Month: December 2020

3:35 PM ET With every passing season, the modern NBA edges towards a certain … sameness. Meaning: statistical flatness. The devolution of traditional, role-based statistical differentiation. With every 3-pointer canned by some 7-footer – or double-double posted by a point guard – the lines sorting categorical production by position are blurred. And in time, those
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7:00 AM ET The most recent congressional proposal to reshape college sports aims to go far beyond codifying a college athlete’s ability to earn endorsement money. The College Athlete Bill of Rights, proposed Thursday by co-authors Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., would create sweeping changes for college sports, including provisions that
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6:34 AM ET Andy Murray has praised U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka and Manchester United‘s Marcus Rashford for their work in driving social change. Murray spoke in his BBC column on the importance of athletes speaking out and driving change. “In tennis, we saw Naomi Osaka decide she would not play in her Western and
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