In the beginning of the plane you have the milk drinkers. Like Mookie [Wilson] was always up at the front, minding his business. I can’t think of any other milk drinkers. I think it was not even plural. Milk drinker. | | | | | The closer: Kenley Jansen (Dustin Nosler) | | | | |  | “In the beginning of the plane you have the milk drinkers. Like Mookie [Wilson] was always up at the front, minding his business. I can’t think of any other milk drinkers. I think it was not even plural. Milk drinker.”
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| | rantnrave:// Best sports moment this weekend: CLAYTON KERSHAW watching his catcher, YASMANI GRANDAL, misplay a foul popup in the seventh inning of a 1-0 game Sunday night. He smiled. Big, big smile. No anger. No frustration. No petulance. Just relaxation, confidence and the ability to laugh off an error that anyone could have made. And then, temperament intact, two 94-mph fastballs to finish off BEN ZOBRIST... Worst moment: this obscene "tackle the Muslim" game outside NEW ERA FIELD, where COLIN KAEPERNICK was about to make his first start of the season. Even if you disagree with everything Kaepernick has said and done this year, even if you think not participating in the national anthem should be a federal crime, it would still be an obscene display of 2016-era Americana. It wasn't the only obscenity to greet Kaepernick Sunday. He went on to have a mediocre game for a less-than-mediocre team, while remaining resolute... Best sort-of-sports essay of the weekend: COMPLEX's RUSS BENGTSON on the meaning of wearing a bootleg Kaepernick jersey... Best SUPREME COURT mea culpa: RUTH BADER GINSBURG walks back her comments on Kaep... Best film: In the genre of celebrity accommodation-trashing, neither LED ZEPPELIN nor KEITH MOON holds a candle to the 1986 METS, who took their destructive impulses to 35,000 feat after winning the NL pennant in a 16-inning thriller over the ASTROS. Animator JAMES BLAGDEN captures the debauchery with the help of LENNY DYSTRA, DWIGHT GOODEN, KEVIN MITCHELL and DARRYL STRAWBERRY in "THE BEST LAST PLANE RIDE EVER." (And ICYMI, here's Blagden's 2009 masterpiece, "DOCK ELLIS & THE LSD NO-NO")... Best sports result (for HILLARY CLINTON): The WASHINGTON football team's 27-20 win over PHILADELPHIA... RIP ANTHONY FOLEY, DENNIS BYRD and QUENTIN GROVES. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | B/R Mag |
| In this excerpt from Jeff Pearlman's "GUNSLINGER: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favre," legendary Packers quarterback isn't quite ready to welcome the team's first-round selection, a quarterback from Cal. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| No matter how you slice it, Cam Newton has taken more punishment than any other quarterback since entering the league -- and it's not close. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| ‘Relief Pitcher’ and the milestone transformation to bullpen boss | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The leak of Olympic athletes’ World Anti-Doping Agency records by the anonymous hacker group known as Fancy Bears has opened the world’s eyes to a disturbingly gray area in sporting law: the therapeutic use exemption. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Colin Kaepernick's jersey is bigger than football, whether it's authentic or bootleg. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| Not long ago, spending hard-earned money on a ticket for a seat in an arena to watch someone else play video games was more or less unfathomable. | | |
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 | Basketball Insiders |
| Even with Derrick Rose, Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis, Joakim Noah is the biggest X-Factor for these Knicks. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| The former Cleveland Browns quarterback’s epic fall-from the hottest thing in football to N.F.L. washout-was agonizing for those who tried to prevent it. His inner circle describes the clash of talent and temptation. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| The road to the national championship is treacherous and unpredictable - just ask the Tigers and the Buckeyes. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Here's how the formula works. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| The couple’s wholesome values and photogenic appeal helped make them famous. But their popularity and the subsequent backlash raise thorny questions about race, class, and gender. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| 10 years on from the collision that could have killed him. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Who’d have thought a kid from Latvia would be making noise in New York? | | |
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 | Forbes |
| F1’s future changed forever in 1972 when British businessman Bernie Ecclestone bought the Brabham team after he had built up one of the country’s biggest used car dealerships. Brabham driver Nelson Piquet proceeded to win the world championship twice but Mr Ecclestone had his eye on a bigger picture: television. | | |
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 | Motorsport |
| F1 has been somewhat hostile to eSports, with the commercial rights holder going so far as to begin legal action against gamers applying accurate skins to their race cars on digital platforms, citing copyright violation of liveries and sponsorship logos. | | |
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| B/R Mag |
| Flexing your Madden skills. Discussing racism. Sharing explicit details from last night. NFL locker rooms give rein to it all. But boasting about sexual assault? Current and former players aren't sure. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| The boy who wanted to be a Cowboy got there. He used Tim Tebow's number (and offense) in college, but is forging a new path in the NFL, where comparisons to Tom Brady's NFL start emerge. | | |
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| The Players' Tribune |
| If you beat Liverpool, it’s going to be the best day of the season. If you lose, it’s going to be the absolute worst. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Around the middle of the 20th century, there was no more fearsome hitter in baseball than Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. Williams could do it all at the plate. | | |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| October 16, 2006. Glendale, Ariz. -- A little after 9 p.m. Mountain time, a night's worth of energy and hysteria had turned to disbelief. All around University of Phoenix Stadium, this newly opened retractable roof gem in the desert, the shock proved palpable. | | |
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