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Eduardo Tansley

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The last seven NBA MVP winners have all been international players. 🇨🇦 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2025) 🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2024) 🇨🇲 Joel Embiid (2023) 🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2022) 🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2021) 🇬🇷 Giannis Antetokounmpo (2020) 🇬🇷 Giannis Antetokounmpo (2019)

The last seven NBA MVP winners have all been international players.

🇨🇦 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2025)
🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2024)
🇨🇲 Joel Embiid (2023)
🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2022)
🇷🇸 Nikola Jokic (2021)
🇬🇷 Giannis Antetokounmpo (2020)
🇬🇷 Giannis Antetokounmpo (2019)
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Yesterday the #UnityCup2025 began. A tournament featuring four nations with large communities in London. Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago. Carl Anka and I discuss the tournament’s importance and cultural impact for The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/63832…

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From The Athletic: Chess world champion Gukesh Dommaraju beat Magnus Carlsen in a classical match for the first time, causing the world No. 1 to slam the table in frustration. nyti.ms/4dMOD9l

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Scotsman Richie Gray helped innovate a football play the Philadelphia Eagles have made so effective that NFL owners were two votes away from banning it last month. “Nobody else in the world is doing what I do,” he says. The Athletic The Athletic NFL nytimes.com/athletic/63901…

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What makes a good football? Mikel Arteta didn't like the Puma’s Orbita 1 last season, while Pep Guardiola criticised the Mitre FA Cup Ultimax Pro. But do they really react and move any differently to the Premier League's Nike Flight 24-25? Liam Tharme — with the help of

What makes a good football? Mikel Arteta didn't like the Puma’s Orbita 1 last season, while Pep Guardiola criticised the Mitre FA Cup Ultimax Pro.

But do they really react and move any differently to the Premier League's Nike Flight 24-25?

<a href="/LiamTharmeCoach/">Liam Tharme</a> — with the help of
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The Club World Cup starts in the US tonight — it's time to get up to speed with the key talking points around the tournament. To do that, Eduardo Tansley provides all the answers on Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and much, much more nytimes.com/athletic/64028…

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Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder. Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined. For New York Times Opinion on the state of sports, and what it says about America: nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…

Sports was one of America's most accessible forms of entertainment. Now it's paywalled, splintered and sold to the highest bidder.

Fandom isn't being nurtured. It's being mined.

For <a href="/nytopinion/">New York Times Opinion</a> on the state of sports, and what it says about America: nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opi…
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Nigeria's home shirt for the 2018 World Cup is coveted by kit geeks and cherished by Nigeria fans. Eduardo Tansley explores the impact of one of the most iconic shirt releases of the modern era ⬇️

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Individual walkouts are commonplace in lots of American sports but it's new for football at the Club World Cup. What do players think of it? Will it be rolled out elsewhere and will anyone have some fun with it? Or just blank their opponents like Urawa Red Diamonds captain

Individual walkouts are commonplace in lots of American sports but it's new for football at the Club World Cup.

What do players think of it? Will it be rolled out elsewhere and will anyone have some fun with it?

Or just blank their opponents like Urawa Red Diamonds captain
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From The Athletic | Football: In 2018, ahead of the FIFA World Cup, designer Matthew Wolff and Nike made a Nigeria football kit that became a modern trailblazer. “It was probably the first football shirt to have this drop moment that transcended football.” nyti.ms/3G1nyCG

From <a href="/TheAthleticFC/">The Athletic | Football</a>: In 2018, ahead of the FIFA World Cup, designer Matthew Wolff and Nike made a Nigeria football kit that became a modern trailblazer. “It was probably the first football shirt to have this drop moment that transcended football.” nyti.ms/3G1nyCG
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Javier Aguirre felt the need to apologize. As the Mexico national team manager prepared his team to meet the Dominican Republic in the opening match of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, he noticed something on film. The DR soccer team wasn’t just debuting in the Gold Cup to make up

Javier Aguirre felt the need to apologize.

As the Mexico national team manager prepared his team to meet the Dominican Republic in the opening match of the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, he noticed something on film.

The DR soccer team wasn’t just debuting in the Gold Cup to make up
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FIFA suit last night blocked my question to Juve coach Igor Tudor about how it felt to be in Oval Office on gameday when the U.S. President talking major world issues like Iran. Questions have to be about the game, they said. nytimes.com/athletic/64366…

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Inter, Severance and the innie-outie conflict of the Club World Cup nytimes.com/athletic/64425… Welcome to Innie Milan – where work is life

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US Vice-President JD Vance, an Ohio native, watched on at the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati as Jobe Bellingham helped Borussia Dortmund reach the last 16 of the Club World Cup. Bellingham assisted Daniel Svensson for the only goal of the game as the German side beat Ulsan of South

US Vice-President JD Vance, an Ohio native, watched on at the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati as Jobe Bellingham helped Borussia Dortmund reach the last 16 of the Club World Cup.

Bellingham assisted Daniel Svensson for the only goal of the game as the German side beat Ulsan of South
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The Nico Williams-to-Barça fallout: ▪️Exit clause refusal triggered the meltdown ▪️Deco rejected it with Olmo past saga in mind ▪️Athletic's new contract footage recorded late hours last night ▪️Luis Diaz and Rashford, next targets & more ⤵️ nytimes.com/athletic/64733…

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With one question, Deion Sanders gave a student reporter a ‘life-changing moment’ … Meet Andrew Cherico. He is truly awesome. nytimes.com/athletic/64881…