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How a soccer team embraced Atlanta's culture and captured the city
Atlanta United FC shattered records in its inaugural season.ATLANTA — It’s a clear, calm Thursday night downtown. Nearly 70,000 Atlantans are descending upon Mercedes-Benz Stadium to support Atlanta...
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Nikola Jokic must keep playing like Nikola Jokic because no one else can
Plus, is Brad Stevens a witch?Under the bright lights at Madison Square Garden this week, Nikola Jokic put on a show the only way he knows how. With the Nuggets trailing the Knicks, Jokic collected a...
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2017 NCAA Basketball Top 100
The top 100 college basketball players for the 2017 season, ranked100. Tyus Battle, SO, G, Syracuse With Taurean Thompson out of the fold, there’s no question that Battle will be Jim Boeheim’s best...
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From Baghdad to Iwo Jima, an anthem for the dead
Two Marines — one a veteran of Iraq and the other a survivor of Iwo Jima — remember the fallen and weigh the meaning of a national anthem.Abner Greenberg doesn’t look like someone who was shot in the...
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The future for DeMarcus Cousins and Anthony Davis is now and maybe never
Plus, how long can the Celtics keep this up?To watch these New Orleans Pelicans is to bear witness to the perils of potential. It's a familiar predicament for young upstarts: The boom-or-bust stakes,...
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Why do NFL teams ignore kickers?
Kickers account for nearly a third of all NFL scoring, yet no team — except one — is focused on coaching technique.In 2014 during an Arizona State football practice, I saw kicker Zane Gonzalez wander...
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College football at Fenway Park is a crass, silly money grab
(and it’s beautiful)It's the second quarter of the Brown vs. Dartmouth football game at Fenway Park and the Celtics are losing. I’m in the reception area that leads to the press box with some of the...
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Enjoy the glorious twilight of LeBron James’ NBA reign
Plus, Ben Simmons is dominating without a jump shot.Surrender yourself, for a brief moment, to the notion that LeBron James and the Cavaliers can’t win a championship this year. Consider the dominance...
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A day with Hornets assistant coach — and NBA lifer — Stephen Silas
See the intense work that goes into every game.Stephen Silas, the associate head coach of the Charlotte Hornets, is the ultimate NBA lifer. He was literally born into the league in Boston, where his...
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Wisconsin is an inconspicuous — but undeniable — college football powerhouse
Wisconsin is 11-0 and on the verge of entering the College Football Playoff. How it got here is hard to say. I don’t know if it’s Barry Alvarez himself or just his legend, but this man intimidates the...
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The Wizards are the East’s most confounding team
Markieff Morris is back and the team feels confident it can turn it on when it needs to. Can it?On Nov. 5th, 2017, Markieff Morris was posted up inside a corner cubby of the Toronto Raptors’ away...
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Sean Taylor gave a generation of Washington fans a reason to love football
A look back on the 10th anniversary of Taylor’s death.Everyone who went after Sean Taylor on the football field paid the price. Maybe Eric Frampton didn’t do his research; maybe the adrenaline...
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College football bowl game calendar 2017-2018, with schedules, scores, picks,...
Everything to know at a glance about college football’s 2017-2018 bowl season.Another college football bowl season is here, with 40 postseason games starting in mid-December and culminating in the...
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Jeremy Lamb needed an NBA home to find his way
After an uneven start to his career, the Hornets’ 25-year-old shooting guard is ready for his shot in Charlotte.He was struck by the same problem that, a few years ago, could have put a cap on his NBA...
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The 2017 College Football All-America Team, by SB Nation
The only All-America Team to include a ballot assembled by you, the college football fan.Quarterbacks & Running BacksLamar Jackson was at least as good as ever, and plenty of other QBs stepped up...
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The Toronto Raptors keep evolving instead of breaking
Toronto is modernizing its style and strengths even if an NBA title remains out of reach.The BioSteel Centre has become the laboratory for the Toronto Raptors' reinvention experiments. During the...
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A weekend at Army-Navy, college football’s most heated, petty, loving family...
Perhaps no rivalry in college football is as historic and meaningful ... nor as polite. PHILADELPHIA — Army-Navy is college football's best rivalry, because it's historic and petty and exceedingly...
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Sports stopped making sense in 2017
Sports stopped making sense in 2017This was indeed the year of the upside down. From NFL dominance to MLB bullpen management to the NCAA’s loose grip on reality to, gulp, the Ball family, we questioned...
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‘Oh my God, it’s the Aces’: Remembering the University of Evansville plane...
The headline the next day read, “The Night It Rained Tears.”It was a cold, rainy night on Dec. 13, 1977, a night in Evansville, Indiana, history that everybody remembers. What they were doing. Where...
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Charges are evening the playing field for NBA defenders
And stars are sacrificing the body as much as role players.On Nov. 3, in a game that will be best remembered for LeBron James scorching the Washington Wizards for a career-high 57 points, the Wizards’...
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