I’ve been called a man because I appear outwardly strong. It has been said that that I use drugs. (No, I have always had far too much integrity to behave dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.) It’s been said I don’t belong in women’s sports – that I belong in men’s – because I look stronger than many other women do. (No, I just work hard and I was born with this badass body and proud of it.) We don’t all look the same. We are curvy, strong, muscular, tall, small, just to name a few, and all the same: we are women and proud. | | | | Morgan William and the shot that slayed a giant.
(Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I’ve been called a man because I appear outwardly strong. It has been said that that I use drugs. (No, I have always had far too much integrity to behave dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.) It’s been said I don’t belong in women’s sports – that I belong in men’s – because I look stronger than many other women do. (No, I just work hard and I was born with this badass body and proud of it.) We don’t all look the same. We are curvy, strong, muscular, tall, small, just to name a few, and all the same: we are women and proud.”
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| | rantnrave:// There was no singular moment of 2017. The year was an accumulation of disparate moments coming together to provide one of the most glorious and trying years in memory. HOUSTON had a dizzying few months as it recovered from HURRICANE HARVEY and watched as the ASTROS won the WORLD SERIES. A year after a bountiful year at the OLYMPICS, USA GYMNASTICS had to contend with the fact that it had harbored a monstrous doctor who preyed on more than one hundred young women and girls. SERGIO GARCIA is no longer the best golfer never to win a major title. LOUISVILLE fired RICK PITINO as college basketball was engulfed by scandal and an FBI investigation. The WILLIAMS sisters provided uplifting moments all year long. It was a trying year but dammit we got through it. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| In a time of unrest, Serena's 23rd Grand Slam title stands as a sustaining triumph of talent and perseverance. | | |
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| Whatever time you’re reading this on Jan. 10, 2017, Dabo Swinney is still smiling, still hugging, still talking, still reveling in Clemson’s incredible, 35-31 dethroning of Alabama in a College Football Playoff championship rematch - an all-time classic that was decided at the literal last second. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| “People should know that this is not just happening in Hollywood,” McKayla Maroney, a former Olympic gymnast, wrote in a brave Twitter post. “This is happening everywhere.” | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| USMNT flirted with disaster throughout its floundering World Cup qualifying campaign, and it paid the price: A first missed World Cup since 1986 and a boatload of soul-searching to follow in U.S. Soccer. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Brazilian has been criticized for a lack of goals but all night against PSG he led from the front, culminating in seven minutes and 17 seconds in which he won Barcelona the tie. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Tennis is a game that tortures souls. But Federer seems to love every part of the sport, from practicing to press conferences. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| A Wimbledon finalist at 37 shows us how to stay in the game. | | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
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 | New York Post |
| He deserves not a whit of sympathy for any of this, because he was the one who oversaw his own doom. | | |
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| ESPN |
| In watching the Indians on their historic streak, it became clear the most remarkable thing about the team wasn't the wins. | | |
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| The Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers turned their fifth meeting this World Series into an unrelenting, dizzying colossus of a baseball game. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| George Springer delivered a two-run home run in the second inning and the Houston Astros made a quick night of it for Dodgers starter Yu Darvish for a 5-1 victory in Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium. It was the franchise's first title. | | |
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| An unprecedented weekend in sports. Donald Trump called for NFL players to be fired if they kneeled during the national anthem. And then more kneeled than ever before. The president said the Golden State Warriors aren’t welcome at the White House, and they RSVP’d no anyway. | | |
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 | Sports on Earth |
| A week ago, Morgan William was just a college kid who played basketball for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, unknown in most of the country. Now, she's a college sports icon, as her buzzer-beater in OT Friday slayed mighty UConn. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Tom Brady rallied the Patriots from a 28-3 deficit in the second half to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the first Super Bowl to go into overtime. | | |
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 | Golf |
| How much should a successful man change? Garcia has been one of the best players of his generation and a Ryder Cup star. He loves his life. He plays tennis. He travels the world. He makes goofy jokes. But he had not done what he knew he could do. He had not won major championships like the great Spanish golfers Ballesteros and Olazabal had, and of course that bothered him. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Saturday marked the first time since 1998 that the women’s draw at the U.S. Open was won by an American not named Serena or Venus. | | |
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 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| The history books will read that the Warriors won 31 of their final 33 outings, including 16 of 17 playoff games. They disposed of the Cavaliers, the only team that could rival their loaded roster, in five games. To hoist that golden trophy, Golden State outlasted Cleveland, 129-120, in Game 5 on Monday. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| Joel Berry II overcame a pair of sprained ankles, and North Carolina outlasted Gonzaga in a foul-ridden title game to capture another national championship. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Real Madrid beat Juventus 4-1 in Cardiff to retain their Champions League title and earn a 12th European crown with two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo as well as Casemiro and Marco Asensio strikes. | | |
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