sports
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Muhammad Ali Is Dead. 2016 Can Go To Hell.
Perhaps, later today or two days or a week or a month from now, I’ll have more to say about the life and the impact of Muhammad Ali. Right now, however, I have nothing besides shock and sadness. Not so much that he’s dead. But that his death leaves humanity with such a gaping and…
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Stephen Curry Is Not An Underdog, So Please Stop Trying To Make Him One
Several hours from now the Golden State Warriors will play the Cleveland Cavaliers in a rematch of last year’s NBA Finals. The Cavs are much better equipped than they were last year, when a spate of injuries left them without two of their three best players (Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love), forcing Lebron James to…
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Top NFL Draft Pick Eli Apple’s Mom Snags Gig at ESPN
Annie Apple could not be more proud of her boy; but her boy may be even more proud of her. Eli Apple, who was drafted by the New York Giants as the 10th overall pick in the 2016 NFL draft in April, got some good news about his mom as he was finishing up his first…
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LeBron James Goes to His 6th Straight NBA Final
LeBron James had words of humility and emotion in the early-morning hours on Saturday after he and his Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Toronto Raptors 113-87 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, sending Cleveland to their second consecutive NBA Finals. James scored 33 points. “We’re not entitled to anything,” said James. “We work our tails…
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Ex-NFL Player Ricky Williams to Open Weed-Based Gym
What’s the point of going to the gym if you scarf down a bucket of brownies after your workout? No matter. We suspect that former NFL running back Ricky Williams has an answer for that. In fact, the onetime professional athlete feels so strongly about marijuana and its benefits that he plans to open the…
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Dudes Read "Mean Tweets" About Women To Their Faces and My Feelings Got Hurt.
When Damon, Liz, and I started VSB back in March of 2008, we only had one real strategy (that morphed into three): respond to people’s comments. At the outset, we posted three times a week and quickly went to posting one new piece per day (strategy two) and very soon after decided to always post at…
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A Case For Why Lebron James (And Not Stephen Curry) Is Still The NBA's Best Player
Yesterday, Panama shared a recent conversation he had with a person who said the following: 1. Stephen Curry is overrated 2. Stephen Curry is not that good In 2016, these statements constitute basketball blasphemy. Actually, forget the basketball qualifier. Considering Steph’s strong Christian faith, I’m surprised Jesus himself didn’t drop out of the sky and…
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Why I Stopped Caring About Baseball
Growing up, I was fortunate enough to play several organized sports at varying levels from early youth through high school. I played soccer and basketball, ran both track and cross-country, gave football a short stint. In college I took badminton as one of my physical education requirements, and apparently my particular class was so good,…
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The Jordan Cry Face Meme Was Never Particularly Funny, And We Need To Retire It
There was a four to six month stretch in 2004 where I probably ate a Quinzos sub somewhere between four to 14 times a week. It was a relatively new franchise then. (At least new to Pittsburgh.) And I was so excited by the various meats and toasted breads and assembly line convection oven way…
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Allen Iverson's Greatest Contribution To Basketball Is An Unstoppable And Completely Illegal Dribble Move
There exists among many sports fans a reflexive need to assign a mysticism and morality to what happens on the field. If a team happens to win a game, it’s because they “wanted it more” than the other team, and not because they just happened to make more shots. If a player performs well in…