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  1. Which N.H.L. Team Will Take Home the Stanley Cup? We Asked Our Experts.

    Can Nathan MacKinnon and the Avalanche claim another championship? Some teams are overrated, while others are dark horses.

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  2. N.H.L. Executives Rank Every Stanley Cup Playoff Team

    There’s a smaller top tier than expected, a telling sign of how uncertain the postseason field is.

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  3. He Helped Spearhead the Bills’ Revival. Life Looks a Lot Different Now.

    Coach Sean McDermott is making up for lost time after he was fired following a controversial playoff loss.

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  4. Azzi Fudd Was Asked About Her Romantic Relationship With Paige Bueckers

    A Dallas Wings staff member shut down the question to the W.N.B.A.’s No. 1 pick.

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  5. The Injury Soccer Players Fear More Than Any Other

    It comes out of nowhere and in some instances, it can derail a career.

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  1. Bob Hall, First Wheelchair Champion of the Boston Marathon, Dies at 74

    His accomplishment in 1975 inspired thousands of disabled athletes to participate in races around the world.

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    Bob Hall on April 21, 1975, after becoming the first person to officially complete the Boston Marathon in a wheelchair.
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  2. Jim Whittaker, First American to Reach Everest’s Summit, Dies at 97

    As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when fewer than 10 people were known to have done so.

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    Jim Whittaker in 1975, before his unsuccessful attempt to summit K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. More than a decade earlier, he had successfully topped Mount Everest, the first American to do so.
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  3. Craig Reedie, Who Fought Doping in Global Sport, Dies at 84

    He led the World Anti-Doping Agency when Russia’s state-sponsored doping system was exposed a decade ago. He received blowback for the agency’s response.

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    Craig Reedie spoke at a World Anti-Doping Agency conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2019, the year he stepped down as its president. In 2016, he called a Russian doping scheme “a real horror story.”
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  4. Winter’s Gloomy Spirit Lifts as Baseball’s Blue Jays Land

    In Canada, mercurial weather in March and April is known as false spring, but Blue Jays’ opening day delivered spiritual spring on a winter cold night. We’ll take it.

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    Andres Giménez, right, celebrates his walk-off single with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on Friday in Toronto.
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  5. Jeff Webb, Who Built a Competitive Cheerleading Empire, Dies at 76

    Through Varsity Spirit, the company he established in 1974, he turned cheerleading into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut and exerted control over almost every aspect of it.

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