I’m aware of my worth. I’m coming for mine now if you want me back. | | | | | Conor McGregor has belts, wants payday. (Andrius Petrucenia) | | | | |  | “I’m aware of my worth. I’m coming for mine now if you want me back.”
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| | rantnrave:// The UFC and CONOR MCGREGOR were both big winners Saturday night. UFC 205, the company's first event in NEW YORK since the state lifted a 20-year ban on mixed martial arts, made a record $17.7 million at the gate and was expecting record pay-per-view sales, too. Average ticket prices surpassed "HAMILTON," the ultimate gun duel that takes place 13 blocks away on BROADWAY every night. "JESUS is going to have to fight the devil to break that record," UFC president DANA WHITE said. The draw this time, besides UFC itself, was McGregor vs. EDDIE ALVAREZ for the lightweight belt. After he won it—making him the only fighter in UFC history to simultaneously own two belts—and before he left the building, McGregor took note of the gate and asked for a raise—and a piece of UFC itself. "You want me to stick around and help service that debt and continue to push the company?," he asked. "Bring me on board for real ... as an owner." Apparently unfazed by perhaps the first athlete in history to threaten his sport with its own debts, White said, "I’m going to let him enjoy this night and we’ll talk business later.” That's a fight they might not both get to win. Should be a good one, though. Call it UFC 205-1/2... Great LA TIMES profile of DIRECTV content chief DANIEL YORK, who the US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT says is the guy responsible for keeping the DODGERS off TV in most of LA. They mean it in the (allegedly) criminal way. As an LA resident who would like to see CLAYTON KERSHAW and COREY SEAGER on TV once in a while but not at the prices SPORTSNET LA is asking, I'm not sure York shouldn't be considered a hero... Amazing longread, courtesy ESPN THE MAGAZINE, on austistic pinball wizard ROBERT GAGNO... Is quidditch a real sport? One last spin with hip-hop's ultimate sports fan... RIP DAWN COE-JONES. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Robert Gagno is a pinball savant, but he wants so much more than just to be the world's best player. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| This year’s chess venue is sparse and sleek, heavy on concrete and hypermodern black-and-white branding. Large flat-screen televisions dot the open floor, providing live views of the tense and slowly unfolding games. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Conor McGregor ended 2016 the same way he started it: by asking someone to bring him his damn belt. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Despite similar demographics, the NBA and NFL have proven to be far different environments when it comes to league personalities expressing themselves | | |
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 | Jalopnik |
| The Snowball Derby is arguably the biggest, most prestigious short-track race in America. What viewers and casual fans probably don’t know is the Derby, like many short-track races, is plagued by outdated, restrictive and unethical media policies that suffocate coverage and help keep it out of the national spotlight. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| A new study looks at whether stories about PEDs in the mountains have any truth to them. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Hope, tension, and the end of “Dos a Cero,” at the U.S. and Mexico’s World Cup qualifier in Ohio. | | |
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 | ESPN FC |
| Pulisic is not yet the finished article, but he is far ahead of any of the U.S.' previously anointed soccer messiahs. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| When the Weather Channel 's carriage contract came up for renewal nearly three years ago, DirecTV's chief content officer demanded the small network slash its programming fees by 75%. After the Weather Channel refused, DirecTV abruptly replaced it with a lesser-known programming service - confusing viewers who suddenly couldn't find their favorite meteorologist on TV. | | |
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 | Motherboard |
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 | SB*Nation |
| Top 25! Predictions! 100 players you should know! It's all here. | | |
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 | New York Post |
| John Malone, the ol’ Cable Cowboy, is becoming addicted to sports. Where once Malone, when he was just a cable guy, bemoaned the high price of sports channels in basic cable packages, on Thursday he was high on sports. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Simmons’s show, “Any Given Wednesday,” was canceled, and his new website, The Ringer, for which he has written infrequently, has struggled to draw an audience, too. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| On November 19, Sergey Kovalev faces Andre Ward in a matchup of two of the best fighters in the world. Kovalev's path to this fight was far from typical. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Did that really happen? Did I really just go deep in Game 7? | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| While owners of teams in the four major North American sports leagues skew heavily conservative, far more donated to Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. | | |
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| The Ringer |
| With three big losses among the top 4, unlikely teams could sneak into the Playoff. | | |
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| Los Angeles Times |
| As the youngest of the kids who sneaked water from the well to create a hockey rink on the Vachon family’s dairy farm in tiny Palmarolle, Canada, Rogatien Vachon was destined to become a goaltender. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| N.Y. Giants players look beyond the wins and losses for perspective. | | |
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 | The Boston Globe |
| As a longtime liberal-leaning member of American mainstream media, soon to retire, white in color, long on tolerance, I get it. I’ve also had enough, thank you. At some point (Week 2 or 3 for me), the message became repetitive and annoying. | | |
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