If you’re afraid to go fast, stay the hell home. Don’t come here and grumble about going too fast. Dip rags in kerosene (and wrap them) around your ankles so the ants won’t jump up and bite your candy ass. | | | | Gravity and the Eagles can't keep Cam Newton down.
(Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “If you’re afraid to go fast, stay the hell home. Don’t come here and grumble about going too fast. Dip rags in kerosene (and wrap them) around your ankles so the ants won’t jump up and bite your candy ass.”
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| | rantnrave:// The end of the one-and-done rule seems near. Who will miss it? NBA commissioner ADAM SILVER thinks a change is coming. YAHOO's DAN WETZEL says that's for the best. The rule, which says players must be at least 19 and a year removed from high school before entering the NBA DRAFT, hits basketball at every level. College basketball may be in its current state of crisis because of the money chasing top recruits who'll only stay in a school for a year. If those players go straight to the NBA, maybe some of the money goes away too. College basketball still won't be clean. Could the rule change make it less dirty? Would the change be good for the NBA? Drafting high school players allows teams to get them earlier and have a larger impact on their development. There's more risk, though, when the draft picks are younger and further away from their maturation point. Less data to make informed decisions and to project players' futures. LEBRON JAMES' and KOBE BRYANT's careers aren't the rule. There's also KWAME BROWN and NDUDI EBI. The league is in a better place now to handle young players than it was 20 years ago during the first one-and-done wave. Larger rosters leave room for developing young picks to sit on the bench, if need be. The G-LEAGUE gives teams a quasi minor league system. Players will embrace getting paid like pros earlier. College fans who miss out on transcendent talent will be the losers. Should that be an NBA concern? Will college basketball be worse without LONZO BALL or KEVIN DURANT dropping in for a season? Or could continuity make it better?... COLIN KAEPERNICK filed a grievance against the NFL for collusion. Harder to prove than proclaim. Did he get blackballed for kneeling or was he not good enough to get a contract? Maybe he was too good? Is it collusion if every team decides individually they don't want to sign him but for the same reason? Is this the end of Kaepernick's career?... From dopers to sign-stealers to football-deflaters, sports is littered with famous cheaters. But where do you draw the line? Where does ultra-competitiveness and ingenuity end and cheating begin? SportsSET: "It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught"... JJ REDDICK will commute from BROOKLYN to PHILLY to play for the 76ERS. DNP-TRAFFIC... Not the way to endear yourself to CALI fans... What if the eventual machine takeover we fear will only be in ping-pong?... RICK PITINO's defense: Being a hypebeast isn't a crime. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ESPN |
| With once-in-a-generation talent and a uniquely American backstory, why isn't Maple Leafs phenom Auston Matthews a bigger star? | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| If you never saw an Earnhardt take the lead at Talladega, friend, you missed one of the great moments in sports. Whenever Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s black 3, or Dale Earnhardt Jr. 's red 8 or green 88 took the lead, the cheers surged like a wave, like something alive, running the length of Talladega's mile-long, sun-baked bleachers. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| With a new media company and growing investment portfolio, the Golden State Warriors star forward is making new moves-on an unfamiliar court. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Magazine |
| Miss Val can’t teach you to cartwheel, but she has changed how young gymnasts think about the sport-and themselves. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| The biggest names in basketball are done playing musical chairs for now. As the real games begin, does anyone really want to be like Steph and Co. anyway? B/R Mag criss-crossed the country to ask everyone--from Hoodie Melo to CP3 and, yes, even the Nets--to take a long look in the mirror. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| Launched in beta mode by Korean developer Bluehole Studio in March, “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” is a bona fide juggernaut, and its rapid ascent raises fresh questions about the wisdom of relying heavily on any single game for long-term esports profitability. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Dave Lozo documents a night out in Vegas and his attempt to turn $150 into $3,100. | | |
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 | Down East |
| Braving iceburgs, the schooner 'Bowdoin' sailed 2,800 miles last summer along the route charted, by Admiral, Donald MacMillan on his twenty-six Arctic trips, 1924-54, in this venerable vessel. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| An ESPN contributor reflects on the history of black athletes bringing politics onto the field. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The idea was to tell Francisco Cabrera what he did to me. I wanted to let him know that the greatest moment of his otherwise anonymous big-league career was such a gut-punch in my life. I wanted to relate to him how funereal things were for me the next day at school, and how long that feeling of dread lingered, considering it took more than 20 years for the Pirates to crawl out of the black hole Cabrera sent them careening into on Oct. 14, 1992, exactly 25 years ago this past Saturday. | | |
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 | The Boston Globe |
| Trump is just the latest president to use a black woman to score cheap political points. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The legend and his shoe designer recall the early Jordan Brand moments. | | |
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| NBA rookie of the year Karl-Anthony Towns credits "Call of Duty" with making him a better athlete. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| They discuss Kyrie’s defense, LeBron’s future, the Warriors’ philosophy, and more. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| John Hoke invited us into his office in Portland, Ore., where he talked about his dyslexia, his doodling and some weird shoes that inspire him. | | |
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 | Digital and Social Media Sports |
| Listen to episode 104 of the Digital and Social Media Sports podcast, with Justin Karp, Senior Manager, Social Media, for the Pac 12 Network. | | |
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| Yahoo Sports |
| In the wake of college basketball’s biggest scandal, the NBA commissioner says the time for wholesale change is here. | | |
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| ESPN |
| Ten years have passed since Jason Ray entered our lives in an unexpected and tragic way. But his story -- and his decision to become an organ and tissue donor -- lives on. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Marshawn Lynch turns a racetrack into a sideshow in the premiere of No Script. | | |
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 | The Common Reader |
| In some ways, the current wave of African-American football players kneeling during the National Anthem replicates the Bebop revolution that changed the public persona of the black male jazz musician. Now it is black players demanding that audiences recognize that their attitude is not the same as their white peers. | | |
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