We need adventure. It’s in our blood. It will not go away. The mountains will continue to call because they uniquely fulfill our need for communion with nature, as well as our hunger for adventure. | | | | Lenny Zappavigna did not win this fight.
(Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) | | | | | | “We need adventure. It’s in our blood. It will not go away. The mountains will continue to call because they uniquely fulfill our need for communion with nature, as well as our hunger for adventure.”
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| | rantnrave:// TWITTER continues to grow as a home for sports rights. The latest addition: the NATIONAL LACROSSE LEAGUE. Quickly, the company is building a platform of patchwork leagues and rights. It had a high-profile fling with the NFL already. But what's the endgame here? Is this Twitter's way of energizing a stagnant brand and business model? Is it battling FACEBOOK as the emerging giant for digital rights? Someone will become the streaming giant eventually -- does TWITTER have the wherewithal to do it?... Free advertising for POTATO PARCEL... The ultimate baseball road trip... BARACKETOLOGY lives... A baseball agent and a trainer were convicted of running a CUBAN smuggling ring. The trial exposed a seedy side of the sport and involved high profile MLB players like JOSE ABREU and LEONYS MARTIN. The dangerous path Cubans take to the U.S. deserves more scrutiny but can anything be done about it?... March madness in a nutshell: CUONZO MARTIN left CAL for MIZZOU, then hired the father of a top-5 recruit as an assistant coach after he got fired from WASHINGTON. There's no hating on the coaches -- just don't gripe when players do the same thing. Everyone should be able to get theirs... NIKE is accused of being full of hot air in CHINA... Unnecessary roughness... Bracketology is suffering from a "paradox of skill"... But that doesn't mean you should stop filling them out. Still don't have an NCAA TOURNAMENT bracket group? Join the REDEF challenge. The winner gets a shout-out here in the newsletter. Password: REDEFSports. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Inspired by new research on "facing your fears" as a cure for PTSD and phobias, I set out to see whether climbing a mountain could cure my fear of heights. | | |
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| American Mormons have a longstanding and well-documented relationship with basketball. Aside from a few outliers like Steve Young and Bryce Harper, our most famous athletes are all basketball players-Jabari Parker, Jimmer Fredette, Shawn Bradley, Danny Ainge, and those two missionaries who went viral for balling out in full shirt and tie. | | |
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| As many as 1 in 10 Dominicans are of Haitian descent. So why do we know of virtually no Haitian Dominicans in the major leagues? | | |
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| Although the new 115th Congress is the most racially diverse on record, its staff remains overwhelmingly white. | | |
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| The former CBS Sports and ‘Access Hollywood’ anchor talks about addiction, sobriety, and those fateful voicemails. | | |
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| It's easy enough to pick a NCAA tournament bracket online, but if you want to play a fantasy game with actual college players, you'll need to make it yourself. | | |
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| A numbers-theory expert looks at the important figures in this year’s N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. | | |
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| I’ve filled out a few brackets, and I always save one bracket for the Duke Blue Devils. No matter how good or bad the season, I have one bracket that has them winning the whole thing. You see, I’m a Duke basketball fan. | | |
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| From nondescript dad shoes to rare collectors item, all thanks to a mass suicide. | | |
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| Steve Alford was hardly the only New Castle gym rat whose life moved to the beat of a bouncing basketball. Among those who followed his famous footsteps was another coach’s son, another kid who had a key to the Castle to shoot anytime day or night, a tough little guard Steve knew from birth and used to babysit. His name is Brandon Miller. | | |
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| When 18-year-old Joe Keller vanished from a dude ranch in Colorado's Rio Grande National Forest, he joined the ranks of those missing on public land. No official tally exists, but their numbers are growing. And when an initial search turns up nothing, who'll keep looking? | | |
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| The long read: At the age of 20, Christopher Knight parked his car on a remote trail in Maine and walked away with only the most basic supplies. He had no plan. His chief motivation was to avoid contact with people. This is his story. | | |
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| I saw the blood on the ice, but I didn’t know the right side of my face was caved in. | | |
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| Puma is coming back strong. And it’s done it by embracing today’s biggest pop and hip-hop stars. The German sportswear and sneaker brand has traded places with its American rival, Under Armour. | | |
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| Now this is a story all about how my sneakers got flipped, turned upside down. | | |
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| Kentucky Coach John Calipari has faced stinging criticism in the past. Now, as the driving force behind several media platforms, he’s trying to control his own message. | | |
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| All of this booming burpee-related growth leads to questions of sustainability, like, when is it no longer possible to sprint at this level of intensity? Experts respond. | | |
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| Can pitching quicker lead to more strikes and better defense? | | |
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| Linebacker Aaron Curry was picked fourth overall by the Seahawks in the 2009 NFL draft but out of the league by '13. But the draft bust has come full circle. | | |
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| Confetti, cracked dreams and crying in front of Jordan: what it feels like, one year later, for the player whose one shining moment got erased by the ultimate buzzer-beater. | | |
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