Haunting articles
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Column: Starting with his favorite cheesesteak haunt, Kobe Bryant's spirit is all over Philadelphia
I arrived in the City of Brotherly Love on a recent Friday evening tired, hungry and with places to go. The Liberty Bell wasn’t on my mind, or even Independence Hall. I was looking for Kobe Bryant’s Philadelphia. The late Los Angeles Lakers superstar spent the majority of his life in Southern California — but he never forgot his hometown. It’s where his father, Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, starred at La Salle University and played for the 76ers. Where Kobe first achieved national prominence as a prep...
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Trump's 'aggressive, macho and somewhat whiny style' is coming back to haunt him: analyst
Above and beyond Donald Trump's legal woes bedeviling his 2024 presidential campaign, the former president's highly charged rhetoric combined with his whining about how he feels he is being persecuted is turning off the very voters he desperately needs in order to win.Already dogged by his boasting about how he "killed" Roe v. Wade, which has caused a major rift with so-called suburban moms, Trump's very style of campaigning in his third bid for the Oval Office is also turning off...
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Familiar failings haunt Sheffield United again as relegation confirmed in painful Newcastle defeat
Sheffield United’s defeat at Newcastle United this afternoon summed up their season in a nutshell as familiar failings came back to haunt them once more. The Blades’ relegation from the Premier League has long been expected but has now been officially confirmed after a 5-1 hammering at St. James’ Park. This was the epitome of the old cliche about a game of two halves. In the first United were excellent and a 4-1 half-time lead would not have flattered them as they hit the woodwork and missed a...