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“It’s incredible to be here again,” Messi said. “Two years ago I thought it was the last time."
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Several recipients of the Piolet D’Or, or Golden Ice Axe, alpine climbing’s biggest award, have died on extreme climbs, fueling debate over whether the awards are appropriate.
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Owners and players seem to agree that baseball’s financial system is broken. But both sides are also eager to work out deals in the old system ahead of the collective bargaining agreement’s expiration. @TylerKepner looks at a strangely frenzied off-season.
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The level of censorship Beijing has deployed to shut down discussion of the tennis star Peng Shuai’s sexual assault allegation against a former Chinese vice premier has little precedent, said a research scientist
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Notre Dame’s Brian Kelly is reportedly heading to L.S.U., and the Southeastern Conference. His departure would be the latest in a series of moves at some of the country’s most storied college football programs.
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Seiya Suzuki has 182 home runs in 902 N.P.B. games, including six straight seasons of 25 or more, but his forte is making contact. His career batting average is .315 and he won batting titles in 2019 and 2021.
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Lee Elder was the first Black golfer to play at the Masters. “Most of the staff was Black, and on Friday, they left their duties to line the 18th fairway as I walked toward the green,” he recounted. “I couldn’t hold back the tears.”
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“I think you deserved to win the award last year,” Messi told Lewandowski from the stage after winning his record seventh Ballon d’Or.
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“Maybe the owners and players will settle all their differences quickly, but nobody expects that. The game’s economics deserve a careful, thoughtful recalibration. But it’s hard to believe that the system is flawed enough to shut down the industry.”
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Southern California hired Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma, which is now looking for a coach. The college coaching carousel seemed to spin harder and faster than ever as programs looked for saviors.
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Lee Elder was able to enter the Masters after winning the 1974 Monsanto Open in Florida, where six years earlier he and other African-American PGA Tour members playing there had been refused entrance to the clubhouse. They had to dress in a parking lot.
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With a dwindling number of Quebec-born players on N.H.L. rosters, the Quebec premier, François Legault, is worried about the state of hockey in his province.
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A photographic review of Lee Elder’s groundbreaking career.
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“I don’t have to compete and play against the best players in the world to have a great life,” Tiger Woods said, ruling out a full-time return to the PGA Tour, as he continues to recover from injuries sustained in a serious car crash in February.
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It's either a blizzard of deals, or it's barely snowing at all. On the mixed signals from an industry that can't decide if it's thriving or broken:
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Several recipients of the Piolet D’Or, or Golden Ice Axe, alpine climbing’s biggest award, have died on extreme climbs, fueling debate over whether the awards are appropriate.
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Messi, in his acceptance remarks, heaped praise on the runnerup, Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski. ‘I think you deserved to win’ in 2020, Messi said, when the award was controversially cancelled because of the pandemic.
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Ronaldo missed the ceremony on Monday in Paris but still had his day: He took issue with this quote from the editor of the magazine that hands out the award.
“Ronaldo has only one ambition, and that is to retire with more Ballons d’Or than Messi,” Ferré said, “and I know that because he has told me.”
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Messi’s seventh Ballon d’Or means he now has two more than his era-defining rival Cristiano Ronaldo.
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