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F1 fans saw history made at Monza thanks to Max Verstappen
Formula 1 history was made Sunday at the Temple of Speed.
Max Verstappen took home the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, marking his tenth straight victory in F1 and setting a new record in the process. Having tied Sebastian Vettel’s mark of nine straight wins last week in the Dutch Grand Prix, Verstappen went into the heart of Ferrari country and in front of a crowd willing Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc to the front of the field, put his name into the record books.
Author: Michael
No one in the more than 70-year history of Formula 1 has won more consecutive races than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. He locked up his 10th straight win by taking P1 in the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.
While there were battles throughout the field, including a late-race battle between both Ferraris for the final step of the podium, Verstappen checked out and spent most of the Grand Prix as much as 10 seconds up the road.
That’s not the biggest margin of victory he has had this season, but it was still dominant.
Deion Sanders made his long-awaited regular season debut as Colorado’s coach and did so in incredible fashion this weekend. The unranked Buffaloes shocked the college football world after winning a shootout with No. 17 TCU 45–42 on Saturday and on Sunday morning, the speech Sanders gave his team before the big win started making the rounds online and it didn’t disappoint.
Warning: wanting to run through a brick wall may follow.
“This has nothing to do with the team that’s opposing us. This is about us,” Sanders said in the locker room before the game.
Want a sign of tennis’s health? This marks the first U.S. Open in the post-Federer/Serena era. And not only is this scarcely a storyline, but attendance at this event has set three records in the first six days of play. Grounds passes are priced exorbitantly. There are multi-changeover lines for restrooms.
The Yankees’ youngsters drove in four of the team’s five runs in their 5-4 win over the Astros on Saturday night in Houston.
This past college football offseason was one of the most eventful in history. After all, it’s not every day that a Power 5 conference falls before your very eyes.
By the start of the college football season this week, all but two teams from the Pac-12 are set to leave the conference, leaving only Oregon State and Washington State. Ironically, the conference balled out in Week 1 of the 2023 college football season, winning every game it played — as of Sunday morning.
What looked to be another highly entertaining game in the making between North Carolina and South Carolina on Saturday night turned into the Tar Heels defense running the Gamecocks out of Charlotte in a 31-17 win. UNC’s defensive performance had Mack Brown breaking out the dance moves in the postgame locker room celebration.
The quarterback duel between Drake Maye and Spencer Rattler had all the makings of a game ending on the final drive. But the pregame narrative slowly turned into a nightmare for the Gamecocks offensive line, who could not contain a rabid Gene Chizik defensive unit.
ORLANDO — LSU football coach Brian Kelly threw caution to the wind last week on his radio show.
“We’re going to go beat the heck out of Florida State,” he said simply.
That’s usually something a player might say, and his coach gets mad.
Coaches also usually do not go for two at home in overtime when an extra point would tie and a failed two-point conversion would lose the game. But that’s what Kelly did against Alabama last season, and won.
Apparently, Kelly is going for it in his second season at LSU.
When most people think of what a college football kicker looks like they usually think of a small, skinnier dude.
What they don’t think of is the kind of guy that could just easily be vacuuming up rebounds playing center on the basketball court as they are kicking field goals.
Well, Montana State Bobcats kicker Brendan Hall is exactly that kind of kicker.
The junior out of Springtown, Texas measures in at 6-foot-9 and 232 pounds.
He’s a big dude and when he trotted out to kick an extra point early in the Bobcats game against Utah Tech, his height blew people’s brains.
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Max Verstappen is on the cusp of history, but can Ferrari deny him at Monza?
If you are reading this then you probably know: Max Verstappen is on the cusp of Formula 1 history.
Having won nine straight races, one more victory would put his name in the history books. Verstappen currently sits level with Sebastian Vettel’s mark of nine straight wins, set back in 2013. With a win in the Italian Grand Prix, Verstappen will set a new F1 standard.
But it will not be easy given what we saw on Saturday. Instead of Verstappen on pole, it will be Carlos Sainz Jr.