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Dante Moore was taken off the field by ambulance in the second quarter Saturday at USC, after a brutal targeting hit by Trojans defender Desman Stephens the Second. Stephens drew immediate condemnation not just for the hit itself, but for celebrating it — a moment that has college football talking this morning.
Shifting to the diamond, the Yankees are walking into the MLB playoffs carrying sixteen years of World Series hunger and a roster full of question marks. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton both enter with durability concerns, and while New York's rotation looks elite on paper, this franchise has been here before and come up empty. The pressure is real, and it is earned.
And out in Columbus, Jeremiah Smith just announced himself to the entire country. The Ohio State receiver hauled in twelve catches for two hundred seventeen yards and four touchdowns against Illinois, and the Heisman market responded immediately — his odds jumping from plus thirteen hundred all the way to plus three hundred. The freshman is not waiting his turn.
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