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For the Browns, Trying Everything May Finally Lead to Something

The Cleveland Browns tried just about everything from 2016 to 2019 in an effort to escape decades of failure: embracing analytics, rejecting analytics, emphasizing character, ignoring character, austere scrimping, lavish spending — and sometimes attempting all of those tactics simultaneously. Not surprisingly, the rapid succession of 180-degree lurches in organizational philosophy

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2020 Oct, 14

Winless Falcons Fire Coach and General Manager

The Atlanta Falcons, winless through five games this season, have fired their head coach, Dan Quinn, and general manager, Thomas Dimitroff, becoming the second team to reassess its fading prospects for the 2020 campaign. “Decisions like these are very difficult, but the previous two seasons and start to this one have

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2020 Oct, 12

It’s Djokovic-Nadal Yet Again. But This French Open Duel Is Not Like the Others.

Men’s tennis finally got a new Grand Slam champion in New York last month as Dominic Thiem, an Austrian in, of all things, his 20s won the United States Open. Less than a month later, the youth revolution is back on hold at Roland Garros. The movement still cannot budge Rafael Nadal,

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2020 Oct, 10

For the Astros, One Final Hurdle to a Defiant World Series Return

There was symbolism in the timing when Major League Baseball announced a new, expanded postseason format. The league made it official on opening day in July, while the very first game of the season was already in progress. The message: We know this won’t last very long, but wait till

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2020 Oct, 10

In a Golden Era for the Yankees, the Mound Belonged to Whitey Ford

Exactly 60 years before he died on Thursday night at age 91, Whitey Ford pitched a shutout in the World Series. It was the start of a scoreless streak that stretched 33⅔ innings, topping Babe Ruth for the longest in World Series history. Yet Ford never believed he should have been

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2020 Oct, 09

What We Learned From Week 4 of the N.F.L. Season

The two best matchups of the week were both rescheduled because of positive coronavirus tests — Patriots-Chiefs is expected to be played on Monday night and Steelers-Titans is rescheduled for Week 7 — but Sunday managed to pack in enough action to help distract a league that is doing its

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2020 Oct, 05