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The unlikely story of the first English manager to reach a World Cup final

George Raynor led Sweden to Olympic glory and a World Cup final, but he was never appreciated back home By The Set Pieces Nobody wanted him. An ambitious young English coach who was bursting with new ideas grew more and more frustrated as his efforts to land a job in his homeland fell flat. Application

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The Celtics’ orca-loving Joe Mazzulla is an NBA oddball. He’s also a masterful coach

The 37-year-old may come across as corny and gauche. But he’s already won one NBA championship and it probably won’t be his last The Boston Celtics’ head coach, Joe Mazzulla, is a very odd man. He is also a very good coach. Take, for example, a story Celtics guard Derrick White told in an interview

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Drama amid the deluge: 50 years since James Hunt won F1 world title in Japan

Flamboyant Briton won his first and only world championship in dramatic fashion in Japan in the last race of the 1976 season Niki Lauda once described James Hunt as “one of my few real friends in racing”, the great rivals sharing a genuine bond even as they fought fiercely for the Formula One world championship

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