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Conor McGregor's UFC three twenty nine return lasted sixty nine seconds before a torn ACL ended the night, and now the debate is raging — was McGregor mentally there at all? Darren Till says absolutely yes, firing back hard at the body-language crowd, insisting people making that call simply don't understand fighting at the highest level.
Shifting to the gridiron, the Los Angeles Rams are generating serious buzz heading into the new season. Five ten-win campaigns in six years, a brutal NFC Championship loss to Seattle last year, and now the front office has made some of the boldest offseason moves in the entire league. The question isn't whether Sean McVay has built a contender — it's whether this is genuinely his best roster yet.
And over in Lawrence, Kansas basketball is monitoring big man Christian Reeves closely as fall camp approaches. The seven foot two, two hundred sixty pound center played through a shoulder injury last season at Charleston, and coach Bill Self has kept him in non-contact work through early October. When he's healthy, that's a massive presence in the paint for the Jayhawks.
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