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Packers’ Nixon says hamstring tightness caused him to miss first practice

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers cornerback Keisean Nixon wanted no part of any conversation about his contract situation Thursday. Each time the topic was broached — three times in all — Nixon simply repeated that he was leaving it up to his agent, Tory Dandy, and Packers ...

A World Cup banner turns the Malvinas into a cultural obsession for a new generation in Argentina

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — It took a World Cup to transform a remote cluster of islands that's home to more sheep than people into a cultural juggernaut. A decision by Argentina's players to unfurl a banner about the disputed Falkland Islands after defeating England in the World Cup semifinals carried a historical cause onto the T-shirts, bedroom walls and Instagram feeds of a new generation. In the weeks since, the image that has endured from the tournament in soccer-crazed Argentina hasn't been of Lionel Messi. It's been the crudely painted sign reading: "The Malvinas are ...