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The Stanley Cup Final is all square after Jordan Staal put on an absolute clinic in Game four Tuesday night. The Carolina Hurricanes knocked off the Vegas Golden Knights five to three, and Staal's game-winner was something you have to see to believe — the man was flat on his stomach, backhanding a puck into the net at six thirty-two of the third period. Series tied, two games apiece, and Carolina is very much alive.
Shifting from the ice to the pitch, Lionel Messi reminded eighty-eight thousand fans in Alabama exactly why the conversation starts and ends with him. The Argentine icon came off the bench in the seventieth minute and scored from the penalty spot almost immediately, capping a three to nothing Inter Miami win over Iceland. He's working back from muscle fatigue ahead of the World Cup, and if this is rust, the world is in serious trouble.
And in Chicago, a debut for the ages. White Sox prospect Braden Montgomery became just the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit a walk-off home run in his very first big league game. The White Sox continue to surprise, and Montgomery just wrote himself into the record books on night one.
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