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Kemba Walker Is Smiling as He Reads This

BOSTON — Kemba Walker is a most unusual N.B.A. star. Even though he is a four-time All-Star who grew up playing basketball on the playgrounds of New York City and learned under Michael Jordan with the Charlotte Hornets, Walker is pretty low key for a player of his caliber. He rarely

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2020 Sep, 01

Why Does the W.N.B.A. #SayHerName? Ask Angel McCoughtry

Whenever a W.N.B.A. team steps on the floor during the 2020 season, Angel McCoughtry’s influence is there. Each player wears Breonna Taylor’s name on the back of her jersey, an idea that came from McCoughtry. Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was shot and killed by the police while asleep in her

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2020 Aug, 29

Mets G.M. Rebukes Commissioner but Apologizes, Citing Misunderstanding

The Mets and the Miami Marlins chose not to play on Thursday, joining 12 other Major League Baseball teams in sitting out in response to the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wis. But before that decision was formalized, Mets General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen was captured on video

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2020 Aug, 28

Soccer Played Through the Pandemic. Now It Has to Do It All Again.

Jonathan Van-Tam made no attempt to sugarcoat it. Amid soccer’s coronavirus hiatus, as sports leagues around the world tried to figure out a way to return to the field as a pandemic raged, Van-Tam, the deputy chief medical officer of Britain, had been invited to join a Zoom call with

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2020 Aug, 24

Bayern Munich Wins Champions League, a Victory for Tradition and Team

In that moment of elation, the cameras hunted for despair. They found it in the slight, forlorn shape of Neymar, sitting on Paris St.-Germain’s bench, a perfect picture of heartbreak. Neymar, with tears in his eyes. Neymar, staring into the middle distance. Neymar, with his head in his hands. Here, in

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2020 Aug, 23