After four straight trips to the play-in tournament, the Hawks broke the streak with a top-six spot in the Eastern Conference and will start the NBA playoffs next weekend on the road.
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Lauren Williams,
AJC.com,
13 Apr. 2026
Trump is slated to make trips to Nevada and Arizona later this week to tout his tax policies, resuming domestic travel that advisers once viewed as key to energizing midterm voters — but that’s largely been put on hold since attacking Iran in late February.
Mental mistakes, defensive miscues and a lack of urgency early in the game led to an 11-6 loss to the A’s on Saturday at Citi Field, the fourth straight for the Mets (7-8).
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2026
The Knicks built a five-point lead early in the second by capitalizing on a series of Nikola Vucevic miscues.
Defensively, Lindor keeps making uncharacteristic mental mistakes, and the Mets don’t seem to have an answer for those either.
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Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2026
Ludvig Aberg swapped out some sloppy mistakes at the Masters with pure iron play at Harbour Town in warm, swirling wind that produced an 8-under 63 for a one-shot lead Thursday in the RBC Heritage.
The use of video technology has increased the scrutiny, even though it was never sold as a panacea to the issue of refereeing misjudgments.
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Graham Scott,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Ullrich stresses the role of tactical mistakes and misjudgments, not least by the far left, which shortsightedly refused to compromise its beliefs and join with more moderate groups to oppose democratic backsliding.
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