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The journey of JamesOn Curry … “You know, if you think about it,” Curry said with a smile, “I’m probably the highest-paid player per second in NBA history.” While the 33-year-old can make light of it now, the former basketball prodigy once carried a sense of shame and embarrassment over where he’d been and what he’d done. The game he loved had seemingly betrayed him — a lifelong dream reduced to a piece of trivia immortalized on YouTube. But basketball would come back to save him, just not in the way he ever thought it would. Read More
THINGS TO CARE ABOUT
“Her career is as important as my career …” A professional athlete’s career is marked by uncertainty. You never know whether you’ll be part of a surprise trade that uproots you — and your family. For Jacob Trouba and Kelly Tyson, however, it was a little different, in that a trade actually allowed them to start seriously planning a future together. Read More
Ranking everything in football … You like lists? What about rankings? What kind of things do you like to rank? Best kinds of food? Most exciting action movies? LEAST exciting action movies? Not surprising! The human mind is predisposed to put things in order of preference. Since we work in sports, we especially love lists. Love ’em. We’re not content with just ranking teams or players this time. We decided to rank EVERYTHING in football. Well, OK, not quite everything. But far more things than one would normally rank in the course of a standard workday. Read More
Legion of Zoom? The Kansas City Chiefs’ wide receiver corps is fast… like really fast. Perhaps the fastest the NFL has ever seen, hence why some are already bestowing the “Legion of Zoom” nickname on the group. This gesture got us to thinking about the whole nickname thing. Because who doesn’t love a tasteful moniker for their favorite players? From the Legion of Boom — don’t worry Seahawks fans, we’re well aware the Chiefs are kind of stealing your flavor — to the Bash Brothers, we’re revisiting the truly elite nicknames in the game (past and present): Read More
THINGS TO WATCH
Miles to Go: Les Miles and Kansas Football … The best interview in college football (sorry, Mike Leach) is back, y’all. Former LSU coach Les Miles is taking his talents — and probably his grass-eating — to the Big 12. Cue the 18-part ESPN+ series bringing fans a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes look at his quest to reinvent the Kansas football program, because it’s the content you deserve. You can find the first four installments here: Watch
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Stephen A. says Antonio Brown has taken “divaness to a whole other level” after Brown said he and Ben Roethlisberger were never friends.
OVERHEARD
“He’d be the greatest of all time. … I wish he was in the gym. I would have had f—ing 12 rings.”
— Kobe Bryant on if Shaquille O’Neal had his work ethic Read more
REMEMBER WHEN?
On this date in 1904, the first Olympic Games in the United States kicked off in St. Louis. Included in these Games: tug-of-war and a variant of croquet called “roque.”
WHAT’S ON TODAY?
US Open (All day starting at 11 a.m., ESPN/ESPN+): More US Open action? Yes, please. Rafael Nadal and 15-year-old sensation Coco Gauff are among those taking the court as second-round action rolls on.
College football doubleheader (7 p.m. & 10:15 p.m. ET on ESPN): Thursdays are so much better with some college football on the menu. First, UCLA and Chip Kelly head to Cincinnati, then No. 14 Utah takes on BYU hoping to build on the momentum of a strong 2018 season.
Reds at Marlins (7:10 p.m. ET, ESPN+): The Marlins will look to bounce back after getting shut out Wednesday night to earn their first win over the Reds this season. Hey, anything can happen, Miami fans.
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