What to Read This Weekend |
 | | Hank Aaron was among the greatest all-around players in baseball history, earning his home run record in the face of hate mail and even death threats.Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, via Getty Images |
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Hank Aaron, who faced down racism as he eclipsed Babe Ruth as baseball's career home run king, hitting 755 homers and holding the most celebrated record in sports for more than 30 years, has died. |
"He was a great friend, a great American and a great player," Bud Selig, the former commissioner who was close friends with Aaron for 62 years, said in a telephone interview. |
"He embodied all the noble qualities we want in our heroes: bravery, humility, sustained excellence, endless grace," Tyler Kepner writes. "He was the patriarch of a Hall of Fame family that only gets grander as it dwindles." |
What to Watch This Weekend |
 | | Davante Adams of the Green Bay Packers had a spectacular season, with 1,374 yards receiving and 18 touchdowns.Jeff Hanisch/USA Today Sports, via Reuters |
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Two of football's greatest quarterbacks, not just of this era but of all time, meet in the N.F.C. championship game. Tom Brady of the Buccaneers and Aaron Rodgers of the Packers have more than 11,000 career completions and nearly 1,000 touchdowns between them. Now, at 43 and 37, they meet in the playoffs for the first time. (Sunday, 3:05 p.m., Fox.) |
In contrast, the A.F.C. title game is a battle between two exciting young quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs, who has played like an M.V.P. candidate in each of his three seasons as a starter, and Josh Allen, who joined him among the N.F.L'.s elite this season. (Sunday, 6:40 p.m. Sunday, CBS.) |
No one draws fight fans like Conor McGregor, and he is back in the octagon for the first time in a year. His opponent in Abu Dhabi will Dustin Poirier, whom he knocked out in 2014, but who has had some impressive victories and won an interim title in the years since. (Undercard, Saturday, 8 p.m., ESPN; main card, 10 p.m., ESPN+ pay per view; main event, approximately midnight.) |
Fayetteville, Ark., will host professional track stars for the next four weeks in the American Track League. Expected to be on hand for the first event this week are the 100-meter hurdles world-record holder, Kendra Harrison; the Olympic 200-meter silver medalist Andre DeGrasse; and the Olympic 110-meter hurdles gold medalist Omar McLeod. (Sunday, 3 p.m., ESPN.) |
The first big event of the American horse racing season is the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational in Florida. Among those racing for the big prize are the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner, Knicks Go, and the 2019 Travers winner, Code of Honor. (Saturday, 5:44 p.m., ESPN.) |
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