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NEW YORK (AP) — New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady must serve a four-game "Deflategate" suspension imposed by the National Football League, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, overturning a lower-court judge and siding with the league in a battle with the players' union. A three-judge panel of
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon winner is donating her trophy to one of the sport's pioneers. Ethiopia's Atsede Baysa says she was inspired by the story of Bobbi Gibb. Gibb sneaked onto the course in 1966 and became the first woman to finish the race. The
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Five stars from the World Cup-winning U.S. women's national team have accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination in an action filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo maintain in the EEOC filing
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Last week, readers of the Boston Globe were treated to yet another article lamenting the fact that Boston, according to an analysis of 2014 Census data by the Brookings Institution, is the U.S. city with the greatest income disparity between the top 5 percent of income earners and the
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BOSTON (AP) — The attorney general of Massachusetts has finalized what she calls the most comprehensive rules in the nation for daily fantasy sports operators. The regulations issued Friday by Democrat Maura Healey are largely the same as those she proposed in November. They set a minimum age of 21 for
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged Rhode Island's economic development agency and Wells Fargo with defrauding investors in the state's disastrous $75 million deal with 38 Studios, the failed video game company started by former Red Sox pitcher
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Transgender athletes may be able to compete in the Olympics without having themselves surgically altered first, an International Olympic Committee advisory panel recently recommended. Previous rules, dating to 2003, required athletes who had transitioned from one sex to the other to have undergone gender-reassignment surgery and to have had at
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BOSTON (AP) — America's marquee marathon is ready for its close-up. "Boston," the first feature-length documentary film about the Boston Marathon, is in the works. Its creators say the movie will go well beyond the 2013 bombings to retrace the iconic footrace's first steps in
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