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#Breaking Serena Williams And Roger Federer To Face Off For The First Time The tennis legends will meet at a mixed doubles match in Perth, Australia. Both have been on the international tennis circuit for decades and hold 43 Grand Slam titles between them. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Former Phanatic, Who Helped Create Gritty, Opens Mascot Hall Of Fame The first Mascot Hall of Fame opened recently in Whiting, Indiana. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Dave Raymond, the founder and a former mascot himself. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Barbershop: The Year In Sports In the Barbershop, NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with Washington Post's Kevin Blackistone, The Nation's Dave Zirin, and USA Today's Christine Brennan about the biggest stories in sports in 2018. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Cuba's Mobile Internet Access Is A Big Step, But It's Not Without Flaws The Cuban government recently extended Internet to mobile devices, a big step for Cubans living on the island under the repressive communist regime. Read more on NPR

#Breaking ESPN's Howard Bryant Previews Saturday's College Football Semifinals NPR's Debbie Elliott speaks with ESPN's Howard Bryant about the college football playoffs that begin Saturday. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ruling On Pay Cap Could Bring 'Watershed Moment' For College Sports A federal judge is expected to rule soon on a case that could upend the notion of amateurism in college sports. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Cleveland Browns Are On The Verge Of A Winning Record For fans of the NFL team, there've been some rough years. But finally, this weekend, the Browns go for their first winning record in 11 years. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Nassar Survivor On How USA Gymnastics Handled Abuse Crisis It's been a turbulent year for USA Gymnastics. Noel King talks to former gymnast Trinea Gonczar, about how the organization has dealt with the Larry Nassar abuse scandal, CEO issues and bankruptcy. Read more on NPR

#Breaking After H.S. Wrestler Told To Cut His Dreadlocks Or Forfeit, Adults Come Under Scrutiny In a video that has been viewed millions of times, the young black man has his hair cut by a team trainer so he can compete. The referee, who is white, has been accused of racist conduct before. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Pitcher Brady Singer Gives His Parents A Memorable Christmas Gift Brady Singer recently joined the Kansas City Royals and received a $4.25 million signing bonus. He wrote his parents a holiday letter and told them he would be paying off all their debts. Read more on NPR

#Breaking New York Jets QB Sam Darnold Poses As A Mall Santa Claus Last week in New Jersey, quarterback Sam Darnold went undercover as a mall Santa. Kids asked for toys and pets. One young fan asked for a Saquon Barkley jersey. Barkley plays for the New York Giants. Read more on NPR

#Breaking NFL Mental Health Therapist On Depression In Football David Greene talks to Tish Guerin, mental health therapist for the Carolina Panthers. She's the NFL's first in-house therapist — meaning she's in the building just like any other Panther employee. Read more on NPR

#Breaking New York Jets QB Sam Darnold Poses As A Mall Santa Clause Last week in New Jersey, quarterback Sam Darnold went undercover as a mall Santa. Kids asked for toys and pets. One young fan asked for a Saquon Barkley jersey. Barkley plays for the New York Giants. Read more on NPR

#Breaking N.J. High School Wrestler Told To Cut His Dreadlocks Or Forfeit Match Noel King talks to Washington Post sports columnist Kevin Blackistone, who shares his take about what happened when a referee gave a high school wrestler in New Jersey an ultimatum. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The Week In Sports: MLB, Cuba Reach Historic Deal It's time to reflect on the highlights of the week in sports, including an agreement that would allow Cuban athletes to play Major League Baseball without defecting from their home country. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Parkour Resists 'Hostile Takeover' By International Gymnastics An art as much as it is a sport, parkour's urban ethic is one of bold, practiced risk-taking. Now its adherents say it is having to fight against encroachment by powerful interests. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 'Realization Of An Impossible Dream': MLB And Cuba Make Historic Deal The agreement, negotiated over years, represents the first time since Cuba's revolution that baseball players can sign with U.S. teams without defecting. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 5-Time Gold Medalist Missy Franklin Retires From Swimming The 23-year-old became an Olympic sensation as a teen during the 2012 London games, where she broke a world record and became the first woman to win four gold medals in a single Olympics in any sport. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Hard Chargers And Ravenous Raptors NPR's Scott Simon discusses the week in sports with ESPN's Howard Bryant, including impressive wins by the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Philly Frustration, 1968: 'The Day That They Were All Against Everything' Philadelphia Eagles fans are known for passionately — sometimes rudely — backing their team. That reputation was cemented on a cold Sunday in 1968, when disgruntled fans pelted Santa with snowballs. Read more on NPR

#Breaking A Trans Man Steps Into The Ring – And Wins After an injury forced Patricio Manuel to withdraw from the women's Olympic boxing trials, the fighter faced a reckoning. He decided to start living as a man – and to rebuild his boxing career as one. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Ex-Bahrain Soccer Pro Awaits His Fate In A Thai Prison Hakeem Araibi, who had been living in Australia as a legal refugee, was detained in Bangkok at the start of a vacation and fears he'll be tortured if sent back to Bahrain. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Former NFL Player Tim Green Has A New Opponent — ALS Green, a well-known voice on NPR in the 1990s, is one of a growing number of former football players with the degenerative illness Lou Gehrig's disease. And he's not hiding it. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Texas Judge Sentences Former Baylor Frat President To Sidestep Rape Charge Jacob Anderson pleaded no contest to unlawful restraint and won't have to register as a sex offender. He worked out a plea deal with prosecutors for counseling but no time behind bars. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Cargo Ship Saves 29-Year-Old Sailor In South Pacific After Her Boat Flips On Wednesday, Susie Goodall was 2,000 miles west of South America when her boat capsized in heavy wind, breaking its mast and knocking her unconscious. Read more on NPR