Entrapment has won on this occasion and I have to accept that. | | | | | Sam Allardyce. (Egghead06) | | | | |  | “Entrapment has won on this occasion and I have to accept that.”
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| | rantnrave:// Having achieved his dream job and won the only game he will ever get to participate in in said dream job, SAM ALLARDYCE proceeded to stick his foot so far down his mouth that he could easily kick a soccer ball with it – if only he were ever allowed on a soccer field again, which is unclear at this moment. Though some kind words have been said on his behalf, no one is rushing to the divisive manager's defense. The videotapes do not do him any favors. But can we talk about journalism for a minute? The TELEGRAPH's un-bylined, undercover series "FOOTBALL FOR SALE," which cost the ENGLISH national team manager his job on Tuesday, is in the middle of exposing a number of other managers who it says it caught in its sting. Helpful explainers here and here. The newspaper also informs us it "has agreed to give all relevant transcripts to the FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION and has also passed information to the police." Which is troubling. Journalists should not be acting as surrogates for the police or any other law-enforcement body, nor should they be acting as de facto investigators for the organizations they cover. There needs to be a clear distinction between a reporter's notebook and a sheriff's badge. The apparent breach of journalism ethics is almost as alarming as Allardyce's alleged breach of soccer ethics. And it's a considerable breach of soccer ethics, if the undercover journalists have it right... MIAMI says farewell to JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ... How TERRELLE PRYOR saved his NFL career by doing exactly what TIM TEBOW refused to do... And how TIM TEBOW hit a home run on the first pitch he ever saw in pro baseball. Instructional league pro baseball. But still. Props for the way he runs out that homer... Friend-of-SPORTSREDEF ALEX WONG on the NBA's embrace of big data... How not to evacuate a chairlift... A REDEF shoutout to HEIDI BROWNING, who leaves PANDORA to become the NHL's new CMO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | The Guardian |
| The appointment of a manager who still had unanswered questions regarding transfers in the mid-2000s hanging over him was unusual and perhaps we should not be surprised it ended after one game. | | |
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 | The Telegraph |
| As Sam Allardyce lost his job as England manager following the Telegraph’s disclosures about his conduct, the Football Association faced a separate crisis over the alleged bribery of managers. Football agents were filmed by undercover reporters boasting about how many managers they had paid, with one agent saying that in football, “everything is under the table”. | | |
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 | Bleacher Report |
| The impossible career of Robert Griffin III, once again, is in danger of being over-because this quarterback is always running toward danger. But RG3 and the Browns tell B/R Mag that he'll return, once again, no doubt about it. | | |
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 | WyoFile |
| New details have emerged about Kim Schmitz’s car crash and his death on the banks of the Salmon River. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| Betting is just investing for people who prefer wearing a jersey instead of a suit. | | |
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 | Motorsport |
| Formula 1's ever-increasing reliance on high-speed data transmission has inevitably led to a growing need by teams to ensure that what they are sending from car to garage, and garage to factory is secure. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| If someone had just started following the NBA Monday, when training camps for all 30 teams around the league were officially underway, they would have been forgiven for assuming the Golden State Warriors were the defending NBA champions. | | |
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 | ESPN.com |
| INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- The King is already contemplating his reign coming to a close. LeBron James, on the opening day of training camp for his 14th NBA season, said that the retirements of Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and most recently Kevin Garnett have caused him to think about when he and his contemporaries will play their final games. | | |
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 | SportTechie |
| "It has that thrill of a 100-meter dash or horse racing." Yes, Nicholas Horbaczewski was referencing drone racing to the New York Times , a non-traditional sport that has received more public recognition and visibility on television over the last nine months than ever before. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| Breaking down Sam Allardyce’s short-lived stint as England manager. | | |
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 | The Undefeated |
| After a five-decade long desegregation battle, two football teams face off for the final time in Mississippi town. | | |
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 | Sporting News |
| Year in and year out, lists like Sporting News' 50 Most Influential People in Sports are fairly homogenous - the most influential people come from the owners' suites and commissioners' and CEO's offices, and those are overwhelmingly filled by white males. | | |
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 | The Set Pieces |
| "It’s what I’d call moving from striking and fielding sports – like baseball and cricket, which are reasonably straightforward in terms of analysis – into the invasion-territorial sports, where at the core there’s the tactical coordination of a group of players. That’s the exciting challenge because there is so much more going on that you have to take into account." | | |
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 | Sports on Earth |
| The NBA recently held its first ever hackathon over the weekend, with more than 200 people participating. With new statistics and teams beginning to hire analytics writers, the future of basketball analysis might be coming sooner than expected. | | |
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 | Huck Magazine |
| Finisterre co-founder Ernest Capburt shares what he learned from a decade at the pioneering surf brand and why surfers make great entrepreneurs. | | |
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 | Sports Illustrated |
| The beloved Red Sox slugger sat down to reflect on the highs and lows of his stellar career and to answer perhaps the most perplexing question of all: Why would Big Papiretire when he's still at the top of his game? | | |
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| Motorsport |
| Amid talk of a digital revolution by new Formula 1 owner Liberty Media, Jonathan Noble argues that the sport needs to offer a better product on track first. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Claudio Ranieri’s side may be fitful in the Premier League but the formula that brought them success last season might work again in Europe’s premier competition. | | |
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 | The Walrus |
| How my nonagenarian father stepped out of his basement gym and broke a world record with his muscles. | | |
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 | MEL Magazine |
| How memory, psychology and groupthink burned the ‘90s compilation album into your psyche. | | |
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