That dinner started as the lowest point in our lives. By the end, it was a party. | | | | | Cam Newton captivated us in victory and defeat in 2016. (Nate Lepak/Flickr) | | | | |  | “That dinner started as the lowest point in our lives. By the end, it was a party.”
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| | rantnrave:// Picking the best stories of 2016 is an impossible task. There are too many to stop at 20 or 40 or wherever you want to cut it off. These are the stories that resonated with me most this past year. It would have been nice to throw in a story about MLB's newest member of the 3,000 hit club or BILL KENNEDYs coming out party. How CRAIG SAGER captivated us this year. The history of running gear. The list goes on. Enjoy these and get ready for a new year to awe us again... SportsREDEF is taking a long weekend to bring in the New Year's. Hope you have a fun and vibrant New Year's Eve! We will see you Tuesday. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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 | ProPublica |
| How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Eric Cohen, a 27-year-old partner in a private equity firm, is a squat 155 pounds, a little soft around the belly, and presumably a lot richer than me. I am his 34-year-old, 132-pound opponent. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| MLB's code is clear: Flip your bat and you'll pay. But in South Korea, flips are an art. How does this alternate world exist? And what does it say about us? | | |
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 | National Geographic |
| A wingsuit BASE jumper just live-streamed his own death-marking the latest fatality in the sport’s deadliest year. We investigate why both highly experienced pilots and beginners are dying in this extreme sport. | | |
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 | Yahoo! Sports |
| The Miami Marlins’ star pitcher was upset and just wanted to get away, leading him on a late-night ride on a 32-foot fishing boat into the wee hours of Sunday. It would be the last boat ride of his life. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| Athletes from the national team plan a mass defection. | | |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| Inside the story of Owen Hanson, the former USC athlete suspected of heading an international gambling and drug syndicate. | | |
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 | MMQB |
| The MMQB examined the youth football careers and family backgrounds of the 15 QBs taken in this year’s NFL draft (a record number), and found several key life experiences that appear to be predictors of success. Often, the men who play the position aren’t natural born leaders. | | |
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 | VQR |
| Adventures in synchronized swimming. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| After 22 years and eight teams, the Panthers’ Jagr is bound for another playoff appearance and seems unlikely to retire any time soon. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Where did it all go wrong for one of the most gifted players in college football history? | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Jennifer Frey drank herself to death. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| A millionaire at 18 and a junkie at 27, Robert Swift is trying to revive his basketball career and repair his frayed life. | | |
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 | Down East |
| And who seriously thinks doing so will make a lick of difference for a struggling mill town? This guy does. | | |
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 | The Fader |
| In the city of Rosario, Argentina, some soccer fans have evolved into a mafia with an illicit cash flow and a stable of hit men. A look inside their homicidal turf war. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman--and now she's on the mountain trying for her seventh summit. So why doesn’t anyone know her name? | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| The Holy Zion Center of Deliverance church played an integral part in Cam Newton's upbringing. We visited the church, where Cam's father Cecil Newton was a reluctant host. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Nationals Manager Dusty Baker is a vintner, gardener, family man and baseball icon. And because of some troubled times in his past, he cherishes his present even more. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| He crouched at the back of the 70-foot yacht, tightening his grip on the urn as he extended it over the Pacific Ocean. Adorned with spiked metal studs and hot-pink rhinestones spelling out CHYNA, the vase would've seemed gaudy in most circles. | | |
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| ESPN.com |
| Four years ago in London, the last aging members of Argentina's Golden Generation sat at their lockers and wept after losing a frantic bronze-medal game to Russia. The nation's two greatest players, Luis Scola and Manu Ginobili, gathered themselves and spoke to mark the moment. | | |
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