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College football is back and the eyes of the nation are on Baton Rouge, where ESPN's College GameDay sets up for the debut of the Lane Kiffin era at LSU. The Tigers open against Clemson in what is already one of the most anticipated matchups of week one, and Kiffin's arrival has that program buzzing with genuine title-game energy heading into the fall.
Meanwhile, the cycling world absorbs a significant blow as Tadej Pogacar is ruled out of the World Road Cycling Championships after that frightening crash at the Vuelta a Espana. The five-time Tour de France champion from Slovenia suffered a concussion, a fractured C-seven cervical vertebrae, and an open clavicle fracture. His season is over, and the sport feels his absence immediately.
And over at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, the two thousand twenty six US Open rolls into day seven with Coco Gauff back on Arthur Ashe Stadium, taking on Cristina Bucsa in round three. The defending champion is chasing history again, and with Madison Keys and Zheng Qinwen also on the schedule today, the American storylines at Flushing Meadows are impossible to ignore.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
