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FAST TWITCH

the royal treatment

Los Angeles hasn't exactly embraced LeBron. Murals featuring the King have been popping up across the city — and almost inevitably, they've been defaced. The sentiment seems to be LeBron has to earn his place in Lakers lore before he gets the love. Sheesh. In the famous words of Sebastian, "That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing."


+ Jimmer Fredette is the headliner in the $2 million Basketball Tournament.

+ The
perils of NBA supermax contracts.


 

big fish

+ How the Angels scouted Mike Trout.

+ Baseball players
almost never retire of their own volition.


+ How tanking threw a wrench in the MLB trade deadline market.

 


did somebody say monopoly?
+ This is nuts: How one man rigged the McDonald's Monopoly game.

 

 

eye of the beholder

+ Video: Awesome barrel ride.

+ Video:
A compilation of boxer Julian Jackson's most ferocious knockout punches.

+ Video: 
Amazing footage of Andrzej Bargiel skiing off the summit of K2.

DEEP DIVES

 

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end of innocence

This is tragic. The Verrückt in Kansas City is the world's tallest waterslide. When a ten year-old boy was thrown from the slide and decapitated the design of the slide and lack of regulation over waterparks came into question. Skip Hollandsworth wrote the crushing story. (Texas Monthly)

 

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the highest court in the land

The Supreme Court building in Washington DC has a deluxe basketball court on the top floor. Not quite regulation size, a new fancy hardwood floor was installed during a 2015 renovation. The court's greatest virtue: it's a non-partisan safe haven for pick-up games. (Sports Illustrated)

 

 

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desk job

Bob Ley is the ESPN O.G. The longtime host of Outside The Lines — and the de facto face of hard core journalism at ESPN — Ley was hired at ESPN three days after the network went on the air in 1979. Bryan Curtis penned a terrific profile of the most revered anchor in Bristol. (The Ringer) 


 
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