Sports
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M.L.B. and Its Union Seek Common Ground as World Series Starts
HOUSTON — With the clocking ticking on the expiration of the labor agreement between Major League Baseball’s club owners and…
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The Bengals Are Good. Ja’Marr Chase Makes Them Interesting.
Before receiver Ja’Marr Chase’s arrival, the Cincinnati Bengals may have been the N.F.L.’s most inconsequential franchise. The Bengals have a…
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Atlanta Blasts Its Way to a Win, but Loses an Ace
HOUSTON — Atlanta stepped into its first World Series since 1999 sharply, quickly and memorably. Jorge Soler blasted Framber Valdez’s…
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Charlie Morton’s season ends with a fractured fibula.
The season is over for Atlanta pitcher Charlie Morton, a master of the postseason. Morton, who was struck by a…
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Top 1st: Atlanta jumps to an immediate lead.
The scoring started awfully quickly. On the third pitch he saw, Jorge Soler, Atlanta’s leadoff batter, unloaded on a 93-mile-per-hour…
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As Baseball Considers Its Future, Parity Isn’t the Problem
HOUSTON — A general manager’s job is to build World Series teams. Yet as he sat in the Atlanta Braves’…
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Former Washington Football Staffers Demand Investigation’s Findings
When the N.F.L.’s 32 team owners met in a Midtown Manhattan hotel Tuesday for their quarterly discussion of league business,…
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Blackhawks Ignored 2010 Sexual Assault Accusation, Investigation Says
Several Chicago Blackhawks executives failed to report a 2010 accusation that a minor league player had been sexually assaulted by…
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What to Know Ahead of Game 1 of the World Series
The 117th World Series pits the Houston Astros of the American League against the Atlanta Braves of the National League.…
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The Astros’ Secret Weapon? A Catcher Who Hit .172.
HOUSTON — One of the most important people on the Houston Astros was one of the worst at his position…