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With Another Slew of Injuries, the Yankees Aren’t Taking Chances

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: The Yankees have one of the best records in Major League Baseball despite missing several star players to injury. No, this is not 2019, when the Yankees endured a nightmarish run of setbacks and sent a major-league record 30 players to the injured list.

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2020 Aug, 17

The Los Angeles Teams Are the Best in the West, but Questions Remain

On the opening night of the N.B.A.’s restart at Walt Disney World, many miles from Los Angeles, the Lakers and the Clippers put on a show. In the closing seconds, the Lakers’ LeBron James followed his own miss to convert a go-ahead put-back, then forced the Clippers’ Paul George to

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2020 Aug, 16

Damian Lillard Gets Help Moving Portland Out of the Yacht Club

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The N.B.A. and the league’s television partners did not get their dream first-round playoff matchup pitting LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers against Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans. The solace for those parties is that the fallback option will offer no shortage

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2020 Aug, 15

In a Pair of ‘Hubs,’ the N.H.L. Postseason Has Been Anything but Neutral

TORONTO — The N.H.L. restart was less than three minutes old when Justin Williams, a Carolina Hurricanes forward, offered bare-knuckled proof that the fight was on to win the Stanley Cup, although the calendar read Aug. 1, the postseason’s start date. Williams, 38, had had just eight fights in more than

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2020 Aug, 13

P.S.G. Breaks Its Glass Ceiling. Now Comes the Hardest Part.

In that second half, the cavalry kept coming, wandering off the bench and onto the field one after the other. As Atalanta’s players blinked back the sweat, it must have felt as if Paris St.-Germain could draw from a bottomless well of talent. First, the boy wonder, the next best player

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2020 Aug, 12

The Bubble’s Best TV Innovation Deserves a Longer Look

The Bubble’s Best TV Innovation Deserves a Longer Look When Major League Soccer began airing video review discussions in real time, it gave fans a rare glimpse inside its games’ biggest calls. More sports should try it. By One thing that always got on Howard Webb’s nerves back when he was refereeing

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2020 Aug, 11