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The FAA threw the entire sports world into a tailspin Friday when it grounded all flights nationwide, leaving NBA, NHL, college, and NFL teams scrambling coast to coast. San Jose State's football squad actually made it to the tarmac before being turned around mid-departure, a gut punch for any program.
The good news came fast. The FAA lifted that ground stop, clearing the runway for NFL teams to get moving Saturday ahead of their weekend matchups. The San Francisco forty-niners, scheduled to face Dallas, were among the franchises watching the situation closely before finally getting the green light to head to Texas.
On the hardwood, number twenty-four Kentucky needed every last second to survive Northern Arizona at home. The Wildcats built a thirteen-point lead and nearly handed it back before Alex Wilkins buried a late three-pointer to seal a seventy-eight to seventy-seven nail-biter. A ranked team nearly dropping one at home to a mid-major — that locker room had to be humbled.
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