Sports
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Brazilians give thanks today — for their team’s World Cup opener.
Credit...Dado Galdieri for The New York TimesRIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil does not celebrate Thanksgiving, but it is in effect a national holiday here ...
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The Importance of ‘Mr. Baseball’
Sure as leaves flutter to the ground and turkey gobbles fill the air, a fall baseball tradition, too, is about to be renewed. The twelve teams of ...
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American Dreams, Honed in Leeds
LEEDS, England — The stadium was already half-empty, and the steadfast few who remained inside Elland Road were in an unforgiving mood. Leeds ...
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N.F.L. Week 12 Predictions: Our Picks for Each Game
Heading into the final third of the regular season, a number of teams are experimenting at quarterback. For Houston and Carolina, benching ...
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Japan Topples Germany, the World Cup’s Latest Fallen Favorite
DOHA, Qatar — These are the days in which the mighty fall. On Day 3 of the World Cup, Argentina was left reeling after suffering a chastening ...
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De Gales a Tenerife: los aficionados galeses que viajaron a España en lugar de Catar para ver a su selección
TENERIFE, España — La primera experiencia de Bethany Evans viendo a Gales jugar en la Copa del Mundo tuvo muchos de los componentes clave que ...
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The Best Part of Winning? Smiling at Everyone Who Said You’d Lose.
SALT LAKE CITY — The crowd roared and bounced so enthusiastically that seats in the upper deck of the arena were shaking. The public address ...
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The New Recruits
DOHA, Qatar — Bryan Mbeumo did not know, not for certain, why he had received the invitation, but he knew it was not the kind to turn down. The ...
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Jessie Diggins Is Ready to Break New Ground. Again.
“I like to go really slow, like 10-minute miles,” Jessie Diggins said this fall as she snapped on a vest stocked with water bottles and snacks ...
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Wales Fans Wanted a World Cup Experience. So They Went to Spain.
TENERIFE, Spain — Bethany Evans’s first experience watching Wales in the World Cup had many of the key components she had always envisaged. By ...