Okay: you MIGHT be able to guess.
This is Arnold Palmer.
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He's the coolest human to ever swing a golf club...
Or wear a cardigan sweater...
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Or smoke a cigarette...
You'll Never Guess What Kind of Drink Arnold Palmer Ordered At The Masters
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6 Reasons Why This Is The Perfect Time For A Successful Athlete To Come Out
The time is now. What are you waiting for?
Noted gay rights activist and former Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo.
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Last week, reports surfaced that four currently closeted gay NFL players are considering coming out at some point soon, the idea being they'd announce together so as to avoid suffering backlash alone. Even rumors of this kind of movement are a good sign, but the longer these players wait, the more the story becomes a gossip hunt for the SECRET GAYS in the NFL and less about a transformative moment for the LGBT community. The longer they wait, the longer they give voice to people who wonder if they should even be doing this at all. The longer they wait, the more they signal to young gay people who love sports that coming out may not be the best idea. After all, if rich, successful athletes struggle to do it, how on Earth will you be able to?
This brings us to a simple an inescapable fact. A generation of young people need a gay Jackie Robinson. Someone that they can point to on SportsCenter and say, "Yeah, I'm gay, but so is he. And look what he can do." Someone who by their simple existence and athletic success can do more damage to playground homophobia, and the idea that masculinity and heterosexuality are one and the same, than a thousand PSAs. We need someone who, like Robinson, was good at what he did, but also willing to stand up to a backlash head-on. I you're a successful, closeted gay athlete, your time has come. But lest you think this is a suicide mission, there are a lot of very good reasons for you to do it.
Your soon-to-be allies have already gotten everyone used to the idea.
With vocal gay-rights advocates like Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe in the NFL, Brian Burke in the NHL, and Magic Johnson in the NBA (and now MLB as well, as a Dodgers part-owner), the world has been properly prepped for someone to come out. We've reached a point where the idea of a gay athlete is old news In fact, as the deluge of coverage given to the "four players considering coming out together" story showed, there's actually a hunger for it. "People aren't ready yet" isn't a valid excuse anymore. Fans and fellow players have had enough time to consider and re-consider how they should react to a gay player. They're ready as they're ever going to be, thanks to the names above. Are you?
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You can dispel the "lost endorsement" fallacy and make $$$ doing so.
One age-old argument for players remaining in the closet is that it puts their endorsement dollars at risk. But the world was a very different place when this particular piece of prevailing wisdom took hold. That linked article was from 1994. That's before Rent. Before Six Feet Under and Will and Grace and Queer as Folk and The L Word and Ellen and Modern Family. Before all of Bravo. Before openly gay members of the military. Before members of congress didn't have to wait to be elected to come out (or be outed). Times are different now. Neil Patrick Harris is a huge star famous for playing a womanizing straight guy, and there's a good chance that he's singing a show tune somewhere at this very second. His face is everywhere. That would have seemed crazy twenty years ago, but makes perfect sense now. Similarly, I'd be willing to bet the number of companies today that want to align themselves with a history making athlete FAR outnumber those that would be scared off. 2013 is not 1994. I'm sure Nike has a "coming out" ad waiting in the drawer for a brave soul like you, Successful Closeted Gay Athlete, to step forward and put your name on it. Just do it already.
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The One Cool Thing About The Brooklyn Nets Is Gone
This is what happens when you stake your personality on one-fifteenth of one percent.
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When you think of the Brooklyn Nets, the first thing you think of is Jay-Z. Even if it's not — even if the first thing you think of is Brooklyn, or the first thing you think of is the color scheme, or the first thing you think of is the Barclays Center, Jay-Z is implicit in what you're thinking about: he either played a role in creating it, or he was a major part of the branding. The deal the Nets franchise made with the public when it moved to New York's largest borough this season was that the Nets represented cool, and they represented cool because of the God MC.
Well, the God MC Is Dead, at least as far as the Nets are concerned. Jay-Z, aka Shawn Carter, aka Hova, aka Beyoncé's Husband, just started a sports agency, and in order to represent basketball players, he plans on selling off his one-fifteenth-of-one-percent share in the team, Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski reports. What does this mean for the Nets? It means that the one cool thing about them no longer exists. But don't the Nets have other cool qualities? No. Why? Because the other cool qualities had to do with Jay-Z, and the qualities that didn't have to do with Jay-Z aren't cool.
Brooklyn: NOT COOL. In the era of Girls and artisanal pickles and the Brooklyn "brand," you can't just be "Brooklyn" — you have to be a certain flavor of Brooklyn. The only flavor of Brooklyn the Nets are left with now is the chalky aftertaste of sadness in the mouths of the people whose land Bruce Ratner stole to build the Barclays Center.
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LeBron James Doesn't Even Need Teammates To Alley-Oop On Fools
He'll throw an alley-oop to himself if he has to.
This is LeBron James.
He left Cleveland to be with better teammates.
And he loves his teammates.
This set him up for posterizing alley-oops.
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A Star College Quarterback Couldn't Throw A Baseball To The Catcher
It's been a bad week for Michigan Wolverines.
This is Denard Robinson. He was a star quarterback at the University of Michigan.
See?
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This week he received the honor of throwing out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game. No problem, right? He's a quarterback. There job is to throw passes. Piece of cake, right? Right? RIGHT?!
Wrong.
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This Dog Is A Little Too Ready For Baseball Season
This is why you don't play ball in the house. With a dog.
It's baseball season.
And this dog is ready to play.
Look at that focus.
This dog also happens to have a great, natural sense of timing at the plate. He's like the dog version of Miguel Cabrera. Unfortunately, there's a problem...
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The 19 Happiest Photos Of The UConn Huskies Winning The National Championship
The ladies from Connecticut prevented a Louisville sweep of the basketball national titles, and for that they should be applauded.
As time began to wind down in the women's national championship, the UConn bench started to get hyped up.
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The team on the floor knew what was coming.
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And then, BOOM. Time to celebrate.
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Why Is TNT Punishing Steve Kerr?
His newest assignment should be classified as cruel and unusual.
Steve Kerr seems like a good guy. He has a good sense of humor.
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"I wrote the letters F.I. on my shoes, for [bleep] it. I went out there and said I'm going to shoot every time."
His career included four NBA titles.
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He's currently one of TNT's best and most valued NBA analysts...
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Carmelo Anthony's Crazy Sharpshooting Binge Summarized In One Graphic
Carmelo has been playing absolutely unhinged basketball over the last five games.
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After the New York Knicks won 18 of their first 23 games, it was hard to imagine that they could be that good again all season, and for a while it looked like they wouldn't be. The team struggled through the first two months of 2013, playing just over .500 ball and giving off the same vibes of the 2011-12 Knicks — meaning, they seemed liable to get crushed by one of the East's more serious contenders as soon as the playoffs rolled around.
This is no longer the case. New York's riding a 13-game winning streak that includes victories over the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Memphis Grizzlies, two of the league's best teams. And even more exciting than the streak itself is the recent play of Carmelo Anthony, which has been somewhere beyond the orbit of outstanding.
Over his last five games, Melo's averaging a preposterous 40 points on 61% shooting from the field, including 59% from three. (This is a guy who has shot 33% from long range over his career.) And to top it all off, he's adding 8 rebounds a game and only turning the ball over once a contest.
So, what does this kind of perfection look like? Courtesy of @NBA.com/Stats, I can show you.
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Definitive Proof That Sports Teams With Native American Mascots Need To Change Their Names
Because this is super racist, and all he's doing is imitating the “acceptable” logo on his shirt.
At Monday's home opener against the New York Yankees, a Cleveland Indians fan rushed the field looking like this.
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I love my Cleveland Indians, but all this fan did was paint his face to look like the logo...
That's all he did. And it's horribly racist! When that's the case, it's time to change AT LEAST the logo if not also the name. How is this still a conversation?
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Lionel Messi Vs. A Robot Goalie: Who You Got?
The battle between man and machine takes an unlikely turn, thanks to the best soccer player on the planet.
Argentina's Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world. This is a fact.
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Meanwhile, engineers in Japan built a robotic goalie with a motion-sensing device embedded in its head. It eats soccer balls for breakfast.
What happens when you pit the two against each other, in a battle for fútbol supremacy? One Japanese game show dared to find out.
What is that, a few yards away? Piece of cake.
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Masters Mystique Captured Perfectly As Mere Thought Of Ugly Jacket Makes Grown Man Cry
To be fair, an adorable baby was also involved.
Bubba Watson, known as a bit of a goofball, won the 2012 Masters on the strength of an outrageous and inventive shot from deep, deep in the rough.
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Yesterday, during a press conference Watson broke down when he was asked what he did after he won that green jacket.
Out of respect and honor for Augusta National, one of the greatest clubs we have, and one of the greatest tournaments. Out of respect for them I didn't do any of the funny antics I would normally do. The only thing I did was wrap Caleb up in it.
Caleb is Bubba and his wife Angie's son, who they adopted just days before his Master's victory. Here's the whole family at today's annual Par 3 competition.
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What If Sports Balls Were Replaced By Cats?
Thankfully that's a question we no longer have to wonder about.
What if you got rid of soccer balls and replaced them with cats?
How about basketballs?
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YouTube Evidence Indicates Breakout Women's March Madness Star Is A Badass
Breanna Stewart is Brittney Griner's heir to the title of Women's Basketball Player Who's On SportsCenter A Lot.
Freshman Breanna Stewart was one of the best players on a UConn team that won the national championship last night.
After Brittney Griner's Baylor team was upset by Louisville, Stewart's UConn Huskies stepped in to seize the title. She had 23 points in the final game and 29 in the semis, making 7 of 8 three-pointers between the two contests.
For one, this Hakeem-level post fake into an off-hand lefty hook at the McDonald's All-American game.
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Baseball's New Bash Brothers Are Heating Up Atlanta
A couple of offseason acquisitions — anchored by brotherly love — have paid off early for the first-place Braves.
Brothers in arms have been relatively common in baseball history. The San Francisco Giants boasted three Alou brothers — Jesus, Felipe, and Matty — in 1963.
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The Ripken brothers, Billy and Cal Jr., even got to be managed by their father, Cal Sr., from 1987 to 1988.
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But of all the brotherly teammates in MLB history, the Uptons may soon be the best of all.
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In November, older brother B.J. signed a five-year, $75 million contract to join the Braves.
B.J. showed a nice blend of power (118 home runs) and speed (232 steals), as well as a somewhat respectable 15.6 WAR, over parts of eight seasons in Tampa.
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Chicago Cubs Owner Gets The Worst Fan Mail Ever: A Decapitated Goat Head
Some people will do anything to break an imaginary curse.
The Chicago Cubs have not been to the World Series in 68 years. Because baseball is known for its superstitions, many Cubs fans blame the drought on the infamous "Curse of the Billy Goat."
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The curse dates back to a 1945 World Series game when Billy Goat Tavern owner Billy Sianis was asked to leave a World Series game because his pet goat's odor was bothering fans. As he left he famously declared "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more."
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We Found The Whitest Picture Ever
Everybody can stop looking now. We did it.
Arnold Palmer takes the first shot of the Masters.
Compared to this picture, the average gathering of Minnesota Lutherans would look like the Nation of Islam. It's the mild, restrained fist pump that really puts it over the top.
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How To Survive A Cub Attack
Follow these step-by-step instructions to make sure a cub attack never happens to you.
Jorge Soler, one of the Chicago Cubs' top prospects, was ejected from a minor league game last night after sprinting towards the opposing team's dugout with a bat in hand following an altercation.
Fortunately, his teammates caught him before he was able to swing the lumber, but the incident did clear both benches and was described as "kind of like a nightmare" by Soler's manager.
Although no one was injured in this particular dispute, it's not exactly an isolated incident. Cubs have been known to attack before...
So to make sure you're prepared for when it happens again, here are step-by-step instructions on how to survive a cub attack:
When a grizzly cub attacks:
- Stay calm.
- Climb high up into a tree.
- Play dead by putting on a Houston Astros uniform.
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There Are More News Photos Of Tiger's Girlfriend Than Tiger Himself Through 4 Holes
And the leader in the clubhouse is Lindsey Vonn.
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Jay-Z Made A Terrible Song Solely To Whine About Some Brooklyn Nets Executives
Dude, you do not have my sympathy.
Hey, look! It's Jay-Z, a rapper and mogul and wearer of hats, smoking a Cuban in Cuba!
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Anyway, you might have heard that Jay-Z is selling off his microscopic share in the Brooklyn Nets so he can pretend to represent athletes as a sports agent while real agents do all the work. And he's released a song with some FEELINGS about that.
Here's more on him selling his share.
First of all, the song is a barely-rapped, mumbly crawler over a beat that Timbaland probably made when he was asleep in 1998. And Swizz Beatz is just there, yelling, for no reason. The song isn't just stupid and annoying — it's also BORING, which is the number one sin you can commit if you're trying to make a diss track.
And then, there's this line.
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