Sports
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Push to Expand College Football Playoff Stumbles
INDIANAPOLIS — The College Football Playoff’s ambitions for expansion stalled on Monday, when the sport’s leading power brokers proved unable…
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On Her Way Up: Yankees Tap Woman as Minor League Manager
Rachel Balkovec, a groundbreaking baseball coach, will become the manager of a team in the Yankees’ minor league system, making…
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Novak Djokovic’s Fight to Play Tennis Could Be Just Starting
Novak Djokovic has fought through adversity of his own and others’ making for as long as he has been playing…
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Churchill Downs Draws a Hard Line With Bob Baffert
Bill Carstanjen, the chief executive of Churchill Downs, had a clear message to lawyers for Bob Baffert on Monday: We…
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Don Maynard, Hall of Fame Receiver for Champion Jets, Dies at 86
Don Maynard, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who teamed with Joe Namath in the passing attack that propelled the…
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Was There Joy in East Rutherford?
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — When the Giants (4-13) played the Washington Football Team (7-10) at MetLife Stadium on Sunday, both…
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N.F.L. Coach Firings Follow Regular Season’s End
The Monday after the N.F.L. regular season is a perilous day to be a head coach. This year, Brian Flores,…
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Playoff Fans in the Cold as College Football Plots Its Future
INDIANAPOLIS — Freezing rain had turned the downtown sidewalks here into granite-hard slip-and-slide tracks. A downtown concert stage and beer…
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Klay Thompson Returns, as if He Never Left
Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors has never been known as a leaper. He used to have a running…
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Raiders Use 17th Game (and Then Some) to Slide Into Postseason
LAS VEGAS — The running joke on social media last week was that if the circumstances called for it, the…