Obviously, I'm aware of what happened during the referendum. But, yeah, in terms of my own opinions, I think they're very much best discussed at the dinner table. | | | | | Halfway to a slam. (Roberto Faccenda) | | | | |  | “Obviously, I'm aware of what happened during the referendum. But, yeah, in terms of my own opinions, I think they're very much best discussed at the dinner table.”
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 | The New York Times |
| The International Cricket Council meets starting Monday in Edinburgh, and huge changes may soon engulf international cricket. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| ESPN’s Euro 2016 coverage has been mixed, while Fox has been sharper, funnier, and truer to an authentically American culture of the sport. | | |
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 | The Sacramento Bee |
| The strategy of overloading one side of their infield against certain hitters goes back decades, to Ted Williams and possibly further, but it has never been so prevalent as in today’s game. Should hitters try to adjust? | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The two reasons that it no longer aids our cause. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| As a controversial first-round draft pick with a long list of legal run-ins, he took criticism from all sides. Now Sebastian Janikowski is a walking, talking (and kicking) Raiders institution. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| After another monster recruiting class, it’s clear his methods work. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| At the USA Olympics swimming trials in Omaha, Nebraska this week, Katie Ledecky will take the next step to becoming the greatest and most-decorated swimmer of all time. | | |
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| But MLS to San Diego? What did San Diego ever do to us? | | |
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| In “House of Nails: A Memoir of Life on the Edge” (HarperCollins), out Tuesday, Dykstra, 53, chronicles his transformation from a scrappy overachiever to a hard-partying, steroid-fueled “Greek god.” Here he dishes on some of his craziest celebrity encounters. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Wright Thompson's profile of Johnny Manziel before his final season at Texas A&M warned that his celebrity could derail his life. (Originally published on July 30, 2013.) | | |
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| Thoughts on the first episode of ESPN's five-part documentary Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways Subscribe Now > Every fall Sunday, when I was a kid, half an hour before the pre-game shows and an hour before the games themselves, I would tune into the latest offering from NFL Films. This was the pre-pre-game show-an assembly of short films derived from the massive archive of professional football. | | |
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| To see all 10 teams in the Cape Cod Baseball League play in one night is baseball heaven. But first things first: Never travel on an empty stomach. | | |
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| General Manager Sam Hinkie resigned in April after a woeful stretch, but the draft picks he assembled could really pay off. | | |
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| How the broadcaster cozied up to Muhammad Ali, LeBron James, and nearly every sports giant (and a few movie stars) in between. | | |
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| This was to have been the match that sealed Lionel Messi's legacy. The one that silenced the doubters, that killed off the question mark hanging over his greatness, that gave him his place in the pantheon next to Diego Maradona and showed he could achieve the same success with Argentina that has become so staggeringly routine at club level. | | |
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| Andy Murray on feeling the Wimbledon nerves, facing Liam Broady, and how British players can spring surprises this year. | | |
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 | Digiday |
| U.S. soccer fans interested in watching the Copa América Centenario tournament have no shortage of cable viewing options. For those interested in Euro 2016, they can tune into ESPN. But not every soccer match is part of a high-profile international tournament. And not every soccer fan pays for cable. | | |
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| My hope is that while athletes who identify as LGBTQIA continue to be more visible in the media and receive national acceptance and acclaim, we also reflect upon our trauma. The stories that made us resilient people. What we had to endure. What we had to sacrifice. How my story is unique -- but not uncommon. | | |
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| Looking for the ultimate challenge? These hardcore races might be exactly what you need. | | |
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| Chicago made me who I am. But it’s time for a new chapter. | | |
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