I love chicken wings, so I have those cravings every now and then. It's a staple in the NBA locker room, at least once a week—somebody gets wings after a road game. They clown on me just for trying to be healthy. | | | | Yasiel Puig, smash.
(Christian Petersen/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I love chicken wings, so I have those cravings every now and then. It's a staple in the NBA locker room, at least once a week—somebody gets wings after a road game. They clown on me just for trying to be healthy.”
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| | rantnrave:// The NFL has a few problems going for it right now. No league lives in a crucible like it does. But how it treats brain injuries remains puzzling. Football is a violent, physical sport. Concussions are unavoidable. The only way to really make it safe is to stop playing altogether. The NFL can't avoid that problem. It's put in rules against some helmet-to-helmet hits and trying to protect defenseless players. Rules are only good if they're enforced. When the NFL doesn't enforce its concussion protocol it makes you wonder if they care at all. RUSSELL WILSON skipped the protocol on THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL. COLTS QB JACOBY BRISSETT took a direct hit to the head and didn't miss a play. Where is the enforcement? BLEACHER REPORT's MIKE FREEMAN says it's "trash." What's the NFL's counterargument? Is CTE an existential threat to football and to other contact sports? We don't know everything about it but we know enough that players are dying and killing themselves and it may be a cause. JUNIOR SEAU. AARON HERNANDEZ. DEREK BOOGAARD. 111 brains tested and 110 found to have CTE. In pros. In college players. In high school kids. It's been found in the living. DR. BENNET OMALU says no one under should play football. What about hockey? Lacrosse? Will we have a future without those sports? Are we picking too much on football? Or does it deserve our scrutiny? Football has its positives, too. At youth levels it can teach teamwork and instill work ethic. It's still massively popular entertainment. But what do you feel when you see a big hit on Sundays or a fight on the ice? How should we react when high school football stars slough off CTE as a non-issue? Players have agency to choose a career. At what age can they make informed decisions? Do football's governing bodies still have a burden to protect them? Are leagues taking CTE seriously enough? Are parents? SportsSET: "CTE: The Three Most Dangerous Words in Sports"... SHOHEI OTANI is baseball's most interesting man. He's BABE RUTH. He's going to revolutionize MLB pitching staffs. He'll hit 500 foot bombs and throw 100 mph fastballs. He's the most hyped JAPANESE import to hit MLB and there have been a few. But where is he going to play?... SI TV is here... Got a few extra bucks?... Has any major leaguer bowled his batting average? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | REDEF |
| Are parents and leagues taking the threat of chronic traumatic encephalopathy seriously enough? There's a lot more to learn about CTE but fans and doctors already know it's a threat to the future of football, hockey and other contact sports. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| The M-V-P chants shower Kyrie Irving as he toes the line for two free throws. The point guard is putting the finishing touches on a 35-point masterpiece against the Atlanta Hawks, and the crowd bellows with praise from every corner of the arena. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Could the legendary Spurs coach actually be a formidable politician? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Call them cupcakes, cream puffs or cannon fodder, but don't call them hopeless: The FCS teams paid for tune-up games against college football superpowers all want the same thing. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Kickers account for nearly a third of all NFL scoring, yet no team -- except one -- is focused on coaching technique. | | |
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 | USA TODAY High School Sports |
| All-American players interviewed by USA TODAY give thoughtful - if conflicted - responses to questions about potential brain trauma. | | |
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 | The Field |
| From the feet of Alex Honnold to apparel on the day-pass wielding newbie, the Italian brand takes a head-to-toe approach. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by one of the most influential authors of the 21st century, Ta-Nehisi Coates, to discuss the importance of reading, LeBron managing his celebrity status, the decision to challenge President Obama, the role of athlete involvement in political protest, the Colin Kaepernick situation, the OJ doc, and the best season of The Wire. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| African American athletes can be everything: grand slam champions, Olympic medalists, explosive, magic. Everything, that is, except benign. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| The Next Gen A.T.P. Finals tournament attempted to add speed and pizzazz to what remains a largely Victorian game. The results were mixed. | | |
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 | Playboy |
| The Baja 1000 is the longest continuous off-road race in North America. No VW class racer has completed the Baja 1000 more times than Eric Solorzano, a surly mechanic who has finished first in his class an unprecedented number of times. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Some government officials in Italy wonder if a group of North Korean soccer players there are free from the control of their government. | | |
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 | FanSided |
| Supreme Bey wakes up every morning, smokes a joint, eats a “s**tload of fruit” -- some honeydew or papaya -- hops on his skateboard and heads towards t... | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| One of my favorite parts of the World Series -- or during the baseball season in general -- is looking at all the photos. A lot of the photos we've seen are taken by the people at Getty Images, a stock photo agency that distributes its products to clients and lets them browse for through a digitized archive. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| Running puts everyone in a better mood. But for some of us, our miles are key to managing depression and anxiety. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Soccer may reign in Egypt, but every sport has to start somewhere -- and triathlons are gaining popularity in the African country. As one participant says, "Everyone is fascinated at what you've done -- and no one knows you suck at it." | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| And how the sports press has become complicit in Roger Goodell’s shame. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Adrift | | by Peter Frick-Wright and Robbie Carver |
| In this episode we ask you, the listener, to imagine a surfing session gone very wrong when a strong offshore wind blows you out into the ocean. You're alone on your board at the mercy of the weather. No one knows you’re out here and you have no way of calling for help. Do you have what it takes to endure until a rescue arrives? And then we tell you the true-life story of someone who did. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Big, black, loud, arrogant and winning — how long can it last? | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| A major-league clubhouse is a far different place than one in the South Atlantic League. But in Greenville, South Carolina, but Gabe Kapler showed 10 years ago how he might approach his new job as Phillies manager. | | |
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