You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. | | | | Brad Keselowski makes the turn at the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series First Data 500.
(Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “You have to remember something: Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
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| | rantnrave:// Can you complain about starting times without sounding like a crank? I nearly fell asleep during Game 5 Sunday night. (There was an involuntary catnap somewhere after midnight too). SB NATION'S CHARLOTTE WILDER did, then wrote about the tragedy of missing the big game. FOMO is real for sports fans. Sleeping through the game everyone is talking about the next day is crushing. But is it our fault? The WORLD SERIES has started after 8 pm ET each night. It's not unexpected for the games to stretch towards and past midnight. Not with bullpenning and the home run barrage. NBA FINALS regularly start later. Setting a start time isn't easy. There are lots of considerations involved. Can't ignore an entire coast -- especially the one where one of the teams is located -- and play while they're working. Ratings are important -- not for fans -- and a prime consideration. But if the SUPER BOWL can start before 7 on a Sunday night, why can't everything else? This isn't pining for the never-coming-back day game in the World Series. It's not asking commissioner ROB MANFRED to think about the next generation of fans. It's asking for a sensible solution. Would 7:30 pm ET be a workable compromise? West coast fans miss an inning or two to start, East coast fans forced to forego a little less sleep. Not everyone has the luxury of blowing by bedtime and sleepwalking through work the next morning. It's not too late to change... It can't be easy to speak publicly about something so deeply personal. Not in the age of TWITTER trolls and an unnerving spotlight. WNBA star BREANNA STEWART did it anyway. She lent her voice and story to the #MeToo campaign, detailing how she was sexually molested as a child. It's heartbreaking to read and her trauma seeps through the page. Stewart is brave to share. Take a minute and read... How will football be played in 20 years? Will eSports be mainstream? How will we watch the NHL? Will unicorns roam the NBA? The future is coming sooner than you think. SportsSET: "The Future of Sports"... Why the game sounds so good on TV... Why billionaires are buying sports teams... This HALLOWEEN costume is NSFW in ATLANTA. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| I haven’t told many people. I don’t talk about my feelings much - so this is uncomfortable. | | |
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 | GQ |
| The crowdsourced future of football went down in Utah. And it (sorta) worked! | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| Bill talks baseball with BSMG president Eric Weinberger, and Miles Teller shares his thoughts on working in the movies and the problem with modern rom-coms. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| At least I’m well rested unlike all of you, though. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| A new booking platform, Heli, aims to make adventure sports more accessible to the masses by linking operators in one hub. | | |
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 | The Athletic |
| That is why Ewing is sitting here, the achy knees and long legs on his 7-foot frame stretched across two chairs at a conference table inside the John Thompson Center. Named the Georgetown coach in April, Ewing represents all that Georgetown once was and all that fans hope the Hoyas can be again. He is not merely of the place, he is the place; his blood, sweat and tears the fertilizer that allowed a small Jesuit institution to become a college basketball powerhouse in the 1980s. | | |
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 | AL.com |
| Why SEC schools spend big money for outside help finding coaches despite questions about their actual effectiveness. | | |
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 | Imprimis |
| Ty Cobb was one of the greatest baseball players of all time and king of the so-called Deadball Era. He played in the major leagues--mostly for the Detroit Tigers but a bit for the Philadelphia Athletics--from 1905 to 1928, and was the first player ever voted into the Hall of Fame. His lifetime batting average of .366 is amazing, and has never been equaled. | | |
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 | Bloody Elbow |
| The first in a series of articles where Bloody Elbow explores how the male gaze impacts the world of women’s MMA; featuring interviews with Miesha Tate, Cris Cyborg, Julie Kedzie, and more. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| It’s not outlandish to entertain a previously unthinkable prospect: Might ESPN elect to go without rights to NFL games? | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| In the days before ESPN signed a programming contract with Barstool Sports , CAA talent agent Nick Khan sent an email to ESPN President John Skipper and Connor Schell , executive vice president of content. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Fabio Quagliarella walks into a side lounge area of the team hotel in Swansea, Wales, the day before Sampdoria's friendly against Swansea City. The large room has been cordoned off for our interview, though coaches and other team personnel wander in and out. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| Even as he approaches old age and his sport falls into decline, this intestines-eating, sorcery-conjuring “Man of Great Power” still dominates the ring. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| In the land of Texas high school football, it's Friday night, lights out. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The crack of a baseball bat and the roar of a crowd aren't accidents. They're carefully constructed by professionals. | | |
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 | NFL.com |
| Penn State's Saquon Barkley -- an All-American on and off the field -- says the NFL can wait, but the nation's most complete running back is starting to put distance between himself and his peers. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Ultimate Warrior once wished Bobby "The Brain" Heenan would die of cancer. Now the late wrestling icon is the emblem for WWE's cancer awareness campaign. | | |
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 | Garden & Gun |
| How a refugee from Hungary invented a reel that would tame the biggest, baddest fish in the sea. | | |
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 | Public Books |
| Among the iconic images that memorialize one of the greatest moments in baseball history--Bill Mazeroski's walk-off home run to win the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates--I have a special fondness for George Silk's photograph for "Life" magazine. | | |
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 | CNBC |
| To remain a successful media conglomerate, Disney needs to buy a video game publisher, says commentator Eric Jackson. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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