If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them. | | | | Lucha libres, in London.
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| | rantnrave:// VENUS WILLIAMS sometimes gets lost in her sister's shadow. It's understandable. SERENA is the greatest women's tennis player ever. She's probably the best tennis player ever. She's one of the most dominant athletes in history. Nearly anyone would stand in her shadow. But Venus' career has been remarkable too. Seven Grand Slam titles. Years of injuries and illness. She wasn't a contender for a while, going eight years without a finals appearance in a slam. It's been nine years since her last major championship. That title could be coming soon because Venus is now the best story in sports. She'll face GARBINE MUGURAZA in the WIMBLEDON final Saturday. She's 37 -- too old to be competitive in most sports and ancient in tennis. Muguruza is 23. This shouldn't be close. But Venus is different. Who could've imagined her winning a slam again two or three years ago? It doesn't matter if it's without Serena in the field. This is our time to appreciate Venus. The older sister who came out roaring first on the WTA has the spotlight back on her. Let's enjoy this... PHIL IVEY was the biggest star of last decade's Great Poker Boom. I remember watching the WORLD SERIES OF POKER and studying how all the players operated. Each one had a distinct personality. Ivey didn't hide behind glasses. He intimidated just by picking up a set of cards. No one could compare to Ivey's cool. He was always the biggest name at the table. That seems like a long time ago. Poker's buzz has settled, and Ivey's aura has taken a hit because of scandal. DAVID HILL tries to figure out why he's not at this year's WSOP. A deep dive on a man who is still poker's biggest star, even if he's hardly seen anymore... In 2015 this WASHINGTON NATIONALS O.F. nicknamed "BAM BAM" hit 42 home runs & was the NL MVP. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | Outside Online |
| Swine flu, supervolcano eruption, zombie attack. Competitors at the Survival Trial, an adventure race in the New Mexico backcountry, come armed to the teeth and ready for anything. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| The scale of it, man. The scale of it. Even if we assume that the seagull is almost as big as the sun only because of perspective, that it's an optical illusion, it wouldn't explain the size of the marlins behind the sun. | | |
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 | Cosmopolitan |
| In an exclusive interview, the gymnast alleges years of horrors at the hands of doctor Larry Nassar. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| In a sport known for its post-truth propagation of transfer rumors, a journalist created a fake phenom to see how much traction his story could get. A lot, it turned out. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Sam Querrey’s berth in the Wimbledon semifinals ends at least one Grand Slam dry spell. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| The Cubs are juggling four balls simultaneously: fighting the rising cost of soon-to-be-arbitration-eligible players, staying flexible enough to pounce in free agency, remaining under the luxury-tax threshold and fielding a winning team. | | |
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| The Championships uses a surprising amount of cool tech despite being 140 years old. | | |
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 | Science of Us |
| A case against the quantified self. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| 40 years ago Thursday (Jul 13), the lights went out in New York and the city was plunged into 25 hours of chaos. Here's what that was like at Shea Stadium. | | |
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 | ESPN |
| From 2007 to 2017, it's the game that's withstood the test of time at Evo. The experts, pros and former champions weigh in on their memories of "Melee" at the Evolution Championship Series. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Eleven years ago, Ted Owen had a dream: to persuade the Olympic planning committee in Beijing that video games belonged in the 2008 Games. The skepticism was overwhelming. And despite the best efforts of the founder of the Global Gaming League, the Olympics came and went without a game controller in sight. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| In Neiko Primus, the basketball world sees a phenom. His mom sees a kid with only one chance to grow up. | | |
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 | The Street |
| Esports are getting legitimized. | | |
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 | Waypoint |
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 | The Guardian |
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 | Fast Company |
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