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Red Sox square up Astros’ pitching, square up the ALCS with a pair of grand slams

J.D. Martinez hits a first-inning slam, Rafael Devers blasts one in the second and Kiké Hernandez hits another home run to power a 9-5 win in Game 2.
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Dodgers and Braves, separated by 18 regular season wins, open NLCS on even footing

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Shame forced Jon Gruden out of the NFL. Daniel Snyder needs a push.

If the NFL can't accept Jon Gruden's stigma, it shouldn't tolerate Daniel Snyder's.
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No. 2 Iowa stumbles once turnovers dry up (college football winners and losers)

Purdue protects the football and hands the Hawkeyes their first loss of the season.
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Georgia’s defense actually gave up two touchdowns — not that it mattered

By Chuck Culpepper
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‘College kickers’ is a familiar Saturday refrain, but for family it’s nothing but tension

By Chuck Culpepper
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Kaillie Humphries left Canada to escape alleged abuse. It might cost her an Olympics.

By Les Carpenter
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It’s time for the NFL to come clean about its WFT investigation

By John Feinstein

For Patrick Mahomes, the next step is embracing restraint

By Jerry Brewer

Kyrie Irving doesn’t have to shut up, but forgive us for hitting the mute button

By Candace Buckner

Football made Jon Gruden. Now the NFL must reckon with its creation.

By Sally Jenkins
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A Howard student wants more Black girls and women to discover rugby, so she started a team

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In Atlanta and Milwaukee, a season without Hank Aaron leaves ‘a void’

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‘Race-norming’ kept former NFL players from dementia diagnoses. Their families want answers.

A Washington Post review of thousands of pages of confidential medical and legal records, provided by the families of these three former players, underscores how "race-norming" put Black players seeking settlement payouts from the NFL at a disadvantage.
By Will Hobson

America’s Song

With his performance of “God Bless America” during Game 3 of the 2001 World Series, NYPD officer Daniel Rodriguez comforted a nation still grieving in the wake of 9/11. It felt like a timeless moment. Instead, it proved fleeting.
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