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In Cleveland, Donovan Mitchell and the Cavaliers sent a message to the rest of the NBA Cup's East Group B, dismantling the Philadelphia seventy-sixers one hundred nineteen to ninety-five. Cleveland opened with a nineteen to four run and never looked back, snapping Philly's five-game winning streak on a brutal night for both Joel Embiid and LeBron James.
Shifting to college hoops, number four UConn made it clear last season was no fluke, knocking off number sixteen Michigan eighty-three to seventy-one in a national championship rematch at Boston's TD Garden. The crowd was heavily pro-Huskies, and UConn fed off that energy, with Braylon Mullins leading the charge in a dominant performance from start to finish.
And on the high school gridiron, North Kingstown senior Nick Stafford turned a rainy, waterlogged mess of a field into his personal highlight reel, rushing for four touchdowns to power the Skippers past Central thirty-four to seven in the Division One playoffs. Stafford controlled the conditions, and North Kingstown controlled the game.
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