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Amad scored a brilliant late winner in the Manchester derby shortly after earning the penalty that had put Ruben Amorim’s team level as Manchester City crumbled in the closing stages at the Etihad Stadium. The main story before the game was Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho being left out of the United squad, with United…
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A pair of potential Super Bowl previews. Leap-frogging division leaders. Long shots battling for their playoff lives. And, of course, there’s always the Kansas City Chiefs, who enter NFL Week 15 looking to continue their march toward what they hope ends with a third straight Lombardi Trophy. Last week, the Chiefs improved to 12-1 after…
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NEW YORK — After winning the Heisman Trophy, Colorado star Travis Hunter hugged his fiancee and then his mom. When he got to Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders, the hug lasted a little longer. He even went back in for another, putting his head on Sanders’ shoulder. You could hear Hunter getting choked up. “Appreciate you,…
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Bill Belichick has amassed 333 total coaching victories in the NFL, second only to the late Don Shula. He coached the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories and served as defensive coordinator on two Super Bowl-winning editions of the New York Giants. He possesses a genius-level knowledge of the NFL, not just in…
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NORTHVILLE, Mich. — Fahad Yousif is two days removed from receiving something called a Certificate of Completion from the National Football League. It is dated Dec. 12. It is signed by Ari Novick, Ph.D., a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Laguna Beach, Calif. It is numbered “Cert #216932,” meaning 216,931 others presumably have received…
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By doing two jobs — and doing them both as well as any other player in the country — Travis Hunter delivered on coach Deion Sanders’ hype and brought the Heisman Trophy to Colorado for the first time in 30 years. The Buffaloes’ two-way superstar won college football’s most prestigious individual player of the year…
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MEXICO CITY — Diego, an Uber driver, picked up his client at 10:37 on a Saturday night, behind a crowded basketball arena where an NBA game had just ended. He traversed dark, tiny alleys on the outskirts of one of the largest, most congested cities in the world. He drove over curbs, slowed to a…
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We are five minutes into the last big Saudi Pro League match before the competition takes a month off for the Arabian Gulf Cup — a biennial competition between eight national sides — when the broadcast editor’s attention is starting to wander from the pitch to the posh seats. Oh, look, it’s Spike Lee and…
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LANDOVER, Md. — Bryson Daily lives West Point and Army football. The west Texan — who plays quarterback more like a defensive end hunting quarterbacks — has found time amid the unrelenting routine of a cadet to absorb history of the Army-Navy rivalry as well. He does have help with that, counting Rollie Stichweh as…
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The NFL inadvertently gave us a gift with the Buffalo Bills visiting the Detroit Lions in Week 15. This game won’t lack oomph just because both teams are playoff-bound already. The Lions don’t want to loosen their grip on the NFC’s top seed, much less the NFC North lead. And last week’s shootout loss in…