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#Breaking The College Football Game That Put A Dent In Desegregation Fifty years ago, two football teams tangled in Florida. It was a momentous contest: It helped to change the course of race relations during a difficult Civil Rights period. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: The NFL Playoffs Close In; The Maple Leafs Shake Things Up The second half of the season is where the rubber hits the road with the NFL. So, which teams are for real? Also, having fired their coach, will the Toronoto Maple Leafs finally get their moment? Read more on NPR

#Breaking Why This Year Promises To Be A Big One For Cross Country Skiers Jessie Diggins made history winning the first U.S. Olympic gold medal in cross country skiing in 2018. She and skiers at a season kickoff welcome the U.S.'s first World Cup race since 2001. Read more on NPR

#Breaking He Was A Horse That Never Won A Race. So Why Would Someone Steal Him? On Christmas Eve 2004, Urgent Envoy disappeared from his stable in the middle of the night. He had finished his only ever race in last place, but that didn't matter to the trainer who took him. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Canadians, Increasingly Diverse, Wonder If Hockey Can Shift To Match The suspension of a NHL coach for a past use of a racist slur is raising questions in Canada about the sport's ability to reflect the nation's increasingly multicultural makeup. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Stephen F. Austin Defeats No. 1 Ranked Duke In Huge Upset Stephen F. Austin University beat No. 1 ranked Duke in one of the biggest men's college basketball upsets ever on Tuesday night. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Powerhouse Duke Falls To Stephen F. Austin University With Buzzer-Beating Layup Duke was supposed to dominate Stephen F. Austin. One Las Vegas spread had the Blue Devils winning by more than 27 points. Instead the Lumberjacks secured the biggest win in their program's history. Read more on NPR

#Breaking No. 1 Duke Suffers Stunning Loss To Lumberjacks Duke has one of the most storied programs in all of men's college basketball. That didn't matter Tuesday night when the Blue Devils were beaten by unranked Steven F. Austin State University. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Rookie Dwayne Haskins Celebrates First Victory As A Pro With A Selfie With A Fan It didn't matter if the game wasn't over, Washington quarterback Dwayne Haskins was ready for his closeup. Haskins missed the final snap of the game because he was taking a selfie with a fan. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Activists Disrupt Harvard-Yale Rivalry Game To Protest Climate Change The game was delayed for about an hour Saturday when students stormed the field after half-time calling on the universities to divest their multi-million dollar endowments from fossil fuels companies. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Row, Row, Row Your Boat To Antarctica NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speak with adventurer Colin O'Brady, who is planning to row from Cape Horn at the tip of South America to Antarctica next month. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Jake Burton Carpenter, Snowboarding Pioneer, Dies At 65 The founder of the massive snowboarding brand Burton Snowboards died Wednesday from complications due to cancer. He was 65. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Simone Biles, Racehorses Questions about how USA Gymnastics hid the Larry Nassar investigation from one of its top athletes, plus a new coalition focused on safety in horse racing. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Anti-Doping Agency Cites Russian 'Non-Compliance' With Olympic Testing Procedures Russia as a country was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Its athletes competed under a generic banner. It could happen again in the 2020 Tokyo Games. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Jack Burton Carpenter, Snowboarding Pioneer, Dies At 65 The founder of the massive snowboarding brand Burton Snowboards died Wednesday from complications due to cancer. He was 65. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Jake Burton Carpenter, The Godfather Of Snowboarding, Dies At 65 The man known as "The Godfather of Snowboarding" died Wednesday at the age of 65. Jake Burton Carpenter brought the sport to the masses, through the company he founded. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 2,200 Miles And 4 Months Later, Runner Finishes Trek Across Australia Katie Visco said it was a "pinch" that drove her to undertake such an ambitious task with her husband in support. "I had been dreaming about this for a while," she tells NPR. Read more on NPR

#Breaking The Pittsburgh Pirates Need Racing Pierogies For Next Season Can you run 200 yards in a minute while wearing a bulky costume? Lots of teams have mascots that race during games. Milwaukee has sausages, D.C. has presidents. The Pirates need racing pierogies. Read more on NPR

#Breaking In 'Canyon Dreams,' A Navajo Town Struggles To Survive In An Often Hostile World Journalist Michael Powell's book is about basketball the same way that Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is about football — sports are the ostensible focus, but the real interest is the community. Read more on NPR

#Breaking 10 Years After She Ran Across The U.S., Katie Visco Took On Australia Long distance runner Katie Visco just completed a 2,200 mile, 119-day run across the Australian Outback. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Serena Williams' Busted Tennis Racket Is Up For Auction The racket is the one she smashed at the 2018 U.S. Open during a match she lost to Naomi Osaka. That was the game where Williams got a charge for illegal coaching, and got into it with the referee. Read more on NPR

#Breaking How Did Kaepernick's NFL Workout Go? We Follow Up Free-agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick worked out in front of NFL scouts on Saturday, but things did not go entirely as planned. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to sports writer Kevin Blackistone. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Pro Runner Mary Cain Discusses Abuse Allegations Against Nike NPR's Michel Martin speaks with elite runner Mary Cain about the abuse she says she experienced during her time running with Nike's Oregon Project. Read more on NPR

#Breaking University Of Colorado's Live Buffalo Mascot To Retire Because She Runs Too Fast After 12 seasons, Ralphie V, the 1,200-lb buffalo who leads the football team onto the field is retiring due to safety concerns for her and her handlers, university officials say. Read more on NPR

#Breaking Saturday Sports: Colin Kaepernick, Myles Garrett Colin Kaepernick is finally invited by the NFL to work out in Atlanta, and the Cleveland Browns' Myles Garrett has been suspended and fined. Scott Simon talks to Howard Bryant of ESPN. Read more on NPR