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History will not remember the 2019-20 Northwestern Wildcats men’s basketball team as a great team. Or a good one. Or merely competitive. For a basketball program that never made March Madness before 2017, expectations are not perennially sky-high. But the 2019-20 season was as close as it has gotten to rock bottom in the past…
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“Rough” might be the best word to describe the start of the New England Patriots’ offseason. Patriots owner Robert Kraft made the painful decision to fire head coach Jerod Mayo after a single year, a dismal 4-13 season that not only relegated the Patriots to the bottom of their division but also moved them out…
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Nuggets reserve guard Russell Westbrook tore down the Ball Arena court on Saturday evening, initiating a fast break off a steal with no one between him and the basket. He made sure to put an exclamation point on the coast-to-coast play, too, dunking so emphatically that he earned a technical foul for two prolonged swings…
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On Sept. 21, 2024, Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders braved the evening mist with his fellow Buffaloes for one last-ditch comeback attempt at Folsom Field. The Baylor Bears held a 31-24 lead with just over two minutes remaining, but a missed field goal created an opportunity for the Buffs to even the score with one final…
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Nestled between the intensity of the NHL and NBA playoffs and the optimism of the opening stretch of Major League Baseball, the NFL Draft somehow holds its own every year — despite having no games, scoreboard or on-the-field action. On my morning and afternoon commutes, debate over which offensive skill position player the Broncos should…
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Repeating a championship victory is difficult for any pro sports team, but NBA teams in the past half-decade are finding the feat especially elusive. In the past six seasons, six different NBA teams have won the NBA Finals. I noted the upside of this trend in a column last year, but the league is now…
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NBA regular seasons rarely have an overarching lesson, but the 2024-25 season has had a pretty clear one: winning doesn’t guarantee anything. Taylor Jenkins coached the Memphis Grizzlies to a 56-26 record in 2021-22, tied for the franchise’s best regular season record, and followed it up with another 50-win season the following year. While guiding…
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With 46 seconds left in the NCAA tournament championship game, top seeds Florida and Houston lined up along the key of the Final Four court, deadlocked at 64 points each. The fact that two top seeds survived until the last day of the tournament wasn’t a major surprise. But the path each team took to…
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At last, a Hall of Fame player the Orlando Magic can claim as its own. Earlier this weekend, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced its 2025 Hall of Fame class, enshrining two male players, three female players, one referee, one head coach, one team executive and one Olympic team. Longtime Magic center Dwight…
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NFL teams failed to stop the 2024 Philadelphia Eagles on the football field. So now, they appear to be playing defense in another way — an attempt to legislate the Eagles’ trademark play, the tush push, out of the rulebook ahead of the upcoming season. The Green Bay Packers proposed a rule change that would…
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