Baseball's ... a tired sport, because you can't express yourself. You can't do what people in other sports do. |
| | | | | Bryce Harper heads home. (Nick Wass) | | | | | |  | “Baseball's ... a tired sport, because you can't express yourself. You can't do what people in other sports do.”
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| rantnrave:// BRYCE HARPER wants to be to baseball what STEPH CURRY is to basketball, CAM NEWTON is to football and REN MCCORMACK is to small-town AMERICA. He wants to express himself. He wants to dance. He wants to pimp homers, and he wants pitchers to pump their fists at him when they strike him out. He wants this all to happen without fear of retaliation. Which is to say, he wants to throw out baseball's long-cherished Code. ESPN THE MAGAZINE's TIM KEOWN profiles baseball's brash, PERISCOPE- and VINE-ready future. The WASHINGTON POST's TOM BOSWELL co-signs the general idea, but wonders how well HARPER's theatrics will play at this exact moment in the Washington clubhouse: "spring training with a new manager after a horrible NATS season and with [JONATHAN PAPELBON] still in D.C."... MARIA SHARAPOVA reaches out to fans at a moment when public opinion may be turning against her. Our REDEF SportsSET, MARIA SHARAPOVA FLUNKS A TEST, updated... Fare thee well JOEY CRAWFORD... BARACK OBAMA and JUSTIN TRUDEAU drop their gloves and have a hockey fight... NYC parkour... Good luck NATE ROBINSON, who I love and who I think will need it. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | ESPN.com |
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 | SB*Nation |
| Apparently, not everybody liked it! Per an Open Records Request filed by SB Nation, enough people filed angry complaints to the FCC about the Super Bowl broadcast to fill 47 pages of emails, which you can read below. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| The entire NBA will have almost a billion dollars to spend on free agents next summer. That is the result of the much-discussed new national TV contract (worth $24 billion over nine years) with ESPN and Turner Sports that kicks in next season. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| LOS ANGELES -- When you get old, you start thinking about how you'd like to be remembered. However, what you hope sticks in people's minds might not be your actual legacy. LeBron James, now in his 13th NBA season, still has bit to go in what will endure as truly one of the best of the best careers. | | |
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 | Newsday |
| A typical high school football player takes roughly 650 hits to the head per season. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| Tennis star Maria Sharapova has admitted taking the banned drug meldonium. Sharapova is an experienced professional. Strict liability applies. She doped. The more interesting question is: why was meldonium (also known as mildronate) placed on the banned list? | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Seattle Storm star Sue Bird laments the lack of analytics in today's WNBA. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| A major key to DJ Khaled's recent success may have been cut by the NBA's top shot-blocker. Sometime last October, Hassan Whiteside was relaxing at the record producer's Miami home when he reached for his smartphone to document the occasion. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Finance |
| A handful of players have emerged to bid for NFL streaming rights. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| Nothing in this life is certain but death, taxes, and major league baseball players reporting to Spring Training in the best shape of their life, as the old saying goes. That's how the old saying goes, right? Well, the old saying needs an update. Sorry, Gramps. This ain't your father's Spring Training. | | |
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 | The Economist |
| Win or lose, a computer program’s contest against a professional Go player is another milestone in AI. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On a Saturday in early February, the St. John's men's basketball team hosted the Butler Bulldogs, a Big East rival. It had snowed much of the morning, but Carnesecca Arena was packed to the rafters; among those in attendance was Lou Carnesecca, the gym's namesake, a onetime head coach at St. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- This should be the Yale Bulldogs' crowning moment -- after a 54-year wait, the men's basketball team brought an unshared Ivy League championship home and with it an invitation to the N.C.A.A. tournament. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Plenty of white sports stars like Trump -- but a small group of black Trumpvocates have also come out in support. What does it say about race and celebrity in America? | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Last Saturday, I woke up with a sore throat. I had recently had a head cold, though, so I figured it was nothing to worry about. I popped some ibuprofen and completed a 14-mile training run as planned. By 6:30 that night, I had spiked a high fever and my throat felt like I had swallowed embers. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| The Denver Broncos lost Peyton Manning and Brock Osweiler this week but it wasn’t their passing game that conquered the league last season anyway. | | |
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 | FOX Sports |
| Did the New England Patriots and Tom Brady create a contract extension that would protect Brady from some financial losses if the quarterback has to serve his Deflategate suspension in 2016? It certainly looks that way. The quarterback reached a new contract extension with the Patriots on Feb. | | |
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 | NBC SportsWorld |
| How did no one see Steph Curry’ coming? No one was paying attention to a slight sharpshooter in Cleveland. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Rangers defenseman earned the respect of FNM: "He came out, he helped out and he never shit on the bus," drummer Mike Bordin says. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| When 22-year-old Brazilian surfer Filipe Toledo won the Rio Pro competition last year, fans on the beach in Rio De Janeiro went full Beatlemania. Flags waved. Victory chants were sung. Grown men cried. The beach was so packed that Toledo had trouble getting from the water to the podium as the throng of emotional fans embraced him. | | |
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