I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. | | | | The London Knights.
(Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”
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| | rantnrave:// The BALL DON'T LIE blog was one of my first online hubs. It was, simply, great. Who knew you could write about basketball like that. Flippant. Funny. Full of non-sequiturs. Comprehensive. I checked it nearly every day. I wasn't alone. It fed the internet's fix for basketball news and whatever the hell else was on the site that day. Hearing that YAHOO, err, I mean, OATH, is laying off ERIC FREEMAN and KELLY DWYER was a hit. I hope they land someplace else. Even if they do, it will be hard to recreate what once was at BDL... BOMANI JONES makes a good point: While everyone fixated on the ESPN layoffs, the media giant isn't the only one making cuts. Maybe we're just more attuned to layoffs now but it seems like so many media companies are nipping and tucking somewhere. That's where we are... 2013 is the year without a champion in college basketball. The NCAA ruled LOUISVILLE committed some rules violations (OK, having a Louisville assistant facilitate sex for recruits is way different than under-the-table payments) and poof! Louisville never beat MICHIGAN. Stripping teams of wins after the fact has always been one of the most illogical NCAA punishments. It doesn't prevent the real-time joy or pride, or lessen the incentive to win. The immediate payoff is worth more than any future punishment. It's a wrist slap. Despite what the NCAA says, I still think RICK PITINO has a ring on his finger, but I'll also acknowledge he turned a blind eye to what went on to get it. If the NCAA wants to penalize bad actors, make the punishment forward-looking. You can't erase the past... The MOMOFUKshoe... The track and field world is caught in an ethical debate. Some want to erase all world records before 2005, hoping that would eliminate the marks from a presumably steroid-saturated era. Track would benefit from its athletes chasing or setting previously unbreakable records. JARMILA KRATOCHVILOVA, suspected of doping, set the women's 800-meter record in 1983 and only one runner has come within a second since. But there's a little issue. How do we know that anyone after 2005 -- or now -- is clean? Track's governing body started storing blood and urine samples that year for better drug testing, but that doesn't mean athletes aren't capable of beating it. The cheaters could be just as talented as the testers. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Deadspin |
| Just before the 2016 MLB playoffs, Baseball Prospectus emailed its staff and contributors to tell them that they would not be paid for work they did in August and September until January 2017. The costs of a website redesign and the collapse of daily-fantasy ad spending, the email explained, led to the payment freeze. | | |
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 | ESPN FC |
| Agent Jonathan Barnett made Gareth Bale his millions. Now, he "can walk into any club in the world, and they all know me." | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| How the high-risk, high-reward extreme sport helps conquer your fear of the deep through meditation. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| This Latino immigrant moved to 1920s New York with nothing and took on the sports establishment. Then the establishment took him down. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Tottenham’s new stadium will have its own microbrewery, while the Atlanta Falcons new home will feature the world’s first 360-degree video wall - what else does the future hold for sports arenas? | | |
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 | The Hardball Times |
| Who knows what the game will look like in the future, but people need to try harder. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Jarmila Kratochvilova ran 800 meters in 1 minute 53.28 seconds in 1983, a mark that could be erased by a proposal to void all world records set before 2005. | | |
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 | UPROXX |
| The Big3 is one of the hottest talking points in basketball, we detail the story of how it came to be. | | |
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 | Bandcamp Daily |
| What do emo bands and the all-American sport have in common? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Burned out on baseball and angry at his father, Ryan Jaroncyk quit after just two years in professional baseball, but that was hardly the end of his story. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| In the current climate in the country, the Warriors have an important decision to make - they can add to the toxicity or be exemplars of political civility. | | |
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 | Salon |
| Your White House invitation is coming. You should use this as an opportunity to make a statement | | |
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 | New York Post |
| You can only have your heart broken for the first time once per lifetime. | | |
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 | Runner's World |
| Robert “Raven” Kraft has run 8 miles every day since 1975, and more than 2,600 runners have joined him. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| It’s never really been possible to simply “stick to sports.” | | |
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 | Durham Herald-Sun |
| Steven Mitchell, who sat behind the Duke basketball bench at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham for 37 years, was born with Down syndrome in 1954 and died on June 4, 2017. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor will reach into the pockets of two million-plus people this summer, and it likely won’t be until the middle of the third round that they realize they were swindled. This is Golden State against Appalachian State, the Patriots against Pop Warner. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Just how diverse is a typical NFL locker room? We surveyed 51 members of the Denver Broncos on the subjects of class, race, religion, upbringing, politics and more. | | |
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 | recode |
| Like the best reality TV contestants, BTIG’s Rich Greenfield says he’s not here to make friends. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| How California tech companies are breathing new life into the ancient partnership between people and birds of prey. | | |
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