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The Great Debates tournament: Sweet 16

It’s Sweet 16 time. The primaries are over and it is time for the general election. In real-life debates, this is about the time when candidates would be making disingenuous retorts about each other’s bad-faith arguments. Since this is a debate about debates, I guess you can just argue more strenuously with other Twitter users

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The WNBA head coaching situation, in Black and white

When the WNBA tips off the 2023 season on May 19, it will be with two Black women head coaches on the sidelines of courts on which 79 percent* of the league’s players are Black women and other women of color. (This figure is accurate as of March 2023, when six of the WNBA’s 12

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EA making ‘big changes’ to Madden 24 but I have my doubts

Fans play Madden in the concourse during Baltimore Ravens training camp at M&T Bank Stadium on July 31, 2021, in Baltimore.Photo: Scott Taetsch (Getty Images) Madden developers must be shitting their britches right now. Despite being the third-best-selling game of 2022 in the U.S., the Madden developers are finally doing something they’ve never done before

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Being a backup QB is the best gig in all of sports

Chad Henne retires a winnerImage: Getty Images Amid the controversy surrounding the holding penalty at the end of Super Bowl LVII, rumors of Andy Reid’s retirement, and people trashing Travis Kelce for saying everyone doubted Kansas City when absolutely zero people doubted them, several other storylines have been overlooked. While Andy Reid may not be

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Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats

[ad_1] KABUL, Afghanistan — Noura’s determination to play sports was so great that she defied her family’s opposition for years. Beatings from her mother and jeers from her neighbors never stopped her from the sports she loved. But the 20-year-old Afghan woman could not defy her country’s Taliban rulers. They have not just banned all

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