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The Sunday Back Page is ending (opens the original)
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This is the last article I’ll be posting as The Sunday Back Page. There won’t be another edition.I’m sunsetting it as I work on a new project that’s partially informed by everything I built here.I’ve enjoyed celebrating the creators I read, listen to, and watch every week, and sharing that with you, my loyal readers, each Sunday morning.It takes a lot of work to produce this each week, and it hasn’t produced the monetary benefit I was hoping for. (It is free.) It has been more of a service-orien
Sunday Back Page: Hall of a Neighbor (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. The Back Page is open.Grab whatever’s in your mug, because today’s issue covers a lot of ground: a house in Stamford with more football history stuffed inside its walls than anyone living there ever realized, a summer’s worth of World Cup fakery, the gambling scandal that's the real reason a guy's ankle status becomes national news every week and a headline I still don’t fully believe involving LeBron James and the word “Sixers.”Settle in.What’s inside<a href="https://sundaybackpag
Sunday Back Page: 90 years of pageantry come down to this afternoon (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. The Back Page is open.Kickoff is this afternoon, and I’ve got Argentina going for their fourth title with Messi trying to go back-to-back, against a Ballon d’Or winner chasing his first for a country looking for its second, on a stage FIFA built specifically for the cameras. Somebody’s getting handed a trophy on that stage in a few hours, and that’s basically the whole subject of this week’s lead, so buckle up.Also in the mix: a married couple who didn’t realize they’d already sat
The Sunday Back Page: The All-Star Game That Forced Baseball's Bitterest Rivals Onto the Same Team (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. The Back Page is open.This week, a bumbling spy in England sent me straight back to 2007 and to a story I covered at the New York Daily News that still doesn’t get enough credit for how petty it was. We’ve also got independent journalists making big moves, a data viz guy who makes Excel look like art, and a podcast that convinced me punk rockers care deeply about the Toronto Raptors.Settle in.What’s insideThe Lead<a href="ht
Sunday Back Page: Maverick owners born on the Fourth of July (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. The Back Page is open.Hope your Fourth was a good one. If you’re reading this the morning after — coffee in hand, ears still ringing a little from the fireworks — you’ve got George Steinbrenner and Al Davis waiting for you below: two men born a day apart who ran their franchises like the country’s birthday was a personality trait. One got banned by his own commissioner. The other gave his commissioner headaches by suing his own league and won. Neither would recognize what ownership
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