MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.—With Miami’s 52-17 victory safely in hand, former Virginia star Chris Long went over to defensive end Matt Conrath to offer some consoling words. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of that exchange was that Conrath spent...

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Deep Run junior Erica Dobbs had a fairly simple, straightforward strategy for the Central Region girls cross country meet: find Midlothian’s Kathleen Lautzenheiser and follow in her footsteps for as long as possible, then win a sprint to the finish...

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FORT WORTH, Texas Carl Edwards has found a way to try to mask the frustration of his winless NASCAR Sprint Cup season. “I’ve kind of tried to think of it differently,“ Edwards said. “It’s not that we haven’t had no...

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