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NBA rookie Grayson Allen attracts admirers, adversaries

He is the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees and, yes, as much Duke basketball as you can fathom, an athlete folks either love or loathe, cheer or scorn, desperately want on their side or hate when he plays against it.

 
A morning stroll with 51s president Don Logan at dream home

Don Logan is talking about things like slab on grade and casting and excavation and value engineering, the latter not his favorite term but a necessary ingredient to raise this 10,000-seat, $150 million structure known as Las Vegas Ballpark.

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Golden Knights GM McPhee shouldn’t alter original plans

The only thing that changed since the season began is that George McPhee did such a good job with the expansion draft, Vegas should never have to endure the constant losing usually attached to a first-year team.

 
Capitals aim to quench city’s thirst for a champion

History and those subjective lists that folks like to assemble have for years told us Washington, D.C., is one of the country’s most cursed sports towns, a fact that could change should the Capitals defeat the Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final.

 
George McPhee constructed Stanley Cup Final teams

A best-of-seven series between the Golden Knights and Washington commences Monday evening, and the Vegas general manager also spent 17 years with the Capitals in the same capacity.

 
A whiteout love affair between a town and its Winnipeg Jets

The scene outside Bell MTS Place for Game 2 on Monday will assuredly equal or perhaps even upstage the four-block madhouse of a party that welcomed the hockey world Saturday, especially given Winnipeg beat Vegas 4-2 to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference final series.

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