Receiver Khalil Shakir, who’d juked slot safety Jalen Pitre and sprung open near the first-down marker, fully expected to get the ball in stride.
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Michael Silver,
New York Times,
14 Sep. 2026
After two hours of practice, with the 10-foot-tall fences doing little to muffle the bullhorn orders and corresponding groans, the huddle broke and the personalities sprung to life.
Walker, the team’s $20 million first baseman, went 0-for-9 and jogged out a groundball during the ninth inning of a one-run loss Saturday.
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Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2026
The 47-year-old, a first-year player with the Jaguars who has resuscitated his football career decades after most players hang up their cleats, dutifully jogged out to his spot at right defensive end and got into his stance.
Every new scene feels like Alex has just sprinted into the middle of it.
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Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 2026
An influencer who’d been posing in a sports bra and very short shorts sprinted past us in a panic, trailed by some poor guy juggling way too much camera gear and a frantically barking Chihuahua.
Scientists rescued 34 endangered humped tree snails from Guam by collecting them in empty peanut butter jars ahead of a powerful typhoon.
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Brittney Melton,
NPR,
27 Aug. 2026
Poison Ivy Rorshach shimmied in a fishnet bodysuit, swinging her guitar to the band’s big beats from Badsville, while frontman Lux Interior ate his microphone, humped the floor, and then came again (pun intended) as Elvis Fucking Christ.
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