Everything is not going to be perfect. You've got to learn to fight through adversity, the struggles, or whatever happens during the season, but you've got to play through it, keep working, and things change. | | | | | Auston Matthews: The NHL's Ben Simmons? (Pumpido75) | | | | |  | “Everything is not going to be perfect. You've got to learn to fight through adversity, the struggles, or whatever happens during the season, but you've got to play through it, keep working, and things change.”
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| | rantnrave:// RYAN GOLDBERG's magazine-length investigation, for DEADSPIN, into sports betting expert RJ BELL and his company PREGAME.COM is an astonishing piece of journalism that suggests the online sports betting world could use an intervention from BERNIE SANDERS or ELIZABETH WARREN. In addition to the basic allegation that a betting expert trusted by a wide swath of the mainstream sports media has lost money for most of his company's customers, GOLDBERG has dug up a tremendous amount of damning data and inside info on BELL and his expert "touts." One particularly nefarious practice, according to GOLDBERG: In addition to charging customers fees for betting advice, tout services like PREGAME can get referral fees of 20 to 40 percent of the losses of any of their customers from the online sportsbooks where their bets are placed. Which means the more their customers lose, the more they stand to make. Does that remind you of any particular economy-wrecking scandal? (BELL declined to speak to GOLDBERG on the record, but sent him a short statement which says among other things that DEADSPIN itself has relied on his betting expertise.)... What happens when you accumulate piles and piles of trade chips but you can't find anyone to trade them with? The CELTICS at the 2016 NBA draft. The THUNDER and the MAGIC made a big trade, though. The 76ERS, the one team who actually would have liked to barter with the CELTICS, walked away with the big prize of the night, though they were hoping for two big prizes. THE VERTICAL grades the international-heavy first round... Round one of the NHL draft is at 7 pm tonight on NBCSN. The MAPLE LEAFS are the NHL's 76ERS and AUSTON MATTHEWS of SWITZERLAND's ZSC LIONS is expected to be their BEN SIMMONS... What BREXIT might mean for the PREMIER LEAGUE (written before the UK actually voted to do it)... LEBRON JAMES had plenty of good reasons to say no to the OLYMPICS, including playing deep into JUNE for six straight years. But his opting out (THE LEBREXIT?) won't do any favors for a RIO games losing competitors faster than the BRITISH pound is losing value. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Deadspin |
| The lies about winning picks are merely the short con in advance of the long game: hush-hush arrangements with sportsbooks in which pick-sellers earn a significant cut of the losses of their referred clients. Today’s touts get you on both ends. They sell you “winners,” and then collect when you lose. It’s a sucker’s game, same as it ever was. | | |
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 | USA Today |
| LINCOLN, Neb. - Brenda Tracy stood in front of Nebraska coach Mike Riley's football team Wednesday afternoon and told them the story of that night nearly 18 years ago when she was gang-raped by four men - two of whom played for Riley's Oregon State team in 1998. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| With his curtain call weeks away, the greatest swimmer of all time hopes to put his nightmares behind him and embrace life on dry land. | | |
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 | Runner's World UK |
| To the inmates of America’s Oregon State Penitentiary, where a pioneering programme allows them to run and race, the wall is much more than a metaphor. RW’s Michael Heald gets inside an extreme illustration of the redemptive power of running. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| This isn’t an interview, and it’s not about politics. I simply wanted to share our perspectives on a few things that are meaningful to both of us. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| The Vertical and DraftExpress break down each pick of the first round of Thursday's NBA draft. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| In Locking In a Big Ten Deal, ESPN and Fox Claim the Last Big Rights Prize The lawyers are still poring over the deal points, but a new media rights package for the Big Ten Conference has been locked in through the end of the 2022-23 academic year, people familiar with the situation confirmed. | | |
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 | High Snobiety |
| LeBron James' third NBA championship is perhaps his biggest achievement as a professional athlete because it not only represented a historic 3-1 Finals comeback over the Golden State Warriors which had never been achieved before in the league, but it also snapped the city of Cleveland's 52-year championship drought. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| "The following Lucha is a no-mas match." The rules are simple: The first wrestler to get their opponent to say "no mas" exits victorious. There are no countouts, no pinfalls and no tapouts. The only way to win is to break down your opposition so badly that they literally cannot take anymore. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Video of selfie-taking, beer-drinking impostor nuns went viral but real sisters explain what it’s like to be fans in an industry that treats athletes as saints. | | |
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 | NBC SportsWorld |
| Yes, you bet we're going to wade into the Twitter-infested waters of Michael Jordan vs. LeBron James for the official title of best basketball player of all-time. Absolutely. Sharpen your social media knives. Prepare your snark weapons. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| It's lit in Seattle, thanks to group vacations, American flag onesies, and a super chill coach. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| About 100 people in the U.S. drown after being sucked out to sea in rips each year, and new research has experts arguing over how best to escape them. Australia has figured it out, why haven’t we? | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| The future arrived wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and pocket square, a man dressed for business among a room full of other young men who dressed for the prom. The only allowance Ben Simmons made to style as he ascended the stage on Thursday night was a squarely knotted tie the color of solid gold. | | |
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 | The Cauldron |
| Although a (potentially) revolutionary talent, Philadelphia has needs elsewhere that the LSU prospect can’t satisfy. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| They're easy to make fun of, but the sport's most boring games have a big impact beyond the field. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| L.G.B.T. leaders are praising the inclusion of a transgender man and a duathlete who has competed with the United States national team. | | |
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 | Winging It In Motown |
| Pavel Datsyuk the player is an unmitigated masterpiece, but I can't help but think back to what he said nearly three years ago | | |
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 | Inc.com |
| The fantasy sports site needed to enforce strict regulations if it was going to make a comeback. | | |
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| Deadspin |
| The Sacramento Kings came in for even more derisive laughter than the baseline occasioned by any mention of their existence yesterday when ESPN's Chad Ford posted the following in the little quasi-Twitter scroll thing on the right side of the Worldwide Leader's busted website. | | |
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