The Cubs winning the World Series. That's really more important [than winning an Oscar]. | | | | | Cleveland Indians fan, Oct. 15, 2016. (Erik Drost) | | | | |  | “The Cubs winning the World Series. That's really more important [than winning an Oscar].”
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| | rantnrave:// The NHL season opened last week and the NBA starts next week, but this week our own season opens: We're thrilled to debut the new REDEF website. New UI, easier sharing, ability to follow and watch what your friends are reading, charts, originals, sets, social and reader app sync, full newsletter and account management and of course a neverending mix of the best reading in media, fashion, music, sports and technology... Two deep, enlightening profiles of NBA players in two different places: CARMELO ANTHONY on finding his voice, athlete activism and the advice he gave COLIN KAEPERNICK the first day Kaepernick took a knee this summer... KEVIN DURANT on a rough, lonely childhood and how he finally learned to take care of his own needs (and how the THUNDER didn't quite take care of theirs)... A LOS ANGELES jury Wednesday cleared Anthony's teammate DERRICK ROSE after two weeks of testimony in his civil rape trial. Jurors said Rose's accuser was unconvincing, and texts between the two of them appear to have been key evidence. A criminal investigation is ongoing... The OAKLAND RAIDERS are all-in on a potential move to LAS VEGAS and a stadium backed with $750 million of public funds. Here's the rare, believable argument that another publicly funded sports venue, LITTLE CAESARS ARENA in DETROIT, might actually benefit its host city... UNDER ARMOUR's "No A**hole" policy... CUBS fanatic BILL MURRAY may face one of the most difficult decisions of his life this weekend. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| What happens when the game's kindest star starts pursuing his own joy. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| On the cusp of an NBA season that will give rise to the next wave of athlete activism, Carmelo Anthony reveals how he found his voice and power | | |
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 | The New York Review of Books |
| Martin Luther King and others have said that Sunday in America is the most segregated day of the week, but the O.J. Simpson verdict, acquittal on all charges, came in on a Tuesday. The jury, after having been sequestered for the better part of a year, took only three hours to deliberate. It knew enough and now wanted to go home. | | |
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 | Al Jazeera English |
| A look at opposing sides of Catalan bullfighting, to some a cruel sport, to others a revered Spanish tradition. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| The Cubs' stagnant offense finally woke up in the fourth inning of the fourth game of the NLCS. It all started with Ben Zobrist's bunt single. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The 2016 MLB postseason is butter, and Andrew Miller is a hot knife. Miller got eight crucial outs Wednesday in the Cleveland Indians' 3-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, which sent the Tribe to their first World Series since 1997. | | |
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 | Medium |
| As she moves away from on-court duties, we talk to Palmer about her extraordinary life and career, and the tremendous impact she had. | | |
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 | DW on Sport |
| Twelve months ago, I ran a survey looking at the public perception of fixing in tennis. It asked people with a range of different interests in tennis, whether it being as a fan, as a trader, as a journalist or even as a current or former player, for their views on fixing in tennis, how it is being perpetrated and what could be done going forward to prevent it. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Knicks guard Derrick Rose was found not liable on all accounts today in the civil suit accusing him and two friends of gang-raping a woman in 2013. Rose’s two friends, Ryan Allen and Randall Hampton, were cleared of all charges as well. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Jonas Wood, whose show of portraits at the Anton Kern Gallery in Chelsea runs through Oct. 29, finds inspiration in the unlikeliest corners of the sports world. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| Sports TV is filled with debate shows in the morning, afternoon and evening now. What happens when someone embraces debate and tries to watch all of it? | | |
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 | USA Today |
| With viewership on the downswing, owners see a serious problem. | | |
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 | The42.ie |
| Dan Carter, the Franks brothers, Brodie Retallick and Anton Lienert-Brown have all come through the school. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| P.K. Subban's Johnny Cash impersonations and highlight-reel style of play have been music to the ears of Predators fans. Can the defenseman help his new team chart a Stanley Cup course? | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| He flies planes and patrols the secondary of the NFL's stingiest defense through six weeks, yet Harrison Smith is just fine keeping a low profile as he builds a case for national stardom. | | |
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 | The Arizona Republic |
| Theo Epstein started GM youth movement but Valley teams are driving the bus (hopefully without detour to Chuck E. Cheese). | | |
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| The New York Times |
| BARCELONA, Spain -- It was as they were whiling away one of those long, sultry evenings cooped up in the comfortable surroundings of the Hotel Lucerna in Culiacán, Mexico, that Pep Guardiola outlined to Ángel Morales his vision of the perfect goal. | | |
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| Deadspin |
| Nobody was taking Noah Droddy's picture, which seemed strange considering the rail-thin runner's recent rise to relative fame has been as much about his sensational (for the track world) ill brah appearance as his fast races, and the unlikely combo of the two. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Giants’ Odell Beckham leads receivers in piling up ‘behavior’ penalties, but other stars also lose their cool. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| Last Sunday was Breast Cancer Awareness Day at the Giants game and the players wore pink socks and cleats. But the tragedy and pain that the disease causes should not be glossed over by some pretty colors and ribbons. | | |
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