Some days I wake up and it’s debilitating. My mind will tell me, ‘I’m worthless, I’m nothing, I don’t want to be here on this earth anymore.’ | | | | | The pageantry of college football. (Ken Lund/Flickr) | | | | |  | “Some days I wake up and it’s debilitating. My mind will tell me, ‘I’m worthless, I’m nothing, I don’t want to be here on this earth anymore.’”
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| | rantnrave:// These precious weeks of the football season – where the combination of playoff seeding, job hunting and coach firings align perfectly – epitomize the noxious pull of college sports. In just a matter of days, we can go from the beauty and luster of MICHIGAN-OHIO STATE to LIBERTY UNIVERSITY’S craven hire of its new athletic director. If THE GAME is all that’s wonderful about college football then Liberty hiring IAN MCCAW is its ugly truth. McCaw resigned from BAYLOR after the football program put itself in a vile swamp of domestic violence allegations. It toppled an entire regime even after McCaw, the coach and president all were in charge as Baylor went from also-ran to power. Obviously, Liberty President JERRY FALWELL JR. focused on the winning, not the disgrace. “You look at what Baylor was able to do during his tenure, it fits perfectly with where we see our sports programs going”… Meanwhile, TOM HERMAN obfuscated on ESPN about exploring other jobs than HOUSTON’S. Two days later, he was at TEXAS… This is why increasing swaths of the population grow uncomfortable with college sports. Like the NFL, college sports has some unappetizing questions it must deal with. But at least its ratings are good… Just two famous athletes doing regular guy things together… It seems there’s a chance that MLB and the PLAYERS ASSOCIATION won’t have a new CBA by the DEC. 1 deadline. But there probably won’t be much harm since baseball finally moved the deadline to the offseason. It used to fall during the season, which only cost everyone a WORLD SERIES… How good are NFL quarterbacks now? Derek Carr only needs four fingers on his throwing hand. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Humility and hard work helped the rookie quarterback establish himself as the Eagles' leader. | | |
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 | Star Tribune |
| The suites are for marketing purposes. The government appointees admit friends and family are often in attendance but decline to say who else joins them. | | |
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 | Sports on Earth |
| By now, you probably know that television ratings for the NFL have been down this year. Many still believe that Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest is the reason. So let's thoroughly break down why that isn't the case. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Pat Huffman has raised thousands for charity through dedicated racing; a race director said she cheated in one of them. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| New USGA rules have made the game more difficult for senior golfers. | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Ivy League just finished its first season without full-contact tackling in practice. It's too soon to definitively state the new measure's effects, but other conferences are already curious. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In a report issued by the NFL Rules Committee in 1940, according to an online league presentation called "Bent but Not Broken: The History of the Rules," representatives outlined their vision for the growing football league. | | |
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 | espnW |
| If that big fail happens when you're at the top of your game, it can be a gift, as Ronda Rousey will demonstrate next month when she enters the Octagon for the first time in more than a year. Her return is brave, and I tell myself this a lot: Going back to the spot where you failed and trying again is brave. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The world chess championship between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin has attracted large viewing figures and illustrated the appeal of slower sports. | | |
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 | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
| His quiet charitable work, particularly with children, “will be hard for us all to replace,” one Cards executive says. | | |
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 | HardballTalk |
| Baseball grew in Cuba under Castro. But at a terrible cost. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| How about this for a vacation idea? Fly to Europe, buy a beat-up clunker, then try to make it from England to Mongolia as fast as you can. There’s no official route and no official rulebook. Photographer Drew Gurian and his brother, Scott, did just that this summer as participants in the Adventurists’ Mongol Rally. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| It was the most wonderful time of the year again. Deep in the heart of New Orleans, native Louisianians, alumni, current students and fans of Southern University and Grambling State University gathered for the 43rd annual Bayou Classic - a battle that has, for decades, determined which school would reign supreme for the year. | | |
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 | Philadelphia Inquirer |
| Despite having spotted their male counterparts a head start of three-quarters of a century, the Nittany Lions' women have caught and surpassed them. | | |
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 | NBA.com |
| The ruthless, unforgiving disease is ominously creeping more into his life by the day. And yet here is the former NBA power forward/center, excited that he will be calling Suns at Trail Blazers in a few hours as a rookie analyst on Portland radio broadcasts. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Last week, a man on a ladder unscrewed the sign in the stairwell. Yesterday, a crew was disassembling the rings and packing up all the heavy bags. After more than 30 years, Gleason’s Gym is moving. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| Jurgen Klinsmann came to U.S. Soccer with lofty declarations and expectations, and he leaves having been unable to meet most of them, at least on the surface. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| The nature of football support, and in particular the match-going experience, has changed profoundly with the ubiquity of mobile phones and tablets. Are we still fully engaged with what's taking place on the pitch? | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| Playing to win might not be realistic for Tiger Woods as he returns inside the ropes this week. Can he find a happy medium where he's not too hard on himself at the Hero World Challenge? | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| What was once the nation’s deepest, most competitive conference in football is a shell of itself, a parade of the down and the defeated, so far behind the Crimson Tide that this weekend’s SEC championship game is essentially an exhibition contest. | | |
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