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[ad_1] There was a hat trick Saturday night at Capital One Arena, but it wasn’t you-know-who. It was actually one of the least likely Washington Capitals to do it: Erik Gustafsson. The defenseman scored his first, second and third goals of the season and Charlie Lindgren stopped 22 of the final 23 shots he faced as the Caps secured a 5-2 victory over Auston Matthews and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Washington has now won six of its last seven games and earned at least one point 11 of 15 games…

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[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Week 9 for the LA Clippers ended similarly to how Week 8 ended: completing a double-digit comeback victory over the Washington Wizards. But while Week 8 marked the uneven return of the Clippers’ star players while the team was on a Southeast Division road trip, Week 9 was the beginning of the team’s longest homestand of the year. Even on the surface, it was a week that offered a variety of outcomes from Clippers games: • The Clippers blew out the Boston Celtics on Monday 113-93,…

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[ad_1] CLEVELAND — The way Deshaun Watson celebrated with Jacoby Brissett after the fourth-down conversion, the way Myles Garrett celebrated a sack with rookie Perrion Winfrey, the way Watson growled into the night sky as the final seconds ticked off the clock all combined to reveal one important factor on this season. They haven’t given up. Not on each other and not on their coach. If you wondered, like I did, whether this team would still fight and compete with the playoffs realistically out of reach, this was their response.…

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[ad_1] MINNEAPOLIS — His face reddened. His words slowed. Tears trickled down from his eyes and smeared his eye black. This was minutes after the Vikings completed their 39-36 victory over the Colts, and this was linebacker Eric Kendricks finally embracing the magnitude of the largest comeback in NFL history. Inside the locker room, Kendricks stopped talking entirely. Then he smiled, realizing the emotions had made him an absolute mess. “Y’all gotta get out of here,” Kendricks said with a laugh. He turned away from the cameras. He looked toward…

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[ad_1] Initial thoughts, notes and quotes on the Browns’ 13-3 win over the Ravens on Saturday that featured a little snow, a lot of sloppiness and even more defense… • It’s always a brawl with the Browns and Ravens. Both teams want to run the ball. Each team knows the other well. Add the frigid temperatures, the Browns breaking in a new quarterback and the Ravens playing a backup who was on limited practice time both because of the short week and having to clear concussion protocol, and you were…

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[ad_1] EDMONTON — Another game, and another set of examples of high-profile defencemen making glaring errors in a loss that never should have happened. This is becoming the story of the 2022-23 Oilers. It’s not that the blueliners are an absolute trainwreck. It’s that they make a few glaring mistakes that bite them right where it hurts — the scoreboard and the standings. On Thursday, it was No. 1 rearguard Darnell Nurse who made two costly turnovers that highlighted a shootout loss to the Blues. Though Nurse was the biggest…

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[ad_1] NEW YORK — Pete Nance will go down as the hero because that is the way sports go. Nance was the one who put the ball in the basket, whose turnaround jumper as the regulation buzzer sounded in an amped-up Madison Square Garden sent North Carolina into overtime, and eventually to an 89-84 win against Ohio State. Except buzzer-beating shots are rarely that simple. They almost always deserve a rewind, involving far more than the glory moment when the ball slips through the net. Think back to some of…

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[ad_1] Years after a mid-career shift that would make him a poster child for modern hitting development, J.D. Martinez cashed in. His previous time hitting the free-agent market paid him handsomely, as the Boston Red Sox were hopeful he could be the piece that pushed their group of gifted homegrown position players over the top. Upon his arrival at Fenway Park, he was entrusted with a more specific task. “They pretty much assigned me Mookie Betts,” Martinez told The Athletic’s Chad Jennings this past August. “They called me into the…

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[ad_1] The Cubs had mostly played in the mid-market section of free agency so far this winter, despite a fairly obvious need in the infield for one premium player. They missed out on the two superstar shortstops, Carlos Correa and Trea Turner, and apparently were never seriously in play on either. But they end up with a very good player in Dansby Swanson, and get him on a more favorable deal for the club. Swanson had a career year in 2022, with 6.4 fWAR, and how much you believe this…

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