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The agreement between North Korea and South Korea to march under one flag for the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Feb. 9 would seem to suggest that sports could help achieve the ultimate diplomatic breakthrough. After mounting tensions over North Korea’s nuclear escalation put South Korea and its allies on high alert, a unified […]

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The first round of the 2017 baseball playoffs got underway Thursday, with the Houston Astros defeating the Boston Red Sox 8-2 and the Cleveland Indians blanking the New York Yankees 4-0. The National League division series, which is the first of three playoff rounds, gets underway Friday evening. This bodes well for the Astros and […]

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LeBron James has no regrets after slamming President Donald Trump for rescinding an invitation to Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry to celebrate the team’s championship at the White House. Trump disinvited Curry from the White House on Saturday in response to comments made by Curry that implied he would not attend the celebration. That […]

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He never won his sport’s top title. But the championship drought did nothing to thwart the love NASCAR fans had for Dale Earnhardt Jr., who announced on April 25 that he’s retiring from racing after this season. He’s won the Most Popular Driver Award for 14 years running. As the son of the legendary Dale […]

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The NFL’s Jerick McKinnon, a running back for the Minnesota Vikings, paid tribute to Harambe—the gorilla shot and killed at the Cincinatti Zoo in May—through a pair of impressive purple cleats. Wearing cleats featuring Harambe’s face and body and the words “RIP Harambe,” McKinnon warmed up on the field before playing the Philadelphia Eagles on […]

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The U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) apologized on Saturday after Nazi-era version of Germany’s national anthem was accidentally sung at a replay match at the 2017 Fed Cup in Hawaii. Before the start of the replay match between Germany’s Andrea Petkovic and Alison Riske of the U.S., a male soloist unwittingly performed verses of Deutschlandlied— which […]

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Loyalty is on trial these days, all over our screens and smack in our faces. The two biggest media obsessions of the moment — former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony about his interactions with President Donald Trump, and, naturally, the NBA Finals — share a somewhat surreal connection. They both test the price of […]

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