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Pete Crow-Armstrong just wrote his name into baseball history. The Cubs outfielder swiped his fortieth base of the season on Thursday, making him just the seventh player in major league history to reach the forty-forty club. That's forty home runs and forty stolen bases in a single season — elite, rare, and absolutely legitimate.
Shifting to the gridiron, NFL Week four is here and it's the moment where early-season noise either becomes signal or fades into nothing. The first three weeks handed us plenty of strong opinions, but September has a way of lying to you — this weekend we find out what's real and what was a mirage, with several contenders facing tests that could reshape the entire conversation.
And speaking of tests, the college football landscape is a minefield this Saturday. Michigan and Texas are among the top-twenty-five programs being flagged on upset alert, facing opponents who are quietly dangerous enough to pull off something significant. Heavy favorites have been warned — Week four in college football has a history of humbling the overconfident.
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