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The roundup:

Training camp starts today. Prepare your timeless. The inefficiency of sending 10s of reporters to watch practice astounds me.

 

Kyrie wants out of Cleveland. He blamed LeBron for leaking his trade request. Bleacher Report ranks the Sixers the number one free agent destination. LeBron says he won’t waive his no-trade clause this year. Put that all together.

 

Matt Klentak calls Howard Eskin’s question “ridiculous.” [This video is good, but you have to sit through a 30-second autoplay video ad to watch it.]

 

I was a guest on The Big lead’s Media Armageddon podcast to talk about all the recent changes in sports media. Give it a listen here.

 

The fact that LeVeon Bell doesn’t have a contract yet is insane.

 

https://twitter.com/LaubachMG/status/889253384221577217

Mass hysteria.

 

 

Nights in Venice:

pic from reader Ryan

 

I can’t believe they were separating their coverage up until this point:

 

The Michael Phelps thing absolutely sucked. Never mind that he didn’t actually race a shark, but the introspective dialogue about how it’s hard to swim against… creatures who live in the sea… was offensive.

 

This is how tense winning $8.1 million is.

 

Philly Sexy Singles features some sleepers.

 

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