• Part II of a five-part series ahead of the 2024-25 NBA season, chronicling how the league reached this era of parity and the key questions that remain. Part I | Welcome to our new era of NBA parity, where one team in each conference is favored by Vegas to lap the field by several games. […]
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This isn’t shaping up to be the year to need a quarterback in the NFL Draft, yet several teams already know where their priorities must lie this coming April. The Las Vegas Raiders and New York Giants absolutely need to spend a high pick on a quarterback. The Tennessee Titans and Carolina Panthers almost certainly
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In spring 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the country, WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert was locked down in her New Jersey home. The league was facing a season on the brink right as its stakeholders felt it had begun to gather momentum. In conversations with league owners and players, Engelbert sensed in those early weeks
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LOS ANGELES — The New York Mets flipped the Hollywood script on Monday and evened the National League Championship Series. With six runs in the first two innings, the Mets came out swinging against the previously unhittable Los Angeles Dodgers and won 7-3 in Game 2 at Dodger Stadium. Francisco Lindor homered in the first
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By Tyler Kepner, Chris Kirschner, Brendan Kuty and Zack Meisel NEW YORK – The New York Yankees struck first in the American League Championship Series on Monday, using a familiar formula in a 5-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians in the Bronx. They got six strong innings from their starter, Carlos Rodón. They drew six
Premier League managers are judged by how their teams perform on the pitch, but the language they use off it can also play into how they are perceived by supporters, players and the media. From Ange Postecoglou’s many uses of “mate” to the importance Sean Dyche places on “hard yards”, managers use language to create
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Almost two decades after the last time it happened, Novak Djokovic finds himself occupying a space in men’s tennis with which he is all too familiar. He is, by a distance, the third-best player in the world. In the summer of 2007, soon after he turned 20, Djokovic made the semifinals of the French Open
I always like to start my NBA previews at the bottom and work my way up. And when it comes to bottoming out, nobody does it better than the lottery teams in the Eastern Conference. Last season, four East squads lost at least 57 games, and overall, the conference had seven of the league’s 11
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Legendary quarterback Tom Brady’s bid to become a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders is expected to be approved at the NFL’s fall owners’ meetings in Atlanta on Tuesday, according to a league source. The league’s financial committee will review Brady’s bid, and a vote is expected to receive the necessary 24 votes out
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By Brendan Marks, Justin Williams and Mark Cooper For the second consecutive season, Kansas will begin the year as the No. 1 team in men’s college basketball. This time, the Jayhawks hope to stay there. Kansas received 30 of 60 first-place votes to top the preseason AP Top 25 on Monday, putting it narrowly ahead
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