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theringer.com January 15, 2019
Andy Murray Deserves a Better Farewell

Andy Murray is retiring from tennis. I keep starting this piece and then deleting everything I’ve typed. His right hip is wrecked. He can’t walk normally. He has trouble pulling on socks. On Friday he announced that this will be his last season.
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nytimes.com January 11, 2019
Andy Murray Announces Retirement This Year

MELBOURNE, Australia — Still struggling with a hip injury that has limited him since June 2016, Andy Murray announced Friday that he would retire after this year’s Wimbledon — if not sooner.
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nytimes.com January 14, 2019
Andy Murray Loses at Australian Open but Won’t Say It’s All Over

MELBOURNE, Australia — With the end in sight, the capacity crowd inside Melbourne Arena rose to its feet. Andy Murray soaked in their ovation, and their emotions, and then began to let his out.
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theplayerstribune.com January 14, 2019
Well, That Was One Hell of a Ride

So I’m sitting on the team plane, and I’m legitimately about to get emotional. This isn’t even Game 7.
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newyorker.com January 14, 2019
Andy Murray, Who May Have Played His Last Match, Is Already Missed

It has probably been inevitable for a while. The pain has been too bad, for too long—“probably twenty months now,” Andy Murray said, when he announced that he would be retiring from professional tennis after Wimbledon or sooner.
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espn.com January 14, 2019
Barnwell: Welcome to the most exciting NFL final four ever

If you were looking for upsets during NFL divisional round weekend, you were most certainly disappointed. The blisteringly hot Colts were blown out, while the similarly aflame Cowboys needed a late score to make things look close.
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bleacherreport.com January 13, 2019
Sean McVay's Success Will Ultimately Ruin the NFL

Sean McVay makes the NFL worse just by being himself. Everyone wants the next McVay. This phrase has been said so often, it's already developed into a cliche. When making a case for the next McVay, a front-office person means their organization wants the next great young innovative offensive mind.
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theringer.com January 15, 2019
A Rational Conversation About the Self-Destructing Philadelphia 76ers

Justin Verrier: Jimmy Butler will face off against the Timberwolves on Tuesday for the first time since his trade to the 76ers, and while the jerseys and the names have changed, the Charlie Brown cloud that loomed over his final weeks in Minnesota has followed him to Philly.
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nytimes.com January 14, 2019
South Korea’s Speedskating Community Faces Reckoning After Rape Allegations

SEOUL, South Korea — When the #MeToo movement started gaining traction in South Korea last year, many people looked to the country’s sports communities, which have long been dogged by allegations of corruption and physical abuse. But few victims spoke out.
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theringer.com January 14, 2019
Baseball Is Broken. Can Anything Short of a Strike Fix It?

Last week, the top catcher on the free-agent market, Yasmani Grandal, signed with the Brewers for just one year and $18.25 million, barely eclipsing the qualifying offer he rejected from the Dodgers in November.
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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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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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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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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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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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grantland.com August 15, 2014
Tough Talk

The NFL is so popular, and plays such a charged role in American culture, that it has become a large paradox. The league is a mirror of society, reflecting our difficulties with race, class, sexual orientation, and gender.
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fivethirtyeight.com December 3, 2015
Stephen Curry Is The Revolution

Before this year’s NBA season started, I had a conversation with a Golden State Warriors fan. He was excited about his team and was keen to explain its success: It was perfectly balanced, with perfect chemistry, role players, coaching and management.
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nytimes.com November 11, 2017
How the ‘Shalane Flanagan Effect’ Works

When Shalane Flanagan won the New York City Marathon last week, her victory was about more than just an athletic achievement. Of course, it’s a remarkable one: She’s the first American woman to win in 40 years, and she did so in a blistering 2 hours 26 minutes.
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outsideonline.com September 19, 2016
Question Everything You Know About Fitness

Over the past two years, I’ve interviewed more than 100 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show.
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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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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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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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nytimes.com January 6, 2016
How the Daily Fantasy Sports Industry Turns Fans Into Suckers

Full disclosure: I am a 36-year-old dude who bores easily, drinks I.P.A.s and wears sports-themed T-shirts, especially ones with faded, nostalgic logos that suggest better times.
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sbnation.com May 30, 2018
Inside the NCAA's years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football

No matter what else happens, remember the T-shirts. It’s easy for them to get lost in this whole saga. There are overwhelming distractions to come. But don’t forget about the T-shirts, because nothing else will matter when we’re done.
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qz.com June 26, 2014
Why not even exercise will undo the harm of sitting all day—and what you can do about it

It’s been linked to cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. In this latest meta-analysis, Daniela Schmid and Michael F.
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si.com November 30, 2016
After The Process: Meet Sam Hinkie 2.0

Editor's note: This story appears in the December 5, 2016 issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. To subscribe, click here. What would you do upon getting your dream job? Plenty of people—perhaps most of us—would play it safe. After all, you just got your dream job. No sense in losing it.
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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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lifehacker.com November 26, 2014
How Can I Learn Enough About Sports to Talk to Others?

Dear Lifehacker, Everyone talks about sports at the office. I'm not particularly interested, but I'd like to at least join in and bond with my coworkers. How can I learn just enough to be sociable without wasting a ton of time?
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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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nytimes.com June 23, 2015
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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outsideonline.com August 3, 2017
Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports?

Participating in endurance sports requires two main things: lots of time and money.
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sbnation.com July 5, 2017
What football will look like in the future

It's clear that the sport of football needs to change. And the $64,000 question, my friends, is simple: "how?" Something is terribly wrong. The writing's on the wall: youth participation in the sport is down, thanks in large part to their parents' concern for their health.
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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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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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esquire.com September 17, 2008
The String Theory

When Michael T. Joyce of Los Angeles serves, when he tosses the ball and his face rises to track it, it looks like he's smiling, but he's not really smiling–his face's circumoral muscles are straining with the rest of his body to reach the ball at the top of the toss's rise.
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theguardian.com April 29, 2018
Extra time: how smart exercise keeps you younger for longer

Slow down, that used to be the mantra for middle age. The dread half-century reached, fiftysomethings were expected to take up less challenging physical activities – if they were physical at all.
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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 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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nytimes.com January 8, 2016
A Fighter’s Hour of Need

On Nov. 2, 2013, Mike Perez defeated Magomed Abdusalamov in a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden.
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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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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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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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nytimes.com April 8, 2016
Swim. Bike. Cheat?

SQUAMISH, British Columbia — The race was tough and the conditions dreadful — 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 miles of cycling and 26.
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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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outsideonline.com April 11, 2018
Rescue on the Killer Mountain

It was already late—just one hour before sunset on January 25, 2018—and they had yet to reach the summit. The shadows of the high Himalayan peaks were growing longer every second, covering the surrounding valleys with a dark veil and turning the air so cold that every breath became painful.
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golf.com April 4, 2016
What happened to Tiger Woods? It’s the most vexing question in sports

On Thanksgiving night in 2009, Tiger Woods’s meticulously crafted image was shattered in a single-car accident outside of his home in Windermere, Fla.
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espn.com September 19, 2017
What happens when 30 NBA owners can't share $24 billion?

Despite a flood of new national television cash, 14 of the NBA's 30 teams lost money last season before collecting revenue-sharing payouts, and nine finished in the red even after accounting for those payments, according to confidential NBA financial records obtained by ESPN.com.
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jamesclear.com January 23, 2017
The Beginner’s Guide to Deliberate Practice

Hogan was one of the greatest golfers of the 20th century, an accomplishment he achieved through tireless repetition. He simply loved to practice. Hogan said, “I couldn't wait to get up in the morning so I could hit balls.
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grantland.com February 13, 2014
Approaching the Finish Line

T his is the accompanying column for the Steve Nash video series The Finish Line. If you want to watch the video before reading the piece, click here. Steve Nash wears no. 10 for the Lakers, but it’s really 9.3. Next season, that turns into 9.7. Those are the numbers Lakers fans see.
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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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nytimes.com October 15, 2015
Cash Drops and Keystrokes: The Dark Reality of Sports Betting and Daily Fantasy Games

Jacqueline Williams, Charles Eckert and Anita Abedian contributed reporting. Research was contributed by Jack Begg, Aurelien Breeden, Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura and Alain Delaquérière.
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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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espn.com April 11, 2018
The NBA eagerly awaits the arrival of Luka Doncic

For a while, the story of Luka Doncic seemed like a myth: the tale of a blond basketball demigod with supernatural mental and physical powers, a 6-foot-8 Slovenian teenager whose name was whispered only in the nerdiest corners of the NBA internet.
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nytimes.com December 22, 2016
Tragedy Made Steve Kerr See the World Beyond the Court

The last time Steve Kerr was in Beirut, his birthplace, with the bombs pounding the runway and the assassination of his father six months away, he left by car. The airport was closed.
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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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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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buzzfeednews.com September 7, 2015
Shooter, Passer, Dictator, Spy: The Lost, True Story Of The CIA’s Greatest Basketball Coach

How did a 1972 exhibition game between Russia and Uganda become a crucible for Cold War tensions at the dawn of Idi Amin's brutal regime? Ask the former CIA agent who tried to embarrass the Soviets where they'd least expect it: on a basketball court in Kampala.
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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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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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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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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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theatlantic.com March 17, 2018
Is Fandom Really Worth It?

There’s a lot of losing in sports. Only one team can win at a time, and only one champion escapes the season without tears.
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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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newyorker.com June 4, 2016
The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali

What a loss to suffer, even if for years you knew it was coming.
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vitals.lifehacker.com
Get in Shape With This 11-Minute Fighter Pilots' Workout

It may be Canada's best-kept exercise secret: an 11-minute, no-equipment workout program designed to keep pilots and other Air Force members in top shape even when they were posted to remote areas without gym facilities.
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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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nytimes.com January 4, 2015
‘Battling’ Up a Sheer Yosemite Face, Seizing a Dream, Not a Rope

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — The tip of El Capitan, 3,000 feet above its base, glowed in late-day sunlight while a full moon rose at the other end of the Yosemite Valley on Saturday.
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espn.com November 17, 2017
OTL: NFL teeters on all-out, unprecedented civil war

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Dec. 4 Fans, Family, Food, Football Issue. Subscribe today! THERE WAS A PAUSE. It was Aug.
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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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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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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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eugenewei.com June 11, 2017
The greatest sports achievement in my lifetime?

Football players seem even more like gladiators when they play in short sleeves in a winter storm, and baseball players who don't wear batting gloves feel like throwbacks to a more rough and tumble era.
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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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nytimes.com March 1, 2017
Baseball’s Too Slow. Here’s How You Fix It.

Major League Baseball officials are finally addressing something that many fans have complained about for years: the length of games. The average game last season took three hours. Playoff games are even more trying, now often stretching beyond three and a half hours.
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nytimes.com January 26, 2015
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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espn.com April 5, 2017
Zach Lowe: NBA watching The Basketball Tournament's innovative approach to crunch time

If fans remember Oklahoma City's improbable comeback in Orlando last Wednesday, it will be as the capstone of Russell Westbrook's wild, screaming, relentless MVP case.
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coolrunning.com January 2, 2018
The Couch to 5K ® Running Plan

First things first: You might simply be wondering, “How far is a 5K?” A 5K is five kilometers or 3.1 miles—and completing a race of this distance is well within your reach.
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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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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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lifehacker.com
The Beginner's Guide to Safe Urban Running

Running in the heart of a metropolitan city can be a lot different than running in a quiet neighborhood or on a trail. The scenery can be an obstacle in its own right, and there are potential dangers that lurk literally around every corner.
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grantland.com September 23, 2014
The Kemba Conundrum: What Should the Hornets Do With Their ‘Franchise’ Point Guard?

Happiness and continuity can carry an extra price in the NBA, and the teams most willing to pay it are often those that have known the deepest misery.
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nytimes.com February 8, 2017
Lessons on Aging Well, From a 105-Year-Old Cyclist

At the age of 105, the French amateur cyclist and world-record holder Robert Marchand is more aerobically fit than most 50-year-olds — and appears to be getting even fitter as he ages, according to a revelatory new study of his physiology.
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nytimes.com November 8, 2014
The Places in America Where College Football Means the Most

It is hard to explain to someone who grew up in a big city in the Northeast just how big a deal college football is in the Southeast.
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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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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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nytimes.com September 11, 2017
A 13-Year-Old’s Success in Tennis Raises Questions About Age Limits

The retired players Kim Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport, Mary Joe Fernandez and Martina Navratilova held a news conference after their exhibition doubles match on Sunday at the United States Open and spoke glowingly of American women’s tennis success.
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grantland.com January 21, 2015
Stop Calling Mike Conley Jr. Underrated

It was halftime of a game five years ago, and Lionel Hollins was scolding Mike Conley. The Memphis Grizzlies coach was denouncing Conley’s performance, peppering his language with expletives. Conley didn’t think he’d played that poorly.
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nytimes.com January 30, 2018
The Workout That Saves Lindsey Vonn From Wipeouts

Lindsey Vonn is the most decorated World Cup ski racer in United States history, but Olympic glory has been more elusive. Her three Winter Games, going back to 2002, have yielded just one gold medal and one bronze, both in Vancouver in 2010; she missed the Sochi Games in 2014 because of injury.
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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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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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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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gizmodo.com October 16, 2017
How Running a Marathon Puts Your Body Through Hell

Over thirty thousand runners began the Boston Marathon this morning in Hopkinton, MA, some having trained and run for years to get to this point. Their completion medals will be well-earned.
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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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espn.com
The building of Bill Belichick

Editor's note: This story originally appeared in ESPN The Magazine's Oct. 17, 2016, Great Debates Issue. Since then, Bill Belichick has added a record fifth Super Bowl title. It is being republished this week as he goes for a sixth. He went by Billy at his first NFL job.
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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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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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vanityfair.com June 27, 2017
Cover Story

This is a love story. It wasn’t seamless, starry eyes at first light. There was a discovery, unexpected and shocking. There were moments of really getting pissed and the standard irritation that comes when one half of the whole kept leaving the suitcase in the hallway.
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theatlantic.com April 14, 2018
This article appears in the May 2018 print edition with the headline “The Mobster Who Bought His Teenage Son a Hockey Team.”

There’s nothing sadder than a small city. A small town has its lawns and picket fences and wholesome values, a big town its go-getters and civic fathers. A big city has its strivers and fine food and bright lights.
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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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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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si.com July 12, 2017
NBA Jam Oral History

Nearly a quarter century ago, the mischievous developers at Midway created NBA Jam, marrying video games and sports in a way never seen before.
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sbnation.com May 1, 2017
Football 3.0 is coming. This is what it will look like

Football as we know it is done, because the lawyers are here. When the lawyers arrive, things as you know them are over. After making an initial beachhead with concussion lawsuits in the NFL, The Lawyers (capital letters necessary) are pushing inland and making great, great gains.
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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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bloomberg.com March 30, 2017
ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They’re Not Really Into It

ESPN broke ground on this $175 million, 194,000-square-foot facility, called Digital Center 2, in 2011. It was billed by executives as “future-proof,” capable of adapting to any possible change in the way people watch sports. At the time, ESPN looked indestructible.
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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, my New York Times bestselling book. The fate of British Cycling changed one day in 2003.
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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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si.com October 11, 2017
Isaiah Thomas: 'Best Year of My Career, Worst Year of My Life'

A green-and-gray mini basketball sits on a bed of sand-colored rocks next to the pool in the backyard. The ball belongs to five-year-old Jaiden Thomas, son of Isaiah Thomas, whose name and image grace the side of it.
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