We cannot pioneer and invent if we are fearful of deviating from the norm, damaging our public perception or—most important—harming our own personal interests. | | | | Kathrine Switzer didn't stop running during the 1967 Boston Marathon and became an inspiration.
(Paul Connell/The Boston Globe/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “We cannot pioneer and invent if we are fearful of deviating from the norm, damaging our public perception or—most important—harming our own personal interests.”
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| | rantnrave:// I am the target demographic for every NBA team's gameday production. The light shows. The t-shirt cannons. The halftime shows. I find intrigue in it all, and am endlessly annoyed by the cheesy videos. ESPN's look at the GRIZZLIES' gameday prep is a fun peek behind the curtain. The background on how the parachute drop came to be, the work that goes into Grizz, the team mascot, and the life story of the halftime act who ran away from the circus are all entertaining vignettes. And photos of mascots are always funny... But if there is a war on mascots, I know which side I'll be fighting for... COLIN KAEPERNICK is one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. But he still doesn't have a job in the NFL... SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's What If? series is an imaginative bit of revisionist's history... THE UNDEFEATED has used BOB MARLEY week to look back at the life of the deceased star but also to examine how he and his family have built strong ties in the sports world. The grandson who's chasing an NFL career. The daughter involved with a JAMAICAN soccer team. These are the legacies that have outlived Marley... ESPN vs. FOX SPORTS 1... NBA players let their hearts out on their shoes. It's one of the sport's more endearing fashion quirks... You should heed this health and fitness advice from MOSE VELSOR... SERENA WILLIAMS won the AUSTRALIAN OPEN while pregnant. She's already the GOAT. Congrats on becoming a mom-to-be... RICK MAESE's story of the time a DEA agent met with NFL medical staff to discuss how they give out prescription drugs is both absurd and revealing. When people think of the most cynical ways NFL teams treat their players -- this is it. Want to know the meeting went? Consider this quote from an NFL doctor on the difference between an NFL team and the military flying drugs around on a plane: "The military is exempt? Well, think of our players as warriors every Sunday on the field of battle"... DEREK JETER vs. TOM GLAVINE. Winner gets the MIAMI MARLINS. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Four years after a contentious meeting between NFL medical staff and a DEA official, the league finally enacted guidelines for the handling of prescription drugs by team staff. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| Hiding in a forest for 27 years, a man found what many can no longer comprehend: solitude in nature. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| He was one of the NBA’s finest sharpshooters and a two-time champion alongside Michael Jordan, but was run out of the league for his outspoken views. A quarter of a century on, Craig Hodges is still fighting the good fight. | | |
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 | USA TODAY Sports |
| David Freese, 2011 World Series MVP, struggled before and after his hometown star turn in St. Louis. He finally found a path to beating depression. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| An investment group is finalizing a partnership with Amazon’s Twitch to launch an indoor-football league that lets fans call plays in real-time. | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Heirs to the comedic duo present a "critically important" question about a "new rule" robbing contributors to old movies of ownership rights. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| Could a star runner finally right the corruption within Kenya's athletic and political circles? On the surface, many say yes, but Kipsang's critics question if he is contributing to the problem. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Advice from 1858 that still rings true. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| Walk around the Blackhawks dressing room and you might hear conversations in Swedish, Russian, Czech, Slovakian and English. | | |
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 | Jason B. Kohl |
| A native american fishing couple negotiate the changing waters beneath them. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Pace of play this, and pace of play that. Rob Manfred did not want to talk about it. Not at first, anyway. The commissioner of baseball wanted to play football trivia. Let’s do this. | | |
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 | Lansing State Journal |
| He was once called the best player in college football. Now Rogers works at an auto repair shop on Florida's gulf coast. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| On Cinco de Mayo, a group of swimmers will set out from a beach in San Diego and swim south, landing in Tijuana, in defiance of President Trump’s restrictions and rhetoric on immigration. | | |
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 | i-D Magazine |
| From Anne Imhof to Bjarne Melgaard, FKA Twigs to Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, a generation of artists and performers are embracing sportswear's ubiquity to critique and explore the world we live in. | | |
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 | ThinkProgress |
| It’s a symbolic statement that isn’t really addressing the problem. | | |
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 | The Stacks |
| He was a bootlegger’s son, a railroad machinist, a semipro first baseman, an up-before-dawn jogger, an improve-your-lie golfer, and a spinner of yarns. He coached baseball teams loaded with future professionals and dedicated drunks, and others made up of kids who puked when they took a chew of his Beechnut tobacco. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Talent evaluators and former front-office members recount their biggest draft misses. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| In the roughly seven decades since the NHL started handing out the Art Ross trophy to the league’s top scorer, only three recipients have spent at least some of an award-winning season as a teenager. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Why paddle out under the stars? To get away from the crowds, mainly. | | |
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| ESPN |
| Forty-one times a season, the event presentations staff of the Memphis Grizzlies have multiple meetings and rehearsals before every NBA home game that will be seen by thousands. Welcome to life inside the Grindhouse. | | |
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