I have said enough for a lifetime, and for the last time, I wish you all a very pleasant good afternoon. | | | | | His nightmare—and ours—is finally, officially over. (Keith Allison) | | | | | | “I have said enough for a lifetime, and for the last time, I wish you all a very pleasant good afternoon.”
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| | rantnrave:// Four weeks into the NFL season, not only is the COLIN KAEPERNICK national anthem protest still in effect, it has ignited discussion around the league and throughout the sports world—in some cases, causing longstanding gestures that had gone unnoticed to come to the surface. Veteran NBA forward DAVID WEST has quietly lined up a couple feet behind his teammates during the national anthem for several years and several teams, but few people noticed until this weekend. The longtime community activist, who is concerned about "so many" issues that go "a lot deeper" than what Kaepernick has been talking about, says, "Protest is an individual thing. It’s based on your own personal conviction"... JOAKIM NOAH refused to join his NEW YORK KNICKS teammates at a dinner with WEST POINT cadets and a retired ARMY colonel on Thursday, which was little noticed outside the team until the next day when a reporter asked him what he thought of the colonel's speech. Noah, a lifelong pacifist, was forthcoming in explaining his opposition to "kids killing kids" and how the military environment makes him uncomfortable. Noah didn't skip the dinner because of Kaepernick, but it's doubtful it would have been as big a news story in any other year. It's not only a gesture that's spreading, but the very idea that athletes can—and maybe should—use their voices in the public arena. Also making the leap from small gesture to big news is the BALTIMORE ORIOLES' decision to play WOODY GUTHRIE's "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND" during the seventh inning stretch once a week, which they have been doing all season. The ORIOLES, like all MLB teams, have played IRVING BERLIN's "GOD BLESS AMERICA" at least once a week since the SEPT. 11 attacks, but the Guthrie song—a defiant lyric written as an answer song to Berlin's tune—is a pointed message from the team's ownership. VICTORY JOURNAL's NATHANIEL FRIEDMAN ponders the meaning of LEBRON JAMES supporting Kaepernick's protest while declining to join him. James has been more than willing to speak up for political causes in the recent past, but Friedman argues that the meaning of protest is different in the relatively progressive NBA than in the relatively conservative NFL. "When James stands during the anthem," he writes, "it’s not a full-throated endorsement of what America is. It’s a statement about what he believes America could be"... Oh, and LeBron is endorsing HILLARY CLINTON, the candidate who "truly understands the struggles of an AKRON child born into poverty"... VIN SCULLY wasn't the only major broadcaster to step away from baseball this weekend... BILL SIMMONS says there has been "some thawing" of the frosty relationship between him and ESPN... There has been no such thawing between PATRIOTS fans like this one and ESPN... But our long national nightmare is really, truly over... RIP SUZANNE MITCHELL, who was to the DALLAS COWBOYS cheerleaders what BILL WALSH was to the WEST COAST OFFENSE, and SCOTTISH boxer MIKE TOWELL, who died a day after taking a beating in the ring in GLASGOW. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| F1's lavish lifestyle is reserved only for a select few. For the mechanics, it can very quickly turn into a nightmare. | | |
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| Last week, at the International Triathlon Union’s Grand Final, Jonny Brownlee nearly lost consciousness a quarter-mile from the finish line. This is the most recent example of a trend that seems to plague the sport. Which begs the question: what’s happening to these athletes? | | |
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| Earlier this week, LeBron James told reporters assembled for his team’s media day that, while he supported Colin Kaepernick, he would stand during the national anthem. This wasn’t a side comment or snap decision. | | |
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| Taking a knee or raising a fist in support of change is more than a symbol. It’s a means to start a critical dialogue. | | |
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| Vin Scully’s wife, Sandi, wove together a family from pieces forged by life’s hardships. | | |
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| Major League Gaming is building the ESPN of eSports. And reshaping sports media. | | |
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| An alleged rape survivor who visited Baylor football players in July to discuss sexual assault prevention spoke out Friday about an assistant coach who questioned her visit. | | |
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| Talent agency WME-IMG leverages sports and entertainment clients to help back its sally into mixed martial arts. | | |
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| The Electric GT World Series was announced in March. But the announcement was accompanied by very little detail: the series was being started by a new company called Electric GT Holdings, it was supposedly going to run its races on famous circuits like the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and the Nürburgring, and the entire field would be made up of Tesla Model S sedans. | | |
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| It is no accident the three seminal international hockey tournaments - the 1972 Summit Series, the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics and the 1987 Canada Cup - were all conducted during the Cold War when the results resonated with geo-political meaning. | | |
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| At its dark heart, this “gentleman’s game” is animated by the threat of brutal violence. | | |
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| The NBA world is watching to see how Russell Westbrook leads a Thunder team and chases a championship without Kevin Durant. | | |
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| The Warriors player feels there are ‘so many issues’ that need to be discussed. | | |
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| In an industry first, ESPN lands a major agency in out-of-home push. | | |
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| In a moment almost too 80s to believe, Donald Trump once owned a bike race, which he intended as a competitor to the Tour de France, the most (and only) famous bicycle race in the world. | | |
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| Since taking over in 2007, hedge-fund owners Sisu have watched on as Coventry’s star has dwindled. Now without a manager, without infrastructure and seemingly without hope, the club’s problems look almost impossible to solve. | | |
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| Rachel Terrill was not a fan of football, but she fell in love with a man who would become an NFL player. Soon, she discovered that almost everything she thought she knew about NFL players and those who love them was wrong. | | |
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| As usual, when it comes to self-marketing, NFL is already way ahead of the curve. | | |
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| Being a player on the Web.com Tour means facing competition similar to the PGA Tour, but with the budget of a college kid. | | |
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| Brooke Sprow writes about how her love for the Buckeyes followed her to Chicago, New York -- and weddings. | | |
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