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Redskins hire Ron Rivera as coach

The 57-year-old of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent is the first minority to be named full-time coach in Redskins franchise history. Rivera is the seventh coach hired by Dan Snyder in his two decades of ownership, which have included just five playoff appearances.

Former NBA Commissioner David Stern dies at 77

By the time he left his position in 2014 — he wouldn’t say or let league staffers say “retire,” because he never stopped working — a league that fought for a foothold before him had grown to a more than $5 billion a year industry and made NBA basketball perhaps the world’s most popular sport after soccer.