I’m gonna go out in Alabama and get as drunk as I can. | | | | The Harlequins and Ulster jump for a lineout ball during a European Rugby Champions Cup match.
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| | rantnrave:// What's a normal aging curve in sports anymore? TOM BRADY and LEBRON JAMES aren't following one. Quarterbacks start slipping in their 30s. Brady is playing as good as ever at 40. DREW BREES is still slinging it well at 38. LeBron is in his 15th season and still the best player in the NBA. He's hardly seen a dip in the playoffs from his prime. What can we take from their careers? They're outliers in terms of performance but what about in longevity? Sports science is a bedrock of most organizations. NBA players play fewer minutes to protect their bodies from breaking down. NFL players have fewer double-session practices, take fewer hits, and rules are made to guard QBs like never before. Injury prevention is the next MONEYBALL. Sleep, hydration, diet and supplements -- everything is monitored. NFL players are getting younger because they're cheaper than veterans, but can this new generation maintain its effectiveness for a longer period? Will NBA stars have a longer prime? If not, then Brady and LeBron are even more remarkable. How long can they keep going? Will Brady still be winning championships at 45? Will LeBron remain unstoppable at 40? History says it's unlikely but precedent doesn't seem to apply with them... HULK HOGAN vs. ANDRE THE GIANT. The Monday Night Wars. The Attitude Era. THE ROCK and STONE COLD. The WRESTLEMANIA moments, heel turns and feuds that took wrestling from regional shows to global tours. SportsSET: "Off the Top Rope: Wrestling Oral Histories"... JENNY VRENTAS spent last week with the EAGLES for THE MMQB. That's great timing. She came away with a great story. Probably thought she'd trail a SUPER BOWL contender as it faced two others. Instead she was positioned for the moment the Eagles' season flipped when CARSON WENTZ tore his ACL... Not all super teams are super. The THUNDER are below .500. Super teams seems like simple math. Add a few superstars together and boom. Alchemy ain't easy. The HEAT started 9-8 in LEBRON JAMES' first season in MIAMI. KOBE + NASH + DWIGHT flamed out fast. The WARRIORS made it look easy. OKC shows how it can go wrong... A few good samaritans helped some strangers in distress during a BUFFALO snowstorm. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant. The Monday Night Wars. The Attitude Era. The Rock and Stone Cold. The Wrestlemania moments, heel turns and feuds that took wrestling from regional shows to global tours. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Jorn Andersen is standing on the touchline dressed all in black, arms folded, waiting impatiently for the last seconds to drain away. The digital clock in the Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, has stopped counting-a large "90" frozen on the scoreboard. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| It's always a risk writing about a deal before it is official: CNBC reported a month ago that Disney was in talks to acquire many of 21st Century Fox's assets, including its eponymous movie studio, TV production company, cable channels, and international assets (but not the Fox broadcast network, Fox News, FS1 -- Fox's sports channel -- and Fox Business). | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| There was a slight breeze blowing through the window of my office as the afternoon sun was finally about to descend for the day. I texted my wife: "This is it. I think we're done." My wife, who doesn't know HORNS from ICE but can tell a Zeller from a Plumlee, texted back: "Looking like summer. | | |
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 | Summitt Hoops |
| Ariel Atkins strolled past the holiday parties taking place in the ballrooms and made her way to a private dining room at the Crowne Plaza. The Texas women’s basketball team had just arrived in Knoxville to play Tennessee the following afternoon in a nationally-televised showdown between unbeatens. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The front-running Eagles headed west for their toughest two-game stretch of the season and emerged in prime position for a Super Bowl run—except for the loss of their franchise QB. The MMQB followed them for an eventful week in the life of an NFL team | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| The first person in my neighborhood growing up who had a basketball hoop was this boy named Barry who lived across the street from me. His dad put it up for him when we were both in the sixth grade. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The NFL may still be America’s most popular sport, but it’s become increasingly clear that football embodies the spirit of a nation as it once was - not as it is today. | | |
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 | The Baffler |
| "I, Tonya’s" tabloid palette and pop orchestration reflect the fact that a story, once told, can never really be retold. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Long before the Dowd tweet, there was the Dowd Report. Washington attorney John M. Dowd has made news as President Trump's chief defense lawyer, most notably for claiming to have written a controversial tweet in Trump's name that may have increased his client's legal exposure in the Russia investigation. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Craig Sager did not like rules. And I don’t just mean fashion rules. He thought rules were for people without brains, without common sense or without joy for life. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| The process figures to be repeated next winter, if not the next: another hard-throwing pitcher from Japan becoming available and the Dodgers scrambling to sign him. Only next time, the Dodgers will have to spend less time educating their target about what they're about. Yusei Kikuchi already knows. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| No matter what Derek Jeter says, how he tries to spin his Miami Marlins' pennies-on-the-dollar trade of Giancarlo Stanton to the New York Yankees, the truth is nakedly evident in his franchise's actions. From the moment he and his partners plopped down $1.2 billion to buy the Marlins, their deeds have screamed bush league. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Until 1996, the Yankees cap had only been navy blue and white. Then Spike Lee changed everything. | | |
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 | The Buffalo News |
| A group of Buffalo Bills are getting a lot of attention for pushing out many motorists Sunday who were jammed up in the snow, and Ruth Mendofik said it's absolutely justified. She was one of the drivers they helped. Mendofik's car became stuck as she tried to leave Ilio DiPaolo's Restaurant in Blasdell with her 73-year-old father and her 12-year-old twin boys. | | |
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 | Major League Baseball |
| I came of age in the 1980s, and so this was happy news: On Sunday, the Modern Baseball Era Committee voted two of the most prominent players of the '80s -- pitcher Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell -- into the Baseball Hall of Fame. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| How quickly does it take an entire country to turn against a sport? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Over the past three years, Quessenberry battled lymphoma into remission. Now he talks to others who are facing the fight. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Manning wanted to retire as a one-uniform player, but if he wants to stay in the game, he might have to give up New York. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Allyson Duarte was good, worked hard, and dreamed of playing soccer at a top US college. But she soon learned talent means nothing when you don’t have papers. | | |
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