It may be a different kind of physical prowess in terms of reflexes and your ability to move your thumbs very quickly, but these athletes can be any shape or size and any age and from anywhere. | | | | Usain Bolt was dominant and photogenic in dominating the 2016 Olympics.
(Cameron Spencer/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “It may be a different kind of physical prowess in terms of reflexes and your ability to move your thumbs very quickly, but these athletes can be any shape or size and any age and from anywhere.”
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| | rantnrave:// What is the value of expertise in sports now? Look at the men hired recently to run organizations. JOHN LYNCH went straight from the FOX broadcast booth to the NINERS front office. MAGIC JOHNSON was a star player, meager coach, failed talk show host and successful entrepreneur but has never run a team. He's running the LAKERS. Does the NBA demand any kind of executive expertise? VLADE DIVAC and PHIL JACKSON didn't have it when they were named GMs. BOB MYERS, a former agent, has made the WARRIORS into an uber franchise. ROB PELINKA, an agent until two days ago, is the new LAKERS GM, reporting to Magic. While the MLB has a de facto archetype for their general managers -- IVY LEAGUE education a must, major league career not needed -- the NBA reflects a wider, political trend. And it raises some questions: Does expertise still matter? Is the learning curve getting flatter? Is failure ahead, or is that the sound of disruption?... How an NBA trade goes down... How far will MLB commissioner ROB MANFRED push his executive power? He seems ready to impose rule changes on the sport even without the union's cooperation. That would risk the peace the two sides have had for 23 years. The rules -- automatic intentional walks, capping mound visits, and others designed to speed up the game -- hardly seem worth it. Cutting a few minutes off a baseball game won't make fans much happier but labor strife would certainly anger them... The CAVALIERS are the flat world champions... "HOMER AT THE BAT" is one of the greatest TV episodes ever. THE SIMPSONS deserve their place in COOPERSTOWN... Who should host the 2024 OLYMPICS: PARIS or LOS ANGELES? | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Vulture |
| Many Americans have replaced work hours with game play -- and ENDED UP HAPPIER. Which wouldn’t surprise most gamers. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Finance |
| This story is bigger than The Cauldron and Chat Sports, their two founders, Sports Illustrated, Time Inc., Medium, and even those mega sports stars. It’s a simple reminder that no matter how digital the business world becomes, there is still nothing more important than properly vetting a partner. | | |
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 | The Denver Post |
| Hallways at the world-famous Steadman Clinic are lined with framed, autographed jerseys of star athletes who have had surgery here, including John Elway, Mario Lemieux and Alex Rodriguez. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| He’s an iconic Packer who won five NFL championships and was named to the NFL’s 50th Anniversary Team, which featured all Hall-of-Famers except for him. So what’s keeping Jerry Kramer out of Canton? | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| And it features heavyweights such as Jamie Foxx, Marsha Ambrosius, Raphael Saadiq, and Lil Wayne | | |
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 | The Nation |
| The former NFL Players’ Union Leader and Progressive hall-of-famer passed away this week at the age of 76. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Baseball gains little in the way of time savings by eliminating a play that rarely occurs. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Look back at the impact Nike's controversial 1987 commercial featuring 'Revolution' by the Beatles had on advertising, sports. | | |
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 | Garden & Gun |
| After a lifetime in the field, a bad eye forced the author to make a difficult decision: give up the sport he loves or learn to shoot lefty. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| UCLA freshman Lonzo Ball is such a good shooter that NBA executives say they wouldn’t risk tinkering with his unorthodox, unsightly shooting motion. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| No longer a Yankees pariah, Alex Rodriguez wants the team's young players to avoid his pitfalls and learn from his mistakes. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Hockey, in one way or another, always had my back growing up. | | |
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 | Dirtbag Darling |
| Outdoor Women's Alliance founder Gina Begin on the high school experience that propelled her into a career advocating and supporting women in the outdoors. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Pushed to his limit by the players' obstinacy, the MLB commissioner announced that he will unilaterally impose rules in 2018 to address baseball's growing pace-of-action problems. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| Brendan Gaughan is wearing a fire suit, discussing his start in Sunday’s Daytona 500, a highlight in the 41-year-old’s mostly journeyman career. Except what he’s talking about isn’t the race to come but a career gone by: his days as a walk-on basketball player at Georgetown in the mid-1990s, where as mostly a practice player he was charged by coach John Thompson to play aggressive and physical defense on the Hoyas stars. | | |
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 | Vocativ |
| Twenty years later, the man who played Glacier looks back on one of pro wrestling's most infamous gimmicks | | |
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 | Made Man |
| Richard White’s long, strange trip toward pro wrestling glory. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Steph Curry and the world's elite athletes are using deep science and cutting-edge tech to study and train their brains, and the results have been profound-not only in their games, but also their lives. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Furniture Row Racing is one of just two teams not operating in North Carolina, yet what started as a small one-car operation struggling to make the track is now among Nascar's top championship contenders. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into "The Simpsons" than they did "The Cosby Show" or the "Winter Olympics" from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the Huxtables and the world's best amateur athletes. Fox over NBC and CBS--its first-ever victory in prime time. | | |
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