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NBA tries something new: Teams will compete in an in-season tournament

8:14am November 03, 2023

The NBA created the tournament within its regular season. NPR's A Martinez talks to sports reporter Mark Medina about whether it will bring more excitement and viewers to the early days of the season.

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Will Smith is the first player to win 3 straight World Series with 3 different teams

7:05am November 03, 2023

Smith, a relief pitcher, just won the World Series with the Texas Rangers — after winning last year with the Houston Astros, and the year before that with the Atlanta Braves.

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The lightning rod legacy of college basketball's Bobby Knight

4:28pm November 02, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Gregg Doyel, sports columnist with The Indianapolis Star about the complicated legacy of college basketball legend Bob Knight, who has died at age 83.

The Rangers win their first World Series title

4:28pm November 02, 2023

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Levi Weaver, baseball writer for The Athletic, about the Texas Rangers winning their first World Series title.

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Texas Rangers celebrate their first time World Series championship

7:30am November 02, 2023

by Toluwani Osibamowo

The Rangers won the title in five games — beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 Wednesday night. Rangers shortstop Corey Seager was the series MVP.

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Did any of the new MLB rules this season make a difference in the game?

5:20am November 02, 2023

As the Major League Baseball season ends, NPR's A Martinez talks to former pitcher Mark Gubicza about the new rules put into place this year, and whether they made a difference.

Indiana University coach Bobby Knight, here in the 1987 semifinals, led his Hoosiers to the NCAA men's basketball championship that year.

Hall of Fame basketball coach Bobby Knight has died at 83

9:05pm November 01, 2023

Nicknamed "the General," Knight spent nearly three decades at Indiana University and several seasons at Texas Tech. His teams racked up wins, but he was controversial on and off the court.

A United Airlines jetliner lifts off from a runway at Denver International Airport on June 10, 2020, in Denver. Two United Airlines flight attendants have filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging they were excluded from working charter flights for the Los Angeles Dodgers because of their race, age, religion and appearance.

2 flight attendants sue United Airlines for discrimination on Dodgers charter flights

6:32pm November 01, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

Dawn Todd and Darby Quezada had spent more than a decade trying to join the airline's program that staffs the Los Angeles Dodgers' flights.

Players from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Anaheim Ducks on Monday honored former Penguin player Adam Johnson, who died during a game in England. The Penguins are making neck guards mandatory for players at the minor-league level, and will also urge NHL players to wear them.

Interest in neck guards spikes after a hockey player's tragic death

1:11pm November 01, 2023

by Bill Chappell

Interest in cut-resistant neck guards is surging: "That could be one of the positive things that might come out of this terrible tragedy," said Pittsburgh Penguins coach Mike Sullivan.

Peru's Kimberly Garcia competes in the women's 20km race walk final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 29, 2023.

A world record in race walking is erased after the course was measured wrong

5:11pm October 31, 2023

by Jaclyn Diaz

Peru's Kimberly García thought she had smashed a world record by more than 10 minutes. It turns out the course was almost two miles too short.