In the Ryder Cup, Home-Team Advantage Is Very Serious
This year the competition is in Rome, which means the European team controls the course setup and can adjust it to its players’ strengths.
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Zach Johnson Tries to End a 30-Year Drought
As captain of the U.S. Ryder Cup team, he is attempting to win in Europe for the first time since 1993.
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Las Vegas and Its Big, Big Ambitions
It’s just past dusk on the Las Vegas Strip and traffic has come to a standstill. That’s usual for a weekend night, but this is Monday. Round-the-clock construction makes every excursion a dice roll with traffic, and these days everyone seems a loser …
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Scenes From More Than a Century of Sports
Whether blasting through gender barriers or writing at superhuman speed, here are five moments when New York Times sportswriters went the extra mile for the news.
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Brooks Robinson, Slick-Fielding Hall of Fame Third Baseman, Dies at 86
In his 23-year career, all of it with the Baltimore Orioles, he had 2,848 hits and 268 home runs. But he was best known for his unparalleled defense.
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Ohio High School Football Coach Resigns After Team Used ‘Nazi’ as Play Call
The Brooklyn High team used the term during the first half of a game against a team in Beachwood, a largely Jewish Cleveland suburb, school officials said.
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Phil Sellers, Whose Basketball Stardom Was Short-Lived, Dies at 69
He led Rutgers to an undefeated 1975-76 regular season and into the Final Four, where the Scarlet Knights lost in the semifinals. But his N.B.A. career was brief.
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As the Number of Women in the N.F.L. Expands, So Does This Group Text
Pro football has seen an influx of women hired as scouts and assistant coaches in the past decade. They have formed their own support systems.
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Buddy Teevens, Pioneering Dartmouth Football Coach, Dies at 66
He took the extraordinary step of banning tackling during all practices, which reduced concussions at a time when brain trauma in football had become a crisis.
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The Stolen Glory of Spain’s World Cup Champions
Players extracted important changes in a bitter battle with their country’s soccer federation. But doing so robbed them of a moment they can’t get back.
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