I'm just here so I don't get fined. | | | | | The Patriots’ first Super Bowl appearance didn’t go so well. They got run over by The Fridge. (Focus on Sport/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I'm just here so I don't get fined.”
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| | rantnrave:// The MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW was woke ahead of its time. Maybe ahead of ours too. Sports networks are still struggling with how to talk about the real world, mainly because it keeps butting into sports. I've always felt THE DAN LE BATARD SHOW is the best at doing this. Honestly, it's the only sports radio show I can bear to listen to. Le Batard is honest and he discusses the limitations of the institution employing him and the polarity of the audience listening to him. Talk-show hosts who try to be balanced for the sake of it often sound hollow. Not because of my political views but because no matter which side you're on, throwing in the opposing viewpoint just seems like the empty calories. The voices that will carry furthest and loudest are the ones who don't hide their biases but use them to explain their view of the world. It might be impossible to stick to sports anymore, but it doesn't mean you have to lose ratings points because of it... You let the RAMS in L.A. but... JOE BUCK takes you inside the booth and bathroom for his FOX broadcasts during an appearance on THE HOWARD STERN SHOW... The RAIDERS just lost $650 million in funding for their proposed stadium in LAS VEGAS. It could be a blessing in disguise for the NFL, though. Too much movement doesn't seem in their best interest. What does the ADELSONS' exit tell us about the interest in funding stadiums right now?... BUDAPEST wants to host the 2024 OLYMPICS. Well, not everyone there... The ISLANDERS are the bizarro CHARGERS. How often does an arena get to do the dumping?... Why would you ask KYLE LOWRY not to curse? That’s bulls***... RON HILL is my hero. I run five times a week and sometimes it’s by forcing myself. He ran for 52 years straight... The only college football recruit list that matters... MLB's code of conduct was once so vulgar it wasn't allowed to be mailed. It had to be hand delivered... ELENA DELLE DONNE is headed to WASHINGTON in a trade that rattled the WNBA. A former MVP shifting teams will swing the balance of power. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| The Basketball Team That Never Takes a Bad Shot: The NBA’s most efficient offenses seek out layups and threes. A high school in Minnesota takes the idea to the extreme. | | |
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| Members of the Super Bowl XXI champion New York Giants reflect on the beginning of the Gatorade shower as a victory celebration. | | |
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| Sportswriters have been awakened by Donald Trump’s presidency. Is that what their readers want? | | |
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| An unprecedented number of NBA veterans signed with their hometown teams this past summer, and many of them are encountering an awkward predicament: What to do with all these seemingly random junior-high classmates who blitz them with ticket requests? | | |
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| A year of triumph for Muslim sports heroes ends with a slap in the face from Donald Trump’s ban. | | |
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| Roger Federer won the Australian Open, and Tom Brady is playing in the Super Bowl. Some things just seem to never age, do they? | | |
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| Considering his background, Javier Zanetti’s affinity with the impoverished people of Mexico was unsurprising. So he forged a bond with the Zapatista rebel movement, and Inter Milan followed his lead. | | |
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| Baseball had the smallest home-field advantage, with every baseball park scoring below every other sports’ locations other than the Rockies, who have a bigger home-field advantage than four hockey teams. Baseball also had the most parity and the smallest variability week to week and season to season. | | |
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| Secretary of Education nominee DeVos has financially supported a group that wants to heighten the standard of proof that victims of alleged sexual assault have to establish. | | |
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| How do you market yourself to a bunch of dudes (I’m using that like mankind) you want to play hockey with? Scrolling down the adverts, I was surprised by a lot of things, but mostly by the populism--not the lowest common denominator type thing, but true every-skater involvement. | | |
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| Sure they could drive faster, turn harder and get closer to each other, but will anyone care? | | |
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| Stepanova, a middle-distance runner who helped reveal Russia’s state-sponsored doping, returned to international competition at the Indoor Grand Prix in Boston. | | |
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| Once upon a time, Super Bowl ads stood on creativity alone. Like, say, Coca-Cola’s Mean Joe Greene spot or Apple’s 1984 - or even Budweiser’s Frogs. And then somewhere along the line, brands and agencies realized they could get a whole lot more bang for their buck by releasing Super Bowl spots early. And now, of course, teasers and early releases are par for the course. | | |
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| Waking up to matches featuring Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and Venus and Serena Williams. | | |
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| The sisters are the most accomplished sports siblings in history thanks in large part to the courage and fire of their father. | | |
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| Sudanese refugee Lopez Lomong discusses his emotional and deeply personal reaction to Donald Trump's executive order. | | |
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| Texas tried to steal him. He was a celebrity in fifth grade. A Polish designer saved him from suicide. Yes, the graphic designer has a story wilder than any recruit he helps bring to Ohio State. | | |
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| Even after losing in the playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys, Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers continue to have their fingerprints on this Super Bowl. For the NFL’s ticket-resale business, the absences of those franchises have clipped the wings of what could have been a soaring market. | | |
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| The fractured memory washes over Anthony Lynn in a series of gruesome snapshots. A flash of headlights. Cold asphalt. Blood pooling around him. A frantic ambulance ride. | | |
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| Bill Whitaker investigates whether pro cyclists have used secret bike motors to win races -- like the Tour de France -- in a sport notorious for its culture of cheating. | | |
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