I stay in the background. A lot of owners in football think they have to say something profound, particularly to explain a win or a loss. I think the less you say, the better off you are. | | | | No, you're not seeing double. It's the 2017 Australian Swimming Championships.
(Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I stay in the background. A lot of owners in football think they have to say something profound, particularly to explain a win or a loss. I think the less you say, the better off you are.”
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| | rantnrave:// MIKE OZ's opening 25-year-old baseball cards series is consistently entertaining. In each episode, he opens a pack of baseball cards with someone in baseball and has a few minutes of fun and a walk down memory lane. In this episode, REDS pitcher BRONSON ARROYO calls out a former teammate for his, umm, adult entertainment preferences. It's a peek into the sport's personalities talking about a piece of their childhood or about their peers... After nearly 40 years on the air, ESPN’s influence in sports is immense, but it still can’t avoid questions about its future. Trace how the network has changed the sports media landscape and itself in our new REDEF SportsSET, "ESPN: The Worldwide Leader in Sports Takes"... The NHL playoffs will provide great theater for the next two months. How will the league's young stars adjust to the postseason? Can SIDNEY CROSBY take the PENGUINS back-to-back? Or will this be CONNOR MCDAVID's time? Will a CANADIAN team win the STANLEY CUP for the first time since 1993?... DON VAN NATTA and SETH WICKERSHAM produced a spectacular story on how the RAIDERS left OAKLAND and put together their move to LAS VEGAS. It's a tale of competing interests, billionaire battles and a wily underdog. Too bad it has to end with a fanbase left behind... Can science help runners run a sub-two-hour marathon?... SportsREDEF is taking a long weekend so there will be no newsletter Monday. But don't worry, it'll be back in your inbox Tuesday morning. Use the free time to go for a run. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| After nearly 40 years on the year, ESPN’s influence in the sports world is immense, but it still can’t avoid questions about its future. These stories trace how the network has changed the sports media landscape and itself. | | |
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| How Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis -- with a little luck, his own brand of genius and an assist from Jerry Jones -- outflanked power brokers to put the Raiders in Las Vegas. | | |
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| A social-oriented video game makes obsessives out of basement cyclists. Can it also grow a new generation of pros? | | |
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| Tommy Tuberville wants to get the state of Alabama back to winning. But to earn the governor's seat he's considering running for, he'll have to convince Crimson Tide fans to vote for a former Auburn coach. | | |
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| A.J. Preller’s unprecedented roster is an unabashed declaration. | | |
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| Sports leagues that target the public with DMCA takedowns are engaging in a self-defeating practice -- and trampling on our fair use rights. | | |
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| Strikeout rates have risen throughout baseball history, and you can trace it all back to 1884, when baseball turned pitchers into the most important players in the game. | | |
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| Gaining an unfair reputation for disorder, the origins and recent actions of Beşiktaş's famed ultras group, the Çarşı, paints a very different picture | | |
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| Leo Ferris helped found the NBA and was the co-creator of the 24-second shot clock. But after he left the game in 1954, his contributions were largely forgotten. Now his family is fighting to get him into the Hall of Fame. | | |
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| Yair Rodriguez looks ready to take over the UFC. Is a fight with Conor McGregor on the horizon? | | |
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| There’s something to be said about being a 40-year-old pitcher in Major League Baseball. Veteran status means you can do and say more of what you want. Which brings us to this week’s episode of 25-Year-Old Baseball Cards with Cincinnati Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo. | | |
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| On October 15, 1978, Vera Komarkova, Irene Miller, Chewang Rinjing Sherpa, and Mingma Tshering Sherpa stood in a dazzle of afternoon light on the summit of 8,091-meter Annapurna. Around them, only the tallest snowy peaks of the Nepalese Himalayas crested the blue haze. There was a chill in the air, a foreboding of winter storms. | | |
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| Adventure photographer Cory Richards shares his intimate struggles-with PTSD, alcoholism, infidelity-and how he found his way forward. | | |
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| One year after a spectacular failure, the Rockets did something few expected: They doubled down on their revolutionary style. | | |
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| The NBA wants to let fans give out "social media-type" awards for "things like best dunk and best dressed," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told B/R's Howard Beck the other day. And, at the league's first annual awards show two-and-a-half long months from now, Russ will be a contender for those, too, with a curled upper lip and hopefully not that neon orange official photographer vest again. | | |
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| Last weekend’s news that the NFL is considering disciplinary action against a group of players who took part in a charity arm-wrestling event at a Las Vegas casino has brought renewed attention to the league’s policy on gambling. And it’s hard not to notice how much of that policy is just the NFL continually pulling things out of its ass. | | |
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| In a draft that lacks a surefire franchise quarterback, Texas Tech’s Patrick Mahomes has a chance to emerge as 2017’s prize passer. We went behind the scenes with the QB as he prepared for the audition of his life: his pro day. | | |
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| The son of Steelers founder Art Rooney transformed the franchise into a dynasty in the 1970s and became an influential voice in the NFL. | | |
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| The Pittsburgh Steelers’ owner, Dan Rooney, doesn’t always offer players top dollar. But he knows them and greets them with a handshake. | | |
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| Long ago, when children were allowed to wander from their parents' side for more than 15 minutes, I spent much of my free time accumulating baseball cards. | | |
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