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    6 Things We Learned From the NFL’s Season of SwiftDon’t like all those luxury-box cutaways? Get used to them.
    By Will Leitch
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    Who You Should Root for in the NFL Playoffs (Not the Bucs)There are multiple tortured franchises to choose from this year.
    By Will Leitch
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    Victorious, Villainous Michigan Is College Football’s FutureThe national championship winners offer a TV-ready blueprint to the media executives who run the sport.
    By Will Leitch
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    How Michigan Became College Football’s VillainThe once-likable team’s maniacal quest for a title — they’re now one game away — has made them hard to root for.
    By Will Leitch
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    The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of 2023From NCAA conference chaos to a shocking golf announcement, it felt like sports was heading into unpredictable territory this year.
    By Will Leitch
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    The 7 Most Important Athletes of 2023Gauff makes the leap, Biles returns to form, and Kelce gets the girl.
    By Will Leitch
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    Shohei Ohtani Is My Favorite Athlete, But Paying Him $700 Million Is BonkersWhat makes him so special as a baseball player is exactly why it’s unlikely he’ll be able to keep doing it for much longer.
    By Will Leitch
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    The 10 Worst Things About the Florida State TravestyThe College Football Playoff committee really, really screwed this one up.
    By Will Leitch
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    Michigan Won At All Costs and Your Team Would TooScandals be damned; just by defeating Ohio State on Saturday, the team prevailed over its critics.
    By Will Leitch
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    Bill Belichick Is About to Get Fired, and Nobody CaresOnce considered the greatest NFL coach of all time, after a string of losing seasons, Bill Belichick is a legend without a constituency.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Wembanyama Era Has Begun and the NBA May Never Be the SameThe immediate jaw-dropping dominance of the teenage seven-foot-four rookie redefines what’s possible for the sport.
    By Will Leitch
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    What Money Can’t Buy Steve CohenThe billionaire hedge-funder is used to getting what he wants. His time as Mets owner and casino bidder is a whole different ballgame.
    By Andrew Rice
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    What Happened to College Basketball?The sport, already fading in relevance, is paying a big price for being second fiddle to football.
    By Will Leitch
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    Banning Palestinian Flags Is Just the BeginningProfessional sports is trying to back away from politics. Good luck with that.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NBA’s Player Empowerment Era Is OverAs a new season begins, the league’s stars don’t quite have free rein anymore.
    By Will Leitch
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    Travis Kelce Is the NFL’s Taylor SwiftUnlike a lot of athlete-celebrity couplings, this one makes sense.
    By Will Leitch
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    Shams Charania’s Scoop DreamsHe tweeted his way to the top of the NBA reporting world. He might be the future of sports journalism.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
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    Baseball’s Magnificent, Transformative SeasonAs the playoffs loom, 2023 has already been an unqualified success for a sport that finally embraced change.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Knicks Are Being Smart About Their Future, and It’s BizarreThe long-dysfunctional franchise has, for once, gone about building a team the right way.
    By Will Leitch
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    Give the Liberty Their CrownHow New York’s WNBA team became the hottest ticket — with the rowdiest crowd — in town.
    By Emma Carmichael
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    The Deion Sanders Hype Train Is Probably About to DerailAnd that’s a good thing for college football.
    By Will Leitch
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    This Might Be the End of Aaron RodgersAfter injuring himself four plays in, the aging star rendered the Jets — and possibly himself — irrelevant.
    By Will Leitch
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    A Death on the Field Couldn’t Stop the NFL NowThe league is at a point where it can weather any problem, no matter how grotesque.
    By Will Leitch
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    College Football’s Sad Last DanceEnjoy one final season before everything turns upside down.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Michael Oher Story Has Always Been ComplicatedThe film that purported to portray his life was terribly flawed – and now there’s a reckoning.
    By Will Leitch
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    There’s No Such Thing As a Good Sports-Team OwnerFans should aspire to ignore them and all their buzz-killing drama.
    By Will Leitch
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    No Wonder Athletes Are Shutting Up About PoliticsWho needs seemingly half the country rejoicing in your defeat?
    By Will Leitch
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    U.S. Women’s Soccer Fans Are Having a Moment“I’m overstimulated.”
    By Lauren Tousignant
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    Aaron Rodgers Really Wants to Be Liked AgainEver since he joined the Jets, the anti-COVID-vaxx conspiracy theorist has dialed down the nuttiness.
    By Will Leitch
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    U.S. Women’s Soccer Doesn’t Have to Fight Trump AnymoreAs they try for a third straight World Cup win, an American team that has vanquished all foes no longer needs a special story line.
    By Will Leitch
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    Please Let Shohei Ohtani Play for a Team That Doesn’t SuckThe Angels are once again squandering historic talent, but hopefully not for much longer.
    By Will Leitch
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    Lance Armstrong Is Setting New World Records for GallThe disgraced cyclist is trying, absurdly, to position himself as a cancel-culture victim.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Mets Stink, But Their Future Actually Looks BrightNot that their fatalistic fan base wants to hear it right now.
    By Will Leitch
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    Messi to Miami Shows That Major League Soccer Has ArrivedYes, the Argentine megastar will get paid handsomely, but there’s more to his decision than that.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Big Sports-Gambling Scandal Might Have Already HappenedIncoherent rules around betting on games have created an atmosphere ripe for misbehavior.
    By Will Leitch
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    The PGA Never Had Any Principles to Begin WithThe league briefly took the moral high ground against its Saudi-backed rival — then suddenly cashed out.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Failson Celtics Don’t Deserve to be Near the NBA FinalsA Heat-Nuggets matchup may not have massive crossover appeal, but the two teams possess a killer instinct Boston lacks.
    By Will Leitch
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    It’s About to Get Incredibly Expensive to Watch SportsCable TV was the worst way to follow your favorite team, except for every other way.
    By Will Leitch
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    Tuesday Night’s NBA Draft Is Going to Change EverythingForget the playoffs — one lucky team is about to land Victor Wembanyama, the most awe-inspiring prospect since LeBron.
    By Will Leitch
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    LeBron vs. Curry Is a Reprieve for the NBATwo defining superstars will battle it out in the playoffs. But is anyone waiting in the wings to replace them?
    By Will Leitch
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    Everything Is Breaking the Knicks’ Way NowIt’s been a decade since they’ve made it this far in the playoffs. A combination of skill, grit, and luck could propel them farther.
    By Will Leitch
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    Daniel Snyder Deserves Far Worse Than ThisThe worst owner in sports is finally selling his team and profiting enormously from his abhorrent behavior.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Sports-Betting Ads Are Awful, and They’re Not Going AwayLeagues have bet the house on gambling, which means everyone watching a game has to suffer.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Knicks Are So Much More Fun Without StarsEven if they don’t overperform in the playoffs, it’s been a season to remember.
    By Will Leitch
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    Kyrie Irving Has Managed to Screw Up Another FranchiseEven on his best behavior, the mercurial superstar is causing problems for his new team.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Year March Madness Went Too MadWith a surfeit of Cinderella stories in the men’s tournament, look to the women’s Final Four for excitement.
    By Will Leitch
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    Who You Should Root for in March Madness (Not Alabama)This year’s tournament has been characteristically exhilarating so far. Let’s just hope a certain team doesn’t win it all.
    By Will Leitch
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    A C-Minus Version of Aaron Rodgers Is Still a Win for the JetsConsiderable baggage aside, he’s an improvement on the status quo.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Brandon Miller Situation Is Completely GrotesqueAlabama’s star basketball player allegedly provided his friend a murder weapon, and the school is doing nothing about it.
    By Will Leitch
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    When Athletes Get Milkshake Duck’dJa Morant’s troubling behavior is the latest evidence that, even in the social-media age, we don’t really know the athletes we idolize.
    By Will Leitch
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