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Florida State's ACC opener turned into a nightmare before a single snap was taken. A power outage at Doak Campbell Stadium delayed kickoff by over ninety minutes, leaving the Seminoles without PA, without helmet communication, without rhythm — and ultimately without a win, falling to nineteenth-ranked SMU twenty-seven to twenty-four in a game that felt cursed from the start.
Across the Atlantic, Cardiff City manager Brian Barry-Murphy is urging patience after his side dropped to the Championship relegation zone, sitting on just three points through five matches following a two-nil defeat to Portsmouth. Barry-Murphy insists the Bluebirds have the quality to turn it around, but time and the table are both working against him right now.
And at the US Open, Zheng Qinwen delivered the biggest result of the tournament so far, stunning world number one Iga Swiatek in a comeback victory that sends the Paris Olympics gold medalist into the quarter-finals. She'll face Elena Rybakina next, while top men's seed Alexander Zverev cruised past Luciano Darderi in straight sets to book his own place in the final eight.
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