For the first four laps of the final race in the men’s speedskating team pursuit, with Lehman in the middle of a trio of Americans who arrived in Milan with the solitary goal of winning gold, Team USA held a growing lead that portended the sort of finish Lehman and his teammates envisioned.
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Andrew Carter,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
Leonhard hasn’t divulged details, but adding outside linebackers coach Bobby April III portends a 3-4 base.
Just through the front doors of IGI is the Gaming Lab, where experts attempt to divine the future of gambling.
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Jasper Craven,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
The images of the Caracas drama were vivid and at times bogus, providing the latest cautionary challenge in our trying to divine what’s real and what is not.
That unfurled into the most fundamental reason the wide world of sports will be descending on Kansas City this June and July, with 650,000-plus visitors anticipated even before the base camp announcements.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
Yet even with this long history of violence, neither those who watched from afar nor those who took to the streets anticipated repression on this scale.
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Pegah Banihashemi,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
Its arrival betokened a more gentrified, sanitized Village — a place of $73 million townhouses and celebrity brunches.
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New York Times,
New York Times,
7 May 2025
The Wiseman reference betokens a certain seriousness on the part of the creators, an awareness that people might be watching who know a thing or two about the subject.
Just a few months later in the Western Conference finals of the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Dallas Stars foreshadowed what one Olympic team could look like.
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