried on to Joe Louis Arena, and is still going strong today. | | |
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