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Iowa football is back and rolling heading into Week eight against Minnesota. The fourteenth-ranked Hawkeyes are five and one at the midseason mark, and that offense is clicking. Kamari Moulton went off for a career-high two hundred eight rushing yards in the win over Washington, and the depth chart is set for Saturday's showdown with the Golden Gophers.
Meanwhile in Atlanta, the Falcons are sliding down the power rankings after dropping one to the Bears. This team has been a rollercoaster in two thousand twenty six — Cooper Rush threw his way out of a job with a string of ugly turnovers, got released Monday, and now Andy Dalton steps in. Michael Penix Junior's return had this offense humming, but that Bears loss stings and the window to recover is closing fast.
Over in MotoGP, Honda is in full crisis mode heading into the Australian Grand Prix. Joan Mir misses his fourth straight race dealing with chronic fatigue, and their test riders are all sidelined with injuries. That leaves Luca Marini as the lone Honda on the grid this weekend — not exactly the factory presence the team had in mind heading down under.
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