As humbly as I can say it, I’m not a $88 player. I’m an elite player in the league. | | | | | Does Roger Federer have one Wimbledon title left in him? (Vinod Divakaran) | | | | |  | “As humbly as I can say it, I’m not a $88 player. I’m an elite player in the league.”
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| | rantnrave:// Concerned that KEVIN DURANT and other members of the NBA's bonkers free agent class of 2016 are overpaid? Fear not. If anything, they are handsomely underpaid, starting with DURANT himself, and here is your incontrovertible evidence... But there may be a little less money to go around a year from now, it turns out... The SPORTS FAN JOURNAL stops sports for a minute to reflect on the horrific deaths of ALTON STERLING and PHILANDO CASTILE, and to talk about family, community and the insignificance of DWYANE WADE switching uniforms at this exact point in time... PATRIOTS tight end MARTELLUS BENNETT shares some thoughts on the "quest for freedom," which is "still a giraffe and a half away"... This weekend brings the WIMBLEDON finals (ladies 9 am ET SATURDAY and gentlemen 9 am ET SUNDAY, both ESPN), the EURO 2016 final (3 pm ET SUNDAY, ESPN) and stages 8 and 9 of the TOUR DE FRANCE (8 am ET SATURDAY, NBC, and 6 am ET SUNDAY, NBCSN). But the most anticipated event may be the somewhat tainted UFC 200 (main card 10 pm ET SATURDAY, pay-per-view)... The newest update of the NFL's catch rule was written by the same guy who wrote the assembly instructions for that thing you bought at IKEA... The literal value of a missed penalty kick. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Backchannel |
| Do you really want to know what it’s like to get smothered by a linebacker? | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| How Brian Kenny became baseball’s toughest TV voice, and then calmed down. | | |
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 | The Miami Herald |
| So cruel sometimes, the emotions business. Dwyane Wade leaves Miami now, all wrong, and the people who care deeply, too deeply, unreasonably deeply, will argue and yell about where the blame should go for that. It will be passionate and hurt and angry, but then that will exhaust itself, and you know what will take its place? Sadness. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Kevin Durant's decision to sign with Golden State is a major victory for the NBA and its television partners. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| It registers less as news and more as routine when another Title IX lawsuit arises against a college or university for failing to meet its obligations to address sexual violence. The same is true when the claims made in these suits bear out. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| UFC fighter has denied all wrongdoing in potential anti-doping violation that caused him to be removed from main event against Daniel Cormier. | | |
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 | Vocativ |
| Joe Lacob fancies himself a visionary tech titan who is revolutionizing basketball. The truth is far more mundane. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| The Dichotomous Declines of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal W hen Roger Federer walked toward the baseline during his Wimbledon quarterfinal match on Wednesday down two sets and facing a triple break point, it looked like his magic had run out. | | |
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 | ESPN Front Row |
| Wimbledon, the most tradition-bound and formal of the tennis Majors -- rivaled only by The Masters among sporting events in that regard - is known for its iconic colors. The grass is green. The players wear white. Purple and green are the colors of the All England Lawn Tennis Club. | | |
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 | recode |
| Twitter tried live programming Wednesday. Here's what we thought. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| I am in Nosara, a small, sleepy village on Costa Rica's northwest coast, with my wife, Gabrielle, to try something I have only scant experience with and which she has none: surfing. Which is why we are at Surf Simply, a seven-day intensive surf camp. | | |
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 | Fittish |
| Eugene, Oregon is a picturesque college town, sparkly with streams and framed by dark pine-forested hills, with a population equal parts public radio, Dick-and-Perry-with-a-snort-of-Eminem, and hippie. | | |
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 | Fear The Fin |
| Imagine you have a job where you're asked to work full time hours, make immense sacrifices in your personal life and experience little development other than that which directly relates to your current job position. Now imagine that you get paid around $800 a month for the privilege. | | |
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 | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| The police investigation into allegations of sexual assault against Pirates third baseman Jung Ho Kang will trigger the first implementation of Major League Baseball's new sexual assault policy. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Though he struggled on the field last season, the Colts’ QB surpassed all expectations with his new contract. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Following his visit with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons to pass on his expertise in tackling techniques last month, ex-England rugby coach Stuart Lancaster believes coaches of his sport and those of American football can learn from each other. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Disney's reported $1 billion planned investment into BAM Tech, MLB's streaming-video company, is one of many reasons to believe that even in the era of cable cord-cutting, fans will still pay premium prices for sport broadcasts. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Kerri Walsh Jennings, seeking her fourth gold medal, is teamed with April Ross, a silver medalist in 2012, whose style differs from that of her predecessor. | | |
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 | Reuters |
| China’s tech giants are putting new measures in place to crack down on soccer bets. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| For inventor Hal Richman, the legendary baseball board game Strat-O-Matic was an escape from a difficult childhood. For generations of fans, it's just been an escape. | | |
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