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“We don’t normalize burnout in athletics at all, on any stage, any level,” Woods said. “Even when NBA players try to sit out and just take a break, we fine them, because we’re fans and hey, we want our money’s worth tonight and fans pay to come see you play, so you cannot sit. We put all this pressure on our athletes and a way in which it takes self out of it for them. So now they’re just doing it for everyone except them. When you take yourself out of something, it’s hard to enjoy it. It doesn’t matter how good you are at anything, if it’s not fun anymore it’s gonna be hard as hell to do.”

“I’m the starter,” Dalton said Tuesday. “I knew I signed a one-year deal. And I knew I was going to come in and be the starter, regardless of the situation. That’s my focus. I’m not worried about all the stuff that’s going to be going on with Justin. Because that doesn’t affect me. At the end of the day, it’s what I’m going to be doing.”

Fleury was awarded the Vezina Trophy this season after a 26-10-0 record and recording a 1.98 goals-against average, helping lead the Knights to the NHL semifinals. He was benched in Game 4 after a costly puck-handling mistake in Game 3, and the Knights went on to lose the series to the Montreal Canadians.

We invest so much in this facility and all of the state-of-the-art resources, and all of it is for one thing — to make our players better. We acquire the right players and develop them once they’re here, and we’re lucky our ownership has given us all of these assets to do that. From the training room to the weight room to things we do with recovery to nutrition, it’s all right here. We have one of the top facilities in the NFL, and our players will be able to utilize that probably, looking at the timeline of the season, in one of the most taxing times on their body. So to be able to have all of this at our disposal for them to recover is huge.

“That’s not true,” said former Northwestern softball star Andrea Filler, who played professionally in Italy. “There’s a lot of interest in Europe. It’s a smaller following than in the United States, of course, but it’s getting bigger. And the only way to get it to grow is to give it more exposure.”

With six Olympic first-timers — including four in the backcourt — the Nigeria game showed that Bird’s work is far from done. Although Bird went 0-for-6 from the floor and finished with zero points, she dished out 13 of the U.S’s 25 assists, a personal Olympic high, and just two turnovers. At her best, she was carving out the Nigerian defense, finding teammates in transition or around the rim. While the U.S. looked shaky at times, the Americans outscored Nigeria by 20 points when Bird was on the court, the second-best mark behind Taurasi (28).

Parker took a loss on the 4,000-square-foot Kinzie Park town home, which he purchased for $2.2 million in September 2018 through his Cement 4 Chicago limited liability company. Built in 2000, the unit, on North Canal Street, has 3-½ bathrooms, hardwood floors, a fireplace and a two-car garage. Listing photos of the town home show some of Parker’s framed jerseys on the walls, along with a primary bedroom closet full of dozens of pairs of basketball shoes.

Simone Biles, of the United States, watches gymnasts perform after she exited the team final with apparent injury, at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Tokyo. The 24-year-old reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Biles huddled with a trainer after landing her vault. She then exited the competition floor with the team doctor. (Ashley Landis / AP)

“If he really wants to fight us that badly, first of all, you’re in the wrong sport because this is baseball, we try to compete,” Báez said after the May 2021 incident. “I’m just tired of it. It doesn’t matter who would do it. Like, if you really want to fight then we go one on one. This is not a fighting game. This is not a game to be against someone, it’s about competing and winning games. … He needs to respect the game. If you don’t respect the game and if you don’t respect us, then that’s going to happen. Because he’s doing it to us.”

Abbott, relieving a day before her 36th birthday, and 38-year-old U.S. starter Cat Osterman were the last holdovers from the U.S. team that lost to Japan 3-1 in a stinging upset 4,723 days earlier and 1,300 miles distant. Osterman gave up the first two runs of that game and Abbott the last.