It’s part of the business that I don’t like at all, just because you want to take care of your own no matter what. | | | | | Kirk Cousins in October 2015. (Keith Allison) | | | | |  | “It’s part of the business that I don’t like at all, just because you want to take care of your own no matter what.”
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| | rantnrave:// Among the many curiosities of DR. ELLIOT PELLMAN's career is a 2003 research paper that says football players who suffer concussions are not at risk of further damage if they continue playing in the same game, and that those who do stay in the game display fewer concussion symptoms than those who don't. I'm no neurologist, but even I can tell you there's something fishy with that research. PELLMAN, who famously is no neurologist either, spent three decades as an NFL doctor and medical adviser and was, for much of that time, the league's point man in "routinely putting NFL players in harm's way by minimizing the effect of concussions," as the NEW YORK TIMES' KEN BELSON wrote on WEDNESDAY in a lengthy review of PELLMAN's and the NFL's repeated missteps and misinformation in responding to a growing concussion crisis. "It isn't controversial," wrote the RINGER's CLAIRE MCNEAR, to say PELLMAN "is a quack." He will soon be quacking his last, as the NFL quietly announced WEDNESDAY that PELLMAN will be retiring after three decades, quite possibly not by choice. Progress in the NFL can be slower than a running TOM BRADY, but this is definitely progress. The league, which seems to have a growing awareness of both the longterm health and longterm public-relations effects of concussions, also said it will hire a chief medical officer to work with teams and the players' association... In collegiate football health news, the IVY LEAGUE this year will move kickoffs up from the 35- to the 40-yard line and will give teams the ball at the 20 -- instead of the 25 -- after touchbacks. Both moves are designed to discourage kick returns, widely believed to be football's most dangerous play. The IVIES, home to a great number of current and future neurologists, will also use the year to gather data on concussions and other injuries during kickoffs. Could this be the beginning of the end for kickoffs at all levels of football? And will it be controversial or simply inevitable when and if that end does come?... PAUL POGBA may already be on his way back to OLD TRAFFORD by the time you read this. He does not seem the least bit nervous or preoccupied... OLYMPIC organizers are expecting an, um, OLYMPIAN amount of sex to happen in RIO next month. And they are prepared... RIP CHIEF ZEE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Derided at the time as “slacktivism,” the social-media campaign has had surprisingly long-lasting benefits. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Hundreds of millions of dollars are being poured into the burgeoning indoor climbing industry. Will the influx of cash help these gyms finally go mainstream? | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Balls are flying out of the park at the highest rate since the steroid era, and theories from global warming to a new hitting approach to changes to the baseballs themselves are being discussed. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Separate balance sheets are key to the financing. | | |
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 | Unusual Efforts |
| Many soccer fans in the US consider themselves allies with LGBT supporters, yet homophobia finds a way in. Here's what it's like to be queer at an MLS game. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Everyone in the NBA is asking the same question right now, and none of them are even pretending to have a convincing answer. The question is, how on Earth are teams supposed to defend the Golden State Warriors next season? And no, "very carefully" is not an answer. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| Too bad ESPN's Mike Ditka didn't accept Donald Trump's invitation to speak at the Republican National Convention. Based on Iron Mike's blunt views on everything from ESPN's political leanings to police shootings, he would have raised the roof with the politically conservative crowd gathering in Cleveland this week. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Speaking out at the ESPYS was just the first step, for Chris Paul and others, keeping up the momentum is key. | | |
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 | These Football Times |
| In the long annals of football, two Ronaldos stand out. The first -- the original to many -- was Il Fenomeno, the Brazilian striker capable of the most audacious burst of pace at his peak and some of the most clinical finishing the game has ever seen. | | |
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 | Priceonomics |
| Jim McAlpine's plan to open the world's first gym for marijuana enthusiasts is coming along well. "I've raised money before, and it's been an arduous, shitty process that I hated," says McAlpine. "This time so far it's been a pleasure. We're in the position where we're picking and choosing who's going to invest in us. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Joe Lockhart once helped successfully steer Bill Clinton through impeachment. Now, as the NFL’s top PR official, the former White House press secretary takes on an equally daunting task: repairing the image of the league and its embattled commissioner. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| Jim Papadopoulos has spent a lifetime pondering the maths of bikes in motion. Now his work has found fresh momentum | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Theirs is a friendship based on curveballs , Commodores and chip shots. Maybe one day, these two Vanderbilt University alums and Tennessee neighbors will be teammates, too. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| After a record-setting regular season performance, Golden State star Stephen Curry reached the peak of NBA popularity. He led the league in jersey sales, received the highest amount of All-Star Game votes and became the NBA's first unanimous MVP in May. There is one thing about Curry that people seem undecided on, though: Are his shoes cool? | | |
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 | BBC News |
| The International Olympic Committee will soon "have to step in" over the design of the running blade, according to its inventor. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| When people think of an American Olympic athlete, they probably don't picture someone who looks like me. Black. Muslim. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| Having the financial ability to sign high-priced free agents in the future should make it easier for the Yankees to deal their current pricey veterans. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| The hubris and planet-sized egos of lunatic sports owners is a core Deadspin beat, from Joe Lacob's horniness for the Larry O'Brien trophy, to Stan Kroenke's dead raccoon hair, to Dan Gilbert's simpering evil. When the Panthers' owner gets a dang statue of himself with two actual panthers built out front of his stadium, you should expect us to make fun of him. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| The U.S. never had a judo gold medalist until Kayla Harrison walked onto the mat. She’s preparing for a repeat in Rio as a potentially lucrative MMA career looms. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Before Bruce Lee sprang into martial arts movies in the early 1970s, the average actor in a kung fu film may have been better prepared to deliver a Shakespearean soliloquy than a roundhouse kick. | | |
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