Pardon the interruption for a personal update:
Starting next year, I'll become an international sports correspondent for The New York Times, based in Mexico City & focused on Latin America. (I'll also sometimes help the international desk.) I'm thrilled.
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I cover sports for The New York Times. A Nicaraguan-American who loves music, travel, food & horchata.
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Breaking News: Pelé is dead at 82. One of the greatest soccer players of all time, he was a transformative figure in 20th-century sports.
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U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.
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This is what you get when you ask the sports guy to come in to cover a blizzard in the morning show.
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La violencia contra los periodistas en México también es noticia en otros países. Aqui el artículo de de The New York Times.
Gunmen Tried to Kill a Famous TV Anchor. Mexico’s Leader Suggested It Was Staged.
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Reality is the Twins had Correa this year and they were comfortable going 10 years.
It took less than 24 hours to find a team willing to go $300 million.
Correa is a Boras client and we know how much control Boras has of the industry.
Fan interest/loyalty is taking a huge hit
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Carlos Correa, a star free agent shortstop, is expected to join the Mets on a 12-year deal for $315 million, after his agreement with the San Francisco Giants fell apart, reportedly over a medical concern. nyti.ms/3WxfQ5V
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The Mets spent more in free agency in one night ($315m) than the Pirates have spent since 2010 ($207m)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina has totally collapsed. The victory parade, if you can even call it that, has been cut short.
This is the one of the few videos I’ve received that’s the safe to upload to social media. People were jumping into the bus. Just INSANE 🤦🏻♂️
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Estiman que el 10% de la población argentina (casi cinco millones) están ahora mismo recibiendo al plantel campeón del mundo en las calles de Buenos Aires.
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📽️ Justin Verlander with an objectively terrific answer to a question about what keeps him motivated after all he has accomplished in baseball:
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Back home now. Abiding memory will be the backdrop of staff, so many staff, scrubbing, polishing, buffering, guiding, helping, feeding and cleaning. All ridiculously polite in case they offend, often uncomfortably polite. Everyone had a place in stratified social order.
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By the way, it was very prescient of the Argentine team to bring (half) a ton of its favorite/essential drink to Qatar. It needed it for what turned out to be a month stay to win the World Cup.
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the cover of monday's print edition wraps around the entire section because just a broadsheet was not enough to contain argentina's reaction: new kings of the world
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CAMPEONES!!!! 
#arg #argentina #buenosaires #mundial #messi #festejos #campeones #ArgentinaVsFrance #WorldCup
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Crazy how it goes from eerily quiet and empty to loud and nuts:
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Último penal de la tanda, llegando a 9 de Julio. El silencio previo, el grito que empieza a contagiarse. Este video te va a hacer llorar de nuevo
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Mbappe picked up off the floor and given a pep talk by President Macron. It’s been that sort of night.
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That was one of the most exciting games you’ll ever see.
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Breaking News: Argentina beat France 
in penalty kicks to win the #FIFAWorldCup, giving Lionel Messi the crowning achievement of his career. nyti.ms/3jeF2j4
beat France in penalty kicks to win the #FIFAWorldCup, giving Lionel Messi the crowning achievement of his career. nyti.ms/3jeF2j41
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A 10 year, multimillion deal? “You’re not worth it,” Wayne Garland’s own mom told him after he signed first 10-year deal in #MLB history in 1976. They are back in force this year, so we had some fun with history.
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mbappe hit a guy in the face with a warmup shot and his apology looks like a renaissance painting of jesus curing a blind man
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Fans in Argentina chanting "the grandma of Messi" outside his grandmother's home 
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Earlier this year, stats guru Sarah Langs announced she had ALS, a rapidly progressing neurological disease that has no cure. Then she kept living her baseball-obsessed life.
On Langs, the people who love her, and how even now, baseball remains the best:
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#FRAMAR d'un côté les supporters marocains de l'autre les supporters français. Tirs de mortiers à plein régime
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Morocco’s magical run ends. And what’s most impressive: how France’s title defense continues and how Olivier Giroud’s perfectly coiffed hair stays in place despite running around.
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Fourth-largest guarantee in MLB history for Correa, behind Trout ($426.5M), Betts ($365M) and Judge ($360M). Largest for a shortstop, surpassing Lindor ($341M).
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Oh my.
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This breakdown of THAT Messi assist on Julián Álvarez's second goal 
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Yerba mate is a popular drink in parts of South America. Some of the best soccer players in the world come from that region. So for the month-long World Cup, the Brazilian team brought 26 pounds to Qatar. The Uruguayan squad packed 530 lbs. The Argentines?
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Breaking News: Argentina 🇦🇷 will play in the World Cup final after easily dispatching Croatia 🇭🇷, 3-0. Lionel Messi scored on a penalty, and Julian Álvarez scored twice. See the highlights. nyti.ms/3VX2a47
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One day Saud Ghani got a call from Qatar’s highest levels: Can you design a system that keeps people cool, even in an outdoor stadium, even in Doha, even in the summer? The country’s World Cup bid might depend on it.
Sure, he said.
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Soccer players have been arguably the best ambassadors for yerba mate around the world. They have spread it to non-Uruguayans/Argentines/Brazilians on their club teams. Look no further than France's Antoine Griezmann & (injured) Paul Pogba, or others:
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¿Infusión preferida de Eric Dier, jugador de #ENG? Una pista, está relacionada a .
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The Uruguayans, for example, love it so much that the national team made the traditional hot-water thermos for making yerba mate its mascot for the 2022 World Cup. The mascot, Botija, struggled to get around Doha's metro system. nytimes.com/2022/12/13/spo Photo from .
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