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Tiger Woods Faced Disaster at the Masters. He Stuck Through It Anyway.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods had just birdied three holes on Sunday at the Masters when he stood at the tee box at No. 18. A few of the men sitting around the 17th green did not bother to watch. This was no charge toward a sixth green jacket. It was

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2020 Nov, 15

Bryson DeChambeau’s Ball Search Pushes Him Out of Masters Hunt

AUGUSTA, Ga. — It was almost a given that Bryson DeChambeau would do something memorable at this year’s Masters tournament. It did not figure to be a booming tee shot so high in the Georgia sky that it landed clear out of sight. Just as amazing: That swing, and the resulting

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2020 Nov, 14

Stefanos Tsitsipas Adds to His Story

In 2018, Stefanos Tsitsipas was hailed as the future of men’s tennis when, at 20, he won the ATP’s Next Gen Finals for players 21 and under. Last year, the first time he qualified, Tsitsipas won the ATP Finals, becoming the youngest champion since Lleyton Hewitt at 20 in 2001. In

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2020 Nov, 14

The N.F.L. Has Prevented Coronavirus on the Field. Off It Is Another Matter.

Before the N.F.L. season began, one of the big questions the league faced was whether a close-contact sport like football, with 22 players on the field and dozens more on the sidelines along with coaches and trainers, could avoid a coronavirus outbreak stemming from a game. That has largely been answered:

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2020 Nov, 13

Bryson DeChambeau’s Golf Revolution Turns Toward the Masters

Asked about his childhood as he stood on the practice range at a golf tournament in Connecticut this summer, Bryson DeChambeau said his overriding memory was a conviction that a nonconformist would eventually get more done. “Even as a little boy, I always questioned everything,” said a smiling DeChambeau, whose eccentric,

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2020 Nov, 09

There Is No Such Thing as a Bad Player

Patrick Bamford bounced around for a long time, the sodium glow of his youthful promise fading in the shadows of all those blind alleys. A few months at Crystal Palace, when he did not start a game, and a spell at Norwich City, where he failed to convince his manager he

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2020 Nov, 06