Less is more, so I’d rather have fewer people doing more work than more people doing a little more work. As long as everybody is busy, as long as everybody feels productive, they feel good about what they’re doing and they feel like they’re contributing; I think when people have lag time and kind of not enough to do, that leads to getting distracted and complaining or being less productive. | | | | Sebastian Vettel, on the move.
(Mark Thompson/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Less is more, so I’d rather have fewer people doing more work than more people doing a little more work. As long as everybody is busy, as long as everybody feels productive, they feel good about what they’re doing and they feel like they’re contributing; I think when people have lag time and kind of not enough to do, that leads to getting distracted and complaining or being less productive.”
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| How can an NBA head coach be both essential and unnecessary? Steve Kerr's absence has revealed that the true test of a leader happens once they leave. | | |
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 | Yahoo Sports |
| In a conversation with Yahoo Sports, Jones addressed his place in baseball today, the ugly incident at Fenway Park in which a fan berated him with the N-word, Curt Schilling’s belief Jones made up the story, and how baseball is a white-man’s sport. | | |
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 | B/R Mag |
| The man who shot and killed Dejean-Jones after the NBA player broke into his apartment tells #BRmag his side of the story. | | |
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 | POWDER Magazine |
| Tracking down a silent sender in the Pacific Northwest. | | |
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 | The National Law Review |
| On Saturday 6 May 2017, Olympic Gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge donned a pair of Nike ZoomX VaporFly Elite shoes (containing a specially designed carbon fibre plate promoting a forward-tilt of the feet) | | |
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 | Sports Video Group |
| The digital-media power has unveiled a new logo and revitalized app over the past month. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| A black-owned business breaking into a white-dominated industry is finding few supporters in its corner. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| After 30 years dominating New York sports radio, Mike Francesa is moving on. What’s next? Dumb question. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| There are three ways to manage promotion to the top flight. Let QPR, Blackpool and Burnley guide you through the choices. | | |
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 | Suiting Up with Paul Rabil |
| Welcome to Suiting Up, where professional lacrosse player, operator and investor, Paul Rabil, talks to influencers within the world of sports to examine the duality between sport and business. His first guest is a man who doesn't do many podcasts--this may be his first, actually. | | |
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 | FiveThirtyEight |
| Hitting more fly balls doesn’t always equal better performance. (Just ask Jason Heyward.) | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| How Alan Eustace, a Google engineer on the edge of retirement, broke the world record for high-altitude jumping. | | |
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 | Deadspin |
| Whenever I tell a New York Yankees fan that my new book, "The Captain Class," is a profile of the greatest team leaders in sports history, they inevitably say some variation of the same thing. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| To those who have dedicated their lives to studying the minds and mental well-being of elite athletes, this feels like a moment. At least they hope it is. They hope Penn State kicker Joey Julius will no longer serve as an outlier. That his openness and honesty about struggling with an eating disorder, an illness not typically associated with football players, will be a beacon for others. | | |
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 | MultiChannel News |
| Every year during the upfront (and now, NewFront) season, I think about the state of the media industry -- what has happened over the last year and how the media landscape will shift during the next one. My interest stems from my time as an AOL executive during the 1990s, when we were propelled by a vision of what was possible with the screech of a modem and the click of a mouse. | | |
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 | Complex |
| Chris Rock and Joe La Puma go Sneaker Shopping at Stadium Goods in New York City and talk about the time Michael Jordan was on "SNL," why Yeezys are a must-cop, and the history of Lil' Penny. | | |
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 | Edge of Sports Podcast |
| We give an inside look at the Know Your Rights Camps being hosted by free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick, as he and a remarkable team of people try to educate youth on their legal rights, health, history and financial literacy. We also tear apart the disinformation campaign being put forward by nameless NFL executives about why Colin Kaepernick is without a job. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| She fell in love with cycling, but was tired of never seeing anyone else who looked like her on two wheels. So she did something about it. | | |
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 | Outside Online |
| Among other things: potatoes are wonderful, junk food is OK, and everything you know about serving sizes is wrong. | | |
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| Sports Illustrated |
| As home runs continue to rise, the suspicion of increased PED usage still looms over Major League Baseball. The question now is whether the penalties for a positive test should be more stringent. | | |
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