[Thursday Night Football] is a poopfest. It’s terrible. We got home like 1 o’clock in the morning, something like that on Monday and then you’ve got to play again. Congratulations, NFL, you did it again. But they’ve been doing it all season, so I guess we’re the last ones to get the middle finger. | | | | | Richard Sherman, donned in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month (Keith Allison/Flickr) | | | | |  | “[Thursday Night Football] is a poopfest. It’s terrible. We got home like 1 o’clock in the morning, something like that on Monday and then you’ve got to play again. Congratulations, NFL, you did it again. But they’ve been doing it all season, so I guess we’re the last ones to get the middle finger.”
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| | rantnrave:// Is reeling in rookie hazing political correctness or progress? MLB and the PLAYERS ASSOCIATION banned dressing rookies up in women’s outfits as part of its new CBA and it couldn’t have happened soon enough. Having witnessed a few of these in person, they were awkward, immature, and obvious in their intent. Especially since there was a rush among some reporters to post photos of this player or another in a WONDER WOMAN outfit onto TWITTER. MIKE KRUKOW, the GIANTS broadcaster and former pitcher, thinks that banning hazing is "ridiculous." Will some link between generations of players be lost now, as he contends? They can still be forced to wear embarrassing superhero costumes, but no one can be shamed by wearing women’s clothing. Somehow, older and younger players will probably still find a way to relate… DEFLATEGATE 2 – Flatter, Flimsier, and Full of Hot Air – passed by with nary a peep. Is silence the NFL’s way of admitting over-prosecuting the PATRIOTS? It’s hard to tell but it’s also fair to draw some inferences when the league office doesn't spring to action when there is a similar kind of malfeasance. What else could that mean? Still, the NFL says there was no formal complaint filed by the NEW YORK GIANTS and believes there is a difference in kind, not degree here… Sometimes football coaches are really being neurotic with good reason. The mole in #WAKEYLEAKS was coming from inside the house… While KANYE WEST met with the PRESIDENT-ELECT (and changed the timeline on his presidential run), a former wrestling champion announced his own run for office. Will he be HOUSTON's five-time mayor?… Let’s not forget that athletes can be uplifting too… The NFL is expanding its charitable footprint and OCTOBER won’t only be pink anymore. There is no prioritizing illnesses and it’s a nice touch that the NFL might use its heft to give more exposure to other types of cancer so they can draw research and funding too… Another NBA team isn’t staying at a TRUMP hotel when they visit NEW YORK, although the LAKERS say it’s not a political statement. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| Michael van Gerwen has won 25 tournaments this year and about $1.5 million in prize money. But greatness in darts is measured in world championships, and he has only one. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Old-time pro-wrestling territories were a sort of platonic ideal of American small business. Then the McMahons came along, and WWE took over. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| MLS came calling and sparked a heated debate between a homegrown soccer mob and big money investors over who owns Detroit soccer. MLS wants a Detroit expansion team, but Detroit City FC fans want them to get lost. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| If Rex Ryan and Chip Kelly are fired before the start of the next season, faceless automatons will truly control the league. | | |
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 | Football365 |
| Love him or loathe him, at least respect him. Ronaldo achieved the unthinkable, and did it his way. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Commissioner Roger Goodell’s inaction on the Giants’ claims about Pittsburgh further exposes the absurdity of the league’s Deflategate campaign against New England. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| It takes years to master and countless hours of practice, but footwork can be the difference between “good” and “great” in the NBA. Giannis, DeMar, coaches, and trainers talk about the art and science of this fundamental basketball skill. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| Angela “Overkill” Hill is the strawweight champion of the world’s most prominent women’s MMA organization, Invicta. She’s on the verge of a second crack at UFC glory. Last time around, though, she found herself too bogged down by the pressures of fight life to compete as well as she could. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| The Pegasus World Cup aims to shake up horse racing’s model with entrants putting up $1 million each. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| With big stars and bigger shoe deals dotting the roster, sneakers are serious business for the Warriors. How do Steph, Klay and KD decide which kicks to lace up? | | |
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 | USA Today |
| FIFA can prove it has shed its corrupt past by taking action against the cheating Russians. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| It is scary when the deepest farm system in all of baseball belongs to the team that’s also going to carry a quarter-billion-dollar payroll this season. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| Over the last 10 seasons, home-team batters were intentionally walked 5,813 times. We saw 478 of those in 2016. In many cases, these walks are met with enthusiastic booing by the home crowd, which is always something I’ve found particularly curious given that being offered a free base is almost always a good thing. | | |
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 | Marie Claire |
| In a MarieClaire.com exclusive, the 30-year-old sportscaster opens up about life after going viral. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Twenty years ago, "Jerry Maguire" tried to warn us about the dangers of the sports agency industry. A generation of would-be agents didn't listen. | | |
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 | espnW |
| Aroldis Chapman is back with the Yankees, creating another conflicted rooting interest for their fans. Well, some of them. Sarah Spain examines the lengths some will go to silence criticism. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Kevin Ferguson Jr. (aka Baby Slice) is channeling the pain from the death of his late father Kimbo Slice to defend a street-fighting family legacy in the cage. | | |
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 | Howler Magazine |
| What the French forward’s taxes tell us about France and politics in 2016. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| Good coaching requires discipline, intelligence, and luck. And in the case of the Patriots head coach, a knack for insult comedy. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Andrew Woodward said he was raped for years by his coach, Barry Bennell. A decision decades later to go public has inspired others to come forward. | | |
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