Sports
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College Football’s ‘Great Man Theory’ Gets a New Test at U.S.C.
College football’s allegiance to its version of the great man theory, to the idea that a single coach can prove…
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Tiger Woods Rules Out a Full-Time Return to the PGA Tour
Tiger Woods hopes to play on the PGA Tour again, though never as a full-time player, something he called “an…
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Max Scherzer Smashes Salary Record in Deal With Mets
After the Mets’ billionaire owner, Steven A. Cohen, flexed some of his financial might over the weekend with three new…
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Lionel Messi Wins Record Seventh Ballon d’Or
Some of the most illustrious names in soccer’s long history only managed to win the Ballon d’Or, the sport’s most…
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Baseball’s Paradox: Money Is Flowing on the Brink of a Shutdown
The Thanksgiving leftovers are still in the fridge, and Max Scherzer is already on his way to the Mets. That…
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A Climbing Award That May Be a Winner’s Last
High on Lunag Ri in Nepal, the Austrian climber David Lama started worrying that he might lose his toes. The…
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What We Learned From Week 12 in the N.F.L.
Here we go again. As long as Tom Brady is eating his avocado ice cream and throwing a football, his…
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A Climbing Award That May Be a Winner’s Last
High on Lunag Ri in Nepal, the Austrian climber David Lama started worrying that he might lose his toes. The…
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The Packers Use Familiar Hands to Best the New-Look Rams
GREEN BAY, Wis. — At the start of November, the Los Angeles Rams were 7-1 and in the hunt for…
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What We Learned From Week 12 in the N.F.L.
Here we go again. As long as Tom Brady is eating his avocado ice cream and throwing a football, his…