At college, the only people making money off you are the coaches. You’re not making anything off your jersey sales, ticket sales. Not anything. So go overseas, the way I did, and get your money’s worth. | | | | The English countryside is a blur.
(Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images) | | | | | | “At college, the only people making money off you are the coaches. You’re not making anything off your jersey sales, ticket sales. Not anything. So go overseas, the way I did, and get your money’s worth.”
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| | rantnrave:// The NBA has never seen anything like these WARRIORS. Two top-five players, four top-15 players, in a 30-team league. Basketball nirvana. Greatness is when a two-time MVP is the second-best player on the team. I don't know for sure if the Dubs are the best team ever but I can't say they're not. They won 73 games last season and followed it up by being even better and thrashing CLEVELAND in the NBA FINALS. Look how easily they got baskets in Games 1, 2 and 5. Then consider they can still play better... The Warriors didn't blow a 3-1 lead... The shot-making in this series was incredible. As high a collective skill level as I've ever seen... The traditional post-title commercial is my favorite shoe spot. The emotions are at their freshest. The title has just changed hands. And here comes a wonderfully produced ad to pluck those strings. NIKE's Durant commercial Monday night was awesome... There's only one correct LEBRON JAMES hot take after this: The Warriors needed Durant just to beat LeBron and the Cavaliers. That was the best performance by a losing player in a series. The Cavs lost in five and LeBron was still the best player on the court... It's easy to say the NBA is in the age of the super team. It's simple but it's true. Any free agent who teams up with other stars isn't trying to build one of his own -- he's just trying to keep up. LeBron started the trend of using freedom of movement as the ultimate chess piece to build the team he wants. Durant took it to another level. The only way to compete for a title the next few years will be by finding alliances. Even LeBron has to contemplate how to plot his future... Will STEVE KERR and the Warriors go to the WHITE HOUSE?... The Warriors have done enough for TWITTER... ERIC CRAWFORD dives into the budget and dealings of the LOUISVILLE athletic department and the school's athletic foundation. It's an interesting poke into the work athletic programs do in the shadows as college sports grow richer and more money is spent every year. That cash flow is part of the reason the movement to pay student-athletes has ramped up in recent years. There's a sense that they're victims of a multi-billion dollar system they hardly profit from -- and that the people who do get paid aren't likable protagonists... How to hit the best jump serve on sand. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| With a convincing win in Game 5, Golden State has put itself in excellent position to claim GOAT status. | | |
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| The history books will read that the Warriors won 31 of their final 33 outings, including 16 of 17 playoff games. They disposed of the Cavaliers, the only team that could rival their loaded roster, in five games. To hoist that golden trophy, Golden State outlasted Cleveland, 129-120, in Game 5 on Monday. | | |
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| Games are set to change more in the next five years than they have in the last 45, he says. | | |
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| The betting industry is now "at the beating heart of the beautiful game," but a raft of recent incidents have raised serious questions about the relationship between football and gambling. | | |
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| Rafael Nadal has reëstablished his body and his belief, and, remarkably, is playing like it’s 2008. | | |
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| The powerful story of Paula Blanco, a running back with the Orlando Anarchy women's football team, who was with teammates at Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016, when 49 people were killed during the worst act of terrorism on American soil since 9/11. | | |
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| Christos FC, a Baltimore-based club, is the last amateur squad left standing in a tournament dominated by pros. Their next opponent: D.C. United on Tuesday night. | | |
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| Representatives from the players associations of the four major professional sports league have been meeting in NYC to discuss what’s becoming almost an inevitability: the legalization of sports gambling. | | |
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| The Crosby-era Penguins have checked off all the same boxes as the Mario Lemieux-led ones - and then some. | | |
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| Ascending Everest may be easier now that one of the most difficult features en route to the summit has crumbled, veteran mountaineers say. | | |
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| An audit released by the University of Louisville on Thursday (Jun 8) showed that the school's foundation made major purchases on behalf of its athletic department. | | |
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| The one bad thing about this letter is that I can’t use it to reach back and slap you upside the head to knock some sense into you. | | |
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| It may not make sense to outsiders, but Branch Rickey’s quirky 20 to 80 scale for judging players’ skills remains the lingua franca in the major leagues. | | |
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| Talib probably is a little bit of whatever you think he is -- rough around the edges, a special talent, authentic, a loose cannon -- but here he is the man. And, at age 31, entering the twilight of his NFL career, the word legacy has been eating at him. He is beginning to wonder how he will be remembered. | | |
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| The secret of the tennis legend's greatness was on display in one humiliating match. | | |
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| High noon comes to Queens as locals hustle south along 167th Street to bear witness to a rite of spring. It is 70 degrees and sunny, but devotees of the I.S. 8 Classic, a long-running prep basketball showcase that dates back decades, gather indoors. Four men pop open beach chairs by the baseline inside a tinderbox at Intermediate School 8. | | |
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| Christopher Dougan joins Joe and our producer Maurice this week for a conversation on data technology in sports. Christopher is the Group Communications Director, US Operations at Genius Sports Group, a global leader in sports data technology, distribution, and commercialization services. | | |
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| For just under two decades, the roaring noise of race cars rang out from Central Texas Speedway in rural Kyle, Texas. Today, the only sounds coming from the track are that of the bulldozers. | | |
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| I spent a season collecting advanced stats for my high school baseball team. This is what I learned. | | |
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| Some teams' marketers are already back on the training field in a bid to monetize an uptick in digital consumption they have so far struggled to understand. | | |
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