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Baseball Traveled to Japan 150 Years Ago. By Way of Maine.
GORHAM, Maine — This small town on the East Coast can make a claim of being one of baseball’s birthplaces.…
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Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa
Mark Kuhn is hunched over, one knee on the ground, pulling dandelions from an otherwise immaculate lawn. With a small,…
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Nick Kyrgios Upsets No. 1 Daniil Medvedev at the U.S. Open
Nick Kyrgios’s finest season continues to get finer, and on Sunday he defeated No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, the defending U.S.…
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After a Frenzy, Las Vegas Emerges Over Seattle
SEATTLE — Despite the game looking like a Las Vegas Aces pummeling of Seattle in the first half, somehow Storm…
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Picture(s) of Excellence at the Open
It was hard not to watch Serena Williams. And who would want to look away? Since she played her first…
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LIV Golf Continues to Try New Ways to Be Noticed
BOLTON, Mass. — The LIV Golf event outside Boston was minutes from beginning on Friday, and Greg Norman, the frontman…
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After a Frenzy, Las Vegas Emerges Over Seattle
SEATTLE — Despite the game looking like a Las Vegas Aces pummeling of Seattle in the first half, somehow Storm…
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For Mark Spitz, Olympic Greatness Came Amid Tragedy
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — On Sept. 5, 1972, a brief editorial in The New York Times noted that “nothing that…
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Diamondbacks 1, Story 0
No one knows precisely when human language was invented. Spoken words leave no archaeological trace. As soon as their last…
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The Final Days of New York’s ‘Wild West’ Outdoor Dining Scene
The Final Days of New York’s ‘Wild West’ Outdoor Dining Scene The pandemic prompted New York restaurants to create many…