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Dominique Lindon

Sports Editor

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Dominique Okafor grew up in Atlanta splitting her Sundays between church and football, and she has never really stopped doing either. The daughter of a Nigerian father and a Georgia-born mother, she came up watching the Falcons break her heart on a seasonal basis, which she credits as the foundation of her analytical instincts. If you can find reasons to keep watching a team like that, you can find the story in any game. She covers the NFL and NBA with a focus on the tactical side of the sport, the scheming, the roster construction decisions, and the moments in a game that casual viewers tend to scroll past. She is drawn to the players who do the unglamorous work and to the coaches whose adjustments only make sense in hindsight. Her writing tries to bridge the gap between the numbers and the actual texture of how games are played and won. When she is not watching film or arguing about fourth-down decision making, Dominique is probably at a live game somewhere, taking notes in the margins of a printed box score like it is 1987. She believes sports are most interesting when treated as a serious subject without being treated as a solemn one, and that principle shapes everything she puts on the page. [email protected]

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NFL Week 18 injury report: Full player statuses for all 16 games

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NFL Week 18 Injury Report: All 16 Games