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🚨 Headlines
🏈 Chiefs keep excellent: The Chiefs beat the Saints, 26-13, on “Monday Night time Soccer” to enhance to 5-0 for the primary time since 2018 — Patrick Mahomes’ first yr as their beginning QB.
🏀 Shams replaces Woj: Shams Charania is leaving The Athletic for ESPN, the place he’ll substitute Adrian Wojnarowski because the community’s new Senior NBA Insider.
⛳️ Clark hits the hyperlinks: Caitlin Clark will compete within the pro-am subsequent month at The Annika, the penultimate occasion on the LPGA schedule.
🏈 Costly celebrations: Vanderbilt and Arkansas each obtained six-figure fines from the SEC after followers stormed the sector following their upset wins over Alabama and Tennessee on Saturday.
🌪️ Milton’s affect: A number of school soccer video games this weekend may very well be impacted by Hurricane Milton, anticipated to make landfall in Florida by Wednesday. The Buccaneers are additionally evacuating Tampa and spending the week in New Orleans earlier than taking part in the Saints on Sunday.
🏒 The NHL is again
The NHL season begins in earnest tonight with a tripleheader on ESPN, because the 2024-25 marketing campaign will get underway stateside after the puck formally dropped in Prague this previous weekend.
Acquainted favorites: The Oilers and Panthers, final yr’s finalists, open the season as Stanley Cup favorites forward of a quartet of groups sitting not too far behind in a tie for third.
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Oilers (+800 at BetMGM): Simply 4 months faraway from their heartbreaking Sport 7 loss, Edmonton will once more attempt to snap their three-decade championship drought behind the celebrity duo of Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.
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Panthers (+900): Recent off their first Stanley Cup title and second consecutive look, Florida might develop into the second workforce this century to succeed in three straight Finals (Lightning, 2020-22).
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Avalanche (+1100): Solely the Bruins (163 wins) and Hurricanes (158) have extra wins within the final three years than Colorado (157), who search an eighth straight journey to the playoffs.
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Stars (+1100): Dallas has made at the least the convention finals in two consecutive years, and three of the final 5, however nonetheless have not gained the title since 1999. Is that this the yr they recover from the hump?
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Devils (+1100): New Jersey has made the playoffs simply twice within the final decade, however bought off to an ideal begin by sweeping the Sabres within the World Collection over the weekend.
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Rangers (+1100): New York gained the Presidents’ Trophy* (greatest file) and reached the convention finals of their first yr underneath Peter Laviolette (third-most wins amongst lively coaches). What does Yr 2 maintain?
Extra on the season forward:
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Welcome to Salt Lake Metropolis: The Utah Hockey Membership debuts tonight after the Arizona Coyotes had been bought and relocated to Salt Lake Metropolis. They share an proprietor (Ryan Smith) and an area with the NBA’s Jazz.
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Teaching carousel: Eight of 32 groups have a brand new head coach this season: Blue Jackets (Dean Evason), Sharks (Ryan Warsofsky), Kraken (Dan Bylsma), Jets (Scott Arniel), Devils (Sheldon Keefe), Maple Leafs (Craig Berube), Senators (Travis Inexperienced), Sabres (Lindy Ruff).
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4 Nations Face-Off: In lieu of this season’s All-Star Sport, high gamers from the USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland will play a week-long event in February as an appetizer for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which is able to embrace NHL gamers for the primary time since 2014.
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Chasing Gretzky: Alex Ovechkin (853 objectives) is 42 objectives away from passing Wayne Gretzky (894) for probably the most in NHL historical past. The 39-year-old scored a career-low 31 objectives final yr (not together with shortened-seasons), however he scored 42 only one season earlier.
*Beware the curse: The Rangers had been the eleventh straight Presidents’ Trophy winner that did not win the Stanley Cup. The truth is, none of these 11 groups even reached the Finals.
⚾️ Tigers tie the sequence on Carpenter’s clutch blast
Not all postseason house runs are created equal, and Kerry Carpenter’s game-winning blast on Monday in Cleveland is one Detroiters can be speaking about for years.
ICYMI: The Tigers DH hit a 423-foot, three-run bomb within the ninth inning to provide Detroit a 3-0 win over the Guardians and tie the ALDS at one sport apiece.
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Carpenter’s moonshot got here off his bat at 110.8 mph — the hardest-hit ball of his profession — and it made him the primary MLB participant with a two-out, two-strike, go-ahead postseason HR within the ninth inning since Kirk Gibson’s iconic homer within the 1988 World Collection.
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It was all of the extra unlikely as a result of it got here in opposition to all-world nearer Emmanuel Clase, who’d gone 16 straight appearances with out permitting a run and did not surrender a HR to a lefty all season.
Wild stat: Clase allowed almost as many earned runs on that one swing (3) as he did the complete common season (5).
Sure, however: That is what Carpenter has completed all yr. Solely 4 gamers had the next OPS than him in opposition to RHP this season (min. 250 PA). Their names? Aaron Choose, Shohei Ohtani, Bobby Witt Jr. and Juan Soto.
Shoutout to Skubal: Triple Crown winner Tarik Skubal was but once more untouchable for Detroit, putting out eight and permitting simply three hits in seven innings to increase his scoreless streak to 24.1 innings.
In the meantime, in New York… The Royals used a giant fourth inning to beat the Yankees, 4-2, and tie their ALDS at one sport apiece, too.
⛳️ Welcome to the massive leagues
Braden Thornberry picked a good time to earn his first skilled victory, profitable the Korn Ferry Tour Championship to safe PGA Tour membership for the 2025 season.
Flawless spherical: Thornberry, who entered the weekend in 51st on the season-long factors checklist, wanted to complete at the least solo second to climb into the highest 30 and earn his PGA Tour card. He did one higher, taking pictures a bogey-free 66 on Sunday for a one-stroke victory.
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The win vaulted him all the best way as much as No. 16, knocking 2023 Masters breakout star Sam Bennett out of the highest 30. They had been the one golfers whose fates flipped over the weekend.
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It is the primary time Thornberry, the previous top-ranked beginner and 2017 NCAA champ from Ole Miss, has earned a spot within the PGA Tour in 5 years since turning professional.
What he is saying: “My dad texted me this morning and sort of put it in my head, ‘You recognize, one good spherical, you possibly can be on the Tour,'” he stated. “So it is loopy to really go on the market and have that one-in-a-hundred spherical that you simply wanted on the actual proper time. It is simply wonderful.”
Welcome to the massive leagues: Thornberry was one among 30 golfers to earn that probably life-changing PGA Tour card.
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1-10: 1. Matt McCarty*, 2. Max McGreevy, 3. Frankie Capan III, 4. Steven Fisk, 5. Tim Widing, 6. Taylor Dickson, 7. Brian Campbell, 8. Harry Higgs, 9. Thomas Rosenmueller, 10. William Mouw
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11-20: 11. Quade Cummins, 12. Ryan Gerard, 13. Kevin Roy, 14. Cristobal Del Photo voltaic, 15. Kevin Velo, 16. Thornberry, 17. Paul Peterson, 18. Isaiah Salinda, 19. Karl Vilips, 20. Jackson Suber
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21-30: 21. Jeremy Paul, 22. Mason Andersen, 23. John Pak, 24. Kris Ventura, 25. Kaito Onishi, 26. Ricky Castillo, 27. Trevor Cone, 28. Danny Walker, 29. Aldrich Potgieter**, 30. Noah Goodwin
*Pure domination: McCarty clinched No. 1 two weeks in the past and earned his PGA Tour card in August after his third Korn Ferry win of the season, making him simply the thirteenth golfer to win a Three-Victory Promotion.
**Second-youngest ever: Potgieter (20 years, 23 days) is the second-youngest Korn Ferry graduate ever, trailing solely Jason Day, who was simply shy of his twentieth birthday when he graduated in 2007.
📆 Oct. 8, 1956: Larsen’s World Collection perfecto
68 years in the past immediately, Yankees righty Don Larsen pitched the one excellent sport in MLB postseason historical past, beating the Dodgers, 2-0, in Sport 5 of the World Collection.
Utterly in management: Larsen threw 71 of his 97 pitches for strikes and reached only one three-ball depend. Vin Scully, calling the sport for the visiting Dodgers, summed up Larsen’s achievement together with his patented gravitas and ease: “Girls and gents, it is the best sport ever pitched in baseball historical past.”
World Collection MVP: The Yankees went on to win the sequence in seven video games and Larsen was named MVP, an award that had been launched only one yr earlier — and one you’d by no means have anticipated him to win simply three days earlier.
The unlikely hero: Larsen was hardly a foul pitcher, however the man with a 30-40 profession file to that time was an unlikely candidate to make this sort of historical past. As sportswriter Dick Younger stated, “Rattling. The imperfect man simply pitched an ideal sport.”
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Larsen had allowed 9 runs in 5.2 innings throughout his solely two postseason begins earlier than the perfecto. That included the Yanks’ Sport 2 loss three days earlier, when he bought chased within the second inning after strolling 4 batters and permitting 4 runs.
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The truth is, after his Sport 2 dud he did not even count on to pitch once more within the sequence. He discovered he was beginning solely after arriving to the clubhouse that morning to seek out the warm-up ball in one among his footwear — a Yankees ritual.
One more reason his feat was so unlikely? No MLB pitcher had thrown an ideal sport since 1922, a 34-year drought that’s by far the longest ever between perfectos.
Unique membership: There have been simply two different postseason no-hitters in MLB historical past: Phillies RHP Roy Halladay within the 2010 NLDS and a quartet of Astros (Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero and Ryan Pressly) within the 2022 World Collection.
📺 Watchlist: Win or go house
The Lynx host the Solar tonight (8pm ET, ESPN2) in a winner-take-all Sport 5, with the victor securing a visit to the WNBA Finals in opposition to the Liberty.
Superstars face off: Minnesota’s Napheesa Collier (27.2 pts, 9.3 reb, 3.8 ast, 1.7 blk via six playoff video games) and Connecticut’s Alyssa Thomas* (16.2 pts, 8.7 reb, 10 ast, 1.2 stl) — each top-five MVP finishers — have been excellent this postseason.
Extra to observe:
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⚾️ NLDS: Phillies (1-1) at Mets (5pm, FS1); Dodgers (1-1) at Padres (9pm, FS1)
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🏒 NHL: Blues at Kraken (4:30pm, ESPN); Bruins at Panthers (7pm, ESPN); Blackhawks at Utah (10pm, ESPN)
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⚽️ Girls’s Champions League: Matchday 1 (12:45-3pm, YouTube)
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🏈 NCAAF: FIU at Liberty (7pm, CBSSN)
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🏀 NBA Preseason: Pacers at Hawks (7:30pm, NBA)
*Triple-double machine: Thomas recorded her WNBA-record fourth playoff triple-double final month. Nobody else in league historical past has multiple. Her 15 profession triple-doubles (common season and playoffs) are additionally almost 4 instances as many as second place (Sabrina Ionescu, 4).
🤔 Crew identify trivia
The Utah Hockey Membership (previously Arizona Coyotes), which debuts tonight, is one among 11 groups throughout the “Large 4” leagues whose identify would not finish in “S.”
Query: Are you able to identify the opposite 10?
Trace: 4 NHL, 4 NBA, two MLB, zero NFL.
Submitted by: Matthew Okay. (Dayton, Ohio)
Reply on the backside.
🏈 The youngsters are (higher than) alright
Jayden Daniels, Caleb Williams and Bo Nix have already mixed for 10 wins, the second-most by rookie QBs within the first 5 weeks of a season for the reason that 1970 merger.
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Daniels* (4-1) has led the Commanders to their greatest begin since 2008 whereas powering the league’s highest scoring offense (31 ppg).
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Williams (3-2) has as many 300-yard video games previously three weeks (two) as all different Bears rookie QBs ever.
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Nix (3-2) is the primary Broncos rookie QB to win three consecutive begins.
*MVP watch? Daniels’ MVP odds are as much as +1000 at BetMGM, fifth-best within the league behind solely Patrick Mahomes (+300), Josh Allen (+600), Lamar Jackson (+650) and C.J. Stroud (+700).
Trivia reply: Lightning, Kraken, Wild, Avalanche (NHL); Warmth, Magic, Thunder, Jazz (NBA); White Sox, Pink Sox (MLB)
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