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theringer.com November 13, 2018
NBA Sophomore Check-in: Who Is Winning Year 2?

An NBA scout recently told me he’s fed up with the criticism of Cavaliers rookie point guard Collin Sexton and the impatience his teammates and fans have expressed during Sexton’s first month of professional basketball. “When will people learn?” he wondered.
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espn.com November 11, 2018
Woj: Inside the final days of the Butler saga, and why it could cost Thibs his job

As Tom Thibodeau's plan disintegrated, owner Glen Taylor lost his last remnants of belief in this crumbling regime.
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espn.com November 13, 2018
Man United legends dream big with Salford City FC

This is an ESPN FC feature. Gary Neville is getting agitated. Twenty years ago, he was a crucial member of the Manchester United side that won the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup Treble.
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engadget.com November 13, 2018
The best ways to stream live sports

If you're a sports fan, there's nothing quite like kicking back on the couch, cracking open a cold one and watching your favorite team rise triumphant over the other guys.
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theringer.com November 13, 2018
The Kevin Durant–Draymond Green Argument Represents the Warriors’ Darkest Timeline for this Summer

The last team expected to argue about passing the damn ball is Golden State. Passing the damn ball is what it does best—no other team turns more of its passes into assists. No other team averages as many assists. And no other team scores as many points off assists. The Warriors share.
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nytimes.com November 13, 2018
Allonzo Trier Was the Basketball Kid on the Cover. Some Fraught Chapters Followed.

He was a sixth-grader from Seattle, a 13-year-old elite basketball prospect with arms that seemed endless. He stared straight into the camera for a photo shoot as his uniform shorts drooped toward his calves. Just 5-foot-5 and 110 pounds, he stood tall, self-assured.
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theringer.com November 13, 2018
Aaaand Now … an Oral History of the Greatest Starting Lineup Introduction in Sports History

In the annals of the Great American Sports Songbook, a singular tune has reigned for more than three decades as the undisputed heavyweight champion of outré jock jams.
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gq.com May 10, 2017
Dwayne Johnson for President!

When Dwayne Johnson meets you (and I can assure you, he would love to), the first thing he will do is ask you six thousand questions about yourself, and remember the answers forever.
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sbnation.com June 18, 2014
The Essence of Velocity

It had been a good meeting as far as Perry Husband was concerned. The 15 minutes he had been promised to convince the Houston Astros' team brass to fundamentally revamp their organizational approach to pitching had turned into close to an hour.
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si.com March 22, 2009
How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke

What the hell happened here? Seven floors above the iced-over Dallas North Tollway, Raghib (Rocket) Ismail is revisiting the question.
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theatlantic.com February 15, 2018
What Color Is a Tennis Ball?

It seemed like an easy question. The query came from a Twitter poll I spotted on my news feed last week, from user @cgpgrey. “Please help resolve a marital dispute,” @cgpgrey wrote. “You would describe the color of a tennis ball as:” green, yellow, or other.
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news.nationalgeographic.com July 30, 2017
We Evolved to Run—But We're Doing It All Wrong

These days, running seems to have little to do with survival—it’s all about sport watches and burning calories.
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sbnation.com April 10, 2014
Meet the Bag Man

The Bag Man excuses himself to make a call outside, on his "other phone," to arrange delivery of $500 in cash to a visiting recruit. The player is rated No. 1 at his position nationally and on his way into town.
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lifehacker.com
Seven Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Running

It isn’t hard to get started running, but once you get into the swing of things, it’s easy to injure yourself or ignore little things that make you a lot better. Running coach Jason Fitzgerald shares some of his secrets. Hindsight is 20/20.
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theguardian.com December 22, 2015
The devil and José Mourinho

José Mourinho’s whole career seems to be one long revenge plot. Despite his great success, his various reigns have all ended in spectacular discord.
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sbnation.com March 4, 2014
That Wonderful Summer

On July 4, 1988, FIFA awarded the 1994 World Cup to the United States. At the time, there was no top-flight professional league in the U.S., and it had been 38 years since the country had participated in a World Cup.
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nytimes.com August 25, 2015
The Meaning of Serena Williams

There is no more exuberant winner than Serena Williams. She leaps into the air, she laughs, she grins, she pumps her fist, she points her index finger to the sky, signaling she’s No. 1. Her joy is palpable. It brings me to my feet, and I grin right back at her, as if I’ve won something, too.
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theguardian.com March 20, 2017
Andre Agassi: ‘One day your entire way of life ends. It’s a kind of death’

Eight years ago, in his raw and poignant autobiography, Open, Andre Agassi wrote: “My father yells everything twice, sometimes three times, sometimes 10. Harder, he says, harder. Hit earlier. Damn it Andre, hit earlier, Crowd the ball, crowd the ball. Now he’s crowding me. He’s yelling.
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waitbutwhy.com March 18, 2014
Why Sports Fans are Sports Fans

Throughout the world, the way people feel about sports spans a wide range. Let’s start with what we know about the non-sports side of the spectrum— To non-sports fans, caring about sports makes no sense.
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time.com August 24, 2017
How Kids’ Sports Became a $15 Billion Industry

Joey Erace knocks pitch after pitch into the netting of his $15,000 backyard batting cage, the pings from his metal bat filling the air in the south New Jersey cul-de-sac. His private hitting coach, who’s charging $100 for this hour-long session, tells Joey to shorten his stride.
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jamesclear.com August 15, 2013
Lessons on Success and Deliberate Practice from Mozart, Picasso, and Kobe Bryant

How long does it take to become elite at your craft? And what do the people who master their goals do differently than the rest of us? That's what John Hayes, a cognitive psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University, wanted to know.
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theringer.com April 11, 2018
“Who Can Explain the Athletic Heart?”

I had a moment of clarity last month, a dawning realization that, in retrospect, probably should have been obvious for years.
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nytimes.com October 29, 2017
Tom Brady Cannot Stop

Last July, a few weeks before the New England Patriots started training camp, I got a call from Donald Yee, the agent in Los Angeles who has represented Tom Brady since he entered the N.F.L. in 2000.
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thecut.com June 29, 2016
How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym

When I first started training for marathons a little over ten years ago, my coach told me something I’ve never forgotten: that I would need to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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time.com
Tiger Woods 40th Birthday Interview

Tiger Woods was raised to be a champion. Groomed by a father who put a golf club in his hands before he could walk, Woods has been one of the most dominant athletes of all time since turning pro at 20 in the summer of 1996.
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sbnation.com May 7, 2014
A Beautiful Corpse

The XFL jumped off the top turnbuckle in 2001 and landed with a blow equal parts short-lived and long lasting.
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nytimes.com April 12, 2017
An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your Life

Running may be the single most effective exercise to increase life expectancy, according to a new review and analysis of past research about exercise and premature death.
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theguardian.com July 22, 2015
Nick Littlehales: the man who showed Cristiano Ronaldo how to sleep

What is the professional journey to becoming Cristiano Ronaldo’s sleep coach? For former golf pro and bedding industry marketing guy Nick Littlehales, the path to one of sport’s most unconventional and interesting careers started in the late 1990s, when he wondered why elite sporting organi
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espn.com January 5, 2018
For Kraft, Brady and Belichick, is this the beginning of the end?

THE PROBLEM WITH living your life under the spotlight is that the camera captures only the public eruption, not the months of silent anger. On Dec.
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nytimes.com December 14, 2016
Running as the Thinking Person’s Sport

Running seems to require a greater amount of high-level thinking than most of us might imagine. The sport seems to change how the brain works in surprising ways, according to a new report.
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nytimes.com October 26, 2017
The Obtuse Triangle

The sacred text arrived at dusk on a Thursday in November. I opened the package and found a 216-page, red hardbound book with worn buckram corners that brought to mind something used to teach high school geometry 50 years ago.
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nytimes.com February 13, 2009
The No-Stats All-Star

Out of Duke University. . . . A 6-foot-8-inch forward. . . . He had more or less admitted to me that this part of his job left him cold.
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theatlantic.com August 11, 2017
The Average Guy Who Spent 6,003 Hours Trying to Be a Professional Golfer

Dan McLaughlin reckons he’s sat down to compose the farewell post to the Dan Plan a hundred times. “I just don’t know what to write,” he says. Sitting in his spartan home in Portland, Oregon, McLaughlin is self-effacing and soft-spoken. He recently launched an artisanal soft-drink venture.
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espn.com June 13, 2017
The crazy, true story of the birth of the Warriors' historic offense

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Oct. 30 NBA Preview issue. Subscribe today! The sanctuary for the early check-ins, the merely laid-over and the maddeningly delayed is tucked between Gates 25 and 26 in Terminal 2 at Oakland International Airport.
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espn.com March 23, 2016
TrueHoop Presents: You won't believe how Nike lost Steph

IT'S OCT. 7, 2015, and the Cavs are hosting the Hawks in Cincinnati. It's the NBA preseason, a nothing game, really -- save for one detail: LeBron James is debuting his new, flashy signature sneaker, the LeBron 13.
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bleacherreport.com May 18, 2015
A Man in Full: An Oral History of Kevin Garnett, the Player Who Changed the NBA

On a spring day in 1995, the most powerful men in professional basketball gathered in a Chicago gymnasium to see the future of the NBA.
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nytimes.com December 18, 2017
Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

Five Sherpas surrounded the frozen corpse. They swung axes at the body’s edges, trying to pry it from its icy tomb. They knocked chunks of snow from the body, and the shattered pieces skittered down the mountain.
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bleacherreport.com November 15, 2017
The Secret (but Healthy!) Diet Powering Kyrie and the NBA

The M-V-P chants shower Kyrie Irving as he toes the line for two free throws. The point guard is putting the finishing touches on a 35-point masterpiece against the Atlanta Hawks, and the crowd bellows with praise from every corner of the arena.
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washingtonpost.com September 30, 2015
In Jonathan Papelbon, Nationals got their closer — and their kiss of death

As July neared its close and the Washington Nationals tried to cling to their spot atop the National League East, General Manager Mike Rizzo manned his iPhone at all hours. The Nationals were in Miami for an off day before three games against the Marlins.
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nytimes.com August 20, 2006
Roger Federer as Religious Experience

Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments.
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grantland.com August 6, 2015
The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball

Fueled by desperation and long-shot hopes, a twentysomething huckster agent leads 10 end-of-the-line players on a European exposure tour. It could be their final chance at basketball glory, but will anyone buy what he’s selling? Jon Solomon has the same birthday as Michael Jordan.
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espn.com July 16, 2013
You can only hope to contain them

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's July 22 Body Issue. Subscribe today! MINUTES AFTER Ronda Rousey bounded into the Octagon this past February for the first women's fight in UFC history, she found herself grappling with two formidable opponents.
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espn.com September 8, 2015
Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and Patriots apart

HIS BOSSES WERE furious. Roger Goodell knew it. So on April 1, 2008, the NFL commissioner convened an emergency session of the league's spring meeting at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Attendance was limited to each team's owner and head coach.
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iflscience.com
Thanks To The Magnus Effect, This Basketball Does Something Pretty Weird When Dropped

Drop a basketball from a height, you've got a few flights of stairs to descend to retrieve it and you might even owe an apology to an angry passer-by.
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nytimes.com August 9, 2016
Michael Phelps vs. Himself

In 2000, Michael Phelps traveled to Sydney, Australia, to swim in his first Olympics. He finished fifth in the 200-meter butterfly final, ahead of three swimmers who were in their 20s. Phelps was 15.
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grantland.com April 24, 2015
The Rise and Rise (and Rise) of Stephen Curry: The Wildly Miraculous and Quietly Inevitable Success of Golden State’s Point Guard

There are slideshows on the Internet of the house, stately and fountained, where Stephen Curry lived as a boy — the house his parents built in 1996, the year Steph turned 8, on a 16-acre plot a few minutes’ drive from the center of Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s a big house, six bedrooms.
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theguardian.com September 10, 2017
The edge of reason: the world’s boldest climb and the man who conquered it

When Alex Honnold climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, solo and without ropes, many hailed it as his sport’s ultimate feat. talks to the world’s greatest ‘big wall climber’ and asks if we should glorify such extreme risks Climbers love history.
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huffingtonpost.com March 9, 2014
Why I Retired At 26

I decided not to hold a press conference because I didn't want to have to say things that were cliché. I've done enough of that since I've been playing football. I actually didn't really plan on saying anything about my retirement at all. I just kind of wanted to disappear.
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si.com April 18, 2018
Why Jake Locker Walked Away From Football—and Why He Doesn’t Miss It

This article appears in the April 23 issue of Sports Illustrated. Subscribe here. It takes a year of unanswered pitches, a half-dozen unreturned text messages, a voice mail and two calls, but eventually Jake Locker sends some GPS coordinates. To a Chipotle. Near the Canadian border.
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buzzfeed.com September 8, 2015
The Lost, True Story Of The CIA’s Greatest Basketball Coach

From the stands, Jay Mullen didn’t like what he saw. He didn’t like that the Soviet basketball team was humiliating its overmatched Ugandan opponents. He didn’t like that the visitors were bigger, stronger, faster, and more skilled than the amateurish Ugandan army and prison guard teams.
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espn.com May 9, 2016
The Secret History of Tiger Woods

Ten years ago, Tiger Woods sat in his boyhood home across from his father's body, waiting on the men from the funeral home to arrive and carry Earl away. It was around 3 in the morning.
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espn.com
The great Korean bat flip mystery

The videos started to appear in America a few years ago, crossing the Pacific and landing on our digital doorsteps like mysterious gifts.
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espn.com August 20, 2015
Why Chris Borland is the most dangerous man in football

Borland had been amazed at the reaction to his decision, the implications of which many saw as a direct threat to the NFL. And now here was an email demanding that he pee in a cup before a league proctor within 24 hours or fail the test.
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theringer.com February 16, 2017
Sportswriting Has Become a Liberal Profession — Here’s How It Happened

Back in the 1930s, you could walk into a press box and find not just a social justice warrior but an actual communist. His name was Lester Rodney, and he wrote sports for the party newspaper, The Daily Worker. Rodney’s politics made his life complicated.
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slate.com May 31, 2016
Don’t Run a Marathon

Have we devised any greater waste of time and energy than the running of the marathon? I’m asking for a friend. This friend will soon be training for the New York City Marathon, and he’ll be going at it for a span of 20 weeks.
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si.com July 11, 2014
LeBron: I'm coming back to Cleveland

Before anyone ever cared where I would play basketball, I was a kid from Northeast Ohio. It’s where I walked. It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried. It’s where I bled. It holds a special place in my heart. People there have seen me grow up. I sometimes feel like I’m their son.
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nytimes.com January 3, 2018
Exercise Alters Our Microbiome. Is That One Reason It’s So Good for Us?

Exercise may change the composition and activity of the trillions of microbes in our guts in ways that could improve our health and metabolisms over time, a new study finds.
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1843magazine.com December 29, 2012
Non cogito, ergo sum

It was the fifth set of a semi-final at last year’s US Open. After four hours of epic tennis, Roger Federer needed one more point to see off his young challenger, Novak Djokovic. As Federer prepared to serve, the crowd roared in anticipation.
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nytimes.com May 27, 2016
Is Everything Wrestling?

The charms of professional wrestling — half Shakespeare, half steel-chair shots — may never be universally understood. Every adult fan of the sport has encountered those skeptics who cock their heads and ask, “You do know it’s fake, right?”
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nytimes.com October 23, 2017
Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers

By the time you finish reading this article, the upstart sports news outlet called The Athletic probably will have hired another well-known sportswriter from your local newspaper.
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nytimes.com April 2, 2018
No Sweatpants in Public: Inside the Rule Books for N.F.L. Cheerleaders

Cheerleaders for the Carolina Panthers, known as the TopCats, must arrive at the stadium on game days at least five hours before kickoff. Body piercings and tattoos must be removed or covered. Water breaks can be taken only when the Panthers are on offense.
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nytimes.com January 10, 2018
Tonya Harding Would Like Her Apology Now

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. — Tonya Harding’s name isn’t Tonya Harding anymore. “My name is Tonya Price,” she said, when she saw me taking notes.
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espn.com May 25, 2017
Richard Sherman won't let go, and it's a problem

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's June 12 World Fame Issue. Subscribe today! Richard Sherman wanted to send a message to Russell Wilson. It was June 2014, and it'd been a testy day at Seahawks minicamp, with defensive players hitting the offense in a non-contact practice.
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espn.com
OTL: Why You Should Care About Cricket

DHAKA, Bangladesh -- The guy walking across the parking lot is famous. That's easy to tell from the reactions. Crowds part for him. Security guards mirror his every step. Other cricketers who made this same trip to the locker room tiptoed around the puddles. He strides over them, head up, confident.
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deadspin.com October 25, 2018
I Doped Like Maria Sharapova And It Was Actually Pretty Great

I have some personal news I’d like to share: I’m doping. With performance-enhancing drugs, even. The same kind that got tennis star Maria Sharapova banned from the professional tour for 15 months, and the reason she needs tournaments like the U.S.
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newyorker.com February 9, 2018
Sports Illustrated’s Spectacularly Silly #MeToo Swimsuit Issue

A word on swimsuits. I do not love them. Or, rather, I hope every year to find one that I love, and pretty much every year I fail.
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mentalfloss.com
Good, Honest Football: Re-Watching the XFL

It's difficult to peruse the laundry list of things the NFL has done wrong recently without coming to the conclusion that we are witnessing the league's nadir.
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jamesclear.com October 28, 2013
Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits, my New York Times bestselling book.
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grantland.com August 30, 2013
The Unfortunate Tale of T-Mac

As the summer passed, everything I witnessed during the 2013 NBA Finals blurred into one colorful, eclectic memory. Tony Parker chewing up 23.999997 seconds of the shot clock before clinching Game 1 with an outrageous leaner.
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latimes.com March 30, 2017
How Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi became one of the most coveted minds in baseball

The on-field personnel can rage or weep or shrug. The leaders of the front office must be stoic, proud of the accomplishments just completed, hopeful for the days to come, unable to reveal the depth of their anguish. He would shake loose from slumber around 3 a.m.
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vox.com November 25, 2017
Should you walk or run for exercise? Here's what the science says.

Welcome to Dear Julia, a weekly column where readers can submit everyday health questions on anything from the science of hangovers to the mysteries of back pain.
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grantland.com September 4, 2014
The League That Never Sleeps

You probably know the 2014 NFL season kicks off in Seattle tonight, with Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson’s unairbrushable loins and the defending champs laying six points to Aaron Rodgers and the Packers. I’m excited to have Brady, Gronk, Belichick and every other Patriot back in my life.
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theguardian.com December 15, 2017
Manchester City’s plan for global domination

Football has already been transformed by big money – but the businessmen behind Man City are trying to build a global corporation that will change the game for ever. By On 19 December 2009, Pep Guardiola stood and wept in the middle of Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
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longreads.com August 31, 2017
How the NBA Failed Royce White

Bound by professional obligation, the announcer is feigning impartiality but a wobble in his lilt, a slip of exasperation, gives him away. It’s March, 2012, the third round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament, and Royce White is running free.
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lifehacker.com June 26, 2013
How I Went From Barely Jogging to Running 100 Miles Per Month

I started running a year ago. I had just begun a new job after leaving my own startup. I was tired of being a founder and desperately needed a break. I wanted to have a calmer lifestyle and I wanted a hobby. Running seemed like a great choice for a hobby.
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espn.com May 1, 2018
The uncomfortable silence of Kawhi Leonard

SAN ANTONIO -- He slipped into the frame quietly. Attention was the last thing Kawhi Leonard wanted on this day, or really any day.
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propublica.org January 15, 2016
The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene — ProPublica

Since this story was published there has been a flurry of interest in Jill Viles’ condition. Read more about what has happened. This American Life will also be re-running its version of her story on its podcast at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 15, 2017.
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CNN Sports provided by Bleacher Report

Bleacher Report is on a mission to revolutionize the way sports fan learn, think, and talk about their favorite teams and topics. Fans looking for Sports Illustrated content can find and bookmark it by clicking the link below.
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grantland.com August 5, 2015
Seven Days in Flushing: Reliving One of the Craziest Weeks in New York Mets History

For the New York Mets, the first 16 weeks of this season featured plenty of highs: an 11-game winning streak, electrifying performances by the team’s young pitchers, and continued folk-hero status for Bartolo Colon.
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hbr.org October 1, 2013
Ferguson’s Formula

Some call him the greatest coach in history. Before retiring in May 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson spent 26 seasons as the manager of Manchester United, the English football (soccer) club that ranks among the most successful and valuable franchises in sports.
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nytimes.com December 29, 2016
85-Year-Old Marathoner Is So Fast That Even Scientists Marvel

MILTON, Ontario — It was a day for talking, not running. Snow was piled along the streets. The driveway was icy. Ed Whitlock’s shoulder hurt. His face had been puffy. He did not feel well enough for the cemetery. At a visitor’s urging, Whitlock showed his display of novelty trophies.
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nytimes.com April 20, 2018
Why Men Quit and Women Don’t

This year’s Boston Marathon, with its horizontal rain and freezing temperatures, wasn’t just an ordeal unfolding amid some of the worst weather in decades. It was also an example of women’s ability to persevere in exceptionally miserable circumstances.
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newyorker.com June 7, 2017
The Loneliness of LeBron James

The first two games of the N.B.A. finals matchup, between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, were nothing, really, to remember for long.
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nytimes.com April 20, 2018
The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold

Fifteen miles outside Yosemite Valley, a beeping iPhone alarm awakened Alex Honnold at 4 a.m. in the white Ford Econoline van that he has called home for the last seven years.
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jamesclear.com January 6, 2014
This Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Percent and Here’s What Happened

This article is an excerpt from Atomic Habits. The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003.
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thecricketmonthly.com
This is Virat

"I can only give you 30 minutes." Crisp and clear. That was Virat Kohli's response when the Cricket Monthly requested an in-depth interview in England last September. For a journalist, the prospect was both thrilling and terrifying. Kohli was the captain in waiting.
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espn.com May 8, 2017
The key to Joel Embiid's rise? Luc Mbah a Moute

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in a May 2017 issue of ESPN The Magazine, which featured several articles celebrating the launch of KweseESPN.
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deadspin.com June 23, 2017
SI Swimsuit Is Apparently Phasing Out Those Inconvenient Swimsuits

Sports Illustrated experimented with just what you can put on a supermarket rack without a plastic cover way back in 2015 when the cover of their swimsuit issue featured model Hannah Davis (now Jeter) pulling her bikini bottoms down to her vulva, but have you checked in lately? At this point, the SI
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espn.com August 24, 2016
The inside story of the quick rise and quicker fall of DraftKings and FanDuel

There's a game within the game that requires a different set of skills," actor Edward Norton says in the voice-over as quick-cut video images show young men and women bathing a dog, jogging on the street, sweating in a sauna -- all while staring, hyperfocused, into their smartphones.
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grantland.com January 31, 2013
The White Album

Royce White has a lot of radical thoughts about his own mental illness. But that's just the beginning — he's worried about your brain, too. I probably don’t need to tell you who Royce White is.
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theringer.com August 9, 2017
Meet the Man Behind Your Favorite NBA Jump Shot

Sweat poured out of Chandler Parsons like a juiced fruit. The Memphis Grizzlies forward had entered the private Bel Air home gym 20 minutes earlier, grinning and laughing, his voice booming around the large room.
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nytimes.com July 25, 2017
111 N.F.L. Brains. All But One Had C.T.E.

Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L.
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theverge.com May 2, 2017
Fitness app Strava really, really wants to be the social network for athletes

Strava Inc., maker of a fitness-tracking app that caters mostly to outdoor athletes, has just announced a new feature: “Athlete Posts,” a kind of blogging platform within its existing app that lets select athletes write extensive stories and publish photos.
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nytimes.com October 29, 2017
He’s the Last Boxer to Beat Floyd Mayweather Jr., and He So Regrets It

PAZARDZHIK, Bulgaria — The man who beat Floyd Mayweather Jr. lives across the street from a burned-out coffee hut with a giant banana painted on its back wall. Around the bend, leaning in the tall grass, is a corroded shed holding ancient farming equipment.
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rollingstone.com November 25, 2014
The 15 Worst Owners in Sports

Sports arguments compensate for our powerlessness.
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newyorker.com August 26, 2013
Nick Kyrgios, the Reluctant Rising Star of Tennis

Nick Kyrgios, the twentieth-ranked tennis player in the world, stepped to the baseline. He briskly bounced the ball and rocked forward to begin his serve, his arms swinging. He has a narrow waist and strong shoulders, a greyhound’s look, and a greyhound’s air of languid indifference.
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grantland.com May 9, 2012
Oden on Oden

Me: “Well, my goal is to humanize you and give people an idea of what the last five years have been like for you. You might not realize it, but you’re one of the biggest enigmas in the NBA. Because of your injuries, most fans haven’t seen you play.
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theplayerstribune.com June 29, 2015
Letter to My Younger Self

You’re about to go pro, and you’re pretty excited. Deep in your heart you know you’re eventually going to succeed. But believe me, it’s coming a lot sooner than you think.
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sbnation.com July 1, 2015
A Long Walk's End

On a Saturday morning in May, 2015, a group of law enforcement agents, the FBI among them, knocked on the front door of the Montgomery Homestead Inn in Damascus, Virginia. The proprietor, a retired kindergarten teacher who lives across East Laurel Ave. from the inn, happened to be there at the time.
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lifehacker.com
Seven Running Drills to Improve Speed, Form, and Efficiency

When I first started performing running drills, I felt silly. Aren’t neon short shorts embarrassing enough? But running drills can be hugely beneficial to both casual runners and experienced devotees. This post originally appeared on Strength Running.
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nytimes.com August 26, 2015
Who Gets to Play Tennis?

When the Hyde Park Racquet Club opened in the late 1970s, amid the country’s short-lived tennis boom, there wasn’t another indoor facility in Chicago for 10 miles.
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washingtonpost.com March 16, 2018
I posted a huge note for the thief who stole my bike. Then my doorbell rang.

My bike was stolen a week ago Saturday. It was half my fault, half my husband’s fault, and 100 percent the fault of the person who stole it. Left with a lock, a front wheel and a heavy heart, I did the only thing I could think of: I decided to leave the thief a little note.
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theplayerstribune.com March 21, 2015
Life After Basketball

I’m retiring. I heard someone once say there comes a day when they tell us all that we can’t play anymore. We’re not good enough. Surplus to requirements. Too slow, maybe.
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outsideonline.com August 21, 2015
Age Is Irrelevant When It Comes to Fitness

Last February, 59-year-old Ned Overend, aka “The Lung,” aka “Deadly Nedly,” won the first National Fatbike Championships, held in Ogden, Utah. Fat Bike Nats isn’t exactly the Tour de France, but it’s no charity ride, either.
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