I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids. | | | | | The U.S. men's hockey team made history 37 years ago in Lake Placid. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I am not a role model. I am not paid to be a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.”
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| | rantnrave:// From the Super Bowl to the Olympics to the NBA finals, sports rules the roost in TV programming. But nothing lasts forever, and as the cable ecosystem breaks down and viewers demand more and more personalization, what must the leagues and the networks do to keep their winning streak alive? We look at the fast-shifting landscape in our SportsREDEF original: "Ball in Its Court: How Sports Media Needs to Evolve." It's a question that demands an answer. The NFL's ratings problem -- down nine percent this past season -- has drawn endless scrutiny. NASCAR is in trouble. The NBA's regional sports networks have seen theirs fall by 15 percent this season and 20 of 30 teams have flat or lower numbers. Ratings have been used as a measure of a league's health for a while. Maybe that still applies. But fewer people are watching TV overall, which raises the question: Is this a sports problem or a TV problem? Networks have already adjusted to lower ratings for entertainment. Instead of looking at ratings for sports, maybe we should wonder where and how fans are getting their fix instead... But you can trust "The Process" to improve TV ratings... MAGIC JOHNSON led the coup in the LAKERS front office Tuesday. ROB PELINKA ls the sports agent who represented KOBE BRYANT and is the new GM. But JEANIE BUSS' decision to fire her brother, JIM, and remake the organization is the story. As SI once wrote, Buss has balls... Can't keep a job as a mid-major college football coach? Go run for governor. TOMMY TUBERVILLE, the former CINCINNATI and AUBURN coach, is considering it in ALABAMA. Would 'Bama fans vote for an Auburn coach who beat the TIDE seven times?... MICHAEL PAULL is the new head of BAMTECH -- a company making moves since DISNEY bought one-third of it in August. He helped introduce PRIME video at AMAZON. Can he make a subscription streaming service work at ESPN?... The scandal ripping up ENGLISH soccer is a fifth-division team's backup goalkeeper eating a meat pie on live TV to help his friends win a bet... NIKE earned 28 patents Tuesday... Stick to THE BACHELOR. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| From the Super Bowl to the Olympics to the NBA finals, sports rules the roost in TV programming. But nothing lasts forever, and as the cable ecosystem breaks down and viewers demand more and more personalization, what must the leagues and the networks do to keep their winning streak alive? | | |
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| Stock-car racing’s founding family draws criticism from drivers and team owners as fan interest burns down and sponsors retreat; ‘economics and demographics.’ | | |
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| Whether you run today or not, guilt is just part of being a runner. | | |
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| The exercise impresario offers yoga-cardio-strength workouts and emotional catharsis to students who include Christy Turlington and Jennifer Aniston. | | |
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| Mo’ne Davis calls for the ball. She drains a three, holding her follow-through for a second longer as she and a teammate battle two others for most threes made during a drill. “BOOM!” the boys on the sideline shout. Davis, wearing white and chrome Nike Kobe A.D.s, scurries around the perimeter, releasing shot after shot. | | |
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| Patriots shun the White House. Sports stars turn ESPN into MSNBC. And brands smell the commercial potential in political rage. | | |
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| On the day he hoped would save his elbow, Garrett Richards laid face down on a table with his back exposed. A doctor guided a needle into the iliac crest of his pelvic bone and began to extract bone marrow. Richards was wide awake, the blessing of local anesthesia saving him from physical pain but not the anxiety that crept into his head: Is this really going to work? | | |
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| To Bill Belichick, “Johnny Foxborough” is the the anonymous high school quarterback down the street who can replace Tom Brady in a moment’s notice. But it turns out the actual high school QB down the street has his own story worth telling. | | |
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| Consider the case of a Euless Trinity wrestler who's been taking testosterone treatments to become a boy. Because of UIL rules, Mack Beggs, an undefeated junior in his third year on the wrestling team, competed in the girls bracket in the regional finals this weekend, just as he has all year. | | |
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| Baseball fever extended far beyond the casino; radios leaking from passing cars and darkened windows were tuned to the game, its balls and strikes and soft contact broadcast on baseball’s traditional medium. It was a surprise to learn that the playoffs which had absorbed so much attention featured teenagers--amateurs--playing for their respective regions. | | |
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| International roller derby teams with skaters from the seven predominently Muslim countries targeted by President Donald Trump's travel ban are considering not competing in the U.S. at all if all their members cannot play. | | |
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| Trace the evolution of the NBA's epic offensive outburst, and you'll find that Mike D'Antoni, Tony Battie and David Lee played crucial roles in shaping the modern era of super scorers. | | |
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| Three Hollywood writers -- David Kohan, Adam Mckay and Cheo Hodari Coker -- and one assignment: Make the Warriors into a movie. Grab some popcorn and get ready for the mostly unreal story of the NBA's most unreal team. | | |
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| The King, according to Mad Men. | | |
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| Candice Wiggins had what many would consider a dream career in the WNBA . | | |
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| All it took was for Jimmie Johnson to lose to become liked. | | |
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| The sports media has become predominantly liberal. That's not a good thing. | | |
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| Antonio Conte has been praised for his bold use of Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso but history suggests it is part of a wider trend dating back to the 1960s. | | |
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| A couple weeks ago, a few rows up in the near-deserted stands of the Maverik Center—a minor-league hockey rink where the Screaming Eagles will play their home games—I watched a dozen or so nonathletic folks in jeans and parkas thumb their iPhones and Android devices. Using the play-calling function on the Screaming Eagles mobile app, this test group scrolled through diagrammed play selections, not unlike the kind you’d see while playing a Madden NFL video game. | | |
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| How Leicester City, the inspirational team that defied 5,000-1 odds, crashed back to Earth so quickly | | |
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