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No kings, few fans: USA’s year of World Cups gets off to a flat start
Fifa’s much-hyped Club World Cup and Concacaf’s Gold Cup opened to crowds far short of what organizers might have hoped
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'Throw all the punches': The blueprint that helped the Thunder even the NBA Finals
Oklahoma City boasts basketball's most valuable player, but it overwhelmed Indiana in Game 2 through its peerless depth.
By Andrew Greif
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Cuba tried to improve its relations with the US by cooperating with Trump’s deportation flights. It didn’t work.
Cuba has taken five deportation flights since Trump took office, but the administration appears disinterested in improving relations with Havana.
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Paris gives PSG hero's welcome in a day of jubilant celebrations
Triumphant after its historic Champions League victory, Paris Saint-Germain put on an open-top bus parade through Paris on Sunday for roaring fans. The team was then welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron at the presidential palace where they were given a congatulatory speech. Festivities ended at their Parc des Princes home ground for a last hurrah.a
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'A performance you could hang in the Louvre': The world's press on PSG’s Champions League win
France's Paris Saint-Germain football club delighted its fans on Saturday night with a historic drubbing of Italian rivals Inter Milan in the Champions League final. Here's what the international press is saying about PSG's decisive win.
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Paris Erupts in Celebrations, Riots After PSG Wins Champions League
Hundreds were detained after soccer fans’ jubilation gave way to violence in parts of the French capital
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Celebrities Are Stealing the Show in the Knicks’ Playoff Run
The basketball may be good, but Madison Square Garden’s ‘Celebrity Row’ is even better; ‘Everyone loves a happy Timothée!’
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Star’s history-making display stuns NBA
The Indiana Pacers are on the cusp of making the NBA Finals with their star etching his name into the record with an absurd outing.
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Nadal to bid Roland Garros farewell, Sabalenka starts title bid
Paris (AFP) – Roland Garros will pay tribute to its greatest champion with a ceremony for the retired Rafael Nadal on Sunday, while Aryna Sabalenka gets her French Open campaign up and running on the opening day of the tournament.
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Dwyane Wade’s Next Big Play
The N.B.A. Hall of Famer is guest-editing a new magazine that aims to redefine how we see athletes.
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The NBA’s Biggest Enigma Is Back. The Rest of the League Should Be Terrified.
Kawhi Leonard has spent the last half-decade of his Hall-of-Fame career hampered by injury. But now he looks healthy—and ready to change the shape of the entire NBA playoffs.
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Heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman dies, aged 76
Fondly known as Big George, Foreman dropped out of school as a teenager and went on to become an Olympic boxing gold medalist and later heavyweight champion after defeating Joe Frazier. He lost the title to Muhammad Ali in boxing's iconic 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, DR Congo.
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