The future of sports media is filled with more uncertainty today than at any time over the past two decades. | | | | Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford give it a spin during the Stars On Ice tour.
(Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The future of sports media is filled with more uncertainty today than at any time over the past two decades.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's college football's signing day. Doesn't feel as exciting. There's two of them now. Does the NCAA addition of a second signing day help recruits or schools more? Recruits can pledge their allegiance to a college of their choice through a binding LETTER OF INTENT two months earlier than in the past. That's two less months to see if coaches stay or go. Two months less to think about their decision and factor in everything they need. Schools won't need to endure as much volatility if they can sign recruits earlier, getting their incoming classes in order in December rather than February. The recruits who want to end the recruiting process can sign immediately. Less chance for a last-second flip. The ones who committed but want more time might lose offers. What does it mean for the original signing day, the one in February? That was a day-long circus. A bunch of teenagers trying to figure out the coolest way to announce their college choices. The hidden hat trick. The t-shirt deke. Landing a helicopter on the field. An actual coin flip. Angry moms. A five-star recruit's runaway mom. It was dumb. It was hilarious. It was entertaining. Will signing days be as fun anymore? The upside is possibly more chaos, at least this year, as recruits and schools try to figure out the right way to game the new system. Will earlier signing day hurt coaches at new jobs who won't have as much time to put together recruiting classes? We'll still have the fax machine... Scoring is up in the NHL. That's good for hockey. More goals, more fun. Goaltenders are having a good year too, though. More power plays and flourishing offensive talent has given the game more pop... Relive every bash, bruise and body check with oral histories of hockey's greatest moments both on—and off—the ice. SportsSET: "Ice Ice Baby: Bone-Crunching Hockey Oral Histories"... Quantifying the intangible... RUTGERS needs a new DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK ARTS professor... Mazel tov... Did you know you wanted a DAVID ORTIZ reality show in 2018?... SERGIO GARCIA isn't the best athlete in his own family. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Deadspin |
| On my first day at NFL Media I signed paperwork promising that I wouldn't harass players for autographs. That struck me as odd, given that I was a professional reporter being hired to work in a newsroom; this was a newsroom that answered to 32 NFL owners, yes, but the strangeness of that fact didn't seem like it would supersede every other newsroom rule. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| One Friday morning in Mumbai, Madhukar Talwalkar, the 84-year-old director of the largest gym chain in India, enters the 206th and newest branch of his empire and pauses in front of a metal idol. Every Talwalkars fitness center contains a depiction of Hanuman, a monkey-shaped deity who, according to legend, once lifted a mountain. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| At the planet's biggest ice-fishing tournament, held every January in Brainerd, Minnesota, 10,000 contestants battle 20-below temperatures for a $150,000 purse. Ian Frazier slips and slides among wily fish, cheese curds, and some of the greatest nearly frozen anglers he's ever seen. | | |
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 | WBUR |
| In 1905, college football faced a crisis. Injuries were piling up, and games were, frankly, boring. The forward pass helped solve both problems. This week on Only A Game, we chronicle the roles of Harvard Stadium and Teddy Roosevelt in making the forward pass legal, quarterbacks Benny Friedman and Sammy Baugh who brought it to prominence and the moments that immortalized the play. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Long known as college football's swaggering and job-hopping lightning rod, Kiffin has sparked one of the biggest turnarounds in the country at FAU, and in so doing, has sparked a change in his own career. Naturally, he'd like to talk about it. | | |
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 | The Baffler |
| As Iceberg Slim might put it, NFL players and public alike have been sold a series of air castles. | | |
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 | SportTechie |
| Sports vision expert Dr. Daniel Laby has worked with three of the last five World Series winners with his research-- and tech-driven methods. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The NCAA's first-ever college football early signing period begins Wednesday and I, for one, am nervous. Not for the players who will sign binding (and legally lopsided) letters of intent to colleges in December, some seven weeks before the traditional February National Signing Day. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Nine-hundred and ninety-nine wins ago, what Chris Dailey remembers most is that Geno Auriemma got two technical fouls in their first game coaching the Connecticut women's basketball team. The Huskies had made the two-hour bus ride from Storrs, Conn., to New Rochelle, New York, to play Iona on Nov. 23, 1985. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| It felt inevitable that Trump and Ball, both renowned for believing their own hype, would collide in 2017. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Instead of the infamous game for the Pirates, the pitcher should be remembered as an outspoken activist and advocate for sobriety. | | |
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 | Road & Track |
| In a secret location in a windowless warehouse, Kevin Hines of McLaren Philadelphia is the only person in the US certified to work on your F1. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| She may bristle at the word trailblazer, but ESPN's best NBA analyst, Doris Burke, is proving that in the still-alpha-male-driven world of sports TV, having game is all that matters. | | |
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 | Sports Business Daily |
| T he future of sports media is filled with more uncertainty today than at any time over the past two decades. The two biggest questions in the business surround the two biggest deals: ■ Will AT&T be allowed to buy Time Warner and create a media behemoth? | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| If you've been paying attention to the 2017-18 NHL season, you may have noticed something: There is no shortage of goals. We're more than a third of the way through the season, and scores are, on average, the highest they've been since 2005-06. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| LeBron James made a statement with his sneakers over the weekend, but he certainly isn't the first to mix it up with his shoes. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| On an NFL game day for superstar sports couple Zach and Julie Ertz, it’s about faith, football and breakfast for dinner. | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| Justin Gatlin, the world 100 metres champion, is at the centre of a new doping scandal after members of his team offered to illicitly supply performance-enhancing drugs. Gatlin and his coach are now being investigated by sports and doping authorities after a Telegraph investigation uncovered how members of his entourage offered to provide prescriptions in a false name and smuggle the substances to America. | | |
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 | The Athletic |
| In the lifespan of every male professional athlete, there comes a post-retirement moment when machismo is formally stripped, and the state of existence transitions from snarls and grunts and blood and sweat to an uncomfortable actuality of pedestrian life. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Submissions don't work on Top Guys, and Mahal lost by submission to AJ. Styles at 'Clash of Champions' on Sunday. | | |
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