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Bradley Beal’s New Contract Leaves The Wizards Stuck In The Middle

The opening minutes of NBA free agency are a period of mayhem that, for most fans, represent arguably the most exciting time of the whole season. The Twitter feeds of Adrian Wojnarowski and Shams Charania are refreshed frantically to see who’s going where. But for the Washington Wizards, this year was about who was staying […]

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Outdoor Tennis Could Be Sports’ First Big Climate Change Casualty

The impending retirements of Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal — winners of a combined 65 major singles titles — have some worried about the end of the glory days of tennis. But a bigger existential crisis is facing the sport: climate change. All sports, if they haven’t already, are expected to suffer in […]

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