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Chiefs Might Win Third Title in a Row but They Can’t Own the Phrase ‘Three-Peat’

As sports catchphrases start to stick, savvy coaches and athletes are moving to protect them with federal trademarks. “Three-Peat” is just one of many.

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The Kansas City Chiefs celebrated their Super Bowl win in 2024. If they defeat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, they will become the first team to pull off a Super Bowl “three-peat.”

Springfield, Ohio, Sues Neo-Nazi Group, Saying It Intimidated Haitians

In the lawsuit, the city states that people associated with the group made death threats last year against those who expressed support for Haitian residents.

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A state trooper outside an elementary school in Springfield, Ohio, last September. Bomb threats against schools, hospitals, residences and businesses caused multiple evacuations in the city, the lawsuit says.

I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too | Jessie Cole

Sometimes a branch grows so low and bushy that it blocks access to my room. I diligently cut it back

In the late 1970s when my parents built the house I still live in, there was no forest. The property was a disused cow pasture, full of scrappy grass and weeds. My parents began planting trees before they began the house build, and now – in my lifespan, 47 years – it has grown into a forest. When I was a child, we called my parent’s plantings “the garden”, implying a place managed by us. Cultivated, civilised. Somewhere along the way we renamed it “the forest”. A self-managed ecosystem we occasionally impinged upon – cutting back, cleaning up debris – but only when it made incursions into our actual house.

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© Photograph: Jessie Cole

Ange Postecoglou wary of ‘destroying’ careers of young Tottenham players

  • Spurs heavily criticised after thrashing at Liverpool
  • Postecoglou’s side travel to Aston Villa in FA Cup

Ange Postecoglou believes he could “destroy” some of his young players’ careers if they are exposed to the spotlight too early given the criticism levelled at his Tottenham side after their 4-0 defeat by Liverpool in the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg.

The Tottenham head coach is expecting to field a similar starting lineup against Aston Villa in the FA Cup fourth round on Sunday to the team that were thrashed 4-0 at Anfield as he waits for the return of several key players from injury.

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© Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

Mbappé fires equaliser as Real and Atlético share spoils in Madrid derby

The match that was billed as a battle of the superheroes ended without a winner, all set up for a sequel instead. Kylian Mbappé and Julián Álvarez had looked out from Madrid’s front pages on the morning of the city derby, the media turning Marvel Comic, and they will probably be there on Sunday too but this isn’t over. The man they liken to a Mutant Turtle and the striker they call The Spider scored one each as another derby finished 1-1, leaving these two great rivals first and second in La Liga, a single point between them, left to fight another day.

Between them Mbappé and Álvarez had already scored 37 goals in their debut seasons; on a night that took a while to get going but did eventually become a real contest if certainly not a classic, they took that to 39. Atlético started in the ascendency then Real were revived.

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© Photograph: Manu Fernández/AP

Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham returns from torn triceps for Super Bowl

  • Veteran to play after presumptive season-ending injury
  • Graham, 36, had decisive strip-sack in Super Bowl LII

Philadelphia Eagles star defensive end Brandon Graham was cleared to return from a torn triceps suffered 11 weeks ago and will play in the Super Bowl against Kansas City.

The 36-year-old Graham was thought to be done for the season after he was injured in a 24 Noember game against the Los Angeles Rams.

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© Photograph: Darren Agboh/REX/Shutterstock

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