Sports
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Guns, Machetes and Illness: The Perils of Running the Length of Africa
Russ Cook of Britain overcame danger in a year of running from South Africa to Tunisia.
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Make Room Tennis, Pickleball and Squash. Here Comes Padel.
I first learned about padel last summer, when my partner sent me a photo from a small court during a…
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An Overlooked Championship Team’s Final Stop: The White House
The all-Black Tennessee A&I basketball team won three back-to-back national championships at the height of the Jim Crow era, but…
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Is Soccer’s Model Club Actually … Real Madrid?
The club is strutting into a future different from the one envisioned by its president, Florentino Pérez. But its prospects…
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How European Soccer Made Peace With Fasting During Ramadan
In competitions like the Premier League, Muslim pros who once faced pressure to avoid daily fasts during the monthlong holiday…
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The Caitlin Clark Show Rolls On
One way to view the meteoric growth of women’s college basketball is through the career arc of its current protagonist:…
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You Can Bet on Caitlin Clark Making Threes. The N.C.A.A. Isn’t Happy.
Americans will wager $2.7 billion on the N.C.A.A. basketball tournaments this year, raising concerns about what happens to sports when…
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Shohei Ohtani’s Arrival Brings Hope and Nostalgia Home to Little Tokyo
For a Los Angeles community contending with gentrification in its historic center and an aging population of cultural standard-bearers, Ohtani’s…
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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…