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Steroids Probably Aren’t Causing Baseball’s Power Surge – FiveThirtyEight
Ever since the steroid era, baseball fans have been cautious about reading too much into unexpected leaps in player performance. Today’s jaded rooters assume that performance-enhancing drugs are to blame, somehow, whenever a player experiences a breakout or the league undergoes a transformation. So it’s no surprise that, with home runs flying out of parks at nearly an all-time high in 2016, many have reacted by assigning the responsibility to…
‘Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American’ – The American Prospect
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball,” wrote Columbia University scholar Jacques Barzun in 1954. In the history of baseball, great attention has been justifiably been paid to the sport’s important role in battling racism. The moment when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier will always be one of baseball’s most memorable. Less noticed in our national pastime‘s history has been its contribution…
Women in Hijabs Play Sports. Get Over It. – Daily Beast
The coverage of Muslim women athletes often emphasizes their traditional roles in an exotic culture, and makes their uniforms and veils into the topic of much fascination and tokenization. According to a 2014 Women’s Media Center report, almost 90 percent of sportswriters are white, straight, able-bodied men. Therein lies much of the problem. When stories on Muhammad emphasize she is *not* an oppressed and subservient woman, it just reinforces the…
Scottish Gossip: Alan Archibald, James Tavernier, Dundee, Stefan Johansen – BBC News
<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald has said it is “farcical” and “disrespectful” to others teams for the Scottish Professional Football League to have allowed Celtic to cancel a Premiership match in favour of scheduling a friendly against Inter Milan in Ireland this weekend. (Various) Martyn Waghorn hopes to return from his hamstring injury to lead Rangers’ attack against Celtic on 10 September. (Sun) Rangers manager Mark Warburton…
Art & Design|Review: In ‘Game On!’ the Stuff of Sports Becomes the Stuff of Art – New York Times
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Rio Olympics: Simone Manuel Makes History in the Pool – New York Times
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Michael Phelps takes no shortcuts on path to fourth Rio Olympics gold medal – USA TODAY
x Embed x Share USA TODAY Sports’ Rachel Axon tells you the five things to watch for during Day 7 of the Olympics. USA TODAY Sports Michael Phelps celebrates his 22nd career gold medal.(Photo: Rob Schumacher, USA TODAY Sports) RIO DE JANEIRO — It’s not Michael Phelps’ fault, the fact he makes it look so easy. He makes you think that it’s normal, what he’s doing, winning four gold medals in…
NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is atrocious. There’s a simple reason why. – Vox
On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…
Swimming has a new face and it’s Katie Ledecky – Los Angeles Times
The youngest member of the U.S. Olympic swimming team paused in a stuffy hallway this week at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium minutes after winning another gold medal. Katie Ledecky had just gutted out 200 meters of freestyle that hurt her entire body. She considers this fun. The 19-year-old resisted the urge to vomit during the final meters and accelerated to the wall less than a second off the world record…
Rio Olympics 2016: Why Simone Biles is the best at the Games – BBC News
Media playback is not supported on this device Brilliant Simone Biles wins women’s all-around gymnastics gold It made sense that Buzz Aldrin, a man who has walked on the moon and lived without gravity, was in Rio to watch a teenage compatriot defy the earth’s forces like no other athlete in history. The former astronaut cheered as the United States won the women’s gymnastics team title on Tuesday and saluted…
Art & Design|Review: In ‘Game On!’ the Stuff of Sports Becomes the Stuff of Art – New York Times
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NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is atrocious. There’s a simple reason why. – Vox
On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…
How Michael Phelps changed the business of swimming – CNNMoney
Michael Phelps has already made an impression during the 2016 Rio Olympics. His death stare has been turned into a viral meme and he’s won three gold medals. Phelps, who came out of retirement to compete in Rio, has brought lots of attention to the sport of swimming, but his biggest contribution may be what his fame has done for other athletes. According to Chuck Wielgus, the executive director of…
Day 6: Mizutani breaks drought, wins bronze – NBC Olympics
9:30 PM “I expect that we can have an encounter in Rio.” These were the words of world No. 1 Ma Long in an interview before the Games discussing his desire to meet Zhang Jike in the gold medal match in Rio. And what an encounter it was. Ma shocked the table tennis world, sweeping his countryman and reigning Olympic champion Zhang to claim gold. Many predicted that Ma would…
A Definitive Ranking of Every Olympic Sport and Whether It Is Cool or Not – VICE
Photo via Republic of Korea The Olympics are a curious thing, because they are at once exceptionally brilliant but also really nerdy and crap and sad. Like, these people spend every day, day after day, for four years, training to do exactly one thing, and that thing is, like, judo. Imagine for a moment your life is a professional judoer. How embarrassed would you be going to the bar with…
NBC’s coverage of the Olympics is atrocious. There’s a simple reason why. – Vox
On Sunday, NBC gymnastics commentator Al Trautwig wrote on Twitter that dominant American gymnast Simone Biles’s parents are not actually her parents. Later, he deleted the tweet and apologized for it, but the internet, as it always does, remembered. Biles’s parents are her biological grandparents, who adopted her when she was a child. Trautwig’s tweet was seen as offensive to people who are adopted — and as…
Rio Olympics Today: Simone Biles, and Phelps vs. Lochte – New York Times
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At Rio Olympics, the National Anthem Sounds … Sad? – New York Times
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The Olympics are tough for all athletes. For North Koreans, they’re worse. – Washington Post
Om Yun Chol of North Korea competes during the men’s 56 kg category at the 2016 Olympic Games’ weightlifting events in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 7. (Nic Bothman/European Pressphoto Agency) It’s hard to fathom the excitement and stress athletes from all over the world feel when competing at the Olympic Games. But imagine if you were in Rio representing one of the most notoriously authoritarian regimes in the world. How would you feel then? Would…
Are the Olympics worth the price? – CNN International
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