We'd come out to the parking lot after practices, and Coach was there selling meat to players out of the trunk of his car. Some players actually bought that stuff from him. | | | | Southern California surfers take precaution as Thomas Fire continues to burn.
(David McNew/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “We'd come out to the parking lot after practices, and Coach was there selling meat to players out of the trunk of his car. Some players actually bought that stuff from him.”
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| | rantnrave:// LANCE ARMSTRONG. FLOYD LANDIS. ALBERTO CONTADOR. Now, CHRIS FROOME. Winning the TOUR DE FRANCE has become a tacit doping admission. That bright yellow jersey is like hanging a billboard for drug testers and asking "Do you think I'm clean?" At least it seems that way. Those four have all been caught cheating. Froome, a four-time winner, tested positive for an asthma-relief drug. What's it mean for a sport if its champions are doping en masse? And so many others. What do we make of every new winner when there's an ugly truth bubbling underneath? Would it be better for cycling to just legalize PEDs and prioritize performance over moral sanctimony? Would that make it easier to be a fan? No gray areas. No need to wonder who's cheating and who's not. You know who's doping, so you decide what to make of it. Let the fan decide instead of trying to hoodwink them. Can't cheat if it's not cheating... Really tough to read this story on former CHIEFS running back LARRY JOHNSON. He thinks he has CTE. He's worried he might be the next AARON HERNANDEZ. Thinks about killing himself. Imagine going through the world knowing you're a risk to other people. Wondering how long you have until your world crumbles around you. The strain of those thoughts must be crushing. How many other former NFL players are out there thinking the same thing? How many want to know if they have CTE? Only the brains of dead players can be tested right now but if a test existed players are mixed on if they'd take it. Some don't need a test to diagnose themselves. SportsSET: "CTE: The Three Most Dangerous Words in Sports"... Are college football bowl games fun or irrelevant? Both? RALPH RUSSO makes a case for watching each of the 36 non-playoff bowl games... Why was there a fake news campaign trying to fool people into thinking the WASHINGTON REDSKINS had changed their name?... ROLL TIDE... The US' next top curler... GIGLI? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Whether it was brain injuries, immaturity, celebrity or some combination, Johnson says aggression became "a switch I couldn't shut off," and after a while Jay-Z cut him off via email for being arrested so often, Johnson says, and Mýa once stopped him from jumping from a window. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Finland shares an 833-mile border with an aggressive and unpredictable neighbor. That proximity led to a major conflict during World War II-the horrific Winter War-and even now it keeps Finns nervous about Russia’s intentions. David Wolman suited up to train with the elite soldiers who will be on the front lines if this cold feud ever gets hot. | | |
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 | Kotaku |
| A few weeks ago, a Twitch stream moderator and health professional who goes by “Badxan” posted on the Twitch subreddit about an experience she’d had with a viewer threatening suicide in a chat. “How does Twitch deal with suicide and self-harm?” she wrote. “Shamefully.” | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| Meet the obsessive runners who will do anything--and spend everything--to get their feet inside a pair of Nike’s most hyped and least available shoes. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| It'd be easier for everyone if LaVar Ball just stayed in a box. That's the way we all first encountered him in November 2016, literally picture-in-picture, during a preseason tournament. An ESPN broadcaster asked an innocuous question about his son's team starting the season 4-0 and Papa Ball countered with "UCLA gon' win the NCAA Championship and you think I'm playing." | | |
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 | AL.com |
| How even good coaching candidates like Mike Leach can fall flat in job interviews. | | |
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 | The Cincinnati Enquirer |
| Here's how the Reds tried to woo the most sought-after player in the world. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| A potential new tax on seven-figure salaries for employees of non-profits hasn't deterred schools from doling out huge contracts to new coaches. | | |
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 | USA TODAY |
| More regional sports for ESPN streaming watchers, and a reunion of the Marvel universe on the big screen. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| As a general rule, when the internet's baking outer shitlands send aspiring creators of fake news, it isn't sending us its best. It's sending Destroy Belly Fat With One Weird Click fraudwads, it's sending Macedonian click-hustlers and pinwheel-eyed domestic weirdos whose minds have been corroded by partisan politics and bulk doses of online. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| The back of the team plane is known for its high stakes poker games. The front, however, that's where you can find the NHLers who partake in a game of Risk. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| UK’s most successful road cyclist fights for reputation after returning adverse analytical finding after drugs test during victory in the Vuelta | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| In case you needed one more indication that this isn't your grandfather's NBA, consider this: Going into Tuesday night, the man leading the NBA in blocked shots was a small forward. Granted that small forward - Kevin Durant - is basically 7 feet tall with Go Go Gadget arms the length of a school bus. | | |
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 | Slate |
| It is creator vs. disruptor, the architect with grand designs vs. the structural engineer probing for their weaknesses. | | |
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 | Bumpers |
| On golf with Donald Trump, social media wisdom from Mark Cuban, finding tragic beauty in the story of a racist Major League owner and truth to power in football hazing at The Citadel. | | |
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 | NJ.com |
| The last few years, of Francesa talking down to his callers, has made the show hard to listen to. We deserve better. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Prienu, Lithuania, is a far cry from Chino Hills, California. But for LaVar Ball and his sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, ball is life, or, well, business. Former American players say the rural Lithuanian town where the two teens have signed to play is like living on a farm. | | |
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| SB Nation |
| It is the day Donald Trump is meeting with the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins, and I am sitting in the basement of the White House with a group of black folks. The group is made up of journalists, cameramen -- all here to watch the day unfold. | | |
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 | Vice |
| Karl Watson's 'My First Skateboard' is the best way to introduce your whippersnapper to the magical world of shred sleds. | | |
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 | The Paris Review |
| Brin-Jonathan Butler travels to Havana to explore Cuba's robust boxing culture. | | |
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