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    Eli Manning Always Chose New York

    Huddled in the stands during the waning moments of the Giants’ regular season finale last month, as the last seconds ticked off in yet another disastrous Giants season — the team’s sixth losing campaign in seven years — Giants fans sought succor in a memory. They began to chant, “Thank-you, E-li. Thank-you, E-li.” On the […] More

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    Eli Manning Won Two Super Bowls. Is That Enough for Canton?

    If you want to pick a fight, bring up Eli Manning and the Hall of Fame. With Manning, the Giants quarterback, set to hold a news conference on Friday to confirm that he will retire, the debate about his accomplishments that has simmered for years now will have closure. A quick summation of Manning’s career […] More

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    Las Vegas Doubles Down on Sports, Live and Broadcast

    When it comes to sports, Las Vegas is more than just a boxing town, thanks largely to the 2017 arrival of the Golden Knights, who went to the N.H.L. championship final in their inaugural season. Now, as the N.F.L.’s Oakland Raiders team prepares to move to Vegas this year, professional sports — both live and […] More

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    The Making, and Remaking, of Adama Traoré

    LEICESTER, England — There seemed to be genuine pleasure in Jürgen Klopp’s voice as he said it. Klopp, the Liverpool manager, had been asked, not long after his Premier League-leading side had crushed Leicester City on Boxing Day, to assess its next obstacle: Wolves. A “very dangerous” team, he said; he was full of praise […] More

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    Eli Manning Announces His Retirement

    Eli Manning, the Louisiana-born, Mississippi-educated quarterback who became a New York sports folk hero after he led the Giants to two upset victories in the Super Bowl, is retiring from the N.F.L., the team said. Manning will make a formal announcement in a news conference scheduled for Friday. Manning, 39, played 16 seasons for the […] More

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    Javier Hernández Joins Los Angeles Galaxy in M.L.S.

    Javier Hernández, a high-scoring Mexican striker who had been rumored to be heading to Major League Soccer for years, finally arrived in the league on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Galaxy, who lost the scoring and outsize personality of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his contract expired after last season, announced Tuesday that they had replaced him […] More

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    Mexico’s ‘Chicharito,’ Javier Hernández, Joins Los Angeles Galaxy in M.L.S.

    Javier Hernández, a high-scoring Mexican striker who had been rumored to be heading to Major League Soccer for years, finally arrived in the league on Tuesday. The Los Angeles Galaxy, who lost the scoring and outsize personality of striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic when his contract expired after last season, announced Tuesday that they had replaced him […] More

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    Envisioning a Champions League on Tour, a Soccer Promoter Issues an Ultimatum

    Stephen M. Ross, the real estate developer and principal owner of the Miami Dolphins, flew to Paris this month to speak with leaders of Europe’s most powerful soccer clubs, teams that have benefited from the billionaire’s largess in bankrolling a summer tournament in the United States and beyond. For seven years Ross has plowed millions […] More