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The basketball world is mourning tonight. Bob Pettit, the two-time NBA MVP and one of the most dominant forces the game has ever seen, has passed away at ninety-three. An All-Star in all eleven of his NBA seasons, Pettit set the standard for what a power forward could be, and his legacy in the Hall of Fame is as permanent as it gets.
Shifting to baseball, the Chicago Cubs are October-bound for the second consecutive year after a tight two-to-one win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday. The Cubs punched their ticket to the postseason with a performance that showed just enough grit to get the job done, and the north side of Chicago is celebrating tonight.
And perhaps the most remarkable story in baseball this season belongs to the Chicago White Sox, who have now clinched at least an American League wild-card berth. After three hundred twenty-four losses over the previous three seasons, including back-to-back hundred-loss campaigns, win number eighty-two made history. No team has ever pulled off that kind of turnaround, and no one can say they saw this coming.
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