Sports
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How Worlds Collided for Swifties Who Were Already Football Fans
The Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce romance has brought together two of the internet’s most engaged fan bases. What happens when you’re…
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How S.M.U., Once the Rogue of College Sports, Got Back to the Big Time
It wasn’t just a gold Pontiac Trans Am with a painted bird on the hood. It was the car that…
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Shohei Ohtani Is Home and Focused on Baseball. Dodgers Fans Are Relieved.
Los Angeles finally got a close look at baseball’s megastar on Thursday as a gambling situation involving his former interpreter…
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The Japanese Sensei Bringing Baseball to Brazil
Yukihiro Shimura always arrives first. He quietly puts on his baseball uniform. He rakes the dirt field meditatively. He picks…
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More Teams in March Madness? Say Goodbye to the Cinderella Stories
Expanding the men’s tournament could push small schools like Oakland, which upset Kentucky this week, out of the action.
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Is Germany Heading for Humiliation at the Euros?
A nation that was soccer’s gold standard a decade ago is now trying anything and everything to find its way.…
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What’s It Like to Be Cinderella in March? These Schools Know.
As administrators at universities like St. Peter’s, Fairleigh Dickinson and Florida Gulf Coast can attest, upset victories bring attention, alumni…
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March Madness Spotlights a Sport Relegated to Pittsburgh’s Shadows: Basketball
A city that pro basketball abandoned in the early 1970s, and whose college teams have only flirted with relevance for…
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Leagues Have More Than Just Players to Watch on Gambling
The wagering situation involving Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter shows that people adjacent to the players and coaches can also be…
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Luis Rubiales, Former Spanish Soccer Chief, Faces Arrest
Mr. Rubiales, who resigned after kissing a player at the Women’s World Cup, is a focus of Spanish investigators looking…
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