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    The comedian Judah Friedlander and Wu Yue, who is bound for this summer’s Olympic Games, at Spin table tennis club in Manhattan.
    CreditCaitlin Ochs for The New York Times

    The Comic and the Ping-Pong Champ

    He’s the “30 Rock” guy in a trucker’s hat. She’s an Olympic hopeful. She gives him lessons, but the instruction flows both ways.

     By Corey Kilgannon

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    ­A funeral Mass for Officer David Hofer was said at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday. He was killed on March 1.
    CreditMark Lennihan/Associated Press

    Big City

    Death in Texas: An Officer’s Odyssey

    Until David Hofer died this month, shot in a park by a 22-year-old with a long criminal record, a police officer hadn’t been killed in Euless, Tex., in 34 years.

     By Ginia Bellafante

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    Barry “Slice” Rohrssen, the associate head coach of the St. John’s basketball team, works with players during practice on the court before a game against Seton Hall at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan.
    CreditKevin Hagen for The New York Times

    Sunday Routine

    How Barry Rohrssen, a Basketball Coach, Spends His Sundays

    For Mr. Rohrssen, the associate head coach for men’s basketball at St. John’s University in Queens, Sundays include sports, church and Frosted Mini-Wheats.

     By Kathleen Lucadamo