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American tennis is having a moment at Flushing Meadows. Frances Tiafoe and Alex Michelsen have both punched their tickets to the US Open quarterfinals, and Ben Shelton was deep into Sunday night's match with a real shot to join them. Three Americans in the quarters of a major — the drought dating back to two thousand three may finally be drying up.
Shifting to college football, meet Deuce Alexander. The Ole Miss wide receiver torched Louisville for not one but two sixty-two yard touchdown receptions in the same game. Same distance, twice, on the same night. The kid is a flat-out burner, and the Rebels suddenly look like a program with a genuine deep threat that defenses around the SEC are going to have to account for every single week.
And out in Melbourne, the NFL is going global in a big way. The San Francisco forty-niners and Los Angeles Rams are set to play Thursday night in Australia, and Kyle Shanahan is already anticipating a forty-niners fan takeover of the stadium. Sean McVay confirmed the Rams fly out Tuesday night — a quick turnaround for a game being played roughly nine thousand miles from home.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
