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Las Vegas and Carolina put on an absolute spectacle last night in Game three of the Stanley Cup Final. The Golden Knights blew a four-nothing lead, watched Carolina rip off four straight to tie it, then Shea Theodore stepped up in double overtime to deliver the five-four winner. Vegas takes a two-one series lead, and the hockey world is still catching its breath.
Speaking of catching your breath, Jacob Misiorowski is making hitters do exactly that in Milwaukee. The Brewers fireballer uncorked a one-hundred-three-point-seven miles-per-hour fastball against Colorado Saturday night, the fastest pitch by a starting pitcher since tracking began in two-thousand-eight. The night wasn't without a scare though — a ninety-eight mile-per-hour offering got away from him and caught Tyler Freeman flush in the helmet. Freeman stayed in the game, but it was a sobering moment inside an otherwise electric performance.
And shifting to the pitch, Erling Haaland has done something Norway hasn't managed since nineteen-ninety-eight — punched a ticket to the World Cup. Born in Leeds, developed in Norway, now carrying an entire nation of five-and-a-half million people on his shoulders. The man is simply built different.
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