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đ NHL Opening Night: The Panthers beat the Blackhawks, 3-2, after elevating their second straight Stanley Cup banner; Nathan MacKinnon grew to become the main scorer in Avalanche historical past in a 4-1 win over the Kings; the Penguins blanked the Rangers, 3-0, to spoil former head coach Mike Sullivan’s debut in New York.
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đ Flacco to the Bengals: With Joe Burrow out till at the very least December and Jake Browning proving to be an insufficient substitute, the Bengals (2-3) traded for Browns QB Joe Flacco in hopes of saving their season.
đ LeBron’s “Second Decision”: LeBron James’ cryptic tease about making the “decision of all decisions” (which many speculated would contain his retirement) turned out to be nothing extra than a liquor ad. Extremely cringe on his half.
đ McGregor suspended: The UFC suspended Connor McGregor for 18 months after he violated the whereabouts coverage beneath its anti-doping program. With his suspension retroactive to his final missed check, the 37-year-old will not be eligible to return to competitors till March 2026.
đ Tatum’s new position: While Jayson Tatum spends the upcoming season rehabbing his ruptured Achilles, the Celtics star will even serve as Duke’s Chief Basketball Officer, appearing as a guide to his alma mater in a job created particularly for him.
âžď¸ Win or go residence
Aaron Judge. 3-run shot. Don’t rely out the Yanks simply but. (Al Bello/Getty Images)
Cherish in the present day, baseball followers. After six months of jam-packed MLB schedules, that is the final day all yr with greater than two video games. All four division sequence will likely be performed back-to-back-to-back-to-back beginning within the mid-afternoon â and all four are elimination video games.
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Mariners at Tigers | 3pm ET, FS1
Seattle put Detroit on the ropes with Tuesday’s 8-4 victory, taking a 2-1 sequence result in transfer inside a win of their first journey to the ALCS since 2001. Tigers righty Casey Mize, an All-Star who led the group with 14 wins this season, takes the bump with the season on the road.
Right place, proper time: MVP candidate Cal Raleigh hit his first homer of the postseason, and 61st of the yr, to a fan carrying a customized “Dump 61 Here” shirt in a nod to Raleigh’s “Big Dumper” nickname. Some issues are simply meant to be.
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Brewers at Cubs | 5pm, TBS
Milwaukee has greater than regarded the a part of baseball’s greatest group to date in these playoffs, taking a 2-0 lead over Chicago with an mixture rating of 16-6. Can the Cubs scratch out a win at residence tonight, or will their first postseason look in 5 years finish in an NLDS sweep?
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21-year-old phenom: Is Jackson Chourio having the best start to a playoff career ever? In 5 video games together with final yr, he is 10-for-18 (.556) with extra residence runs (3) than strikeouts (2). Against the Cubs, heâs 5-for-7 with a double, a homer and 6 RBIs.
Blue Jays at Yankees | 7pm, FS1
New York staved off elimination with Tuesday’s comeback 9-6 victory, however should win once more tonight to ship the sequence again to Toronto. Can rookie hurler Cam Schlittler ship one other magical efficiency after last week’s historic outing towards Boston?
All Rise: Aaron Judge, now batting a cool .500 by six playoff video games, got here up clutch but once more with a game-tying 3-run homer on Tuesday evening. That was his sixth profession postseason residence run when going through elimination, tied with David Ortiz for probably the most in MLB historical past.
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Phillies at Dodgers | 9pm, TBS
The defending champs are 4-0 to date this postseason, together with two highway wins over the mighty Phillies regardless of Shohei Ohtani going 1-for-9 with six strikeouts. With a victory tonight at residence, they will attain their seventh NLCS previously 10 seasons (!!).
Starting pitchers: The Dodgers will hand the ball to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has a profession postseason ERA of two.84 in 5 begins. The Phillies are going with Aaron Nola, who’s had a terrific profession for them however was fairly horrible this season (6.01 ERA) and has a profession playoff ERA of 4.02 in 10 begins.
đ NFL energy rankings
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The Lions have ridden an NFL-best four-game successful streak to the highest of our latest power rankings. But not far behind them are the Buccaneers and Colts â shocking newcomers to the highest 5.
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Up and down:
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Biggest risers: No. 4 Buccaneers (up 5), No. 5 Colts (up 5), No. 6 Broncos (up 5), No. 16 Patriots (up 5)
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Biggest fallers: No. 13 Chargers (down 8), No. 11 Rams (down 7), No. 14 Seahawks (down 6), No. 19 Ravens (down 5), No. 23 Cardinals (down 5)
đ WNBA Finals: By the numbers
A’ja Wilson guards Alyssa Thomas in Game 2. (Jeff Bottari/NBAE through Getty Images)
The Aces take a 2-0 lead into Phoenix tonight for Game 3 of the WNBA Finals (8pm ET, ESPN), the place the Mercury will attempt to stem the bleeding within the league’s first-ever best-of-seven sequence.
20 and 10
A’ja Wilson put up 21 factors and 10 rebounds in Game 1 adopted by 28 factors and 14 rebounds in Game 2, marking the second time the Aces middle has posted consecutive 20-10 video games in her WNBA Finals profession. No different participant in league historical past has completed that even as soon as.
1.9 million viewers
The opening recreation of this yr’s Finals drew 1.9 million viewers (and peaked at 2.5 million), making it the most-watched Game 1 because the league’s inaugural season. Only that 1997 championship, which was a winner-take-all Game 1, had extra folks watching.
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3-1 at residence
The Mercury face an uphill battle towards a group that has crushed them 5 out of six occasions this yr, however they will at the very least take solace in the truth that they’re 3-1 at residence this postseason, whereas the Aces are simply 1-2 on the highway.
57 bench factors
One space the place the Aces have a transparent benefit is their bench, which has outscored the Mercury’s bench, 57-24, by two video games. Six-time All-Star Jewell Loyd has been the MVP of that unit, scoring 27 factors to date within the Finals.
391 assists
Mercury ahead Alyssa Thomas etched her title within the historical past books on Sunday with the 391st help of her postseason profession, passing Courtney Vandersloot (390) for the most ever. Aces guard Chelsea Gray, with 20 assists in these Finals alone, is true on her tail with 380.
đ New-look UFL unveils groups, stadiums
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How does spring soccer plan on getting greater? By getting smaller.
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From Yahoo Sports’ Jay Busbee:
For greater than 40 years now, visionaries, buyers and the occasional future president have tried to make spring soccer work within the United States. All have foundered or failed, struggling each to attract followers and to justify their very own existence.
Here’s the large query that has bedeviled spring soccer because the USFL first kicked off in 1982: Is this an issue of product or presentation? Is the very thought of spring soccer flawed, or do its issues lie in the best way it is branded, marketed and provided as much as the general public?
The United Football League believes it is hit on a solution to these questions, and on Tuesday unveiled a spread of methods designed to maximise spring soccer’s strengths (it is soccer) whereas minimizing its weaknesses (low attendance relative to NFL video games).
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Starting within the 2026 season, three new franchises â the Orlando Storm, the Louisville Kings and the Columbus (Ohio) Aviators â will start play within the eight-team league. They substitute the Memphis Showboats, Michigan Panthers and San Antonio Brahmas, which performed within the league’s first two seasons.
Two different groups, the Dallas Renegades and Houston Gamblers, have rebranded and moved to smaller soccer stadiums. Virtually all the eight present UFL groups will now play in these smaller, sub-20,000-seat stadiums.
đ NHL trivia
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Alex Ovechkin had the top-selling NHL jersey through the 2024-25 season.
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Question: Who was No. 2 on that listing?
Hint: His initials match his group.
Answer on the backside.
đ NBA on NBC is again
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The NBA is again for NBC for the primary time since 2002, and we acquired our first look at the new scorebug throughout Tuesday’s Bulls-Cavaliers recreation on Peacock. Thoughts?
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For reference, listed here are the old NBA on NBC scorebugs from the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s.
Trivia reply: Connor Bedard (Chicago Blackhawks)
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