Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move. | | | | | Foosball. (Joe deSousa) | | | | |  | “Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.”
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| | rantnrave:// This is not widely known, but I cost the PATRIOTS the 2008 SUPER BOWL and their perfect season. I was working at MTV, and I wrote a blurb for a Super Bowl winners' playlist, the Friday before the game, to be posted the Monday after the game. I didn't want to have to think about it on game night. So I assumed the inevitable Patriots win. You know what happened next. And you know whose fault it was. I still feel terrible... This was on my mind as I read DAVID WALDSTEIN's account of writing his story on game 7 of the 1997 WORLD SERIES while it was still in progress, as sportswriters on deadline often have to do. He gave the game, and their first Series in 49 years, to the INDIANS. "There is a good chance," he recalls, "I even typed that JOSE MESA, the Indians’ closer that season, had nailed down the final three outs of the game. Which, at that point, unfortunately, he had not." And which he never did. The MARLINS clinched the series with ÉDGAR RENTERÍA's 11th-inning walk-off single, extending the Indians' reign of futility for another two decades. They have a chance to end that reign tonight. "Absolutely no reason for Cleveland Indians fans to panic...I think," writes THE PLAIN DEALER's TERRY PLUTO... With a DRAFTKINGS-FANDUEL merger reportedly imminent, DraftKings' JASON ROBINS appears to be the likely CEO of the new company, with FanDuel's NIGEL ECCLES in line to be chairman. The companies were each valued at north of $1 billion a year ago but have struggled in the wake of regulatory battles and negative publicity... B/R MAG's BRANDON SNEED follows TIM TEBOW from the instructional league to the ARIZONA FALL LEAGUE and goes deep on the 29-year-old minor leaguer's ambitions and motivations... Tebow was caught stealing on Monday, resulting in the headline of the day... NASHVILLE judge rejects BILLY CORGAN's fight to take over TNA... At this point, I assume BILL BELICHICK has been playing an elaborate, neverending practical joke on his defensive coordinators... Fare thee well ANDRE JOHNSON... RIP SILVIO GAZZANIGA. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | B/R Mag |
| What if a 29-year-old former quarterback was good enough to play pro baseball, too? What if we all tried the things that people told us we could not do? Inside the final comeback of a born-again star | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| From Auston Matthews to Connor McDavid, the NHL is enjoying a historic infusion of exciting young talent. Will anyone outside of Canada notice? | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The blunt reality behind the big business of Mary Jane. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| TV ratings for the NFL are down precipitously this season and everyone has a pet theory for why fans suddenly are tuning out. Donald Trump has his ideas, Roger Goodell has his. And then there's the latest hard evidence. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| The New York Red Bull’s social media accounts have been inundated with requests from spectators--and not always ones with strong soccer pedigrees--to try out for the team. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The league has been ordered to let insurance companies learn how its medical officials handled concussions. | | |
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 | The Plain Dealer |
| Think back a few days, back to when the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians split the first two games at Progressive Field. Now, think about being told the two teams would return to Cleveland with the Tribe having a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven World Series. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| But we’re no closer to understanding how good the Thunder are as a whole. | | |
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 | The Harvard Crimson |
| As women of Harvard Soccer and of the world, we want to take this experience as an opportunity to encourage our fellow women to band together in combating this type of behavior, because we are a team and we are stronger when we are united. | | |
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 | Fortune Magazine |
| Nielsen may have gotten the exact number wrong, but the downward trend is crystal clear. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Led by a rookie quarterback and rusher, Dallas is back in business, which is good for the business of the NFL. Ratings are down, uninspiring play is up, and the Cowboys are arriving just in time. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| They are what their record says they are, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of encouraging signs for the winless Cleveland Browns. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The two biggest daily fantasy sports companies are close to joining forces under the leadership of DraftKings co-founder Jason Robins, according to people familiar with the merger talks. | | |
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 | ESPN Cricinfo |
| An India-Pakistan ODI in Sialkot was expected to be a contest that lived long in the memory. It did, for all the wrong reasons | | |
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| The Washington Post |
| With DH in use, Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber and Indians’ Carlos Santana among those affected most. | | |
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| WSJ |
| In a rare interview, former Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa discusses his strained relationship with his old team and why he’s watching the World Series from Paris. | | |
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 | Seth Godin |
| Professional wrestling is fake. The blood is fake, the lack of physics is fake, the arguing with the ref is fake, the rivalries are fake... it might be professional, but it's not real. This willful disregard for reality is at the heart of pro wrestling. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| The clock is ticking and the Pelicans got off on the wrong foot. Have they made too many mistakes to overcome? | | |
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| The Ringer |
| That’s the best explanation for why the Patriots coach traded Jamie Collins to the Browns. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| Spring training fields and a prison are among the sites claiming Ruth’s longest longball. | | |
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