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August 18, 2022

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Panthers training camp: C.J. Henderson looks ready to turn a corner

Sports Illustrated
by Sports Illustrated00
SI – For more and to sign up click here Albert Breer FOXBORO, Mass.—This was a wild one. For the second straight day, the Panthers and Patriots engaged in multiple donnybrooks, complete with players being ejected from practice. Is it unusual to see fights at joint practices? It is not.......
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NBA schedule release: The 10 most exciting games to watch in 2022–23

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by Sports Illustrated00
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTg5MTk1MDQ2NDM0NjQ1Nzg0/stephen-curry-ja-morant-warriors-grizzlies.jpg Rohan Nadkarni After a long, drawn-out schedule release through a series of leaks that made practically everyone (a rough estimate) sick and tired of schedule releases, the NBA finally released its regular season schedule on Wednesday. Teams will have an 82-game season, and there will be a play-in tournament.......
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How Pro Wrestling Shaped Sylvester Stallone’s Storytelling

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by Sports Illustrated01
SI.com’s Week in Wrestling is published every week and provides beneath-the-surface coverage of the business of pro wrestling. Sylvester Stallone on pro wrestling: “I hear people say it’s not real. Really? Gravity is real. Jumping off the top rope or having 300 pounds landing on you, that’s real.” Sylvester Stallone......
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Breaking down Serena Williams’s retirement announcement and legacy

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by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNTI3MjkzOTM4NTc0ODM0/serena-williams.jpg Jon Wertheim Hey everyone… Housekeeping: • Murphy’s Law, tennis corollary. When you take a week off for vacation, one of the sport’s titans announces her retirement. Herewith some thoughts on Serena. • Here’s a Tennis Channel video in tribute of Serena (h/t Brett Danzer, the producer who did the......
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NBA announces 2022–23 schedule release, annoys fans

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by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjU4NTE0MDQ3ODM3ODU5/nba.jpg Jimmy Traina 1. The NFL gets away with making its schedule release a big deal because 1) it’s the NFL and 2) the NFL schedule is unique each year. The NBA is now trying to make its schedule release a newsworthy event, but it just isn’t working. We told you......
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Liverpool’s winless start magnified by Premier League’s fine margins

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by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjU2Njc0MTkxMjIyMjU4/mohamed-salah-crystal-palace-liverpool.jpg Jonathan Wilson Last season, the Premier League champion, Manchester City, dropped 21 points total. The season before, title-winning Man City dropped 28 points, but that felt like a pandemic-related aberration. The season before that, Liverpool dropped 15 points and the season before, City dropped 16. One more before that,......
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Alabama coach Nick Saban prepares Crimson Tide for next step

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by Sports Illustrated01
SI – For more and to sign up click here Richard Johnson You can split Nick Saban’s six national championships with Alabama into two parts. The first chapter is best represented by the Tide’s stomping of Notre Dame in the 2012 title game. Until then, Alabama didn’t so much beat you as......
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Bill Russell and Adam Silver: ‘A special relationship’

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by Sports Illustrated00
SI – For more and to sign up click here Howard Beck Long before he was running the NBA, Adam Silver was an eager young staffer whose duties included opening mail, writing memos and carrying around large stacks of glossy Bill Russell photos—all of it important, none of it as......
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College football rankings: SI’s preseason top 25 for 2022

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by Sports Illustrated01
SI – For more and to sign up click here Pat Forde The 2022 college football season is less than two weeks away, with Week Zero looming Aug. 27. Before things kick off on the gridiron, Sports Illustrated is revealing its preseason top 25 ranking. 1. Alabama: If 13–2 was......
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Walker Buehler injury seriously dents Dodgers’ World Series hopes

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by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjQ4MDg3NDc3ODU1NzMw/walker-buehler.jpg Nick Selbe Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The Dodgers entered Monday with a .699 winning percentage and a 16-game lead in their division with 49 left to play. But......
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Bengals Let Joe Burrow Control His Return to Training Camp

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by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjQxNzg2NDkyMzk3MjE5/maqb-81522.jpg Albert Breer I’m back from the road now, and with a lot to get to … Wilson: Bill Streicher/USA TODAY Sports; Garoppolo: Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports; Burrow: Kareem Elgazzar/USA TODAY Network • The Bengals really let Joe Burrow guide his return to the practice field—and gave him all the time he needed......
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Kentucky AD has pointed message for John Calipari, Mark Stoops

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by Sports Illustrated01
SI – For more and to sign up click here Pat Forde Mitch Barnhart has logged two decades of good work as a college administrator while functioning as a near-hermit. He’s the dean of Southeastern Conference athletic directors, he’s been the chair of the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee, he’s......
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Longtime Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril dies at 92

Sports Illustrated
by Sports Illustrated01
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjM4MjI0NjIyMzMxMzc4/05110066.jpg Alexander Wolff The coach approved the postgame stop at the 7-Eleven, agreed to the purchase of the beer, even signed off on the conversion of his hotel room into a speakeasy for that beer’s consumption. And drink his players did, well into the Shenandoah night, spilling out into the......
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Joe Dumars recalls Pistons’ near trade for Kobe Bryant: ‘It was that close’

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by Sports Illustrated01
Howard Beck welcomes Hall of Famer Joe Dumars. The former Pistons Bad Boy is now the NBA’s discipline czar, part of his new role as executive vice president and head of basketball operations. Dumars discusses his approach to the job, then reflects at length on his tenure as Pistons GM.......
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Jac Collinsworth, Jason Garrett reportedly to call Notre Dame football on NBC

Sports Illustrated
by Sports Illustrated00
1. I’m fully aware that Twitter doesn’t like anything, but sometimes reaction to a piece of news is so harsh that it becomes noteworthy. On Sunday, the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand reported that NBC is set to announce Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett as the broadcast crew for Notre Dame......
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Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes is improving as quarterback and a leader

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by Sports Illustrated00
SI – For more and to sign up click here Albert Breer ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Most coaches and players are fine with the way camp has evolved over the last decade or so, with a move off remote college campuses and back to the team’s normal practice facilities. For......
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USMNT abroad: Dest, Weah transfer rumors; Tillman, Wright score

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by Sports Illustrated01
About a month out from the last pre-World Cup international window, the U.S. men’s national team’s player pool remains split into a few categories. There are those who are the perceived locks for a trip to Qatar, those on the fringe looking to climb into that more secure group and......
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The Olympics don’t want competitive lifesaving. But maybe they should.

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by Sports Illustrated01
SI – For more and to sign up click here Emma Baccellieri The first thing you will notice at a competitive lifesaving meet are the dummies. Bright orange, they lurk at the far end of the pool, lying in wait until they can be reached and rescued by the swimmers.......
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Thomas Tuchel, Antonio Conte Clash Highlights Premier League Thriller

Sports Illustrated
by Sports Illustrated00
Let’s start at the end. Antonio Conte, a couple of minutes after concluding the second-half triptych of escalating goal celebrations with a wildly violent dance, walked toward Thomas Tuchel and shook his hand. But he did so, Tuchel said, without looking him in the eye and so the Chelsea manager......
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Manchester United, Erik ten Hag Are Off to an Embarrassing Start

Sports Illustrated
by Sports Illustrated00
http://www.si.com/.image/c_limit%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Ch_1200%2Cq_auto:good%2Cw_1200/MTkxNjA4OTQ5MDUxNTAwMDE4/harry-maguire-manchester-united.jpg Jonathan Wilson The postwar nadir, everybody has always said, was the 5–0 defeat to Crystal Palace in 1972, but that may have a challenger now. Saturday’s 4–0 defeat to Brentford was epochally bad. It wasn’t just the scoreline—although letting in more goals against Brentford in a 25-minute spell than......
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