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Shohei Ohtani is out of the Dodgers lineup for a third consecutive game Saturday, still nursing neck and right arm soreness that surfaced in Wednesday's loss to St. Louis. Los Angeles has not placed him on the injured list, but the silence around a timeline is making people nervous in Southern California.
Shifting to the college football weekend, and Alabama freshman quarterback Keelon Russell came out swinging in Tuscaloosa, accounting for three hundred thirty five yards and a touchdown in a forty eight to ten dismantling of East Carolina. His teammates and coaches are already talking about the ceiling on this kid, and right now that ceiling looks very, very high.
And in a moment that transcended sport entirely, Katie Taylor closed the book on one of boxing's great careers Saturday night at Croke Park in Dublin. The Irish icon walked away a three-time undisputed world champion, with eighty thousand of her own people sending her off in a fashion that matched every single thing she gave to the game across two decades of excellence.
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