This is for Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo. | | | | | Wow! 2016 World Series champs. (Arturo Pardavila III) | | | | |  | “This is for Ernie Banks, Billy Williams and Ron Santo.”
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| | rantnrave:// If you were a HOLLYWOOD screenwriter and you tried to script Wednesday night, you might have got away with the first game 7 leadoff homer in World Series history, and KYLE SCHWARBER's stolen base, and the JON LESTER wild pitch that dazed DAVID ROSS and scored two runs, and 39-year-old Ross recovering minutes later with a 406-foot blast to center field, and the INDIANS coming back with three runs in the bottom of the eighth off AROLDIS CHAPMAN when by all rights the Series should have been over, and one of the most nail-biting scoreless ninth innings in years—but the rain? There is no way you would have got away with the rain. When the skies opened up and the grounds crew rolled out the tarp after nine innings of a deciding game between two teams that hadn't won in a combined 176 years, that's when you knew you were in the realm of the impossible, or maybe chapter 10 of a previously unknown W.P. KINSELLA novel. And then of course the skies would magically dry out and you would let the CUBS have a faint glimmer of hope with two runs in the 10th—even the most diehard CHICAGO fan knew that couldn't last—and then, after two quick outs in the bottom of the 10th, your cameras would linger on the faces of those diehard fans while the INDIANS made it a one-run game and brought the potential winning run to the plate. And then, and then—we waited 108 years for this? Yes. And we will be telling stories about this night for at least another 108 years... Fare thee well, DAVID ROSS and JOHN HIRSCHBECK... Fourteen weeks till pitchers and catchers... Republican THEODORE ROOSEVELT was president the last time the Cubs won the Series. A month later, Republican WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT defeated Democrat WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN to become the 26th president in an election that divided the country along a North/South axis. The Democrat swept the Southern states, the Republican the Northern states. It's safe to say the election next Tuesday is going to unfold differently. REDEF has no intention of telling you how to vote, but we are going to use this space to urge you to go to the polls and exercise one of the most important rights any citizen has. Please check out our REDEF MediaSET "Voting Matters" for essays and anecdotes about the power of the ballot... RIP JUNKO TABEI. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Chicago Tribune |
| It had to end like this, after a 108-year drought that consumed Cubs fans and vexed experts for decade after decade. It had to end with the Cubs beating the Indians 8-7 in 10 innings in Game 7 of the World Series, in a ballpark occupied by thousands of road-tripping Cubs fans, on a summer-like night in November. | | |
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 | The Plain Dealer |
| CLEVELAND, Ohio -- We should have known by the mercury in the thermometer, the sunglasses, the return of outdoor patio seating and the mad dashes to the bottom of the dresser to locate the shorts that had just began their annual hibernation period. Hell hasn't frozen over, and there will be no second Cleveland major professional championship in 2016. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| If you aren’t familiar with cricket, it can be a difficult game to follow. There are a number of elements similar to baseball, paired with others that are utterly unique and sometimes baffling. It can be difficult to understand what strategies the players are pursuing, and even fundamental questions like “who is winning?” don’t always have simple answers. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Independent bike retailers have been fighting for survival for more than 15 years. A few recent developments could put these beloved brick-and-mortar shops out of business for good. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| DirecTV was the "ringleader" in a collusion plot, regulators allege. | | |
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 | Mercury News |
| It’s almost impossible to have a normal relationship between superstar peers at this level, and by now Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook probably both are somewhat uneasy with that reality. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| As he settles into a new city and onto a new team, PK Subban doubles down on the things that brought him to the NHL in the first place: hard work and a big personality. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| In the border town of Brownsville, Texas, the high school game is on the front lines of the immigration debate. We follow a player who crosses every day from Mexico to pursue the American dream, and play the American sport. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| For an NBA star, change can be difficult. Accepting certain realities can be hard. If Allen Iverson were willing to come off the bench, the former MVP might have tacked an extra few years onto his career; Latrell Sprewell turned down a three-year, $21 million extension from Minnesota before the 2004-05 season -- and didn’t play again after it. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Since the dawn of consumer history, tickets have been a product defined by scarcity and lack of accessibility. The result is an abysmal category user experience that’s most often talked about with undertones of anger, skepticism and distrust. | | |
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| Outside Online |
| In 1988, Claudia Brenner and Rebecca Wight were attacked by Stephen Roy Carr on the Appalachian Trail. Shot on the actual locations where the attack took place, "In the Hollow" intertwines both narrative and documentary elements for a gripping look at what happened that day. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Bringing an end to the legal beef that killed Gawker, Hulk Hogan is set for another multi-million dollar payout--and three Gawker articles will disappear from the internet. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| Jack Harrison is 19 year old kid who is already playing with some of the best soccer players the world has to offer. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| There are a select few people who have been alive for all three of the Cubs’ World Series titles. But no one has ever witnessed the sports double-whammy that the Massachusetts native Epstein now has on his résumé. | | |
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| Deadspin |
| This afternoon, the URL www.baylor.edu/thetruth went live; no, the URL and website names are not the worst part. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The battle to be world No1 has developed a spiritual dimension as Djokovic has brought in a new-age guru to help reverse his recent slump in form in Paris. | | |
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 | Awful Announcing |
| When did sports media become a platform for fashion statements like bow ties, ascots and fedoras? | | |
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 | GOOD Magazine |
| An empathetic way to combat the 'pay-to-play' trend. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| The champion calf-roper is a legend and an outlier. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| How does an “expansion team with roots” build a fan base? | | |
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