
(Erik Drost)
(Erik Drost)
I feel bad for all living human beings this week who are not J.R. SMITH. And for all cities that are not CLEVELAND... In related news, we might finally have a solution to the nightmare that is the 2016 U.S. presidential election... The RIO OLYMPICS could use a good crisis management team, stat. RORY MCILROY has become the most prominent, but far from the only, athlete to say no to the Zika games, which are also in danger of being remembered as the banned games or the economic-collapse games. And then this happened... MARSHAWN LYNCH sums up 5,000 years of sports, military, business and politics strategy in 27 glorious seconds... For an organization whose business is hand-to-hand combat, the UFC has incredibly thin skin. Or maybe it's just taking cues from DONALD TRUMP... BEN AFFLECK on DEFLATEGATE (NSFG)... (The G is for GOODELL)... PATRICK KANE become first AMERICAN in nearly a century to win HART TROPHY as NHL's MVP... And speaking of AMERICA, the NHL in VEGAS. For real... How to practice your golf swing when you're a) 16 months old and b) don't have access to a bucket of balls... THE BLOCK, from every possible angle... NBA DRAFT 7 pm ET tonight on ESPN. The NEW YORK TIMES' VICTOR MATHER on seven decades of "Stars and Flameouts." SHAREEF ABDUR-RAHIM, the #3 pick in 1996 -- ahead of KOBE BRYANT, STEVE NASH and RAY ALLEN -- on "The Greatest Draft Class." THE UNDEFEATED's MARC J. SPEARS on "Senioritis." And in case you missed it, our REDEF SportsSET on SIMMONS, INGRAM and everybody else.