He felt like he has no more time to waste in his career because life is fleeting. You can get hit in the face at any time and your career could end. | | | | Vasiliy Lomachenko claims another victim and beats Guillermo Rigondeaux.
(Steven Ryan/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “He felt like he has no more time to waste in his career because life is fleeting. You can get hit in the face at any time and your career could end.”
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| | rantnrave:// Wonder if MARLINS fans ever feel like it's GROUNDHOG DAY? Instead of RITA HANSON, they just want good ownership. No more fire sales. Maybe keep a star every once in a while. Broke up the '97 team. MIGUEL CABRERA traded. GIANCARLO STANTON auctioned off to the YANKEES. Finally got rid of JEFFREY LORIA and then DEREK JETER does this. Why does this keep happening in MIAMI? What role does commissioner ROB MANFRED and MLB have in preventing a team from withering under a hapless owner? The DODGERS were so tortured under FRANK MCCOURT the team was basically repoed and he was forced to sell. The METS have spent like a middle market team since the MADOFF Ponzi scheme was cracked, but MLB hasn't interfered even as the WILPONS have sold off minority shares and took a $40 million loan. CLAY BENNETT bought the SONICS to move them to OKLAHOMA CITY. DONALD STERLING was forced to sell the CLIPPERS but only after decades of losing and mismanagement. PETER KARMANOS sold the HURRICANES this month -- after he was sued by his sons for $105 million they say he took from a trust as collateral for the team. What responsibility do leagues have to ensure competent owners? Can commissioners monitor the owners if they are also beholden to them? Maybe this owner will be the charm for the Marlins. There's a reasonable argument for trading Stanton, though it would involve spending the money the team saved. That doesn't look likely. Jeter and principal owner BRUCE SHERMAN are already looking for new investors. Will this circle ever end?... There may be worse things in life than playing for the MARLINS but the Marlins can't think of any... The JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS are good. Feels weird to say that. And BLAKE BORTLES is still there. Best case scenario: 2000 RAVENS or 2015 BRONCOS redux. Worst case scenario: Any team that's ever had to start a Bortles-like QB in the playoffs. Examples: JAKE DELHOMME, BRIAN HOYER... It was only a matter of time until the #METOO movement hit sports media. It's popped up everywhere else. Distressing allegations of widespread sexual harassment and assault at NFL NETWORK. The reckoning is here and there's no tolerance for assault. And there shouldn't be... Don't trade ERIK KARLSSON... How do you say "father of the year" in LITHUANIAN?... NCAA investigating GOD for giving gifts to athletes... Stay away from our soccer scarves, Big Fashion. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Cincinnati Enquirer |
| Former Cincinnati Bengals great Tim Krumrie is suffering from brain trauma, but don't tell him he has to settle for a sad fate. | | |
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 | Polygon |
| For Chris Chike, Jeff Lloyd and Hudson Felker, the moment had been over a decade in the making. What started as simple hangouts with friends or family vacation diversions became a passion shared with thousands of others, one they'd dedicate their entire selves to, despite the company responsible nearly allowing it to perish. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| In 1939, Tiger Jack Fox got his first and only shot at the title, and lost it thanks to black magic, a woman with a razor blade, and a manager with a knack for hypnosis. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| As Daniel and Henrik near the end of their contracts with the Canucks, a look at what made them such a special pairing on the ice -- and what they've got left in the tank for 2018-19 and beyond. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| For Coach Chenell "Soho" Tillman-Brooks and her players, football is so much more than a game. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| Perhaps no rivalry in college football is as historic and meaningful ... nor as polite. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| This isn't the choice we wanted to make. We debated time and again about other options and directions in which to go. It was a discussion and decision that split our newsroom unlike any I can remember. | | |
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 | FanSided |
| Phi has a certain harmonious appeal, which has caused people to use the ratio again and again in art, architecture, and music, since antiquity. The basketball court is not exempt to the pervasiveness of Phi. | | |
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 | Saturdays Magazine |
| Someone once said that wherever Walter Iooss goes is the perfect picture. In a career spanning four decades. Walter has captured giant swells, supermodels and some of the world’s greatest athletes. By building a rapport with his subjects, he draws out their essence. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| In a few hours, the Yankees will hold a press conference here in Orlando to officially welcome Giancarlo Stanton to their organization. They landed the reigning NL MVP just 24 hours after he vetoed trades to the Giants and Cardinals and said New York was one of just four destinations he would approve a trade to. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In 1982, Bruce Silverglade, in his 30s at the time, went into partnership with Ira Becker, the second owner of Gleason's gym. Ira was in his 70s. Silverglade says: "I came from an age where elders were to be respected. I had a great deal of respect for Ira and basically left the main decisions up to him. | | |
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 | Yahoo Finance |
| This year, Fanatics acquired Majestic, got investments from SoftBank, NFL, NFLPA, MLB, and NHL, and expanded internationally. It's our Yahoo Finance sports business of the year for 2017. | | |
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 | WBUR |
| For much of baseball's history, team owners had all the control. Thanks to the reserve clause, they could pay their players whatever they wanted. In 1890, a secret society called the "Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players" tried to take the owners down. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| PwC report: Sports media rights to soar 19 percent to $23 billion between now and 2021. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| On Dec. 18, the Dallas Mavericks will host the Phoenix Suns in what will likely be an inconsequential mid-season affair between two sub-.500 teams. Even so, tickets to the game will probably sell out, just as they did for 719 consecutive Mavs home games leading into this week. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| Shohei Ohtani's unique abilities are giving fantasy baseball developers a headache. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| TFC went from perennial joke to champion, cementing their spot in a crowded sports city with the best season in MLS history. This could be the beginning of something special. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Bill Simmons is joined by Bryan Curtis and The Wall Street Journal 's Jason Gay to talk podcasts and journalism in 2017 (2:08), reinventing studio sports shows (27:15), the 2018 World Cup and Winter Olympics (55:55), and how millennials can break into sports media today (66:40). | | |
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 | The Aspen Institute |
| College sport communities can foster change by addressing early recruitment rules and practices. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| As far as anyone involved can remember, it started with the Shaq and Kobe game. For seven seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers, Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant had comprised one of the most devastating, successful on-court partnerships in NBA history, winning three straight titles - and one of its most drama-filled off-court partnerships. | | |
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