At the end of the day, if Nike hits the fan then we're all in trouble. Everybody. | | | | Jacques Plante debuted the goalie mask in 1959 -- after he took a shot that required seven stitches.
(Charles Hoff/NY Daily News/Getty Images) | | | | | | “At the end of the day, if Nike hits the fan then we're all in trouble. Everybody.”
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| | rantnrave:// Mercifully, the NFL intends to do something about the nasty commercial/kickoff/commercial sequence that pops up during games -- which has long made viewers angry. It's part of the league's plan to reformat games. Commercial breaks, replays and in-game timing are all on the table. While the MLB has fixated on speeding up games, it was perplexing that the NFL was idle. Have you been to an NFL game in-stadium? It's tedious. Watching one game on TV isn't smooth either. Once you've experienced REDZONE, it's hard to go back. NFL games are perfect TV products but what does that mean in an age of two or three screens, DVR, Redzone, and TWITTER highlights? Cutting a few commercial breaks -- but making others longer -- is just nipping and tucking... The lengths US women's hockey players must go to generate income to afford to play is eye-opening. HILARY KNIGHT has four endorsement deals -- few of her teammates are that fortunate -- but she also had to convince herself to pose nude for ESPN THE MAGAZINE's "Body" issue in 2014 to earn publicity. Keep her story in mind as the women's hockey team continues its standoff with USA HOCKEY for better pay and more equitable treatment... The Tinderization of the NBA... The BIG3 basketball league is growing quick. It just landed a TV deal from FOX SPORTS and will be in primtetime this summer. The list of startup sports league -- think XFL -- is long; the list of successful ones is short. BIG3 could do well because it has star power and runs during a down-time in the sports schedule. I'll watch at least once. Key question: How will this new league define success?... NIKE had a bad day after a rough quarter earnings report. Now, it's going to focus on digital shopping. YAHOO's DANIEL ROBERTS: Well, duh... College football and basketball games are pressurized, emotional environments where fans can be quick-triggered and reactive. You can now carry a concealed weapon to them in ARKANSAS. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| At This Dance, Women Take The Lead was her own response to the gender imbalance--a production featuring women as choreographers and composers, and herself as artistic director. She had formed the Ashley Bouder Project in 2014. | | |
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| If you want to know why road teams are winning at historically great levels, take a look inside the NBA's new, tamer social scene. | | |
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| Until Alford truly grasps the errors of his past, this alumna believes he has a place in Bloomington. | | |
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| Athletes have always been political. But until recently they rarely possessed the means to explain themselves. | | |
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| Between the 1830s and the 1850s, hundreds of Indigenous warriors and dozens of British settlers were killed across south-east Australia. Echoes of that conflict recur in Aussie rules. | | |
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| The name Jalen is on a hot streak, as babies born during the 1990s heyday of ‘Fab Five’ star Jalen Rose grow up. | | |
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| Former golfer Anya Alvarez shares how depression forced her to leave the sport she loves and how writing allowed her to keep a connection to the game. | | |
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| The Detroit Red Wings are about to miss the playoff for the first time since 1990, and their beloved-and beery-arena is closing its doors. Take a tour. | | |
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| Shortly after they returned to Tbilisi from Zaza’s first club season for summer break, Davit Pachulia died during a routine doctor’s visit. Nearly two decades later, a key player in what he hopes will be a championship run with the Golden State Warriors, Zaza Pachulia still thinks of his father daily. | | |
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| The Clippers guard Chris Paul has paid a price -- multiple injuries to his fingers -- for collecting more steals than any other active N.B.A. player. | | |
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| Last year Mourad Laachraoui became a European Champion in Taekwondo. Two months before the biggest win of his career, his brother Najim blew himself up in Brussels Airport. This is their story. | | |
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| I was becoming part of a community in Cleveland. But there was still something else that I needed to do. I wanted to become a U.S. citizen. | | |
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| A brilliant scout and the architect of the Bulls' dynasty, Krause didn't get the opportunity to cherish the honor he so richly deserved: selection into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. | | |
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| The U.S. Women's National Ice Hockey Team is fighting for equal pay as they use jobs and sponsors to currently maintain a living. | | |
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| How do you rebound from an all-time postseason debacle? Old Houston players who endured pro football’s worst playoff implosion have one clear message for the Falcons: It won’t be easy. | | |
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| Many a photographer knows from experience that getting a credit line for his or her work may often be the only compensation available. | | |
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| Discovery of high-quality surf can drive up economic growth by 2.2 percentage points a year in the area, research shows. | | |
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| It seems as though lots are doing it, but how much is it costing networks? | | |
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| Videogame companies, including Ubisoft Entertainment and Activision Blizzard, are fighting back against gamers who cheat, some with unapproved software they buy online. | | |
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| Before Kamar Baldwin could form words or even memories, basketball was central to his life. His mother, Kay Holloway, who had played point guard in high school and for a year at Shorter University in nearby Rome, Georgia, was the girls coach at Winder-Barrow, the only other high school in Barrow County--and Apalachee's chief rival. | | |
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