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Jose Reyes speaks with the media in NY about his injury rehab.
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My Knicks Stripes nail art!
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Kobe Bryant vs Michael Jordan:
Phil Jackson throws book at Kobe In a new memoir by the former coach, the Lakers’ star comes up short in comparisons with Michael Jordan.
Read: LATimes
With a device called ProCap, Bert Straus says he invented headgear that could reduce concussions in National Football League games. He never got the chance.
The ProCap, which took him eight years to develop, was gaining ground among players until he brought it before the NFL committee dealing with brain injuries. The panel disparaged Straus’s invention, prompting the league to warn players they risked death wearing it. The committee was guided in part by the advice of an outside consultant who once testified for Riddell Inc. (0059072D), the league’s official helmet maker, in an injury lawsuit.
![His Game, His Rules
How Roger Goodell made the NFL bigger, richer, more powerful — and now more divided — than ever before.
Within the past year, Goodell has told friends privately that he believes if the game’s hard-knocks culture doesn’t change, it [a player dying during an NFL game] could happen again. “He’s terrified of it,” says a Hall of Fame player who speaks regularly with Goodell. “It wouldn’t just be a tragedy. It would be awfully bad for business.”
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How Roger Goodell made the NFL bigger, richer, more powerful — and now more divided — than ever before.
Within the past year, Goodell has told friends privately that he believes if the game’s hard-knocks culture doesn’t change, it [a player dying during an NFL game] could happen again. “He’s terrified of it,” says a Hall of Fame player who speaks regularly with Goodell. “It wouldn’t just be a tragedy. It would be awfully bad for business.”
Read: ESPN
DiPuglia [the Nationals’ international scouting director] called him out—in the Dominican Republic, nobody rides the bench because of a headache. When the pain got worse, DiPuglia sent Guillén to the trainer’s room, where he was given some tea and an aspirin.
The next day, on April 6, the Nationals sent Guillén back to La Canela. He had a slight fever when he left the academy. On April 7, Michael Morla, a longtime local trainer who also acted as Guillén’s agent, was at the field in La Canela when he saw Guillén, a damp towel wrapped around his head, lurching toward the community’s health post, adjacent to the field. Morla approached Guillén’s family, urging them to take him to Santo Domingo for care: “The boy is bad!”
Guillén’s aunt and uncle rushed him to the Clínica Abreu, the capital’s best private hospital. But because his contract hadn’t been finalized he didn’t have health insurance, and he was refused treatment when his family couldn’t come up with the $1,300 admission fee. His aunt and uncle moved him to a more affordable Cuban-Dominican clinic nearby, where he was admitted on April 8. The doctors diagnosed bacterial meningitis. Guillén later had surgery to drain brain fluid, but the disease had progressed too far. On April 15, the day he was to leave for the United States, Yewri Guillén died.
Inside Major League Baseball’s Dominican Sweatshop System
Teen shortstop Yewri Guillén died the day the Nationals were supposed to ship him to America. Has MLB learned from the tragedy?
Read: Mother Jones
The Happy Warrior Meets the Obsessive Competitor
LeBron James Is Making the Case for the Happy Athlete
Read: NYTimes
THE ALL-STARS OF DAVID
IN THE GREAT JEWISH TRADITION, 43 MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE DESCENDED ON SOUTHERN FLORIDA. BUT INSTEAD OF PLAYING CANASTA, THEY DREAMED OF VICTORY ON THE DIAMOND. WITH NAMES LIKE GREENBERG, LIPETZ, AND FISH, THEY UNITED IN THE HOPES OF BRINGING GLORY TO THE HOLY LAND (AND MAYBE THEMSELVES) IN THIS MONTH’S WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC. AND EVERY TIME THEY STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE, IT WAS A SWING AND A MITZVAH.
Read: Details
h/t longform
“I said, “Am I ever going to see again?’ and the doctor said, ‘No,’” Sandoval said. “There was silence in the room. For 10 seconds, neither one of us said a word. Then I picked my head up and told myself things happen for a reason. If Jim Abbott could pitch with one hand, then I can pitch with one eye.”
Juan Sandoval trying to make Rays despite limited vision - NorthJersey.com The Record’s @BobKlap
Twitter has become a kind of digital locker room for athletes, owners, coaches, broadcasters, journalists and fans all over the world. It’s a locker room with no real parameters, open 24/7 and extending far beyond the walls of stadiums. It has changed the way athletes voice their thoughts and how fans interact with them. And this is just the beginning.
Read: Inside Twitter sports’ digital locker room Peyton Manning Derrick Rose - ESPN
Life after scoring 100-plus points in a basketball game.
| Sports Illustrated | Dec 2012
