"It's Christmas time and he's knee-deep in battle, and she's home with two young kids, " he said.

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In 1966 he left the Raiders to run the AFL, then deep in its antitrust battle against the older, more established NFL. Davis aggressively raided the NFL talent pool, signing top players to exorbitant contracts.

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Donmar Warehouse artistic director Josie Rourke will direct The Machine, a new play about chess player Garry Kasparov's battle with the supercomputer Deep Blue, written by Matt Charman.

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