With Baffert pulling Rodriguez out of the race, Baeza has joined the field.
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Tennis adopted electronic line calling on clay and created a ball-mark monster
For years, players have used ball marks to understand the story of a match on clay. Now, they are being asked not to trust them.
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As the $476 million Dodgers face the $69 million Marlins, MLB’s payroll gap has never been wider
Two teams on opposite ends of the payroll spectrum meet this week, for a series that sets records and focuses eyes on MLB’s payroll issue.
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If You’re a Voter Reading This, This Essay Is Not About You
The conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart observed that politics is downstream from culture — that voters are more influenced by what they watch, listen to and like than by actual politicians. As a Democrat who works on presidential campaigns, I …
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Death, Taxes and Ben Affleck: ‘The Accountant’ Gets a Sequel
In the movie class of 2016, “The Accountant” was a wild-card. It told an original story for adults, breaking from the family-friendly intellectual property derivatives that crowded the top of the box office charts. And though it resembled a durable …
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Investors Prefer the ‘Nice’ Trump, but Want Results
Global markets are rebounding as the president softened his protectionist rhetoric and his criticism of the central bank. But investors want to see results on trade.
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With Only Bad Options, Businesses Scramble for a Tariff Chaos Playbook
President Trump’s trade war is forcing companies to cut costs, raise prices, shrink profits, discontinue products and find other suppliers.
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What Do I Wear to a Spring Outing With Co-Workers?
Figuring out how to dress for an out-of-office excursion can be fraught. Our critic suggests ways to loosen up a corporate uniform — but not too much.
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