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Newcastle, Leeds and the Importance of Being ... Something

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story Rory Smith On Soccer Newcastle, Leeds and the Importance of Being … Something Wandering about without a plan inspires neither affection nor success. So why do so many clubs still do it? Newcastle has won only one of its last 11 Premier League games.Credit...Pool

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2021 Feb, 06

San Francisco 49ers Increase Ownership Stake in Leeds United

Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story San Francisco 49ers Increase Leeds United Ownership Stake The N.F.L. team, a minority owner in Leeds since 2018, now will control 37 percent of the Premier League club. Leeds United currently sits 12th in the 20-team Premier League.Credit...Paul Ellis/Pool, via Reuters Jan. 25, 2021 Two

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2021 Jan, 25

Eric Hall, British Soccer Agent With a Flair, Dies at 73

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. LONDON — Eric Hall, Britain’s most extravagant soccer agent in the 1980s and ’90s, often confessed that he knew little about the sport. Many said that was his greatest strength, even if

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2020 Nov, 30

Diego Maradona, a Hero Who All Too Human

The day that Diego Maradona said goodbye, as his voice cracked and the place that had always been home heaved and sobbed, his mind drifted to the mistakes that he had made, the price that he had paid. In his valedictory moment, he did not seek absolution. All he asked, instead,

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2020 Nov, 27

Diego Maradona Is Mourned in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES — People laid flowers and lit candles below the mural of Diego Maradona outside the stadium here that bears his name. A man cried inconsolably. At the Obelisk in central Buenos Aires, another man waved a banner depicting Mr. Maradona that read, “God Is Argentine.” There was a sense

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2020 Nov, 26

The N.B.A. Slam Dunk Champion Cashes In

In a Miami hotel room, Derrick Jones Jr. and his agent, Aaron Turner, sat on a gray, three-seat couch with a laptop propped open on a coffee table in front of them. This was the start of N.B.A. free agency last weekend, compressed and frenzied, squeezed in just after the draft

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2020 Nov, 25