The hot dog is American. Sandwiches are not American. They're different. Second of all, a hot dog is like a pop idol. Hot dogs are cute. It's a pop image—everyone knows what a hot dog is. | | | | Baseball behind bars. Inmates play at San Quentin State Prison.
(Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The hot dog is American. Sandwiches are not American. They're different. Second of all, a hot dog is like a pop idol. Hot dogs are cute. It's a pop image—everyone knows what a hot dog is.”
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| | rantnrave:// What will become of FOX SPORTS? News that FOX fired JAMIE HOROWITZ Monday following allegations of sexual harassment hit the media industry like an anvil atop the head. Horowitz eaves behind a network molded in his image and controversial. He leaned in heavily into debate and personality driven shows. Last week, Fox Sports laid off its digital team and transitioned to a video-only format online. The strategy was to build up and build around big personalities. Will Fox continue down this path without its brainchild around? It could be the second left turn in the last five years. Horowitz's decision to go big on personality wasn't unique -- ESPN has followed suit by repurposing SPORTSCENTER and by amplifying FIRST TAKE, which Horowitz developed -- but it went further than any competitor. Fox also owns MLB, NFL, soccer and other sports rights, and that's a part of its DNA, too. Fox Sports is trying to build its brand further. Will the next chief feel as passionately about what Horowitz left behind?... How much should an NBA player make and which team should pay him? Those are the questions asked during NBA free agency every year. But what if the paradigm is wrong? The NBA works under a cap system with maximum salaries. The NFL has a salary cap but no max. MLB doesn't have a hard cap or a max. What would all these leagues look like if there were no restrictions? NBA stars have long been underpaid employees. STEPH CURRY signed a $201 million contract with the WARRIORS but, as LEBRON JAMES points out, he's worth more. I'd love to see leagues without caps and max salaries. Want to stop super-teams in the NBA? Force KEVIN DURANT to choose between a $70 million annual salary and a chance to play with Curry. How much would TOM BRADY be paid if the NFL didn't have a cap? Would he be as willing to take a pay cut to keep the PATRIOTS machine humming? No cap and no max would benefit everyone -- except the owners who'd have to pay more... GORDON HAYWARD's free agency was the big summer blockbuster HOLLYWOOD wished it had. A suspense thriller with the ending we expected all along. ... The BOBBY BONILLA retirement plan... SEMAJ BOOKER ran away from home at nine. He's still running. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | The Seattle Times |
| Semaj Booker stole a car, snuck on two flights and became known as "the most persistent, most creative and most publicized" 9-year-old runaway "in the history of the Pacific Northwest." That was 10 years ago. Today he’s trying to escape from the environment in which he grew up. This is his story. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| In Major League Baseball, The gulf between the faces who play the sport and the faces who run the sport never has been wider. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| A gathering in Florida provides a telling glimpse into the (golf-heavy, yarn-filled, still-aspirant) life of the modern professional athlete after hanging up the uniform. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Review Of Books |
| Nicholas Carr contemplates AI and “Deep Thinking,” a memoir by chess master Garry Kasparov. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Recent layoffs raise grim questions about the future of the media. Is the landscape changing or is this the same old corporate maneuvering? | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| He has been called the most talented player since Roger Federer. But does he even want to win? | | |
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 | ESPN |
| A college football player thought he and a friend were going to meet up with two women. Instead, they were abducted and tortured for 40 hours -- all because of a teammate. | | |
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 | 30 for 30 Podcasts |
| The story of how a chant and a shirt came to dominate one of baseball’s biggest rivalries, thanks to a group of hardcore punks from Boston. Starting in 1999, a group of kids infiltrated Fenway Park with one of the most popular bootleg t-shirts in sports history — a shirt that became the emblem of the moment the Red Sox and Yankees rivalry was turned on its head. | | |
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 | Sportsnet |
| Our demographics are changing and we have more sporting options than ever. But at 150, Canada remains a hockey country... and looks like it always will be. | | |
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 | BBC Sport |
| Chris Froome gives BBC Sport an insight into the trials and tribulations of competing on the toughest stages of the Tour de France. | | |
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 | Yahoo Finance |
| Adidas is on fire in the American sneaker market, gaining market share and retaining cool factor. Sneaker fans say it's all thanks to Kanye West, but not everyone agrees that he deserves the credit. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Jonah Keri hits fungoes with baseball writer Jayson Stark about childhood sportswriting ambitions and influences; the Philadelphia brand of sportswriting; first gigs; baseball players who are hostile to journalists; getting confronted by players and managers; tough love managers; becoming the first full-time baseball writer for ESPN.com; finding humor in baseball; Jayson's all-time favorite game; branching out beyond baseball; and Jayson's Life Tip. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The jersey hanging in his home that Strahan thinks he wore in the Super Bowl may be a fake, but a reporter's efforts to find out were ignored. | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| If you’re a digital publisher and you haven’t embraced mobile and social, get on board. That was one message from Bleacher Report CEO and co-founder Dave Finocchio. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| In the early 2000s, a wave of new technology cracked the door open for the newest generation of NFL coaching stars | | |
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 | Charlie Rose |
| Tennis icon John McEnroe discusses his career and new memoir, "But Seriously." | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Football is a game that tests you in many ways - physically, mentally and emotionally. But the biggest test just might be of your resolve. | | |
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 | Advertising Age |
| NFL sales in the 2017-18 upfront bazaar have been softer than sellers originally had anticipated, and while the networks aren't exactly scrambling, the volume of money that's been held back suggests that the league's media partners may be in for a white-knuckle fall scatter market. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Recently, Netflix released the first season of GLOW, a dramedy based on the production of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, the comedic late ’80s women’s wrestling promotion that was, ever so briefly, a smash hit in syndication. Many reviews have focused on how a gifted, majority-female cast and creative team have reclaimed something long considered an oddball, corny excuse to put aspiring actresses in skimpy clothes, and made it something empowering. | | |
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 | CNN |
| On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet containing video in which he pummels a person with a CNN logo as its head. The tweet was accompanied by these hashtags "#FraudNewsCNN #FNN." | | |
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