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College football is back and Week one is loaded. Thirty-four games on the slate with Lane Kiffin making his LSU debut, Arch Manning taking his next steps under center at Texas, and Indiana carrying genuine title expectations into the new season. The sport feels wide open and the first weekend sets the tone.
Shifting to the diamond, Pete Crow-Armstrong is doing something that felt genuinely impossible just months ago. The Cubs outfielder has surged past Shohei Ohtani as the front-runner for NL MVP, and that sentence should stop you cold. Ohtani has owned that award for years running, but Crow-Armstrong's second-half explosion has the baseball world rethinking everything heading into the final month.
And in women's basketball, the United States opened World Cup play with an absolute statement. Caitlin Clark and Rhyne Howard each dropped fourteen points as the Americans rolled past China by thirty-three. Clark continues to operate at a level that makes every game feel like an event, and this tournament is already off to a flying start.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
