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  1. Halfway Through the N.F.L. Season, One Star Finally Returns

    The San Francisco running back Christian McCaffrey will make his season debut after dealing with Achilles tendinitis in both legs. Will he make a difference?

     

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  2. Why a College Football Stadium Spectacle Is Being Relegated to Streaming

    Trying to protect Penn State’s annual White Out game, a made-for-television moment, and place it in a prime-time slot is harder than ever before.

     

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  3. Trinity Rodman Owns Her Soccer Style

    The standout on the U.S. women’s national team has the makings of a superstar, identifying as an entertainer as much as an athlete.

     

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  4. They Called Him ‘Nowhere.’ Now He’s Setting College Football Records.

    Therapy changed Jordan Watkins’s life. Recovery, and hope, saved his family.

     

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  5. Why Have Fans Been So Quick to Judge a Soccer Legend?

    England’s former captain has talked about the end of her international career and has been met with a lack of understanding, a columnist for The Athletic writes.

     

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  1. Playing Out a Dream, a Long, Long Way From Home

    An academy of a team in England’s lower leagues offers Americans at the end of their collegiate eligibility a chance to continue their soccer careers.

     By Rory Smith

    Are England’s lower leagues the new study abroad?
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  2. The Big 3 Have Faded. Who Will Dominate Next?

    For the first time in decades, the ATP Finals will be played without either Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic. Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz are poised to take over.

     By Cindy Shmerler

    Carlos Alcaraz, left, talked with Jannik Sinner after defeating him in a semifinal match at the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament in March in Indian Wells, Calif. Many believe the two will be the next players to dominate the sport.
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  3. Geoff Capes, World’s Strongest Man, Is Dead at 75

    He pulled dump trucks, flipped cars and tossed five-pound bricks as if they were Kleenex boxes. Tending to parakeets brought out his gentler side.

     By Michael S. Rosenwald

    Geoff Capes in 1983, when he established a world record in truck pulling by hauling a Mercedes-Benz tractor-trailer to the finish line in 54.3 seconds.
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  4. The Science That Makes Baseball Mud ‘Magical’

    Scientists dug up the real dirt on the substance applied to all the baseballs used in the major leagues.

     By David Waldstein

    Daniel Hudson of the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game 4 of the World Series last week. Mud is applied to new baseballs because they are glossy and slippery, making them difficult for pitchers to grip.
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  5. In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.

    As Shohei Ohtani played in the World Series, Japanese American ballplayers gathered in Manzanar for the first baseball games in the internment camp since World War II.

     By Tim ArangoHana Asano and Scotty Uyeda

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