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  The NBA is a “young man’s league” is one of the most inarguable truisms in team sports, and 79 years of his history tells us it’s particularly accurate when the youth is long, athletic, frisky – and, of course, talented. That combination is high on the list of issues the Warriors, who have the…

 Only one night after Baylor swatted aside previously undefeated Gonzaga to capture its first national title four years ago, freshman LJ Cryer was right back in the gym getting up shots and working on his game. He couldn’t bear another season as a fringe rotation player who logged a few scant minutes one night and…

Inside the searing silence of the Duke locker room, the echo of a door slamming shut intermittently rippled through. Every time a player or staff member ducked into the adjacent coaches locker room, the bang of the door reverberated like a siren in a still night. There’s nothing to prepare a team for the emotional spiral that…

For Alex Ovechkin, the goal in Sunday’s game came just like so many before it did — on the power play, from the top of the left faceoff circle, a powerful shot right to the goal. But this one was history. For the Washington Capitals star, this 895th goal of his regular season career makes him the…

There is no such thing as too much depth. In baseball, that is usually said related to pitching, but unfortunately for the Atlanta Braves, that will also come into play for the team’s outfield through at least mid-season. With the stunning suspension of prized free agent addition Jurickson Profar for 80 games after testing positive for a banned…

  Barcelona have the lead against Catalan rivals Girona after a strange sequence of events. Lamine Yamal’s free-kick ended up in the back of the net by way of an enormous deflection. The Blaugrana had applied pressure throughout the first half, but without success, with Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal and Fermin Lopez all trying their…

Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement. When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history. Liu…