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Ryan Day is not mincing words after Ohio State's late collapse in Austin. The Buckeyes head coach says the loss to Texas is going to force some hard decisions, and that kind of language from a head coach in September carries real weight. Something is getting shaken up in Columbus.
Meanwhile in Kansas City, the Chiefs looked every bit like a dynasty reloaded in Week one. Patrick Mahomes, fresh off that knee injury, helped dismantle the Denver Broncos thirty-one to ten on Monday Night Football, and the Super Bowl odds machinery is already spinning back in Kansas City's favor. But the more interesting subplot out of that game is undrafted rookie Xavier Gipson out of Indiana, who outplayed every rookie peer on the field and gave Andy Reid a legitimate weapon he didn't have to draft to find.
And off the ice, Alex Ovechkin is at the center of a serious political controversy. The Washington Capitals confirmed their captain appeared in an advertisement for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, saying Ovechkin was asked to participate while home in Moscow this summer. The Capitals are walking a careful line, but this story is not going away quietly.
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