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Jiri Kulich has been through the kind of year no athlete should have to endure, fighting back from a blood clot that had everyone wondering if we'd ever see him in a Buffalo Sabres uniform again. Wonder no more. Kulich buried the go-ahead goal with six minutes and forty seconds left, lifting the Sabres over the Chicago Blackhawks four to three in a moment that meant everything.
Shifting to college football, San Diego State pulled off something remarkable Saturday night, knocking off Texas State thirty-one to twenty-nine despite being down thirteen players due to a mumps outbreak in the program. Jaylon Hawkins set the tone with a ninety-six yard kickoff return for a touchdown to open the second half, and Cameron Cooper sealed it with a thirty-two yard pick-six. Shorthanded and still standing.
And in Tucson, Arizona quarterback Noah Fifita was absolutely surgical, throwing for two hundred eighty-four yards and accounting for three touchdowns as the Wildcats dismantled Cincinnati thirty-five to seven. This came a day after a judge ruled two Arizona players ineligible, but Fifita made sure none of that noise mattered once the ball was snapped.
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