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Baseball's playoffs begin with a classic confrontation, the smoke of Oakland's Vida Blue against the firing of Baltimore's Frank and Brooks and Boog and Merv—and duck.

A wakening to the possibility that one of their sons could be the next Bobby Orr, many fathers in the U.S. are up before sunrise driving and drilling their Pee Wee hockey stars.

The man whose role was peacemaker in a Carolina city on edge with racial tensions was a high school football coach. A profile of people learning to play by the rules.