Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the fighters, meaning that these guys would not have NHL careers. An interesting question is whether being an NHL fighter does this to you (I don't believe so) or whether a certain type of person (who wouldn't otherwise be skilled enough to be an NHL player) gravitates to this job (I believe more likely). |
| | | | | What, metaphysically speaking, is the real penalty for this? (Art Bromage) | | | | | |  | “Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the fighters, meaning that these guys would not have NHL careers. An interesting question is whether being an NHL fighter does this to you (I don't believe so) or whether a certain type of person (who wouldn't otherwise be skilled enough to be an NHL player) gravitates to this job (I believe more likely).”
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| rantnrave:// I would love to see the NFL equivalent of the internal NHL emails unsealed by the judge in an ongoing concussion lawsuit filed by former players against the league. There has been lots of talk about how the emails show league officials discussing health dangers behind closed doors that they refused to acknowledge in public. While that's true, the emails also show commissioner GARY BETTMAN, ex-head of player safety BRENDAN SHANAHAN and others having a healthy debate about those risks while wrestling with the competing interests of various owners and players. Should the role of enforcer be forcibly phased out? What about the guys whose livelihood that represents? These discussions need to be held openly and transparently, and they weren't. But at least they're being held. The NFL, meanwhile, has launched an all-out blitz against the NEW YORK TIMES for having the temerity to point out obvious flaws in the league's own concussion study while also drawing dotted lines between NFL lawyers and tobacco industry lawyers. Those dotted lines are full of circumstantial evidence ("Just try finding lawyers capable of helping multi-billion-dollar organizations avoid multi-million-dollar lawsuits, but who haven’t ever worked for a client that did bad stuff," writes AWFUL ANNOUNCING's TY SCHALTER) but the documentation of the flaws is well sourced and makes the league looks like its pants are on fire. The league asked for a full retraction, the TIMES said no, and you damn well know a defamation suit will not follow, because the NFL does not want to risk some judge unsealing the emails that you also damn well know are sitting somewhere on its servers. But you wish that suit did happen. Because those emails are probably more valuable, and interesting, than anything the NFL will say on this matter anytime in the foreseeable future... All the NHL's unsealed emails have been archived in a searchable database by the GLOBE AND MAIL. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| After racking up a historic N.B.A. season, theteam’s owners — most of them from SiliconValley — think their management styledeserves some of the credit. Are they right? | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| After the unsealing of frank and provocative e-mails between top NHL officials on Monday, the league has two problems. Or, perhaps fairer to say, two more problems. The 2011 e-mail chains, first revealed by TSN's Rick Westhead, show the NHL in the midst of a slow-rolling existential crisis. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Rio de Janeiro will deploy 85,000 security personnel for the summer Games, double those at London 2012, in a growth industry which has become more than just a racket. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| The concern with D'Angelo Russell was always about maturity more than his basketball ability. Byron Scott was reluctant to let him loose, bumping heads with his promising rookie with a tough-love approach that was intended to make Russell earn what he wanted most -- the ball in his hands and, most importantly, the trust that he could run the team as he saw fit. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Max Aaron put down the pads and learned how to skate like a star -- now, he hopes to score at the World Figure Skating Championships. | | |
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 | The Big Lead |
| Soccer is about results. When Johan Cruyff referenced aesthetics, it was because he didn't get a result. The U.S. beat Guatemala, 4-0, which is more reflective of the gulf between them and the opponent. | | |
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 | Howler Magazine |
| Imagine for a moment that you are an octopus. Your sinewy tentacles are extended before you into the jet-black deep, your movement clearly directed in a general heading, but there is something awkward about your progress. Each tentacle operates entirely on its own, dragging you in directions sometimes congruent with the goal you’ve set and sometimes on an errant course. | | |
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 | The Bill Simmons Podcast |
| Ringer editor-at-large Bryan Curtis hosts a feature podcast examining the media element of the Trial of the Century. Guests include HBO's Jim Lampley, former New York Times TV writer Bill Carter, and 'Inside Edition' correspondent Jim Moret, who covered the trial for CNN. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| On his first day in office, in January 2015, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced his interest in "inject[ing] additional offense into the game." | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Previous trips and NCAA sanctions overshadow a surprising Final Four run. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Along the desolate landscape of junior college football, everyone has a story, along with one last chance to rewrite it. | | |
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 | PrimeMind |
| At the world's biggest wrestling event, some kickass women hope to steal the male-centric show. | | |
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 | Men's Journal |
| "Conor McGregor got his a** kicked by a vegan," boasted UFC Welterweight fighter Nick Diaz via Twitter, three days after his baby brother Nate's stunning submission win over UFC Featherweight Champion and "Sports Illustrated" cover boy Conor McGregor. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The San Francisco Giants are stretching out on the field of their spring training facility in Scottsdale, Arizona. First-base coach Bill Hayes plays catch with bullpen catcher Eli Whiteside. Hayes had been the team's bullpen catcher for 12 years before being promoted at the start of the 2015 season; Whiteside stepped into the role. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Pitchers, beware: First base coaches like Kansas City's Rusty Kuntz are out to find, figure out and exploit your every move-and they're getting awfully good at it. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| MOSCOW -- In the chandeliered ballroom of Pashkov House, an 18th-century mansion on a hill overlooking the Kremlin, a chess grandmaster dressed in a jacket that seemed several sizes too big declined offerings of canapés, vodka and wine. | | |
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 | The Sports Post |
| Christian Laettner and Diego Costa may come from entirely different worlds and play completely different sports, but there are plenty of similarities. | | |
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 | Sports on Earth |
| Long before he became a famous director, Texas native Richard Linklater was a hot prospect. The speedy leftfielder, who stole over 100 bases in high school, got a baseball scholarship to Sam Houston State University and started his freshman year. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| While peanuts and Cracker Jacks have long been associated with the game of baseball, you might not immediately connect peanut butter with America’s pastime. But the gooey spread has actually long been a staple in Major League clubhouses. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| In the mid 1980s the heavyweight division was in a poor and fractured state, and that is something which fans and pundits have been echoing with short intermissions ever since. Between 1978, when Leon Spinks bested a near antique Muhammad Ali, and 1985 there had been a dozen world champions crowned with various combinations of letters prefixing their 'heavyweight champion of the world' accolade. | | |
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