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For Cory Slater, it was love at first swipe. As Dikembe Mutombo stuck his left hand on Shawn Kemp’s hip and his right hand on history, blocking his eighth Seattle shot in the Nuggets’ iconic Game 5 win over the top-seeded SuperSonics, a kid in New Jersey knew he’d found his team and his player.

Alex Singleton’s season-ending knee injury had a trickle-down effect on several other Broncos inside linebackers Sunday against the New York Jets. Cody Barton played every snap and relayed defensive calls from Vance Joseph, neither of which he’d done previously. Justin Strnad started, played 57 snaps defensively — his first non-special teams action since 2021 — and logged his first career sack. “I think it would be more Alex to Justin because Cody kind of stayed in the same position he’s been playing,” head coach Sean Payton said Monday of the role changes.

NEW YORK — Pete Rose, baseball’s career hits leader and fallen idol who undermined his historic achievements and Hall of Fame dreams by gambling on the game he loved and once embodied, has died. He was 83. Stephanie Wheatley, a spokesperson for Clark County in Nevada, confirmed on behalf of the medical examiner that Rose died Monday.

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