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Florida State is in freefall. The Seminoles jumped out to a fourteen-nothing lead over Louisville before watching it all collapse in a forty-four to twenty loss. Coach Mike Norvell didn't dodge the heat afterward, calling it an extremely poor performance and shouldering the blame himself. The pressure on his program is real and it is mounting.
Out west, history was made in the WNBA. The Golden State Valkyries swept the defending champion Las Vegas Aces in three games, winning eighty-seven to seventy-seven in overtime to punch their ticket to the Finals. In just their second year of existence, they are the fastest expansion franchise ever to reach the WNBA's biggest stage. That is a remarkable story unfolding in real time.
And in the NHL, Cam Talbot wrote his name into the record books Friday night. The thirty-nine-year-old goaltender stopped twenty shots as the Columbus Blue Jackets edged Pittsburgh three to two in a shootout, giving Talbot a win with his ninth different franchise, a mark no netminder in league history has ever reached. Nine teams, one legend.
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