The horse jumped over the f***ing fence. | | | | Lou Gehrig considered himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth in 1939.
(Sporting News/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “The horse jumped over the f***ing fence.”
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| | rantnrave:// Is the BALL family trying to become the KARDASHIANS of sports? It's not so far-fetched. And that's no insult. Hate on the Kardashians all you want but they have money, fame and substantial pull. LONZO, LAVAR and fam are getting their own docuseries on FACEBOOK. If you can't get enough of them, this is like hearing a new season of KUWTK is dropping. If you want it to stop, then it's another reason to stay off Facebook. Like the Kardashians, LaVar Ball is positioning his family to be a part of the cultural zeitgeist as much as a part of the NBA landscape. If Lonzo, LAMELO and LIANGELO can't be All-Stars, they can still be TV content. It doesn't seem like LaVar trying to raise a family of basketball stars. He's trying to start a dynasty... FOX SPORTS 1 launched with a lot of hype. Four years later, it's mired in controversy, from its on-air talent to its fired head of programming. How did a network with large aspirations get stuck in the muck? SportsSET: "Fox Sports 1's Identity Crisis"... AMAZON continues to put its hooks into the sports marketplace. This won't get as much attention as its NFL rights purchase but it reached a deal with FRANCE's NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE to advertise in all its arenas and at high-profile events, and its logo will be on uniforms. Amazon will also create a shop for the league's top level teams. Could this be a precursor of Amazon doing something similar in the US with the NFL, NBA, NCAA or MLB? Could there be implications for how US leagues license and sell merchandise in the future? If you believe Amazon is taking over retail then it's only a matter of time until it disrupts the sports merchandise market... The next sports business controversy? Autographs. Did you get an autographed DAK PRESCOTT PANINI trading card? That signature might not be real. This comes amid a high-profile lawsuit involving the GIANTS and ELI MANNING allegedly counterfeiting game-worn jerseys. The cynical fan might not be that surprised. Still, this stings. When you pay for a product you should get it. It's not that hard. Can we ever trust "autographed" or "game-worn" stuff again? I never did. Maybe I'm not so crazy... JOON LEE digs deep on HUNTER GREENE, the 17-year-old earmarked as MLB's savior... Finally, a sport that replicates the pod racing from STAR WARS: EPISODE I. A day at the drone races... Cargo shorts night at the ballpark has been canceled. | | | - Mike Vorkunov, curator |
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| Fox Sports 1 launched with a lot of hype. Four years later, it's mired in controversy, from its on-air talent to its fired head of programming. How did a network with large aspirations get stuck in the muck? | | |
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| The Drone Racing League is celebrating phenomenal growth, but what’s it like to watch in person? | | |
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 | Vice Sports |
| Despite a healthy conservative bent in pro wrestling, liberal heels haven't historically been a go-to gimmick. So when Dan Richards emerged as a Hillary Clinton-supporting wrestler in Appalachia, he got a lot of attention. | | |
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| Research shows that female athletes are more prone to concussions than males and suffer worse symptoms. So why does it seem like nobody cares? | | |
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 | GQ |
| Zach Baron learns that if you listen long enough, a new picture emerges. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| They are clarinetists and youth pastors and rappers and aerospace engineers, NFL players and valedictorians. But they all have one thing in common: the instantly recognizable first name of one of sports' most magnetic stars. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| Inside the unreal celebrity life of a 17-year-old prodigy who’s already expected to save America’s pastime from itself-part one of Make Baseball Cool Again, a B/R Mag special issue. | | |
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 | San Francisco Chronicle |
| Former Oakland Athletics pitcher Dave Stewart and former San Francisco Giant Matt Williams are in their first year doing A's and Giants analysis for the Bay Area's NBC Sports outlets. | | |
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 | SB Nation |
| By using all three avenues of adding talent, Boston has built a competitive roster that still has some upside. | | |
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 | FanGraphs |
| The July resident revisits and updates his Dollar per WAR framework. | | |
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| This year’s Wimbledon is a great example because it is hard to point to any clear favorite. Is this a blessing or a curse? | | |
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| How Lego hair became the go-to politician burn. | | |
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| Mike Lepore ('09) scored only one goal his entire career, but that was enough. | | |
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| Even in professional baseball, where players' lockers sometimes overflow with team apparel, there is a lost-and-found locker. | | |
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| Trying to create a safe haven for young boys in Louisville, Kentucky, coach loses his brother to city’s violence. | | |
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| Year-long suspensions from the NFL better be for good reasons. Bounties? Yes. Marijuana? No. ... Yet four players this offseason have suffered that fate. | | |
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| Top-level recruits arrive on campus believing college football to be a means to the NFL, but that dream doesn't pan out for a lot of them. Programs developed at places such as Cal and Clemson are helping equip those players for Plan B. | | |
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 | 1843 Magazine |
| Games are getting ever more expansive. But there is magic to be found in confinement | | |
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