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Ime Udoka saved the best highlights for last. After nearly 45 minutes of in-depth Houston Rockets analysis on his pre-training-camp PowerPoint presentation, with players soaking in their coach’s messages like students in a basketball classroom inside the team’s practice facility, the montage of mayhem began. First, it was the clip of Udoka telling LeBron James…
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NORTON SHORES, Mich. — There is nothing outside that suggests the machines sitting inside this gray, nondescript building in an industrial office center could disrupt the trading card industry. Sign your name on the clipboard just past the entrance. Walk by a long table with pizza boxes next to a refrigerator and it all feels…
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Bill Belichick’s foray into college football drew plenty of double takes across the industry, but the logic behind his decision might have been as simple as it was surprising. “He’s a football coach,” a source close to Belichick said. “He’s going to coach somewhere.” After 49 seasons in the NFL, Belichick made a stark career…
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Following their 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said linebacker De’Vondre Campbell Sr. told the team he didn’t want to play and he left the field in the third quarter of the “Thursday Night Football” matchup. “He said he didn’t want to play today,” Shanahan said postgame, noting…
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There’s a long history of Buffalo and Detroit sharing their inspirational figures. Joyce Carol Oates and Rick James, Bob Lanier and Pat LaFontaine. They’ve easily crisscrossed the path around Lake Erie, whether by Interstate 90 or Ontario’s Highway 401, to find a familiar setting on the other end — another vibrant Rust Belt city that’s…
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It doesn’t matter if the price is American League Rookie of the Year Luis Gil plus a prospect or three. The New York Yankees need to trade for Houston Astros right fielder Kyle Tucker and wash their Juan Soto blues away. Those blues are real, even if some Yankees people privately claim to be relieved…
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Dean Henderson is using his head in helping Crystal Palace return to form. The England goalkeeper has been showcasing an unusual kind of save in recent months, stopping three goal-bound efforts with his face after rushing out to close down an attacker. The first was against Pablo Sarabia during the 2-2 draw with Wolves on…
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This wasn’t the way alpine skiing aficionados drew it up when they scheduled men’s and women’s speed races on the famed Birds of Prey course in Beaver Creek, Colo., on back-to-back weekends this month. They figured the events held major potential for a celebration of the sport’s golden couple: American Mikaela Shiffrin, who might be…
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SALT LAKE CITY — As a rookie last season, forward Taylor Hendricks didn’t pay much notice to the mantra repeated daily around the Utah Jazz. Show Love. The credo, preached by coach Will Hardy, is painted in white on the weight room walls at the team’s practice facility. It’s in block letters on a wall…
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The Professional Women’s Hockey League, hoping to educate players on the art of taking a hit, brought in a big name. Ex-NHL player Ryan Getzlaf was one of his generation’s best combinations of skill and physicality. He was an elite playmaking center — who won a Stanley Cup and two Olympic gold medals — and…