He’s a nice kid. Otherwise I’d throw him out. | | | | Red hot Giancarlo Stanton connecting on August 9 against the Washington Nationals.
(Patrick McDermott/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “He’s a nice kid. Otherwise I’d throw him out.”
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| | rantnrave:// Remember last week when UCLA quarterback JOSH ROSEN had the audacity to criticize the current NCAA model? "Football and school don't go together," he said. He backed up his claim with a number of reasons, primary among them the fact that there's not enough time in the day for a college football player to fulfill his football requirements and take his education seriously. Seems reasonable, right? Not if you're one of the NFL's narrow-minded decision makers. According to YAHOO! SPORTS' PETE THAMEL, Rosen has "emerged as a polarizing figure for his views on politics, academics and drawing coverage from TMZ for putting a hot tub in his dorm room." A hot tub in his dorm room—someone alert the authorities! Or at least DEAN WORMER. The funny thing is how predictable this was. Clearly Rosen hasn't learned anything from COLIN KAEPERNICK. In the topsy-turvy world of the NFL, challenging conventional thinking is the worst sin a man can commit... Seems like UNDER ARMOUR's No. 1 athlete is happy with CEO KEVIN PLANK's decision to quit PRESIDENT TRUMP's advisory council... We know CHICAGO CUBS manager JOE MADDON is the King of Shifts, but this—four outfielders and just three infielders—is a little much. Also, leave it to JOEY VOTTO to decide to go through the shift as opposed to around it, and because he’s Joey Votto, do so successfully… I understand answering the phone during a GAME OF THRONES episode. What I don’t get, as a father of a newborn who now wakes up on Mondays at 5 a.m. so he can watch before stumbling across any spoilers, is not finishing the episode immediately after the call, even if you were just traded. At least find time on the plane, no?… Example no. 3498 that it’s time for the WILPON family to sell the NEW YORK METS. Turning LUCAS DUDA, JAY BRUCE, ADDISON REED and NEIL WALKER into five minor league relievers and cash is ridiculous, unless you’re trying to build the most killer Single-A bullpen baseball’s ever seen. If that’s the team’s goal, consider the past few weeks a success... Who you taking in this pick-up game? | | | - Yaron Weitzman, guest curator |
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| Sunday, Michael Bennett chose not to stand during the national anthem prior to the Seattle Seahawks preseason game against the Los Angeles Chargers. Here, in his own words, is why, as told to Yahoo Sports’ Jordan Schultz. | | |
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 | Every Day Should Be Saturday |
| Meet Scott Sinclair, he’s probably a strength coach. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Kaepernick bucking “stick to sports” to this degree didn’t just violate decorum, it effectively dismantled its very culture. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Cleveland's fear that LeBron James will leave after the 2017-18 season has changed its priorities in possible deals for its point guard. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Teams are getting more and more information, but what about the agents? | | |
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| Yahoo Sports |
| Stanton cleared waivers on Sunday, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports, allowing the Marlins to deal him to any team through the end of August. The choice is obvious: Miami needs to free Stanton -- and, in the process, free itself. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| After battling testicular cancer and undergoing chemotherapy, Chad Bettis will be back on a major league mound Monday night for the Colorado Rockies. | | |
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 | The Associated Press |
| Connie Carberg was incredibly antsy, barely able to contain her excitement a few moments before picking up the phone and making one of the most important calls in New York Jets history. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| A little black girl who dared drink from the wrong water fountain has seen this all before. | | |
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 | NBCS Bay Area |
| Rick Barry is as Rick Barry has been, and as we suspect he will always be -- deferential to the powerful, dismissive of most of everyone else. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Reggie Jackson, Ricky Rubio, and Malcolm Brogdon all play the 1, but their differences highlight how much the position has changed. | | |
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| The Undefeated |
| Mic-drop worthy insights to sack those Monday-morning quarterbacks. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| An NFL MVP casts a long shadow, but the Howard freshman says, 'I can’t be not owning who my brother is.' | | |
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 | The Huffington Post |
| ESPN is under fire for airing a fantasy football "auction" that evokes images of slavery. But it also reveals an uncomfortable truth. | | |
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 | SLAMonline |
| Having just led Canada to its first gold medal in international competition, RJ Barrett is ready to take the torch as The North's next hoops star. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| The former Pro Bowler is suddenly a legit movie star, drawing comparisons to Brad Pitt. How do you start over as a rookie in Hollywood? Leave football, trash talk--all that--way behind you. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| The Cardinals didn't think it would go like this, but then, I don't think anyone there is complaining. | | |
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 | GQ Style |
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 | The New York Times |
| Frank Ntilikina, the 19-year-old from France, is girding for his first season in the N.B.A. Expectations--his own and those of die-hard fans--are high. | | |
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 | Decider |
| Disney raised more questions than it answered in its announcement last week that it would launch new SVOD services in 2018 and 2019. | | |
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