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Spencer Strider is heading to the injured list, and the timing could not be worse for Atlanta. The Braves placed their ace on the fifteen-day IL with inflammation in his right elbow, a diagnosis that sends real concern through a rotation that was already leaning heavily on him to carry the staff deep into the season.
Shifting to the octagon, Alex Pereira stepped on the scale at two hundred fifty one pounds ahead of Sunday night's heavyweight title fight against Ciryl Gane at UFC Freedom two fifty, held at the White House of all places. Pereira is coming in massive and confident, and Gane will need every bit of his technical precision to slow down a champion who hits like a freight train.
And the story nobody saw coming out of Cleveland — James Harden has been arrested in Houston on a charge of unlawful carrying of a weapon. Police say officers spotted a handgun in plain view on the seat of Harden's vehicle. The Cavaliers have not yet issued a formal statement, but this one is going to follow the guard well beyond the basketball court in the days ahead.
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