Sports
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Players to Watch at the DP World Tour Championship
Here are five golfers to keep an eye on at the year-end tournament.
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Years of Suspense at the DP World Tour Championship
Here are five tournaments where the margin of victory was one.
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Inside Man: How FIFA Guided the World Cup to Saudi Arabia
FIFA’s president, Gianni Infantino, cheered a plan to take soccer’s richest event to the kingdom. He has said little about his years of work to make that happen.
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Rory McIlroy Resigns From PGA Tour Board
The decision came about five months after the tour struck an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to create a joint company.
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Peter Seidler, Big-Spending San Diego Padres Owner, Dies at 63
Under Seidler’s leadership, the team’s payroll grew to one of the largest in Major League Baseball.
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The N.F.L. Looks Beyond Game Day to Try to Create a Streaming Universe
Already dominant on traditional television, the National Football League hopes to expand its reach by exploring the lives of players in shows on Amazon and Netflix.
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Gotham F.C. Achieves Its Captain’s Dream of Victory
Ali Krieger played her last soccer game on Saturday. That was also the day when her team won the championship.
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Stretches, Poker and Jars of Honey: How the U.F.C.’s Announcer Revs Up
As two bare-chested mixed martial arts fighters stared at each other across a bloodstained canvas at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, a man in a $4,000 shimmering silver-and-blue jacket perched at the edge of the caged octagon. Bruce Buffer, the ...
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FIFA Bans Former Spanish Soccer Chief for 3 Years
Luis Rubiales, the former president of the country’s soccer federation, was ousted in disgrace after he forcibly kissed a player after the Women’s World Cup final.
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Colombia Mobilizes Troops to Search for Kidnapped Father of Liverpool Player
The parents of Luis Díaz, a Colombian star of the English club, were both kidnapped on Saturday. His mother was rescued hours later, but his father remains missing.