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The Liberty are now just a win away from completing the series sweep in a rematch of last season’s WNBA Finals.

Jordan Montgomery had the worst ERA in MLB among pitchers with at least 100 innings this year.

Legendary Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, 63, was abruptly pulled from the Spanish broadcast last week and hospitalized with an undisclosed health condition. 
The Los Angeles Dodgers have not released details on the state of Valenzuela — the 17-year, left-handed pitcher who brought a World Series championship to Chavez Ravine in 1981. He spent 11 seasons pitching for the Southland.
Valenzuela is not expected to rejoin the team for the upcoming LA postseason, a saddening update for the LA faithful expected to listen to El Toro narrate this season’s star-studded team.

If you need another sign that the participation medal you got from running a fun run at your local park is a joke, look no further than the goat that was given one for running part of a half-marathon.
Not even the whole thing.
According to CBC News, the town of Conception Bay South in Newfoundland was hosting a T’Railway Trek Half Marathon with 250 runners ready to traverse the 13.1 (or however many kilometers that is) course.

The Major League Baseball postseason is officially underway, and even on day one of the wild card round, it’s already delivering drama.
It started with the Houston Astros hosting the Detroit Tigers, a seeming mismatch favoring the perennial playoff powerhouse Astros. But the Tigers, despite their weaknesses, do have one major advantage: soon-to-be AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal. And in his first ever postseason start, on the road, Skubal was dominant.
Skubal struck out six over six shutout innings, allowing just four hits and one walk.

The All-Pro wideout may be on his way out of Las Vegas. Would a reunion with Aaron Rodgers make sense? Several Super Bowl contenders could sure use him.

The All-Pro wideout may be on his way out of Las Vegas. Would a reunion with Aaron Rodgers make sense? Several Super Bowl contenders could surely use him.

Saturday night’s game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Georgia Bulldogs was the biggest game of the college football season to date, and it delivered a roller coaster of an instant classic that people will talk about for a long time.
But did it deliver strong TV ratings befitting of a game as anticipated and talked about as it was?
Yes… yes, it did.
The game averaged a 6.0 rating and 11.99 million viewers on ABC, which made it the most-watched college football game this season, according to Nielsen. 
The game saw its peak viewership of 14.

I don’t know what is going on this year, but there seems to have been an abundance of injuries to some big names that will be causing some teams headaches in the early going of this preseason, and the latest is Montreal Canadiens forward Patrik Laine who will miss two to three months after sustaining an injury in a nasty knee-to-knee hit over the weekend.
Laine and the Canadiens were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs when Laine carried the puck into the zone early in the first period where he was hit knee-on-knee by Toronto’s Cedric Pare.

For the second time in the past week, a women’s college volleyball team has refused to compete against San Jose State, which has a transgender player in its starting lineup. 
The University of Wyoming announced in a statement that the team would forfeit its Saturday match against SJSU, which has biological male Blaire Fleming on its team. 
Last week, Boise State forfeited against San Jose State, accepting a loss in the process. 
Previously, Southern Utah refused to face SJSU in a non-conference match as part of the Santa Clara Tournament.