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Caitlin Clark is back and she made sure everyone knew it. The Indiana Fever guard returned from a one-game back absence and dropped twenty-two points in a ninety to eighty-two win over the Golden State Valkyries, then told reporters the injury is not anything of concern. After a difficult twenty twenty-five season, that's exactly what Fever fans needed to hear.
And Clark isn't just healthy, she's on the verge of history. Sitting at nine assists per game this season, she's closing in fast on Courtney Vandersloot's all-time WNBA assists record, and it could fall as early as her next game. When you're averaging nearly twenty-four points alongside that kind of playmaking, you're not just breaking records, you're rewriting what this league looks like.
Shifting to college football, the SEC is making a significant structural move, eliminating the so-called cupcake games from the week before conference play begins. Texas A&M's twenty twenty-seven schedule is already taking shape under the new nine-game SEC format, and programs across the conference will feel the scheduling squeeze as the league tightens its calendar and raises the competitive floor.
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