Sports
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‘It’s Really Magic’
The Chicago Cubs beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2, on Thursday, but that was hardly the point. Major League Baseball had…
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Sue Bird Became the Legend She Needed: ‘There Was No Real Path’
Sue Bird peeked upcourt as she caught the outlet pass. Her Seattle Storm teammate Natasha Howard had streaked ahead of…
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‘Today, You Can Walk Around Like You Own the Place.’
GREEN BAY, Wis. — It takes a certain type of Packers fan to tailgate outside Lambeau Field at sunrise months…
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World Cup Worries Mount With 100 Days (Give or Take) to Go
At a flashy ceremony on Nov. 21 last year, some of Qatar’s most senior officials, including the Gulf nation’s prime…
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Cardinals Minor Leaguer Hits a Cycle of Home Runs
The concept of a cycle is familiar to most fans, even if the event is not particularly common: A player…
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The Padres Got a Sword. But Can They Slay the ‘Dragon’?
SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto had barely landed, Josh Bell had just sat down and Josh Hader was starting to…
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Marriage, With a Side of Pickleball
Julene and Charles Wood had played pickleball as a couple several times at the Evergreen Racquet Club in Bloomington, Ill.,…
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Serena Williams Begins the Not-Too-Long Goodbye
As a champion who says she hates goodbyes, Serena Williams could have made her exit from tennis in other ways.…
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The Mets Make Their Case as New York’s Best Team
With talk earlier this year about this possibly being the best New York baseball season ever, it had seemed clear…
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FIFA Proposes Last-Minute Change to World Cup Schedule
Qatar has had 12 years to plan for the World Cup. Now, with the first games of the tournament just…