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By TALES AZZONI and JOSEPH WILSON (Associated Press) MADRID — Kylian Mbappé is finally a Real Madrid player. Madrid said on Monday it reached a deal with the France star for the next five seasons, bringing together one of soccer’s top talents and its most successful club. The announcement came after years of flirtation by Madrid with the player who inherited the status of the best in the game from Lionel Messi. “A dream come true,” Mbappé said on X.

Sean Keeler: Remember The Jordan Rules, my friend? It might be time for The Caitlin Rules. You know one of the first things I thought of when I saw Chennedy Carter go all WWE on the Indiana Fever’s Caitlin Clark over the weekend? 1990. That’s when the NBA instituted the flagrant foul as we know it — and did so, at least in part, because Michael Jordan, the emerging face of the league, was getting the snot kicked out of him, physically and competitively, by Detroit’s “Bad Boy” Pistons.

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NEW YORK — Bill May chuckles at the mere mention of the words “Saturday Night Live,” knowing that the conversation is about to turn to the TV show’s 1984 skit starring Martin Short as one of two brothers attempting to make it to the Olympics in what then was called synchronized swimming. If you want to laugh, too, go ahead and Google the mockumentary-style 4 1/2 minutes, which include Short’s character earnestly looking into the camera and admitting, “I don’t swim,” and show him wearing an orange life vest in the pool.

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