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Bobby Witt Jr.’s discipline is next level: I know because I tried his daily routine

admin23 April 2025

Bobby Witt Jr. is one of baseball's best young players. But when I tried his daily routine, I was surprised how difficult it was to keep up.

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Where did ESPN’s NFL Draft chime come from? The story behind the iconic sound

admin23 April 2025

You know the sound. You hear it, perhaps hundreds of times, every April. But you probably don't know how and when it came to be.

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Rams’ Davante Adams is ready to ditch the dysfunction: ‘I’ve got to make sure it’s not me’

admin23 April 2025

Adams' move to L.A. was about returning to the West Coast and finding stability after bumpy stops in Las Vegas and New York.

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At Houston Grand Opera, ‘This Is a Good Time’

admin23 April 2025

On a recent morning at the Wortham Theater Center, home of Houston Grand Opera, the orchestra was playing through the intense score of Missy Mazzoli’s 2016 opera “Breaking the Waves.” Led by the conductor Patrick Summers, the players fine-tuned eerie ...

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Roy Thomas Baker, Who Helped Produce ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ Dies at 78

admin23 April 2025

Among the most successful music producers in the 1970s and ’80s, he helped churn out hits for acts like Queen, the Cars, Journey and Foreigner.

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Aliza Magen, Highest-Ranking Woman in the Mossad, Dies at 87

admin23 April 2025

Her career at Israel’s national intelligence agency included working undercover before serving as deputy under three directors.

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Francis, the First Latin American Pope, Dies at 88

admin23 April 2025

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, who clashed bitterly with traditionalists in his push for a more inclusive Roman Catholic Church, and who spoke out tirelessly for migrants ...

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Nothing Lasts. How Do We Face It?

admin23 April 2025

BEAUTY: THE TRADITION OF IMPERMANENCE “SEE THE TREE there? It’s turning red, right?” I looked to see what Kotaro Nishibori, the last manufacturer of paper umbrellas in Kyoto, was pointing at. On our left was a line of cherry trees, their leaves ...

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Why Some of Japan’s Most Exciting Cultural Figures Are of Korean Descent

admin23 April 2025

The artists, musicians and writers pushing past decades of historical erasure.

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