Antonio Brown can’t twerk after a touchdown because it’s 'sexually suggestive.' But every Sunday, on most sidelines, there are rows of cheerleaders doing the same types of moves to entertain the crowd. | | | | | Richard Sherman and DeShawn Shead, probably talking about Roger Goodell. (Keith Allison) | | | | |  | “Antonio Brown can’t twerk after a touchdown because it’s 'sexually suggestive.' But every Sunday, on most sidelines, there are rows of cheerleaders doing the same types of moves to entertain the crowd.”
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| | rantnrave:// The PHILADELPHIA 76ERS canceled R&B singer SEVYN STREETER's scheduled national anthem performance before Tuesday's season opener because she was wearing a "We Matter" jersey. In a short statement loaded with unspoken context, the team said it 1) "encourages meaningful actions to drive social change," 2) wants to "bring people together" and 3) is in the process of moving "from symbolic gestures to action." That last is packed with enough shade to envelop both a singer who once duetted with CHRIS BROWN and a quarterback who plays 2,800 miles away. "Multiple players" were upset by the team's action, according to ESPN. "Some players did not seem particularly outraged," PHILLY.COM reported. Those two statements, it should be noted, do not contradict each other. Divided we ball. Expect more of this in the coming weeks and months... RICHARD SHERMAN thinks the NFL is inconsistent in how it polices touchdown celebrations, how it judges catches and how it treats domestic violence. And he thinks ROGER GOODELL "simply has too much power." Other than that, all good... VOCATIV's ROBERT SILVERMAN catches up with DR. ARMIN TEHRANY, a go-to medical expert for stories about injured athletes, to discuss the ethics of talking about athletes who aren't your patients. Per Silverman, Tehrany's publicists have offered his expertise to Vocativ within hours of more than 20 athletes getting hurt over the past six months alone. A fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into how "your sports injury story sausage gets made"... Having successfully negotiated with the state of NEVADA for a publicly funded football stadium in LAS VEGAS, casino mogul SHELDON ADELSON still has to negotiate with the team he hopes will use it... Great sports VINEs... And more. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | B/R Mag |
| There used to be a sport more popular in Mexico than soccer. Then something terrible happened. | | |
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 | Atlas Obscura |
| Thanks to pirated TV in the '80s, the tiny nation is now in the grips of World Series fever. | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| "The Boys in the Boat" wants us to cheer US victories in the 1936 Olympics while ignoring how they legitimized the Nazi government. | | |
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 | The Indianapolis Star |
| Life, basketball -- none of it turned out how he had dreamed. Now Greg Oden is starting all over again. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Connor McDavid, 19, who has been compared to Wayne Gretzky, has led the team to its best start since the 1985-86 season. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| More African-Americans tackle marathons, half-marathons and 5Ks, bucking overall participation trends. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| Charles Grantham, former NFLPA executive director, has five ideas that just might work. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Antonio Brown can’t twerk after a touchdown because it’s “sexually suggestive.” But every Sunday, on most sidelines, there are rows of cheerleaders doing the same types of moves to entertain the crowd. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| There are few people I know that like baseball as much as Jeff Sullivan. I’m continually jealous of the way he can see things that I can’t see in the game, spotting little details that make for fantastic stories, and engaging with aspects of the sport that most people gloss over. | | |
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 | Howler Magazine |
| The play’s the thing. (Originally published in 2012.) | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| From hotel and facilities to knotty London traffic to who gets the lay-down beds on the plane, London trip challenges the Bengals. | | |
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 | Vox |
| The people who are in power are almost all white — and the cultural forces behind baseball are white. | | |
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 | GQ |
| A chat with the NBA/literal journeyman about the one thing he regrets not eating in the Philippines and what Tim Duncan would be if he were an animal. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| For decades, Chris Mortensen has had all the information football fans want. Now, he talks about Deflategate, his wild past, and cancer. | | |
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 | Vocativ |
| Meet Dr. Armin Tehrany, a media-thirsty sports doctor who toes some fraught ethical lines. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| Tom Brady the player has never let us down, but Tom Brady the person has. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| New Jersey Devils have a strange spot in North American professional sports as the only team to have a demonic or undead name. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| Robert Klemko on the retirement of a running back who always followed his own path | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| Baseball's all-time hits leader is direct, unpredictable and wildly entertaining as he analyzes the 2016 World Series between the Cubs and Indians for Fox Sports. | | |
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| The Indianapolis Star |
| “Chuckie loves his sayings,” Pagano’s father, Sam, said in an interview last season. Indeed. | | |
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