Sports
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With Shades of Another Giants Era, a Youngster Tames the Dodgers
SAN FRANCISCO — When the San Francisco Giants won three World Series titles over the five-year period from 2010-14, they…
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Red Sox Prove ‘Hitting Is Contagious’ in Series-Tying Win
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Boston Red Sox are an imperfect team. They made the second most fielding errors in…
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With Textbook Win, the Astros Take a Commanding Series Lead
HOUSTON — If you kept score at Minute Maid Park on Friday, you might have felt like a grade-school teacher…
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A Pitcher’s Duel Is Decided by a Mighty Swing
MILWAUKEE — Corbin Burnes stood alone on the mound in Friday’s first inning, a triangle of trouble already threatening to…
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Raiders Coach Made Racist Comment About N.F.L. Players’ Union Chief
DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the N.F.L. Players Association, was denounced in racist terms in a 2011 email by…
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‘Late Night’ LaMonte, Pinch-Hit Homers and a Closer From Nowhere
SAN FRANCISCO — Along with a franchise-record 107 victories, and a cascading list of things that contributed to them, the…
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‘Devastated, Disgusted, but Not Shocked’
In the top professional soccer league for women in North America, everyone understood that the power primarily rested with men:…
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Once the Commissioner, Back to Being Milwaukee’s Superfan
MILWAUKEE — It is surely one of Milwaukee’s few lakefront office suites where a water view is relegated to a…
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Saudi Arabia, Newcastle and Soccer’s Worship of Money
One single sentence, printed in block capitals, emblazoned on a laminated banner, captured it all: all of the pain and…
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The Return of Morehouse Football
ATLANTA — Ambition meets precision on the campus of Morehouse College. People trek knowingly to and from their destinations with…