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For years, Iranian women have been barred from attending sports stadiums — and sometimes given jail sentences when they try to get into games. But now it looks like they might finally get the chance to watch some sports in the flesh.

Perro Aguayo, Jr. was a hero in Mexico, a beloved, larger-than-life figure in the country’s wildly popular wrestling. So after Aguayo’s death in the ring during a match broadcast across the country, many Mexicans are taking the news hard.

Soccer has long been king in Haiti. But over the last few years, a new sport has taken hold: basketball. Now, there’s an ambitious push, led by an unlikely cast of characters, to build a Haitian national team that can compete on the Olympic stage.

For the first time since 1999, a US sports team will play in Havana. New York’s soccer team will play Cuba’s national team in June.

If you watched Sunday’s Super Bowl, you witnessed its improbable ending: Jermaine Kearse’s remarkable catch near the end; Seattle coach Pete Carroll’s surprising play call at the goal line; and the interception that clinched the win for the New England Patriots. Would the outcome have been different had the game been played at a different time of day? We’ll never know. But new research may provide an intriguing insight.