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The MLB Draft is underway and all eyes are on Chicago, where the White Sox hold the number one overall pick. This is a franchise that has been rebuilding for years, and today's selection carries serious weight — whoever they call first sets the tone for the next decade on the South Side. Follow along pick by pick as the board fills out.
Shifting to the hardwood, Caitlin Clark is at the center of controversy again — and this time it's the All-Star vote drawing fire. A former WNBA star has come out calling the results insulting, reigniting the debate around Clark's visibility, the league's fanbase dynamics, and whether the voting process actually reflects the game's best players. This one is not going away quietly.
And in the WNBA, Rae Burrell put on a show for Los Angeles, dropping seventeen points off the start against Chicago in a one-hundred-two to eighty-seven Sparks victory. Burrell hit four of six from three-point range in thirty-three minutes of work, giving head coach Curt Miller exactly the kind of wing scoring this team needs as they push to climb above five hundred. Eleven thousand fans inside Crypto dot com Arena saw it live.
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