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Hornets Go Back to Drawing Board
Atlanta's record rout makes the home opener a question, and Reid is not it.
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Both Sides of the Trade Win Opening Night
Swapped for each other in June, LaMelo Ball and Naz Reid both delivered for their new teams on the season's second night.
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Opening Night Collects Old Debts
Both of June's finalists lose at home to open the season, the crown gets heavy fast.
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Washington Wakes Up Too Late
Down 23-3, the Commanders rally within six at San Francisco, then the flag, the clock and the moment beat them again.
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Mistakes Keep Killing the Cowboys
Green Bay wins 23-13 at Lambeau: two Prescott interceptions, a scoreless first half, and a 2-4 hole no Dallas team has ever climbed out of.
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Second Chances Win on Sunday
A blocked kick gets kicked again, a torn hamstring heals in time, and the NFL's wildest Sunday ends the way Sundays should, earned.
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Bachmeier Makes Notre Dame Remember Him
BYU stops No. 2 Notre Dame 28-24 in Provo, beaten by the quarterback it once turned away.
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Five Top-Eight Teams Fall Saturday
No. 1 and No. 2 go down on the same day, and the kick that beat Georgia came off the foot of a young man who almost didn't get to kick again.
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The Scan Drew the Line
He played a full game with a clot in his calf. Now the hardest snap is the one he won't take.
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Freedom coach has motivation in mind
In the 1970s, Artie Owens often gained inspiration to run hills and practice sprints from watching the Philadelphia Pioneers track team and U.S. Olympic speedster Bob Hayes on Wide World of Sports. The means of motivation worked as Owens went from a three-sport star athlete at…
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Allen product Broyles starring for Pitt
The run for championship medals seems to bring out the best in Brianna Broyles when she’s down to her final attempts. At Allen High, Broyles won the 100-meter high hurdle title in the PIAA Track and Field Championships as a senior. It was her only state title in an illustrious…
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Parkland’s Andre Williams speedy back-to-back
During many of his long touchdown runs during the football season, Parkland senior Andre Williams got a good rest before going back out onto the field and trying to go the distance again. Not so in track and field when you run the 110-meter high hurdles and 100 dash, but…
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Liberty athletes pick their colleges LETTERS OF INTENT
A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Liberty athletes pick their colleges
A standout Liberty swimmer is headed to Duke and two star women’s basketball players have decided to extend their athletic and academic careers at Lehigh and Bloomsburg, respectively. The college decisions were announced at a press conference at Liberty’s art gallery Tuesday…
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Brown handed reins at Liberty
Dave Brown has four daughters under the age of 10 and his wife, Sarah, is not open to the idea of having more kids. So, Liberty’s new football coach won’t get the opportunity to coach his own son one day. “I think we’re good. I think we’re going to wrap it up right where we are…
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Price helps Vols grab gold in 4×800
— Chanelle Price beat Usain Bolt around the Franklin Field track on Saturday. Amazing, huh? But Price, a sophomore distance standout with the University of Tennessee and former Easton All-American, got to take a victory lap an hour before Bolt after she helped lead the…
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Price recovers from illness to win relay
She was not vintage Chanelle Price. She was strategical. Competing in her first race since suffering a chest infection 10 days ago, Price ran a solid opening leg for Tennessee in the Championships of America 4×1,500-meter relay at the Penn Relays on Friday at Franklin Field. The…
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TRACK AND FIELD: Danielle Smith is Whitehall’s speedy flyweight.
“I’m 5-3, between 105, 109 pounds,” she said following a blowout win in the 400-meter dash in a tri-meet at Bethlehem Area School District Stadium Monday afternoon. A junior, Smith is in her first year running track and she has quickly gone from a sprinter nobody knew anything…
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Women’s basketball coach: Lafayette will run and press
Ten seconds. That’s the freelance time new Lafayette women’s basketball coach Dianne Nolan said she gives to her players at the start of games. Her system is helter-skelter after that. “We like to say that we pack 60 minutes into it,” she said. Run and press are the blueprint as…
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Banas new football coach at Quakertown
Quakertown High School athletic director Sylvia Kalazs considers new head football coach George Banas to be the perfect fit for the Panthers. Twenty candidates applied for the job, vacated in January by John Donnelly, who left to take over the same position at Central Bucks…
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Liberty’s Lewis threatening records
Liberty senior Stephen Lewis had an unusual Thursday by most early-season track and field standards. But Lewis has his own expectations and they are high and will rise even higher as the PIAA Track and Field Championship weekend nears. On Thursday, during a dual meet against…
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SportsFest to put greater emphasis on health
That’s because the Lehigh Valley SportsFest, entering its 14th summer, has never had a mission, in writing, to promote health and fitness. It does now and SportsFest president and founder Ray Atiyeh believes that all bases are now covered in his growing effort to promote the…
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Talent abounds on area girls track teams
Liberty’s girls track team is just plain loaded, Saucon Valley has a defending state sprint champion who’s even faster this year, Lehighton boasts a multi-event standout, and Whitehall features a vaulting sensation. And because of the all-around strength of defending Lehigh…
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Hurdlers point toward states
Liberty’s Stephen Lewis is lean and fast. Parkland’s Andre Williams is lean, fast and powerful. Both are outstanding senior hurdlers coming off top five finishes in the Class 3A 110-meter hurdles in the PIAA Track and Field Championships last year. Lewis was fourth in the 110 in…
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BEHIND THE PERFORMANCE
Behind the Performance
Meet the person behind the athlete, the routines, the pressure, and the stories that never fit in a press conference sound bite.
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Momentum shifts. Plans break. The athletes who stay composed reveal more than the ones who stay comfortable.
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The Moment That Revealed Everything
Some plays rewrite a season. Others rewrite how we understand the people inside the uniform.
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