I can no longer stay silent. | | | | | Carmelo Anthony, athlete/activist. (Keith Allison) | | | | |  | “I can no longer stay silent.”
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| | rantnrave:// CHRIS SALE is a labor hero and the WHITE SOX have the most woke clubhouse in baseball. Day two of the CHRIS SALE throwback-jersey scandal has turned into a full-on EUGENE DEBS revival, just in time for the DNC... Not to be outdone, WNBA players are continuing their full-court press in favor of social advocacy, basically doubling down after the league changed its mind about punishing them. What players like the LIBERTY's TINA CHARLES and SWIN CASH are doing might look easy, but it isn't; it takes strength and courage and persistence to stand up for others when you could be keeping quiet and just doing your job, knowing that fans will cheer for you simply for doing that... Even MICHAEL JORDAN "can no longer stay silent"... PEYTON MANNING is innocent. Or, at least, not guilty, which is the way lawyers put it. ESPN's KEVIN SEIFERT on the differences between PEYTON and TOM in the eyes of ROGER... TWITTER will live-stream one MLB and one NHL game per week starting this fall. That's the good news. The bad news is it will make like old-school media and only live-stream out-of-market games. Trying to enforce IRL territorial rights on the internet is, and will always be, awkward and frustrating and probably counterproductive... The late great DENNIS GREEN apparently wanted nothing more than for other people to succeed. PRO BOWL receiver LARRY FITZGERALD remembers him as the man who hired him for the only two jobs he's ever had (the first was ball boy for the VIKINGS), and HALL OF FAME coach TONY DUNGY, who was GREEN's defensive coordinator in MINNESOTA, shares a great story about the first time he got a chance to interview for a head-coaching job with another team. GREEN called him into his office and gave him a four-page document of tips for head-coaching interviews. "He thought of everything," DUNGY says. That's the kind of boss you want to work for. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Ringer |
| Revisiting the arrival of Sean Payton, Drew Brees, and the group that revived football in New Orleans. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Carmelo Anthony can't pinpoint what pressed him into action, but the NBA star is now front and center of a national crisis, J.A. Adande writes. And we're all better for it. | | |
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 | Der Spiegel |
| The older brother detonated a bomb at the Brussels airport. The younger one is representing his country at the Olympic Games in Rio. The story of two Belgian siblings who long ago parted ways. | | |
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 | recode |
| “The people of Rio and Brazil have never wavered from their commitment to delivering a successful Olympics.” | | |
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 | Boston Magazine |
| For all that he has accomplished on the lawn at fabled Fenway Park, the most iconic moment of David Ortiz's career may have come when he was holding not a baseball bat but a microphone. | | |
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| The Ringer |
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 | The Guardian |
| The Russian president and the head of the IOC have enjoyed a close and mutually beneficial relationship at the heart of global sport politics. | | |
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 | Above The Law: Redline |
| If Trump/Pence win in November, the wheels could come off the online gaming train that has been gaining momentum this past year. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| His statement on the shootings of African-Americans and the targeting of police officers. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| The comparison is inevitable: In the past 18 months, the NFL has investigated its two best quarterbacks of this generation for possible violations of league policy. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The White Sox have been involved in several clubhouse controversies this year. All of them have been about control. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Thirty-four years ago an ironworker named Dan Carr and an Elvis impersonator named John Ferraro took over a high school gym and put on a fundraiser production for the people of Erie, Pa., originally called King of the County. | | |
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 | Jenkem Magazine |
| For whatever reason, the fashion industry is all in on skating right now. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| “I’m just happy that he wasn’t shot,” a black councilman at-large in Iowa City said. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| Rob Manfred, the man who makes Major League Baseball tick, hardly thinks about his legacy as the game's 10th commissioner. He simply goes to work and tries to execute his vision. No time for getting caught up in reputation. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| BUSAN, Korea -- Kim Kee-hee’s brief appearance at the 2012 London Olympics could be one of the most lucrative five minutes in soccer history. | | |
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 | The Tennessean |
| In a sport that tends to discourage individuality, P.K. Subban is hockey's outspoken star. That is what has made him one of the NHL's most visible players. It's also what may have compelled the Canadiens to trade the defenseman to the Predators on June 29. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The 2016 Hall of Fame inductee remembers his friend and mentor Dennis Green, a coach who saw it as his duty to make everyone around him better. | | |
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 | Harper's Magazine |
| When an Olympic archer readies to shoot, she is staring down a distance of seventy meters -- roughly three quarters of a football field -- and aiming to hit a circle the size of a CD. | | |
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 | Fusion |
| A Brazilian man was arrested on Saturday (Jul 23) for trying to grab the Olympic Torch in what appears to be the latest protest against the international sporting event. According to local news reports, the Olympic flame was being paraded through the town of Guarulhos, in the state of Sao Paulo, when a man suddenly burst from the crowd and tried to make a dash at the torchbearer. | | |
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