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In the 56th minute they piled on, Darcy Graham almost getting over in the corner, but dropping the ball under pressure.

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"I blame all the adults in my life that literally just dropped the ball and said: 'She's here in America now, she's going to be fine.'"

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The Black Caps still needed another 93 when Luke Wood dropped the ball when a reverse sweep from Mitchell looped up to him at backward point.

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Quarterback Dominick Catalano dropped the ball, picked it up and found Plinski, who also used his lacrosse skills to make the catch.

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But that doesn’t mean Biden’s doctors dropped the ball earlier, he and others said.

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