Your sports team is vastly inferior. That simple fact is plainly obvious to see. We’re gonna kick your collective posterior. Of course you realize we’re speaking figuratively. Our stats are thoroughly impressive. Our coach really has the Midas touch. Our players are fast and strong and brave. And your guys, eh, not so much. | | | | Celtic and Bayern Munich under the lights in Glasgow.
(Ian MacNicol/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Your sports team is vastly inferior. That simple fact is plainly obvious to see. We’re gonna kick your collective posterior. Of course you realize we’re speaking figuratively. Our stats are thoroughly impressive. Our coach really has the Midas touch. Our players are fast and strong and brave. And your guys, eh, not so much.”
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| | rantnrave:// The college basketball season starts tonight. Do you know if your favorite school is under FBI investigation? (I went to RUTGERS; I hope they didn't have to cheat to produce this.) What will this upcoming season be remembered for: one shining moment or the perp walks? Indictments keep coming. How many more are on the way? At some point, hopefully, the basketball will take the spotlight. DUKE is loaded, again. MICHIGAN STATE might be as good. Can ARIZONA make a FINAL FOUR run while one of its former assistants is ensnared in the fraud scandal? Four schools in the preseason top-25 have had coaches arrested or their names involved in the FBI's corruption investigation alleging assistant were middlemen paid to direct players to agents and shoe companies. This scandal will linger over the sport all season, and who knows how much longer. The NCAA has tried to keep itself above the fray in recent years as calls to pay student-athletes got louder, as TV deals and apparel contracts kept getting fatter and the inequity of college sports kept getting starker. Will TV partners ignore the turbulence as we learn how deep-set the rot is in the sport? Do you want them to? Do you want to hear updates on court cases and NCAA investigations when you sit down for Duke-UNC or should the game live on its own, separate from the ecosystem it exists in? This season will probably be a fun one -- there's plenty of talent and bluebloods chasing a title. But what will we talk about when we talk about college basketball this year? What do you want to focus on?... THE MIGHTY DUCKS is the hockey movie that speaks to those of us who grew up in the '90s. Kind of corny, kind of heartwarming, definitely funny. THE HOCKEY NEWS gives us an oral history of how the movie got made. You can make a Mighty Ducks marathon out of it this weekend.... Fandom is about loyalty but teams don't always keep their end of the bargain. Cities and fans get left behind when franchises move away. SportsSET: "Abandonment Issues: When Sports Teams Say Goodbye"... JOHN BRANCH wrote about a brain that seemed normal and what it revealed... They finally told CAM NEWTON what happened to the TITANIC... Here in real AMERICA, it's Tennis Night. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Hockey News |
| Twenty-five years ago, in October 1992, "The Mighty Ducks" flew into movie theaters and changed hockey forever. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| How a California MLB road trip, from San Diego’s Petco Park to the Oakland Coliseum, changed my relationship with my mom. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Magazine |
| Whether the setting is one of L.A.’s more rarefied neighborhoods or one of its most destitute, the rules are the same: Anybody can play, but it takes something else to stay. | | |
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 | USA TODAY |
| Service academy athletic business affairs now more secret than weapons budgets. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| This season, for the first time since the practice took off, shift usage decreased. To understand why, you've got to look up. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Southern California's Keystone Lanes fosters a community of kids who can flat out roll. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Mary Wittenberg, CEO of Virgin Sport, talks with Bloomberg's Jason Kelly at The Year Ahead Summit at Bloomberg headquarters in New York about Virgin's plan to engage fitness enthusiasts around the world in 2018. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| From storied Penn, through the burgeoning women’s game and the fiercely contested Catholic League and onto the fields at the Linc, the game in Philadelphia reflects the city’s toughness, confidence and togetherness. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Members of the Key West football team helping the community clean up after Hurricane Irma. After making landfall on Sept. 10, Hurricane Irma destroyed an estimated 25 percent of homes on the Keys. Two Key West High players were forced to move away, not to return to the team or the island. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| You think these are the Zombie Packers? You should spend a week in Green Bay. The rest of these guys have been out here the whole time. And they ain't done yet. | | |
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 | Bloody Elbow |
| Karim Zidan delves into the longstanding tradition of violent Gulf monarchies investing in combat sports. | | |
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 | Vice |
| On the 20th anniversary of Bret Hart’s infamous loss and subsequent punchout of his boss, we talked to wrestling insiders about what really happened. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Nikita Kucherov has the best shot. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Watching Ben Simmons on the court is like witnessing magic. | | |
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 | SportTechie |
| QuesTec was unpopular in its time but created a better strike zone, albeit one with more strikeouts and more home runs. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Richard Ben Cramer was the writer's writer: a larger-than-life reporter who could crack any subject. (he figured out Joe Biden and Teddy Ballgame, for God's sake.) and then he took on Alex Rodriguez, who stumped the author even before his story became so complicated. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Away from basketball, Fly could be wildly entertaining—with his extravagant tales punctuated by a somewhat-toothless grin—but then he'd swing the other way too, often losing himself to furious rages. Williams' inconsistent behavior forced him out of basketball prematurely, and as his career faded away, so too did his charisma. | | |
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 | The Denver Post |
| Spencer Haywood, former star of the Denver Rockets and one of the greatest NBA forwards in history, just wants his due. | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| There is very little less conducive to sympathy than the appearance of privilege, and the New York Yankees have privilege in excess. They have always been rich, always been successful, always been important- located in one of the world's great metropolises, beloved of the powerful, wealthy and famous. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The New England Patriots’ billionaire boss is among several major US sports team owners who appear in the Paradise Papers. | | |
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