I want you to remember some inspiring words that someone else might have told you over the course of your lives, and go out there and win! | | | | It's not Hoosiers. It's the Celtics celebrating their 1964 NBA title.
(Bettmann/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I want you to remember some inspiring words that someone else might have told you over the course of your lives, and go out there and win!”
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| | rantnrave:// A great Game 1 of the STANLEY CUP FINALS and what's the biggest talking point? A catfish. Is that an indictment of the NHL or of how we digest sports? The game was enthralling and it had the best player in the world. But a guy threw a catfish onto the ice, so that stole the show. TWITTER and sports' digital media ecosystem have exposed the idea that a good number of fans -- maybe a plurality? -- don't consume sports for the games themselves. They watch for the storyline, or consume the memes, or skip over the action to get to the day-after analysis or how it sets up the roster transactions. Has it always been this way? I'm too young to know what coverage was like in the '80s and '90s. Was there an inflection point where the interest went from the game to the highlight to the trade? Was it highlight shows or sports talk radio? Did the consumers dictate what content they want or is the audience responding to what's in front of them? Is there any way to make the game itself, not the bites and morsels we've become accustomed to, the primary product again, or are we too far gone?... What makes the SPELLING BEE so hard? OLIVER ROEDER’s deep dive into the spelling contest for FIVETHIRTYEIGHT is one of my favorite analytical stories in a while. How do you get readers to read all the way through a long story? By engaging and challenging them. It's informative, curious and fun. Did you know that words with GREEK as a language of origin have been the easiest to spell, or that ones with HEBREW have been the hardest? Roeder gets nerdy and so will you... VIACOM believes a non-sports bundle is not only possible but might be profitable... HOMER AT THE BAT may be my favorite SIMPSONS episode ever. I'm happy the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME honored it. It's iconic to baseball fans of a certain age. One of my first references for KEN GRIFFEY JR. remains his troubles with nerve tonic. I've never seen THE NATURAL but I know about "Wonderbat." I still hum "TALKING SOFTBALL." | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The New York Times |
| Mayor Bill de Blasio does not want to discuss the curious network of power brokers behind an event that the city paid for. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
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 | The Washington Post |
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 | Outside Online |
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 | Golf Digest |
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 | Tacoma News Tribune |
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 | The New Yorker |
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