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    Kevin Durant Just Told You a Lot More About the Knicks Than the NetsAnd let’s maybe not coronate Brooklyn just yet.
    By Will Leitch
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    Could O.J. Really Be This…Boring?His Twitter is a mind-numbing, delusional void.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NBA Finals Moment That Is Modern Pro Sports in MicrocosmWhy arenas and stadiums just aren’t designed for the average fan anymore.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Women’s World Cup and the Future of American SportsThe last American triumph in the Women’s World Cup felt like the birth of a new era in women’s sports. Another win could lead to the era’s maturation.
    By Will Leitch
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    Why You Should Cheer for the Warriors in the NBA FinalsAnd why, even if you don’t, you’ll end up lying and saying you did.
    By Will Leitch
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    Abolish the DraftSports drafts aren’t fair to players, and they don’t even work on their own terms. We should just get rid of them.
    By Will Leitch
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    Stephen A. Smith and the Lure of LosingThe Knicks’ strategy worked better than statistics predicted. So why does it feel like it failed?
    By Will Leitch
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    There Is No Sports Without PoliticsSinclair, a conservative local news broadcaster, will not have to change much about itself when it expands into sports.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Quest for Perfection Is Ruining SportsIn the fiercely contested Warriors-Rockets series, both teams think they’re getting screwed by the refs. They’re missing the point.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Confederate Monuments Culture War Comes to New YorkThe Yankees are having an easy reckoning over Kate Smith. But what happens when they have to confront the legacy of a real icon?
    By Will Leitch
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    Tiger Woods Just Gave Us the Feel-Good Sports Story of the CenturyBut why do we care so much?
    By Will Leitch
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    A Championship Game Only College-Basketball Fans Could LoveBut, for us, what a game.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Era of the Old Athlete Is OverWhen did every sport become obsessed with youth?
    By Will Leitch
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    Why the MLB Off-season Explains Our Response to the Mueller InvestigationWe see the trees, but not the forest; we see so many atoms that we barely react when the bomb hits.
    By Will Leitch
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    Hardly Anyone Knows Mike Trout, the Greatest Baseball Player of All TimeOur generation’s Mickey Mantle is going to play his whole career in total obscurity.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Varsity Blues Scam Shows Paying Athletes Is Cheaper Than Bribing CoachesWhat’s surprising about the college admissions scandal is the going price for college admissions.
    By Will Leitch
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    Baseball’s New Rock N’ Jock EraHow much should a sport try to change?
    By Will Leitch
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    Losing Ain’t What It Used to BeIn sports, losing is as natural and inevitable as time or death. Everyone loses, eventually. But the way our culture treats our losers has changed.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Bucks Are the NBA’s Most Compelling (On-Court) DramaThe NBA is a soap opera off the court. But if you want some on-court fireworks, look to Milwaukee.
    By Will Leitch
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    Lessons From a Very, Very Bad Super BowlIt was the first time I’d ever experienced FOMO while being at the Super Bowl.
    By Will Leitch
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    Good-bye, Kristaps Porzingis, I’ll Miss YouThe Knick I unconditionally loved the most, and for the longest.
    By Will Leitch
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    Was the NFL’s Success This Season Just a ‘Dead Cat Bounce’?After years of trouble, football got popular again in 2018. Why?
    By Will Leitch
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    AR Gaming Is a Work in Progress — But There Are Still Some Good GamesThe best of the best.
    By Brian Feldman
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    The Most Radical Sports Film I’ve Ever SeenSteven Soderbergh’s High Flying Bird takes aim at the whole system.
    By Will Leitch
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    If You Could Play Any Sport, Which One Should You Choose?(I don’t think it’s football or baseball.)
    By Will Leitch
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    College Football Players Are Going to Start Quitting Bowl GamesMaybe even on college football altogether. The only question is how soon.
    By Will Leitch
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    Why Tom Brady’s Decline Sucks Even for Tom Brady HatersAll of a sudden, we can’t even hate the guy guiltlessly.
    By Will Leitch
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    It’s Good That MLS Has Finally Accepted That It’s a Second-Tier Soccer LeagueWhy did it take so long?
    By Will Leitch
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    The NFL’s Real Problem Isn’t Kareem Hunt. It’s Roger Goodell.The NFL’s incompetence and apathy in responding to domestic violence makes it seem like the league is awash in abusers. It isn’t.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Weird Dwight Howard Saga Shows the NBA Still Has a Problem With the ClosetLike other major men’s sports, the NBA still has no openly gay players.
    By Will Leitch
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    How Did Everything Go So Wrong for Carmelo Anthony?The short answer: The NBA he was made for doesn’t exist anymore.
    By Will Leitch
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    There Is a Professional Wrestling Angle to the Murder of Jamal KhashoggiThe WWE is forging ahead with its plan for a major event in Saudi Arabia this Friday.
    By Will Leitch
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    College Basketball Is on Trial, But Its Victims Are the Ones Being ProsecutedEven federal prosecutors have a hard time explaining why they’re doing the NCAA’s dirty work.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NBA Now Feels Like the Future, and the NFL the PastBut it was not, at all, destined to work out that way. How one decision by then-newbie commissioner Adam Silver changed the course of sports history.
    By Will Leitch
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    What Happens When the World’s Most Famous Athlete Is Accused of Rape?Five divergent scenarios are possible for Cristiano Ronaldo — and each means something very different for the future of sports in the age of #MeToo.
    By Will Leitch
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    Along With Everything Else, Brett Kavanaugh Is an Obnoxious JockWatching the hearings felt like listening to a post-game press conference.
    By Will Leitch
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    What Fresh Hell Is Barstool Sports?And did I have anything to do with bringing it about?
    By Will Leitch
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    This Football Play Didn’t Just Trick the Other Team, It Gamed the Rule BookNow look for a lot of coaches to take advantage of new safety rules this way.
    By Will Leitch
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    After the U.S. Open, Maybe We Should Just Abolish Umps?The upside of human referees is almost nonexistent, but the downside is the possibility of Serena vs. Ramos.
    By Will Leitch
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    How Nike Got All the Way to Lionizing Colin KaepernickHint: It’s not really about politics.
    By Will Leitch
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    It Might Be Impossible to Be an Ethical Sports FanWhat should we do when good players are bad people?
    By Will Leitch
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    The Sports Miracle Named SerenaShe’s 37 years old and occupying a nearly unprecedented role in professional athletics. Go see her play at the U.S. Open—you’ll be very glad you did.
    By Will Leitch
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    Why Aren’t We Talking About Football’s Culture of Brutality?The environment which led to the death of a Maryland college football player in practice isn’t an aberration. It’s normal.
    By Will Leitch
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    Welcome to Our New Gambling Hell, Sports FansThe Supreme Court has just unleashed misery on the average viewer.
    By Will Leitch
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    Why It’s So Hard to Give Up the Dream of a Tiger Woods ComebackHe came close this past weekend, and the world went nuts.
    By Will Leitch
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    It Looks Like We Are Now, Officially, Over Steroid PanicWhat were we even freaking out about in the first place?
    By Will Leitch
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    Nobody’s Going to Sports in Person Anymore. And No One Seems to Care.Which may be because it’s all by design.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Sports World Needs Its #MeToo MomentUnfortunately, when fans don’t care, executives certainly won’t.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NBA Draft Is Great. It’s Also Totally Un-American.Sports have some really unfortunate ideas about competition, free markets, and labor, it turns out.
    By Will Leitch
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    Missing the World Cup Is Like Detention for the United StatesSomehow it fits that America missed the tournament for the first time in a generation.
    By Will Leitch
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