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Rangers Hand Hurricanes First Home Loss of the Playoffs to Advance
The question entering Monday night wasn’t whether the Rangers could win an elimination game or a high-stakes Game 7; it was whether they could ...
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Dallas Mavericks Stun the Phoenix Suns in Game 7 Upset
The Phoenix Suns dominated the N.B.A. regular season and set a franchise record for wins with one goal in mind: return to the N.B.A. finals for a ...
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Stephen Curry Returns, and Golden State Is Getting Playoff Wins Again
Klay Thompson was splashing 3-pointers. Draymond Green was making stops and deftly finding open cutters. Stephen Curry drew several defenders any ...
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The Surging Timberwolves Are Learning Through the Struggle
Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns played coy when a reporter asked if he had learned something about how to win tight, important ...
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Tampa Bay Takes Eagles Out of Their Game and Out of the Playoffs
TAMPA, Fla. — The final score on Sunday — Tampa Bay 31, Philadelphia 15 — could not have surprised many people. The second-seeded Tampa Bay ...
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Josh Allen, Bills Are Near-Perfect in Dismantling the Patriots
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — For Bills fans, there are playoff victories — rare as they might be — and then there are playoff victories over the Patriots ...
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The Reason Every N.F.L. Playoff Team Will Lose
There are no nigh-unbeatable 1972 Miami Dolphins or 2007 New England Patriots in this year’s N.F.L. playoff field. Each team has at least one ...
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Push to Expand College Football Playoff Stumbles
INDIANAPOLIS — The College Football Playoff’s ambitions for expansion stalled on Monday, when the sport’s leading power brokers proved unable to ...
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Playoff Fans in the Cold as College Football Plots Its Future
INDIANAPOLIS — Freezing rain had turned the downtown sidewalks here into granite-hard slip-and-slide tracks. A downtown concert stage and beer ...
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This Is the N.F.L. Season That Ran Too Long
Welcome to Week 18 of the N.F.L. season, the superfluous coda to an already-grueling marathon that few besides the television networks and ...
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