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Cal Ripken Jr’s warning to high-spending sports parents – CNBC
Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…
Cal Ripken Jr’s warning to high-spending sports parents – CNBC
Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…
Is Drone Racing a Sport Yet? – MIT Technology Review
Forget the football. The latest pastime to become a full-fledged sports phenomenon is drone racing. Competing for supremacy in the air at small scale isn’t a new phenomenon: people have been going head to head with remote-controlled aircraft in fields for a long old time. But in the last few years, technology has provided competitions with a huge shot of adrenaline, in the form of the first-person view. Nowadays, the…
Cal Ripken Jr’s warning to high-spending sports parents – CNBC
Major League Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. on Wednesday cautioned parents against believing their high-spending on athletics will pave their kids’ way to a professional sports career. The Baltimore Oriole turned entrepreneur counts a youth sports tournament company among his post-baseball business pursuits. Ripken said he’s come across some parents who harbor outsize expectations. “Sometimes the fever to say, ‘OK, I’ve got to have my kid playing more baseball…
Why Not a College Degree in Sports? – New York Times
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Sports|Drone Racing Becomes ESPN’s Newest Televised Sport – New York Times
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Technology|New Twitter App Streams NFL Games and Other Sports – New York Times
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NCAA Leaves North Carolina in a New Spot: Sapped of Sports Pride – New York Times
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Scottish Gossip: Celtic, Barcelona, Rangers, Hearts, Hibs, St Mirren – BBC Sport
<!– FOOTBALL GOSSIP Celtic goalkeeper Dorus De Vries has suggested that his Champions League debut turned into a “nightmare” in Tuesday’s 7-0 hammering by Barcelona as the Glasgow team were up against “the best side of the last 10 years”. (Daily Star, print edition) Manager Brendan Rodgers has refused to be critical of his players after Celtic were handed a football lesson in a 7-0 defeat by Barcelona in their…
A Paralympian Goes for Another Gold, in a Third Sport – New York Times
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US|NCAA Leaves North Carolina in a New Spot: Sapped of Sports Pride – New York Times
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Why Tim Tebow Picked the Wrong Sport – Wall Street Journal
Tim Tebow boldly thrust himself back into professional sports last week by signing a minor-league contract with the New York Mets. In his hype-spinning return to competition, though, he may have made one crucial mistake: He picked the wrong sport. Tebow should be playing handball. A sport that rewards size, prizes speed and fetishizes…
The erasure of Paralympians is not just measured in lack of social media enthusiasm and mass media stories – RollingStone.com
Last week, the 2016 Paralympics opened in Rio with enough pomp, ceremony, stunts and celebration to almost conceal the disgraceful plundering of its funding and shoddy state of the facilities. There were epic stunts, heartfelt moments and the obligatory booing of allegedly corrupt politicians. The British press, perhaps empowered by the 2012 London “best ever” Paralympic games have been following the current games closely, but likely few American readers have…
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We tell ourselves sports are politically neutral. That’s a lie. – Washington Post
Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raises his fist in the air during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP) Let a thousand raised fists bloom. As the National Football League’s regular season kicked off this weekend, players on a number of teams joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protests…
Sports Direct should cut ties with warehouse worker agency, MPs say – The Guardian
MPs have called on Sports Direct to end its relationship with Transline, which supplies workers for the retailer’s Shirebrook warehouse, over fears that the employment agency misled a parliamentary inquiry. Iain Wright, Labour MP and chair of the Commons business, innovation and skills (BIS) select committee, which published a damning report on Sports Direct in July, has written to the retailer’s founder and majority shareholder Mike Ashley saying he believed…
Tom Brady, Michael Strahan produce ‘Religion of Sports’ show – Yahoo TV (blog)
BOSTON (AP) — Call it the unholy alliance: one-time Super Bowl rivals Tom Brady and Michael Strahan are teaming up to produce a six-part documentary TV series called the “Religion of Sports.” Each hour-long episode looks at different examples of the cultural and spiritual impact of sports in religions around the world. The show explores the rivalry between soccer clubs in Glasgow, Scotland; the Calgary Stampede rodeo in Alberta, Canada;…
We tell ourselves sports are politically neutral. That’s a lie. – Washington Post
Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters raises his fist in the air during the national anthem before an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. (John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star via AP) Let a thousand raised fists bloom. As the National Football League’s regular season kicked off this weekend, players on a number of teams joined San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in protests…
North Carolina loses college sports championships over ‘bathroom’ law – Reuters
The governing board for U.S. college athletics said on Monday it will move seven championship sporting events out of North Carolina to protest a state law it deems discriminatory to transgender individuals. It is illegal for anyone in the state to use a public restroom that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) cited the law in its decision to relocate…
Daniel Wilkinson: Non-league footballer dies after collapsing on pitch – BBC News
Daniel Wilkinson signed his first professional contract with Hull in 2010 A non-league footballer has died after collapsing on the pitch during a match on Monday, his club has announced. Shaw Lane defender Daniel Wilkinson, 26, collapsed during a cup game at Brighouse Town’s St Giles Road stadium. The former Hull City youngster was treated on the pitch before being taken to Halifax’s Calderdale Royal Hospital. “I don’t know how…
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