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🚨 Headline
⚽️ Miami wins best record: Inter Miami won their first MLS Supporters’ Shield with two goals from Lionel Messi, who won a record 46 trophies in his career.
🎾 Alcaraz beats Sinner: Carlos Alcaraz defeats Jannik Sinner to win the China Open in a battle of the world’s top two players, ending the Italian national team’s winning streak at 15 and taking his record against him to 3-0 this year. It extended to defeat.
⚾️Marlins Clean House: Days after firing manager Skip Shoemaker, the Marlins are reportedly cutting staff throughout the organization, from coaches to clubhouse personnel.
🏀 Greiner joins Unrivaled: Brittney Greiner is the 24th WNBA player to participate in Unrivaled Basketball, a new offseason 3-on-3 league that begins in January.
🇺🇸 Pochettino’s first roster: The USMNT announced their first roster of the Mauricio Pochettino era for this month’s friendlies, and it bears a striking resemblance to Gregg Berhalter’s team.
⚾️ MLB Playoffs: Tigers, Royals, Padres sweep
With the Tigers, Royals and Padres all winning on Wednesday, there is only one spot left in the Division Series.
Scoreboard:
Note:
Bring out the broom: Since the wild-card round began in 2022, 10 of the 12 three-game series have been sweeps.
Home Field Advantage? Road teams won seven of the 11 games in the Wild Card Round series that ended.
KC loves the playoffs. The Royals are 27-9 in the last 36 postseason games and 9-1 in the last 10 rounds of the postseason dating to 1985.
$18.8 million: That’s the combined 2024 salary of the Tigers’ wild-card roster, which is less than what 62 MLB players earned this season.
The O’s are cursed: The Orioles have lost 10 straight postseason games since 2014, the fourth-longest losing streak in MLB history.
The winning streak is over…the past five World Series have all ended in Texas (2019 Houston, 2020 Arlington, 2021 and 2022 Houston, 2023 Arlington). The Astros’ loss marks the end of that losing streak.
Good read: Orioles, Lutchman in the spotlight and stumble out of the playoffs again
🏈 Soccer heaven is approaching
Brace yourselves, football fans. Today is the first of 55 consecutive days with at least one NFL or college football game.
that’s right. The next time you won’t be able to sit down and enjoy a game is Wednesday, November 27th, the day before Thanksgiving.
🏒 Chloe Primerano, hockey genius
Now that Caitlin Clark’s season is over, fans looking for someone to follow in the footsteps of the young female phenom need look no further. It’s Chloe Primerano’s time to shine.
Meet Chloe: The left-handed defender from North Vancouver switched classes this winter, enrolling a year early at Minnesota State, the No. 2 program in the nation. At 17 years old, she is the youngest player in the NCAA, but that doesn’t stop her from being successful.
Just last season, Primerano’s former Pee Wee teammate, Maclin Celebrini of BU, won the Hobey Baker Award (hockey’s Heisman Trophy) and was also the NCAA’s youngest player before becoming the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft. received.
Primerano is already off to a strong start, scoring a goal in his debut last week and adding two assists in the second game against the Gophers, 2-0.
What they’re saying is, “There are players who are elite skaters, there are players who are elite puck handlers, there are players who have very high hockey IQs, there are players who are goal scorers, and there are players who lead the team. There are players who build, and Chloe is the culmination of all of that,” Minnesota coach Brad Frost told The Athletic. “There’s nothing I don’t like about Chloe Primerano.”
Her record-breaking path: Chloe grew up playing with boys, which is not unusual. What’s unusual is that in 2022, she became the first female skater to be drafted into the men’s Canadian Hockey League.
Instead of joining the CHL, she joined an elite hockey academy, got to play against the girls, and spent two dominant seasons winning back-to-back Prep League championships and setting single-season goals and points records. I spent .
She made her international debut at the U18 World Championships in January this year, where she was named MVP and set a tournament record for most goals scored by a defender.
The big picture: In four years, Clark went from an unknown freshman to college basketball’s GOAT to one of the nation’s most celebrated athletes, taking her sport and her league’s popularity to previously unimaginable levels. Ta. Could Primerano have a similar impact on women’s hockey?
Clark had a better head start given basketball’s relative popularity, but women’s hockey is bigger than you think. The Professional Women’s Hockey League had a successful launch campaign this spring, with the 2022 Olympic gold medal game between the United States and Canada drawing even more attention. It drew more viewers (3.54 million) than any NHL game that season.
For the sport to take its next leap forward, it will need to hire marketable, talented young stars to attract new fans and excite existing ones. Come in, Chloe.
What to watch for: A wider audience may soon get to know Chloe better: She attended Team Canada’s training camp last month and will play in the annual rivalry series against the United States starting in November. Chances are you’ll be ready to play.
📸 In Pictures: Cliff Diving in Türkiye
The world’s best cliff divers touched down in Antalya, Turkey, last weekend for the seventh destination of the 2024 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series.
RESULTS: Australia’s Rhiannan Iffland (pictured above) extends her position at the top of the women’s rankings with her fifth win of 2024, while Great Britain’s Aidan Heslop dominates the men’s division with her fourth win of the season. Ta.
Season: Competitions begin in Boston (June 8), followed by Italy (June 30), Northern Ireland (July 20), Norway (August 10), Montreal (August 25), Turkey (9 I stopped by on the 29th of May. The final match of the season will be held in Sydney, Australia next month (November 10th).
By the numbers, men dive from a 27-meter (88.5-foot) platform, while women dive from a 21-meter (69-foot) platform. The flight takes about 3 seconds, reaches speeds of more than 50 miles per hour, and hits the water with a force two to three times greater than gravity.
*Did you know: Antalya surpassed Paris and New York City last year to become the fourth most visited city in the world (16.5 million tourists) after Istanbul, London and Dubai.
📆 October 3, 1951: Gunshots heard around the world
73 years ago today, Bobby Thomson hit “The Shot Heard the World,” a three-run walk-off home run that defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers and sent the New York Giants to the World Series.
“The Giants won the pennant! The Giants won the pennant! The Giants won the pennant!”
— Giants announcer Russ Hodges
Fun fact: If Thomson hadn’t had those clutch hits, the Giants would still have one out and a much better hitter at the plate. Standing in the circle on deck was a 20-year-old rookie named. Willie Mays.
What they’re saying: “I remember just kind of hyperventilating as I was floating around the base,” Thomson recalled in a 2006 interview. “I knew what I had done, but it was unbelievable. … It was a very loud sound for a long time. It was an unbelievable roar that went on for a long time.”
Brooklyn’s Ralph Branca said in 2014, “I was a good pitcher, but I was only known for throwing home run pitches to Thomson.”
“All I could say was ‘sink, sink, sink’. But I knew it was completely gone…People say I’m famous, but I’m not famous. It is said that it has increased.
Aftermath: The Giants lost the World Series to the Yankees in six games. Decades later, it was revealed that the Giants had been stealing signs that year, and the Giants’ late-season heroics were called into question, but Thomson remained in the spotlight until his death in 2010. He claimed he didn’t know.
📺 Watchlist: Win or Go Home
The Brewers and Mets will play a decisive Game 3 tonight (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) to close out the wild-card round. The winner advances to play the Phillies in the NLDS.
Also noteworthy:
🏈 NFL: Buccaneers vs. Falcons (8:15 p.m., Prime) … Atlanta is a 1.5-point favorite.
⛳️ Korn Ferry Tour: Championship* (1 p.m. Golf) … at French Lick Golf Resort.
🏈 NCAAF: Troy, Texas (7 p.m., ESPNU). Sam Houston at UTEP (9 p.m., CBSSN)
🏒 NHL Preseason: Devils at Flyers (7 p.m., NHL); Avalanche at Golden Knights (10 p.m., NHL)
*PGA Tour Cards Now Available: The top 30 players on the Korn Ferry points list over the weekend will earn 2025 PGA Tour cards. 17 golfers have already won, and there are still 13 cards left to win.
🏈 NFL Trivia
Patrick Mahomes is currently the favorite to win his third MVP award, something only six other players have achieved.
Question: Can you tell me the names of those six players?
Hint: 5 QBs (4 of whom played this century) and 1 RB.
The answer is at the bottom.
🏈 NFL Mock Draft 1.0
Colorado teammates Travis Hunter and Shedule Sanders are in the top five in the first NFL mock draft of the season, courtesy of Nate Theis and Charles McDonald of Yahoo Sports.
Top 10:
Jaguars: Will Campbell, OT (LSU)
Dolphins: Hunter, CB/WR (Colorado)
Patriots: Kelvin Banks Jr., OT (Texas)
Bengals: Mason Graham, DT (Michigan State)
Browns: Sanders, QB (Colorado)
Titans: Will Johnson, CB (Michigan State)
Panthers: Abdul Carter, Edge (Penn State)
Rams: Cam Ward, QB (Miami)
Cardinals: Deone Walker, DL (Kentucky)
Giants: Garrett Nussmeier, QB (LSU)
Full 1st round: Select places 11-32
Trivia Answer: Peyton Manning (5x MVP), Aaron Rodgers (4x), Tom Brady (3x), Johnny Unitas (3x), Brett Favre (3x), Jim Brown (3x)
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