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The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series for the first time since nineteen eighty-two, and the city is absolutely electric. After sweeping the Dodgers out of the NLCS, Milwaukee punched their Fall Classic ticket behind a captain who set the tone from pitch one. Forty-four years of waiting is finally over.
Shifting to the NBA, the league is tightening the screws on sports betting ahead of this season. A memo sent to sportsbook partners prohibits certain wager types, including the player prop parlay format that surfaced in recent gambling scandals. The league is drawing a hard line, and they want their partners to enforce it.
And out of Formula One, Alpine driver Franco Colapinto is speaking directly to his own fanbase, and he is not happy. Following a string of incidents at Zandvoort, Madrid, and Baku, hateful messages flooded the accounts of FIA stewards, Pierre Gasly, and Lando Norris. Colapinto went public telling supporters bluntly that their online abuse is not helping him or his future.
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