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France, which came to Qatar missing four potential starters to injury, then lost two more before halftime of the first game, has been hit by a virus over the last week with midfielder Adrien Rabiot and defender Dayot Upamecano missing the semifinal win over Morocco and froward Kingsley Coman’s participation in the final in doubt because of illness.

Two of them — 6-2 froward Autumn Newby from Baylor and 5-6 guard Alexis Morris from Texas A&M — are starters.

“Before we were stepping froward, now we’re stepping back,” a supporter named Katherine King told me.

It’s no surprise that the spike in the salary cap has created a huge chasm between player compensation and valuation. But even if you give Mozgov the benefit of the doubt and think he will bring the Lakers’ defense to a respectable level, his offensive shortcomings will make this contract more of a detriment to their rebuilding process instead of a step froward.

For sentimentality's sake you can't go far wrong with the closing line of Little Dorrit, which sees its principle characters united at last as lovers: "They went quietly down into the roaring streets, inseparable and blessed; and as they passed along in sunshine and shade, the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar."