I expressed to him specifically that potentially going blind in one eye is not worth one game in the NFL. | | | | | Chess champion Magnus Carlsen. (Intel Free Press/Flickr) | | | | |  | “I expressed to him specifically that potentially going blind in one eye is not worth one game in the NFL.”
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| | rantnrave:// If BUD SELIG gets into the BASEBALL HALL OF FAME, does it show how commissioners get much less scrutiny than players? A highly competent and great player like TIM RAINES might never get in but Selig seems like he’ll breeze right in. Selig accomplished a lot but he also has some large stains on his records. If players can be blackballed from the Hall of Fame from PED use, how do we weigh the commissioner of the sport in an era where it was pretty much left unchecked and certainly unregulated for its benefit? Do we hold the captain accountable for the PED use on his ship?... The most exciting four or so hours in sports? Overtime of the WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS, obviously. All glory goes to MAGNUS CARLSEN, who retained his title and turned 26... Another senseless act of gun violence. This time it was former USC star and NFL player JOE MCKNIGHT in New Orleans… MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL and the PLAYERS ASSOCIATION avoided a lockout but it sure seems like the players got hosed. Less spending on international signings and harsher luxury tax rules are among the biggest reasons why. Sure, it’s now less intrusive to sign players who have received qualifying offers but is it worth benefiting a dozen or so players each year to hurt the rest – especially the ones trying to get their first contract as teenagers in LATIN AMERICA?... Need an angel investor in your startup? Maybe MICHAEL PHELPS will give you some money… There’s a lot of reasons to curb income inequality in AMERICA and the idea that it’s making its kids slower and less fit should be somewhere on the list. It’s a symptom, of course, of the greater issue but something worth discussing as well. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | HuffPost Highline |
| Fantasy football for 6-year-olds is only the beginning. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| When a key figure in a powerful ‘ultra’ group killed himself in July, police suspected the mafia was using the ultras to get into the game. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| LeBron James delivered a title to his hometown Cavaliers in stunning fashion with one greatest comebacks in sports history. For that, he is Sports Illustrated's Sportsperson of the Year. | | |
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 | CBSSports.com |
| Jonathan Judge is an increasingly important name in baseball analytics. | | |
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 | FOX Sports |
| Baseball has labor peace, but at what cost? | | |
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 | The Nation |
| Sports was an oasis during an otherwise terrible year. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Two youth programs have sprung up in Marshall, where Pop Warner, Boys & Girls Club and seventh-grade tackle teams were discontinued over safety concerns. | | |
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 | The Players' Tribune |
| Today, the target may be Standing Rock. But Native people aren’t the only ones who are affected by threats to the environment. It belongs to all of us, whatever our heritage. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
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 | High Snobiety |
| In this in-depth story, Ollie Stallwood visits an illegal Japanese drift scene and reports first-hand on the culture he discovers. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Basketball programs in the lower tier of Division 1 often travel to be beaten down by the nation's top teams. Does that make them road warriors or road kill? | | |
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 | Sportsnet |
| In 1969, Donald Crowhurst fooled the world into believing he was completing the fastest non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe. Then his boat was found, empty and adrift in the Atlantic. | | |
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 | Howler Magazine |
| An extra-time thriller became irrelevant in the 13th minute when Montreal and MLS didn’t take care of a man’s brain | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Confessions of a coach who left behind the NBA 'machine' -- and That Guy (aka LeBron) -- for the very un-American exceptionalism of life in Europe. | | |
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 | WSJ |
| Nike is trotting out a pricey sneaker with self-tying laces, a high stakes test of the company’s technology investments and efforts to sell more products directly to consumers. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| A new study found that America's youth are among the least fit in the world--and our unequal income distribution likely has something to do with it. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| UFC is big business, but many of its fighters are poorly paid, and lack benefits like healthcare - so a new workers’ group hopes to bring about much-needed change | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| In a decade, Owen Hanson went from playing football and volleyball at USC to being the subject of a major FBI investigation into drug-trafficking, money-laundering, and illegal gambling. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| Once an aspiring NFL player, Dwayne Johnson used his failures in football to turn himself into Hollywood's highest paid actor and biggest star. | | |
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 | Texas Monthly |
| A violent tackle in a high school football game paralyzed John McClamrock for life. His mother made sure it was a life worth living. | | |
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