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DRUMCONDRA, Ireland — On Friday night, I visited Tolka Park, a soccer stadium in this north Dublin suburb that’s the home of a top-division Irish soccer team. I hoped to flesh out a column and to absorb a slice of sports in a different country. I returned to my hotel with a singular life experience. My original plan for this space was to share a sense of how Dubliners feel about the annual ...

ATLANTA — On Oct. 12, Texas and Oklahoma will renew hostilities in the annual Red River Shootout. As ever, the game will be staged in the Cotton Bowl, smack in the middle of the Texas State Fair. This part is new: In 2024, Texas-OU will be a Southeastern Conference game. On Nov. 23, Stanford will travel to Berkeley to meet Cal in the latest installment of what’s known as The Big Game. Plot ...

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The ugly, unspoken truth of the New England Patriots’ free-agent deal with Jacoby Brissett last March was the team would pay him $10 million to both play quarterback and be a piñata. For as much has been written about Brissett mentoring rookie Drake Maye, as a well-traveled, well-respected journeyman, Brissett is here to protect him. His job is to lead the offense and absorb the inevitable, ...

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