The Players Tribune

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When you get diagnosed with diabetes, you have a choice. You can let it control you and limit you and take over your body, or you can take control of it.

Charlie Kimball

The draft process is filled with uncertainty, but the ending to mine was about as cool as it can get. And it was the first sign that playing for the Knicks woul

Jerian Grant

Athletes from across the sports landscape took to Twitter to react to hometown hero Todd Frazier outlasting rookie Joc Pederson in one of the most exciting Home

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I wish I had a heartwarming story for you. But like a lot of hockey stories, it all started with a brawl.

Sheldon Souray

The quest for a ring begins now. I'm a Cav again. It's amazing how life comes right back around and you’re in the same position again but in a different seat.

Mo Williams

The Tour de France is the pinnacle of our season. It's the Super Bowl. All the other races, they're big and they have a lot of prestige and a lot of respect, bu

Tejay Van Garderen

I often get asked if there’s some sort of “secret sauce” behind what makes a winning baseball team tick. People want to know what the Giants are doing different

Hunter Pence

For endurance cyclists like me, The Race Across America, or RAAM, is the biggest of the big: like the Super Bowl during the NBA Finals held on Mount Everest. Pl

Brian Toone

One of the most important tennis matches I played last year wasn’t on television. There were no fans watching, except a few dogs laying in the grass. My opponen

Victoria Azarenka

Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder describes the biggest fight of his career and the feeling of being the first American heavyweight champ since 2006.

Deontay Wilder

Sometimes disabled athletes are in a court of law as much as we are competing in our sports.

Aaron Scheidies

The only thing I knew about basketball was Michael Jordan. I didn’t know the game. I didn’t own a basketball. Forget basketball shoes. That all changed when I w

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Mets pitcher Matt Harvey breaks down his relationship with baseball's primary pitch.

Matt Harvey

Many athletes talk about their work ethic in almost sound bite moments. But are they really committed to it?

Billie Jean King