Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. | | | | Brazilian children were allowed to keep Inter Milan jerseys as long as they promised to stay in school.
(Pascal Rondeau/Getty Images) | | | | | | “Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”
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| | rantnrave:// Seems like a LAVAR BALL-PRESIDENT TRUMP feud is where 2017 was always headed. Feels right at a time when self-promotion seems like a virtue. Has anyone promoted himself better than LAVAR BALL? A wrestling character. Hate him? Love him? Tolerate him because you're a LAKERS fan? The BALL family is everywhere. A reality show. An NBA team. BIG BALLER BRAND. Almost an international incident. Now, this. Is this the first time LaVar is the good guy? The family is news. Like the KARDASHIANS. Inescapable. Is this a model for future sports parents? Talk loud enough until your son is a star before his NBA debut. But a year in the spotlight and does anyone really know them? Is LaVar Ball crazy or shrewd? Great dad or a shameless carnival barker? Is LONZO the next great point guard? Or hype with a broke jump shot? Who are LIANGELO and LAMELO? The Ball family is loud and lives for the spotlight. SportsSET: "Are the Balls Just for Show?"... Finally, this year gives us something great... BAKER MAYFIELD is college football's most fun player because he's an a**hole. Is that a paradox? Ask OHIO STATE fans. Ask KANSAS fans. He plays angry and loose. Should he tone it down? Or does football need more like him? Where is the line between offensive and innocent machismo? What are we willing to tolerate from college athletes? Can bad sportsmanship be good theater?... COLIN KAEPERNICK is here for MEEK MILL... BILL JAMES vs. WAR... Will your socks make you run faster? Your shoes might... Why isn't this an OLYMPIC sport?... RIP JANA NOVOTNA. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| The Ball family is loud and lives in the spotlight. Is LaVar Ball, the patriarch, shrewd or crazy for raising three sons he says are headed for NBA stardom and promoting them endlessly? Is Lonzo the Lakers’ next great point guard? Who are LiAngelo and LaMelo? Will Big Baller Brand disrupt the sneaker market or go bust? Can you build a basketball dynasty by speaking it into existence? | | |
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| The story of 22ft Academy shows just how much can go wrong in America’s newest venue for athlete exploitation—the bootleg prep school. A year-long Fusion investigation into prep-school basketball reveals this mini-industry, which feeds increasing numbers of striving athletes to the hungry, maw of big-time college and professional sports, is far too often a con game. | | |
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| Meet the 23 year-old who dresses the teams. | | |
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| She seems to be a sure bet to win gold at the next Olympics. But so much could still go wrong. | | |
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| Stephen Silas, the associate head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, is the ultimate NBA lifer. He was literally born into the league in Boston, where his father Paul, a former NBA star and coach who spent more than 40 years in the league, was helping the Celtics win a pair of championships. See the intense work that goes into every game. | | |
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| When Hollywood needs help peddling a new sports movie, a studio will almost always call upon one of two PR guys who share a rivalry more fierce than any of the ones portrayed in the movies they're flogging. | | |
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| Ray Schoenke started campaigning for George McGovern in 1971 because he wanted to make a difference. The experience ended up changing his life. | | |
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| Yado Mambo and the Ebbsfleet United No5 shirt offered a reminder of how the shirt number a player wears can affect how they are perceived. | | |
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| Globetrotting by Philip Hersh |
| The president of U.S. Figure Skating, Samuel Auxier, and of Skate Canada, Leanna Caron, each is an active international judge. It makes them unique among current leaders of the national federations that consistently have medal-contending athletes. That is akin to having the general manager of a football or baseball team act as a game official. | | |
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| For most of this millennium, the West has ruled the NBA with zero debate, boasting a long list of superstar players, including Tim Duncan, Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, James Harden and Russell Westbrook, to name just a few. Meanwhile, in the East, there has been LeBron James - and 14 teams that each year served essentially as LeBron James cannon fodder. | | |
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| The Deschutes River fly-fishing guide called Stealhead Joe was an angling master with a long list of devoted clients. But as Ian Frazier, who fished with Joe last fall, learned, off the water, Joe’s life was a tangle of troubles that ultimately overwhelmed him. | | |
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| The Orange County Register |
| The Ducks honored Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne with a ceremony Sunday before their game against Florida as the dynamic pair fittingly moved into hockey immortality together. | | |
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| And it's the first time since 1959 that they will both enter with losing records. For historical context, that was the second time the teams played—ever. | | |
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| James believes using wins against replacement, or WAR, to illustrate Aaron Judge was more valuable than Jose Altuve is “nonsense.” And that's a very big deal for the relevance of the stat. | | |
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| Turner president David Levy discussed the company's holistic approach to its properties and more at the Digiday Video Anywhere Summit. | | |
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| Nine years ago next month, we introduced a new stat to the pages of FanGraphs. We called it Win Values, and on the player pages and leaderboards, it went by the acronym WAR. We wouldn't actually start calling it that, or use the words for which the acronym stood (Wins Above Replacement) for a little while, since we thought Win Values sounded cooler. | | |
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| The point guard has been many things in his 13-year professional career: prodigy, ghost, fan favorite, outcast. Now with a Utah team on which he feels fully wanted, Rubio is ready to stop trying to fast-forward to what's next and instead embrace being something else: himself. | | |
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| The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective |
| Major North American sports leagues suffer from a competitive imbalance, where teams from bigger cities like New York and Los Angeles have traditionally had more success than teams from small cities like Cincinnati and Milwaukee. This theory is grounded in the fact that teams from bigger cities receive more revenue from jersey sales and local television deals, and thus have more money to spend on improving the team. | | |
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| Mohamed Salah, who has never even seen Egypt play in a World Cup, will carry the expectations of a nation when they compete at Russia 2018. | | |
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| Most sports teams try to conduct coach or manager searches privately. The Yankees are parading their candidates in front of the news media, one by one. | | |
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