Sports
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Cardinals Minor Leaguer Hits a Cycle of Home Runs
The concept of a cycle is familiar to most fans, even if the event is not particularly common: A player collects a single, double, triple and ...
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Why Steve Jobs Chose This Designer’s Turtlenecks
Little wonder, really, that Issey Miyake was Steve Jobs’s favorite designer. The man behind Mr. Jobs’s personal uniform of black mock turtlenecks ...
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The Cookie Jar Grows Up
Humans have a natural talent for concentration. I recently watched a kid crouching among pebbles at the beach. He spent eons sorting among sea ...
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The Independent Bookstore, as Imagined by a Corporate Lobbyist
Sitting at the bar in the exclusive Delta Club at Citi Field, where his beloved Mets were in the process of sweeping the Yankees in the Subway ...
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The Padres Got a Sword. But Can They Slay the ‘Dragon’?
SAN DIEGO — Juan Soto had barely landed, Josh Bell had just sat down and Josh Hader was starting to learn his new teammates’ names when Peter ...
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Marriage, With a Side of Pickleball
Julene and Charles Wood had played pickleball as a couple several times at the Evergreen Racquet Club in Bloomington, Ill., after first meeting ...
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Serena Williams Begins the Not-Too-Long Goodbye
As a champion who says she hates goodbyes, Serena Williams could have made her exit from tennis in other ways. In a news release or Instagram ...
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24 Freezer-Friendly Recipes to Cook for New (and Tired) Parents
Nothing can prepare someone for the level of exhaustion and elation that accompanies the early days of parenthood. But helping stock a friend’s ...
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The Mets Make Their Case as New York’s Best Team
With talk earlier this year about this possibly being the best New York baseball season ever, it had seemed clear that there was at least a small ...
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The Lycra Legacy of Olivia Newton-John’s ‘Physical’
A funny thing happened when Kameron Lennox revisited the music video for “Physical,” the 1981 pop megahit by Olivia Newton-John, who died on ...