You can leave your mark in history, but once you're dead it doesn't matter, so I don't really think about that. | | | | No stoppin' Katie Archibald in the London Six Day Race.
(Dan Mullan/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “You can leave your mark in history, but once you're dead it doesn't matter, so I don't really think about that.”
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| | rantnrave:// This is the three-true-outcomes WORLD SERIES. First one I can remember. A natural result of the baseball age we're in. Not every at-bat is a home run, walk or strikeout but it feels that way. Kind of surprising to watch the first inning Sunday night and see a rally without any bombs. Those came later. Many of them. No pitcher is safe, not even KERSHAW. This isn't a complaint. This series has been fantastic as the ASTROS take a 3-2 lead over the DODGERS. Game 2 was ridiculous. Game 5 was thrilling. There is no certainty anymore. Throw win probabilities out the window. Every pitcher feels like cannon-fodder (VERLANDER excluded). Game 4's ninth inning lead didn't feel safe. It's hard to turn away if every pitch might land in the stands. It's the World Series brought to you by dingers, taters, bombs, jacks, blasts, big flies, slams, round-trippers, & no-doubters. It's understandable why this isn't palatable for all. Baseball is fun when there's action. When the defense has to react. Small ball isn't just for purists. MLB knows it needs to be more dynamic. Nobody wants a return to 2014. Is MLB helping by tweaking the baseballs? Something's off. Are they juiced? Too slick? Is it all in their heads? Are pitchers compromised even if it is all in their heads? Hunches can change behavior. If pitchers can't throw sliders, the field is tilted even further to the hitter. Baseball is in the middle of a great series. But it has to decide what future postseasons will look like... REUBEN KAUFFMAN left his AMISH life for NASCAR. Seems a little too HOLLYWOOD. Too ERNEST-goes-to-the-track. But it's real. Sacrifices must be made to follow dreams and Kauffman gave up his family... The EAGLES' genre of TD celebrations are baseball-related and wonderful. An ode to their most-famous fan. Best decision the NFL made this year was bring back the choreographed celebrations... The ARIZONA COYOTES are nearing their own spot in the history books. They don't want it. The VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS didn't exist last year and they've hardly lost... Getting fired for making up death threats against you and your team is a new way to lose your job. Even for the SEC. (Probably didn't help that FLORIDA is 3-4 this season)... HOUSTON, we have a problem. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Co.Design |
| In 1976, Joyce Weisbecker programmed games for an RCA PC and console based on technology created by her dad--a significant achievement that went undocumented until now. | | |
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 | POWDER Magazine |
| Our writer spent a week at Mount Hermon, a ski area between Syrian, Lebanon, and Israel, that gets 10,000 skiers a day on its 1,200 acres and has a backcountry riddled with land mines. But that doesn't stop the skiers from making a life of it. | | |
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 | GQ |
| The plan involved a covert political operative who worked with Putin, a double amputee, a settlement with Texas A&M, and--ultimately--a failed bid that opened up the opportunity for Donald Trump's presidential run. | | |
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 | NASCAR Talk |
| Five years after leaving his family and Amish life behind, Reuben Kauffman is working in the Cup garage for Chip Ganassi Racing. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| The World Series special baseballs may be hurting both teams' pitchers-especially those who hurl sliders. | | |
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 | The Stacks |
| Originally published as “Philippe Petit: Slow Dancing on the High Wire” in the October, 1986 issue of "New York Woman," this feature appears here with permission from the author. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| It seemed like a surefire hit: a "Star Wars" take on "Uncharted," published by Electronic Arts and developed by the longrunning studio Visceral Games. But nothing is sure in the video game industry, and on October 17, 2017, when employees of Visceral were told that the company would be closing, some who had worked for the studio found themselves unsurprised. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| Despite his decades in professional baseball, Satchel Paige's World Series legacy remained unjustly small. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| Depending on when you were born, you might not remember Dragon's Lair at all. One of the very first hand-drawn video games has a stellar pedigree, and a startlingly long life, despite the fact that most people agree it's not actually fun to play. | | |
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 | TechRepublic |
| It's a whole new ball game for Major League Baseball in tech upgrades. TechRepublic goes inside the digital transformations of two of the league's most storied franchises. | | |
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 | Slate |
| Introducing Serbia’s Dusan Bulut, a five-time world champion and the favorite to win gold in the 2020 Olympics. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| A kidney doctor on how boxing in downtown Detroit as a kid taught him lessons that helped him through medical school--and in his work today. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| It’s not just beyond belief, but beyond beyond belief, that Iowa State has defeated two top-five opponents before November. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Celebrity endorsements are helping start-ups raise big money in so-called initial coin offerings. But it is not always clear what they are selling. | | |
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 | Harper's Magazine |
| What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse | | |
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 | ESPN |
| The behind-closed-doors story of how the NFL and players forged a shaky alliance over the national anthem as owners navigated the collision of financial worries and social activism. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Springer, the Houston Astros center fielder, is one of the most courageous players in the Series, yet his struggle is mostly hidden, his bravery unknown. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Pelicans big man feels the love in video tribute. | | |
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 | Will Leitch |
| I am certain, deep in the archives of Deadspin (which are nearly impossible to search after countless redesigns and CMS adjustments anyway), there are things I wrote in 2006 that I'd be ashamed of now. This is an inevitable product of writing 32 posts a day for three years without any editor ever looking at it once -- what a time the mid-aughts were for publishing -- and my own weaknesses and blind spots as a human being, particularly a white male one. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Tracing the origins of a defining moment in sports history can be daunting, especially when your own family steadfastly insists on what happened. | | |
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