I think every shot's going in, so that one was no different. |
| | | | | Basketball court, Kounkané, Senegal. (Dorothy Voorhees) | | | | | |  | “I think every shot's going in, so that one was no different.”
| - | Kris Jenkins, Villanova forward, on what he was thinking as the ball left his hand as the clock ran out last night |
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| rantnrave:// If someone ever asks you, "Why sports?," you might just want to show them the last 13.5 seconds of MONDAY night's NCAA men's championship game. Wow. #MARCUSPAIGE. #KRISJENKINS. And an extra special hashtag to #DANIELOCHEFU for grabbing a mop and cleaning up a wet spot on the court during the final timeout. I've seen a lot of things in my life. I'm pretty sure I've never seen that. He then set the screen that made JENKINS' winning shot possible... CONNECTICUT and SYRACUSE play for the women's championship tonight. It may be a slightly different kind of game -- and a slightly different but perfectly acceptable alternate answer for "Why sports?"…HALL OF FAME 'tude: "I tried to mix being dominant and entertaining every game"... HALL OF FAME sleeves... HALL OF FAME ambassador... HALL OF FAME pioneer… YANKEES throw spitball, JOHN OLIVER knocks it out of park… ADAM SCHEFTER throws curveball, GREG HARDY swings and hits himself with bat… GREG LOUGANIS gets WHEATIES box. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Deadspin |
| He didn’t want a piece of the dead guy holding his elbow together. That’s all he asked. (Excerpted from "The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports" by Jeff Passan.) | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Unlike many young MLB superstars, Mike Trout is not flashy or known for his outgoing personality. His folks say that’s just how he was brought up. | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Villanova won the national championship with a miracle finish in 1985, and pulled off another miracle Monday night to win it all once again. | | |
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 | syracuse.com |
| The UConn women's team is tested by eight-player men's squads in practice. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Ronda Rousey may not have made an appearance at Wrestlemania 32 in Dallas, Texas last night--despite months of speculation and rumors to the contrary--but her presence was certainly felt during the WWE Wrestlemania 32 Kickoff pre-show. | | |
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 | 60 Minutes |
| Sharyn Alfonsi profiles the compelling and controversial golfer Bubba Watson on the eve of his attempt to win a third green jacket at the Masters. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Bryce Harper has been a rising star for years, from teenage phenom to first overall draft pick to National League rookie of the year to all-star. His historic 2015 season -- on par with campaigns of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx and Mickey Mantle — elevated him to NL MVP. | | |
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 | Only A Game |
| Eddie George played football for Ohio State University. He won the Heisman trophy. He had a nine year NFL career with the Tennessee Titans, Houston Oilers and Dallas Cowboys. But when his football career ended unexpectedly, he had to find a way to re-invent himself. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Before her, hardly any female athletes had given birth mid-career. Sixteen years later, it's relatively normal. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| On January 21, 2001, Allen Iverson, one of the great accessorizers in the great history of N.B.A. accessorizing, took the court with what appeared to be a length of white pantyhose stretched over his right arm. | | |
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 | GQ |
| Inside the wild world of SoulCycle, the spinning phenomenon that swept the nation one stationary bike at a time. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Leicester City team that won at the Etihad this season cost less than most of Manchester City’s players. Why are some footballers cheaper than others? | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| Before Robert and Amy McCormick could see the racial injustice at the heart of big-time college sports, they had to wake up-literally. It was the summer of 2002, and the McCormicks, a married pair of professors at Michigan State University, were living in an East Lansing neighborhood located between a block of student housing and the school's athletic department. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Tonally, he's a tenor. Spiritually, he's Frank Sinatra. Across seven decades, Vin Scully has bewitched baseball fans with That Voice -- full of swing, moxie, and sonic opulence. He uses it like a horn, to serenade an antebellum sport that is too slow by half and make musical the specter of grown men mostly standing around for three hours. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Villanova won its first championship since 1985 on the backs of punishing defense, stars that shone brightest in April and, of course, one more great shot. We break down Nova's path to the win. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| The baseball world departed Arizona and Florida last week and has been preparing for today's Opening Day, which signifies the start of another seven and a half month journey for whichever team is fortunate enough to win the World Series. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| BOSTON -- Figure skating is not nearly what it used to be - not globally, not in the United States. The sport's popularity, with the notable exception of Japan, has eroded. Television contracts and exhibition tours have dried up in North America and in much of Europe. | | |
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 | FOX Sports |
| There have been a ton of red cards in MLS this season. But it's not an accident, or bad luck, or even bad refereeing. | | |
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 | CNN International |
| Romain Langasque is still waiting to hear back from Messrs Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth and Bubba Watson. As a first-time qualifier for the Masters the 20-year-old Frenchman is afforded five practice rounds at Augusta National, to examine the crevices and contours of its revered course. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain the champions in the game of Go. | | |
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