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New York Times
4 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Putting Ichiro's on-field accomplishments in context. Plus: Judge avoids the worst
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic's daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! If you hear any noise, it's just our newsletter bopping. Sometime shortly after 1:30 p.m. ET today, Ichiro Suzuki goes into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Everyone has a favorite Ichiro story, and all of them are incredible. Many who watched his batting practices insist that he could've hit 30 or 40 homers in a year if he wanted to, so impressive were his swing and routine. The stories of Ichiro's presence in the clubhouse — many collected in this fun Rustin Dodd story — are plentiful and legendary. You have probably seen the clip of Ichiro comparing the temperature of a particular Midwestern city to that of a rat in a wool sock, reducing Bob Costas practically to tears. If not, now you have. Remember the time he missed a unanimous Rookie of the Year honor by one media vote? It shouldn't have been that big a circus, but you can understand why it was: Ichiro was so cool that it was an affront not to maximally honor him. Advertisement I've always found Ichiro tricky. It feels like describing him by leaning on his stats leaves too much meat on the bone. There have been similarly elite ballplayers but no similar characters, so how could anyone encapsulate him by reading his Baseball Reference page? Well, let's do our best. You'll hear at Ichiro's induction about what a singular baseball person he is, but you'll read in The Pulse about what an outlier of a statistical career he had: At the very least, Ichiro being 25th on the all-time hits list comically undersells how good he was at his job. They will never make one like this guy again. Pogacar in line for fourth Tour win Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar is set to seal his fourth Tour de France win this morning in Paris (or possibly already has, depending on when you're reading this), cementing him as the rider of his generation. The UAE Team Emirates star, 26, survived a brutal penultimate stage yesterdayand entered the final day, seen as mostly a formality, with a lead of more than four minutes over rival Jonas Vingegaard. The Athletic's Jacob Whitehead has more on how Pogacar dominated the 2025 Tour. More news 📺 F1: Belgian Grand Prix 9 a.m. ET on ABC I bring your attention to two good F1 stories from the past week: Madeline Coleman's interview with an unusually open Max Verstappenand Luke Smith giving voice to something I've noticed but had a hard time articulating: F1 principals now get sacked like soccer managers. 📺 Soccer: England vs. Spain Noon ET on Fox The women's Euros final is here, and it's a doozy: a rematch of the World Cup final two years ago, where Spain triumphed — but England is the defending European title holder. Both teams needed extra time to survive their semifinals. Appointment viewing. 🍿 📺 MLB: Mets at Giants Advertisement 7:10 p.m. ET on ESPN Kodai Senga, pitching for New York, has thrown 80 and two-thirds innings and will almost certainly not qualify for the ERA title. His number is 1.79, though. Pretty good. Get tickets to games like these here. Years ago, Royals pitcher Gil Meche walked away from $12 million out of principle. What does he think about that decision now? Chris Kamrani's powerful, tragic story on a former Utah football player who was posthumously found to have Stage 2 CTE after a tortuous, decade-plus-long decline. — Mark Cooper I recently revisited the podcast 'Wind of Change,' which is a (sort of) investigation into the question of whether the CIA wrote The Scorpions' 'Wind of Change' to bring down the Soviet Union. I'm probably not selling it well, but it's real good. — Phil Hay Chandler Rome captured the state of disbelief Nick Kurtz's parents werein after the A's rookie's historic performance Friday. This small-serving microwave bread pudding recipe might change your life. — Torrey Hart You can't understand how important it is to break in a little kid's glove so that ball perfectly caught doesn't just pop out and … meltdown. I got a glove wrap (it ain't bougie, here's Walmart at under five bucks) and man, it helps. — Chris Sprow Should Jonathan Kuminga take the qualifying offer with the Warriors? Fred Katz breaks down the layers. 'College Football 26' online dynasty mode. I'm playing in a league with some friends/coworkers and it has been dynamite. Am I 0-1? Yes. Still great. — Chris Branch Most-clicked in the newsletter yesterday: Terry Francona's excellent scoreboard video prank on Kevin Cash. Most-read on the website yesterday: Kamrani's story mentioned above. Ticketing links in this article are provided by partners of The Athletic. Restrictions may apply. The Athletic maintains full editorial independence. Partners have no control over or input into the reporting or editing process and do not review stories before publication.
USA Today
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Derek Fisher is joining the new broadcast team for the NBA on NBC
This coming season, the NBA will return to NBC after a 23-year hiatus. That means that fans will get to hear that timeless "Roundball Rock" theme song on a regular basis throughout the season. No, Marv Albert and Bob Costas will not be handling broadcasts as they did in the 1990s and early 2000s. But NBC has assembled a solid cast of play-by-play announcers, color commentators and analysts. On Thursday, the network announced that it has added several more talented individuals who are former NBA players to that cast. One of them is Derek Fisher, a guard who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers alongside the late great Kobe Bryant. Fisher, like Bryant, was a member of that famed 1996 draft class. It took him a little while, but he became a key role player for the Purple and Gold as they won the first three world titles of the 21st century. After two seasons with the Golden State Warriors and one with the Utah Jazz, he returned to the Lakers in 2007 and earned two more rings in 2009 and 2010. Fans remember him for hitting key 3-pointers, especially in the playoffs, and for his grittiness and leadership.
NBC News
17-07-2025
- Sport
- NBC News
Bob Costas warns legalized sports betting will ‘ruin some lives': Full interview
In a Meet the Moment conversation with Kristen Welker, sports broadcaster Bob Costas warns about the rise of online sports betting and reflects on how his father's gambling shaped his perspective.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Bob Costas Fears the Ease of Sports Gambling Will Lead to Addiction: ‘It's Going to Ruin Some Lives, That's Inevitable'
Bob Costas issued a warning against legalized sports betting while speaking to 'Meet the Press' host Kristen Welker on Sunday, emphasizing its impact on families. 'In the big picture, the house always wins,' he said, '[and] now you've got young guys with a phone in their hand, it's right there. And some of those people are going to become addicted to it and it's going to ruin some lives, that's inevitable.' More from TheWrap Bob Costas Fears the Ease of Sports Gambling Will Lead to Addiction: 'It's Going to Ruin Some Lives, That's Inevitable' | Video Jensen Ackles Still Has a Surprising Connection to 'Supernatural' Co-Star Jared Padalecki Kelly Clarkson Postpones Vegas Residency Opening to Prevent 'Serious Damage' to Her Voice 'My Life With the Walter Boys' Sets Season 2 Premiere Date, Teases First Look Images Costas, who has been open about his father's own sports gambling addiction in the past, also admitted to Welker he could not read gambling promos while calling games for the Major League Baseball Network. 'I just couldn't in good conscience encourage people to do something which I know — for some of them it's obviously just a little recreation and it's fine, but there's an insidious aspect to it that I didn't want to be part of,' he explained. Watch his full 'Meet the Press' interview below: There are 38 states in the United States that allow some degree of legal sports betting. Since the Supreme Court dismantled the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) in 2018, nearly every state has attempted some form of legalization. 'It's not fair enough to know exactly what the legislation would look like, but perhaps there should be more regulation. We're moving toward nearly all 50 states legalizing gambling at this point,' Costas warned. 'And it's inevitable if in fact as a group and over time gamblers didn't lose more than they win, then no back alley crap game, no casino in Atlantic City or Vegas, no racetrack, and now Bet MGM, Draft Kings, whatever it is, would ever exist.' The renowned broadcaster emphasized that sports gambling strikes a personal nerve. 'Well, my father was an inveterate gambler,' he later said, 'and I looked at him as a sort of Runyon-esque character: colorful, humorous, high-spirited. But it would be untruthful to say that it was all smooth sailing. 'There was a lot of trauma in our family life because he had a volatile temper and the mortgage was often riding on how his bets went,' Costas continued. 'And he didn't bet on, you know, cards or poker games or crap games or go to the racetrack. He bet on baseball, football, basketball games.' He attempted to bond with his father through sports. 'I'm sure I would have been a sports fan anyway like most of my fans, but I became even more knowledgeable. I became granularly knowledgeable because he was following all this so closely, and I was by his side,' Costas said. Costas also discussed the intersection of sports and politics with Welker. 'I think that politics inevitably has intersected with sports. Anyone who says that politics has no place in sports has to be abysmally unaware of the history here, a history that goes all the way back to Jack Johnson and Jesse Owens and Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson and Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe and Curt Flood and Tommy Smith and John Carlos,' he insisted. 'Now, of the names I've mentioned, with the exception of Billie Jean, most of them are African American. But that's part of the story because until fairly recently in our nation's history sports and some aspects of entertainment have been the only avenues that were broadly – and even then there was a fight, Jackie Robinson didn't come until 1947– that were broadly accessible to people of color or where someone like Billie Jean King could make a larger statement about women's rights, not just within sports. And to turn your back on that is to wear a blindfold.' Watch the interview with Bob Costas in the video above. The post Bob Costas Fears the Ease of Sports Gambling Will Lead to Addiction: 'It's Going to Ruin Some Lives, That's Inevitable' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
NBC News
06-07-2025
- Sport
- NBC News
How getting cut from sports teams led Bob Costas to the broadcast booth
In a Meet the Moment conversation with Kristen Welker, Bob Costas remembers getting cut from both his high school baseball and basketball teams — and how a coach's advice led him to finding his path to a sports broadcasting career.
