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2 weeks ago | 
thereport.be | Des Bieler |Sally Jenkins |Ava Wallace |Jerry Brewer
Breaking: Connecticut has won the NCAA women’s basketball championship, beating South Carolina, 82-59, for its record-extending 12th title. The Huskies routed the defending champion Gamecocks on Sunday in the national championship game in Tampa, securing their first title since 2016. South Carolina was trying to become the first repeat champion since Connecticut won four straight titles from 2013 to 2016.
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2 months ago | 
fredericknewspost.com | Sally Jenkins
NEW ORLEANS — Jalen Hurts chomped his gum so hard during that jazzy national anthem by Jon Batiste it looked like he was going to crack his own jaw. His eye black was smeared all the way down to his goatee, giving him a villainous look. In this town of sweet whiskey and absinthe, he was like the bitters. He was the sternest thing here, until he lifted that trophy, when the glare suddenly became gleam.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Sally Jenkins
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Sally Jenkins
Was Jake Paul’s not the most punchable face in the history of punched faces? It was a face with all the character and lived experience of a canned ham. It was the consummate face of an influencer, with all the smirky grifting in search of the lux life that term suggests. There wasn’t a hint of true toughness - much less truth - in it. Just blandness cloaked in a poseur-pharaoh’s beard and topped by some box-color bleached curls, and God did you ever want Mike Tyson to put his very real fist in it.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
sunjournal.com | Sally Jenkins
A select group of NBA pensioners are sitting around these days saying, “Yeah, I played against Larry in ’84,” or “I played with Magic back then.” WNBAers eventually will say the same of Caitlin Clark, as soon as her rivals get over their elbow-swinging resentments of her. They’ll even boast about sharing the court with her, once they realize they haven’t been playing in her shadow, but rather, she has thrown light on their game.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
sunjournal.com | Sally Jenkins
As the great Fran Lebowitz has said, “Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.” If the Opening Ceremonies of the Paris Games were offensive to various purported spokespeople for Jesus, Donald Trump or Harris Faulkner of Fox News, then they better avoid the Musée d’Orsay, train stations and the public streets. When it comes to art, they should stick to calendars.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
foundingfuel.com | Sally Jenkins |D Shivakumar
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
unionleader.com | Sally Jenkins
Sometimes there are evolutionary leaps in sports, and you’re watching one right now with Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Or Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark, whichever order you prefer, or maybe just call them “Crease” or “Caingel,” a nickname appropriate for a super couple, which is what they’re becoming. Look at the arc of their performances -- especially against each other -- and it’s evident that the WNBA has entered a protean new state. It’s growing wings.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
adn.com | Sally Jenkins
The wrong guy won the U.S. Open. It happens sometimes. The better golfer from tee to green, and the stronger man of character, was not Bryson DeChambeau. His brawny-armed slap hugs and audience pandering to beery bro chants of “USA!” shouldn’t obscure the fact that he took Saudi blood money from a terrorism-financier government, or that he stumble-lucked into a victory on one of the few courses in the world, Pinehurst No. 2, that would forgive his erratic thrashing off the tee.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
postguam.com | Sally Jenkins
The doctrinaires who would liberate college athletes by defining them as “employees” would in fact be making ditch diggers out of them. Picture a scenario in which 19-year-old Arch Manning has to abide by a labor agreement with the University of Texas that could limit his paid sick leave if he gets hurt, subject him to termination and arbitration clauses and classify his $90,000 scholarship as taxable work income even though it has no cash value. How does that improve his position?
