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Hillary Clinton turns focus to down-ballot candidates in final days

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Hillary Clinton is expanding her focus in the final days of the presidential race, seeking to help down-ballot congressional candidates. In Pittsburgh on Saturday, Clinton assailed incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, saying he had failed to “stand up” to Donald Trump in the face of his comments about Mexican immigrants and a Muslim-American military family. She also noted that Trump had “said terrible things about women” and “spread the lie that our first black president wasn’t born in America.” “If…

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Donald Trump team says ‘we are behind’ but can still win the race

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Donald Trump‘s campaign bluntly acknowledged Sunday that the real estate mogul is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurtles toward a close, but insisted he still has a viable path to win the White House. With barely two weeks left and early voting underway in most of the U.S., Trump’s team said “the race is not over” and pledged to keep campaigning hard — even in states like Virginia and Pennsylvania that polls show are now trending Clinton’s way.…

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Lightning announces its 2016-17 schedule, starting with Detroit

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The Tampa Bay Lightning has beaten the Detroit Red Wings in the last two playoffs. This year, the Red Wings will try to get even in the Bolts’ season opener. Tampa Bay is at home on Oct. 13 to take on the Wings. The Lightning follows with games against New Jersey (Oct. 15), Florida (Oct. 18) and Colorado (Oct. 20). A six-game road trip follows. In all, Tampa Bay will play 14 of its first 24 games on the road.…

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A good year to be a wild card in NFL playoffs

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It looks like it’s a good year to be a wild card in the NFL playoffs. The oddsmakers certainly think so, making Kansas City (3 points), Pittsburgh (2 1-2), and Seattle (5 1-2) favorites on the road in the opening round of the postseason. The only wild card that is an underdog is slumping Green Bay, and by only a point at Washington. Those wise guys also have made the sixth-seeded Seahawks the third choice to win the NFC at…

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Ravens and Joe Flacco hope to finally get a win vs. Pittsburgh

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The Baltimore Ravens are at risk of having the 2015 season run away from them. Fortunately for them, they face a Thursday night game against a Pittsburgh Steelers‘ team without Ben Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger is injured, which will leave the quarterback duties to 35-year-old Michael Vick. That should be enough to cause some headaches for the 0-3 Ravens. The Ravens are good enough, however, to have held a second-half lead in all three of their defeats. So far this year, the…

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NFL headset technology improving but not perfect

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The NFL upgraded the coach-to-player communication system three years ago and now it’s apparent the coach-to-coach headsets are due for an upgrade, too. After Pittsburgh’s 28-21 loss at New England in the 2015 opener, Steelers coach Mike Tomlin complained about headset failures, which he charged are “always the case” when playing in New England. The Steelers said Friday they don’t plan to file a formal complaint and the league said the Patriots did nothing wrong. But the Patriots are under…

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Plenty to prove in 2015 for many of NFL’s key figures

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Nice job, Tom Brady. Peyton Manning, you’re up next. The 39-year-old quarterback is under pressure to prove his decline at the end of last season was because of  a torn thigh and not time catching up to him like a linebacker firing through the line unblocked. His boss, John Elway, is trying to take some load off his shoulders just like the Broncos did during Elway’s own Super Bowl runs in the late 1990s when a good ground game and…

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