My voice and what I do in my community is more powerful than getting on a knee. | | | | Rafael Nadal smiles at another trophy. He won six this year.
(Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “My voice and what I do in my community is more powerful than getting on a knee.”
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| | rantnrave:// 2017 has been rich in drama and in great stories. There are six days so who knows what’s still to come. Trying to whittle down the 20 best stories was difficult. The stories that didn't make this newsletter shouldn't be overlooked. The difference between the next 20 and these are like picking between OHIO STATE and ALABAMA for the final college football playoff spot. Generation SHAQ. EDDIE LACY's public struggle with his weight and TWITTER memes. CYRIL THE SWAN. The nearly year-long battle between JERRY JONES and ROGER GOODELL. May 2018 be as bountiful. Here's some holiday reading as a stocking stuffer. Merry Christmas. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | B/R Mag |
| Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Twenty years ago, Hideki Irabu arrived in the United States hoping to find glory in pinstripes. He found heartache instead. | | |
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 | Golf |
| Playing golf with the 45th President of the United States offers a revealing character study of him. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The story of the most flagrant mistake in the modern history of sports journalism begins with a 21-year-old editor. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Football has already been transformed by big money -- but the businessmen behind Man City are trying to build a global corporation that will change the game for ever. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Listen, now you know where I’m from. Picture yourself walking into a South Philly playground at 12 years old, with grown-ass men, bleachers packed with people, trying to get a run in.You think you can survive in Philly without irrational confidence? You will never in your life hear the words, “I can’t” come out of Dion Waiters’ mouth. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Winning isn't everything. After Super Bowl XLV, Green Bay's hero QB has been on a journey to find out what is. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| He has been called the most talented player since Roger Federer. But does he even want to win? | | |
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 | Charlotte Observer |
| What Chancellor Lee Adams’ life is like as he reaches his 18th birthday with his father - former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth - in prison. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The insurgent media company has built a devoted following of what it sees as “average” sports fans: unruly, occasionally toxic and aggressively male. | | |
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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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 | MMQB |
| John Urschel quit the NFL to pursue his true passion, mathematics. But in the back of his mind, the concussion questions still linger. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Zac Easter knew what was happening. That CTE could attack more than just NFL pros. So he decided to write it all down--to let the world know what football had done to his body and his brain. And then he shot himself. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| How do you move on after losing the love of your life? One year after the tragic death of his wife, Monty Williams tries to answer that question. | | |
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 | Harper's Magazine |
| What the U.S. Olympic Committee can — and can’t — do about sexual abuse | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| What happens when an African American woman decides to solo-hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine during a summer of bitter political upheaval? Everything you can imagine, from scary moments of racism to new friendships to soaring epiphanies about the timeless value of America’s most storied trekking route. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| As more fans cut the cord, the network is busy protecting its cable-TV money machine. | | |
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| B/R Mag |
| Meet the players on this all-girls travel squad who have bigger dreams than youth baseball -- they want to become MLB stars. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| The Tarahumara of northern Mexico became famous for their ability to run incredibly long distances. Now, they’re running for their lives. | | |
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 | Esquire |
| Once revered as one of the greatest heroes in Red Sox history, today Schilling is known as much for offensive memes as for his bloody sock. Is his goal to dominate right-wing media--or to win a spot in the Senate? | | |
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