The dog, on whose collar hung an identification tag, tilted his head and panted as if patiently awaiting an explanation.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

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Wigginton never stopped running and his head-first slide barely beat the tag to snap a 3-3 tie.

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Working with sparse footage from the 1980s and '90s, O'Kane still manages to make us fall head over heels for the rag-tag bunch of Antioch College-educated misfits better known as the Gits.

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There are now more than 1, 000 former NFL players involved in lawsuits related to concussions and head-related trauma with a potential price tag in the billions.

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