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Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever were handed a rough welcome to the playoffs, falling to A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces one hundred and two to eighty-five in Game one. Clark called the performance sloppy, and she wasn't wrong — the Fever looked disorganized against a team that punished every mistake without mercy.
Meanwhile in Brazil, the NFL made quite an entrance at the Maracanã. Baltimore Ravens kicker Tyler Loop drilled a fifty-six yard field goal as time expired to beat the Dallas Cowboys thirty-four to thirty-one, then launched into Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic Siu celebration — and the Brazilian crowd roared it right back at him. Only in football.
And on the Messi front, Inter Miami are pushing to extend the Argentine's contract beyond two thousand twenty-eight, potentially keeping him in pink through two thousand thirty. That would carry Messi well into his forties and almost certainly make Miami the final chapter of the greatest career the sport has ever seen. Nothing signed yet, but the dream is very much alive.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
