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Missing Bats, Part 3: Before the strikeout craze, baseball’s ‘Galileos’ fought to change the game

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Missing Bats, a special series this week in The Athletic, explores how baseball’s profound metamorphosis over the last two decades traces back to...
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They have one of Team USA’s toughest jobs: Picking Simone Biles’ Olynpics teammates

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The garbage can didn’t have a chance. Alicia Sacramone Quinn, captain of the 2008 U.S. Olympic silver-medalist gymnastics team and winner of 10...
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NBA Draft 2024 live updates

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Ron Holland? Yes, Ron Holland. Let’s start with the negatives first:Holland only measured 6-6 1/2 at the NBA Draft Combine, he shot a...
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Euro 2024 and the lopsided draw affecting which teams are considered likely finalists

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There is a reason, at the very moment Gareth Southgate and his players were having obscenities and plastic cups hurled at them in...
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Kane says ex-England players have a ‘responsibility’ following Lineker criticism

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Harry Kane has responded to Gary Lineker’s criticism of England’s Euro 2024 campaign by saying former national team players have a “responsibility” to...
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France, racial politics and why ‘the Mbappe effect’ is shaping a bitter election

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The morning after France’s opening game of Euro 2024, the French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) published its latest poll ahead of the...
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‘One of the worst things’: How Grigor Dimitrov shook off ‘Baby Fed’ label to find himself

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A decade has passed since Grigor Dimitrov announced himself to the wider tennis world. It was the summer of 2014, and in the...
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Where should Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 season rank among golf’s best all time?

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It was dark. Nobody else was on the range. And for a moment, Scottie Scheffler led the Golf Channel-watching public to believe he...
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Greenberg: Angel Reese walks the walk in Sky’s rivalry win over Caitlin Clark, Fever

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CHICAGO — With 43.4 seconds left and the clock stopped after a foul, Angel Reese walked by herself toward the faraway Chicago Sky...
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A win, a clean sheet, but too many chances missed – USMNT need to be more ruthless

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The debate around the U.S. men’s national team going into Sunday’s Copa America group-stage opener was about the balance between performance and result.The...
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