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How Do You Pitch to Stan Musial? Very Carefully.

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In 1954, when The Sporting News polled writers about the players they covered, Carl Erskine stood out. Among his fellow Brooklyn Dodgers, Erskine...
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Playwrights’ Hoop Dreams Take Flight Off Broadway This Summer

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In Inua Ellams’s new play, “The Half-God of Rainfall,” the gods play thunderous games of basketball in the heavens. For Candrice Jones’s “Flex,”...
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An Honor of a Lifetime for the Last of the ‘Boys of Summer’

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It is the first inning, you might say, and Carl Erskine does not have his best stuff. A camera crew has set up...
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A Long, Shining River of Verse, Flowing From a Rower and Writer

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The heart beats alone, keeping its own paceFear, rage, sorrow — storms beyond our rangeThe river bows and bends, birthing new spaceTo die...
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The Contenders

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The Women’s World Cup, which opens this week, is the biggest in its 32-year history, but it may also be the most open...
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Lionel Messi Gives M.L.S. First Taste of the Weight of His Star

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The celebration, broadcast globally in English and Spanish on Apple TV, M.L.S.’s first-year streaming partner, with a few glitches, purposefully coincided with halftime...
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Why Every Women’s World Cup City Has Two Names

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When soccer fans land in New Zealand this month ahead of the Women’s World Cup, they may find themselves welcomed not to Auckland...
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C.R. Roberts, Scoring Sensation in Milestone Game, Dies at 87

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C.R. Roberts, a Black running back for the University of Southern California, was afraid of what might happen when his integrated Trojans football...
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Carlos Alcaraz Shows Novak Djokovic That His Championships Are Numbered

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Now he has shown his mettle on grass, against the best players in the most prestigious tournament in the world. During an on-court...
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Heralded Cuban Wins in an Unusual Introduction to Pro Boxing

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“If Andy Cruz wants to show what they’ve been saying about him is true, he’s got to come out and fight,” Burgos said...
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