Major League Baseball cardboard commissioner Rob Manfred has alienated his players, his union, and his lifelong fans, making it always unlikely that he would make peace with a virus. Manfred could be smart. He could work hard. You can surely speak intelligently on many baseball-related topics for hours. Well, many …
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In the spring of a long time ago, when the weather was an ally, some college athletic leaders pointed to June 1 as a deadline to declare the fate of the football season. So that became June 15 … then July 1 … then July 15. The worse the prospect, …
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It was an anxious final day in the Premier League, more nervous, in the end, at the bottom than at the top. Manchester United and Chelsea secured the final places in the Champions League, leaving Leicester City in the Europa League, where Tottenham, who is in sixth place, will join. …
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Lee Westwood Lee Westwood retired from the 2018 PGA Championship due to a back injury, marking the first time the tournament was missed since 1996. He will lose it again in 2020 … but not due to injury. Despite lifting a two-week quarantine, Westwood, a two-time PGA winner who finished …
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There will be plenty of stellar talent on display in Orlando in the coming months, and there is an undercurrent of stellar power in the ranks of NBA coaches. Gregg Popovich, Doc Rivers, and Mike D’Antoni lead a decorated veteran core, while relative youth Nick Nurse, Brad Stevens, and even …
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