I don't know how much longer he's got with WWE. I think his career is winding down, but he's a freak of nature. Maybe he'll give me a call and say he wants to do it again, but you know, I think he's ready to ride off into the sunset. | | | | | Brock Lesnar has loomed large over the UFC and WWE for years. (Ed Webster/Flickr) | | | | |  | “I don't know how much longer he's got with WWE. I think his career is winding down, but he's a freak of nature. Maybe he'll give me a call and say he wants to do it again, but you know, I think he's ready to ride off into the sunset.”
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| | rantnrave:// This is a genius idea by the MILWAUKEE BUCKS. Offering a ticket package that sells 10 home wins worth of seats instead of just 10 games is such a fan-friendly idea. The Bucks have the 27th ranked attendance in the league despite possessing one of the NBA's most exciting stars. Obviously they need to give fans more than that. Right now they are 10-7 at home and this deal would be a steal. After years upon years of sky-rocketing ticket and concession prices, this is a welcome change of course. It could also raise an interesting question about how NBA tickets are marketed as a product. Are fans buying tickets to see games or to see wins? There's usually a relationship between the two in price but never this explicit… That three countries would host one WORLD CUP at once is an interesting idea, and not one has agreed to it, but it is an unprecedented possibility. That it would be the UNITED STATES, CANADA, and MEXICO would be something else completely. It’s not just that it would make for some interesting logistics, having teams play over a land mass that’s a cumulative 8.4 million square miles in size, but interesting bedfellows. To win the 2026 World Cup, bidding would probably happen over the next two years. The 2018 World Cup host was named in 2010. Can you imagine Mexico and the U.S. partnering on this considering the current relationship between the two countries? Especially with who is in charge, and, at least in the U.S., the political base that could be charged up by such a move. But perhaps this could also be a positive – a way for two governments to find a way to work together and to see firsthand the benefits of globalism. Would you like to see it happen?... The NFL’s expansion onto non-TV platforms and its international push continue apace. The league has struck a deal to broadcast in CHINA on WEIBO, the country's Twitter equivalent… Never mind, RUSSIA didn’t do it… That you had to manually update MADDEN rosters… That you had to watch SPORTSCENTER to know what happened that day… No one wants to buy the stadiums BRAZIL built for the OLYMPICS. Shocker. There is a real cost to hosting the Olympics, not only financially but environmentally (plus, traffic). LOS ANGELES is bidding to host in 2024 and has the backing of the PRESIDENT-ELECT. But who would that benefit?... The trend of the year in sports: Shirtlessness… We’ve all been there. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| High-school football coach Jeremy Williams was diagnosed with ALS in 2007. It wasn’t the first time that his family’s resiliency had been tested, and it wouldn’t be the last. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| Tom Junod explores what's at stake in stigmatizing participation trophies. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In a year of big change, the epic battles defined everything. This is the greatest that WWE had to offer this year, including the best matches and the wrestler of the year. | | |
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 | Howler Magazine |
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 | WSJ |
| How Chelsea’s Diego Costa has become the most important striker in the Premier League. | | |
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 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| The message on his hat - “I’ve spent most of my life golfing, the rest I’ve just wasted” - conveys his passion, and his easy manner quickly becomes apparent. Hoover seeks to teach life skills through golf, much like the national First Tee program. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The expat experience offered simple pleasures - buying bread at the market, boisterous bowling - and, after terrorist attacks, heartbreak as well. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| The full story behind Woody Hayes's punch of Clemson's Charlie Bauman and the aftermath that led to the end of the legendary Ohio State coach's career. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Tim Ohashi, who wrote his first report on the Capitals at age 7, scouts, clips video and provides advanced statistical analysis for Coach Barry Trotz and his players. | | |
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| Muslim boxer Amaiya Zafar, 16, was disqualified from a fight for wanting to compete in a hijab. Are the AIBA and USA Boxing attire regulations discriminatory? | | |
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| For a moment, seeing the small figures walking before the elk makes me think that white people know the Great Elk too. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| In her latest diary entry on life in Alemão after the Games, Daiene Mendes says residents are the real champions for carrying on with their lives | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Attending a game used to be a low-tech pleasure: Buy a ticket and grab a bleacher seat. Now, with metal detectors and bag checks standard at almost all major sporting venues, companies have begun offering biometric and other tools to create the equivalent of express security lanes like those in airports. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| One of most bruising battles in TV sports these days isn’t taking place on the playing field. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| On making time to socialize in an always-packed schedule, fighting back against harassment, and knowing when to log out of Twitter. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| At the center of Raiders magic this season is a 6'2", 195-pound kid from Nowhere, USA. Seth Roberts landed in the Bay Area via Pearl River (Mississippi) Community College and Division II West Alabama. Three of his 10 touchdowns in two seasons have been game-winners. | | |
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 | SB*Nation |
| Someone get creative and give Saban some competition. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| A billion-dollar NFL franchise can nonchalantly bench a starter for financial reasons, but college stars can't do the same for themselves. Why? | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| Despite so many tangled webs, Jeanie Buss and Phil Jackson made it work for 17 years. After growing apart along opposite coasts, the impossible relationship reached its end. | | |
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| Vice Sports |
| Brazil's big bet on the 2016 Rio Olympics has gone bust, and the country has been plunged further into political and economic crisis. | | |
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