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Caleb Williams is making noise in Chicago again, and it's only training camp. The Bears quarterback is heading into his third season off the back of a historic sophomore year, where he broke the franchise's single-season passing record and led a jaw-dropping seven fourth quarter comebacks, including in the playoffs. The kid is building something real on the north side.
Shifting to the diamond, with Tarik Skubal now headed to Los Angeles after a blockbuster deal to the Dodgers, the rest of the league is scrambling for rotation help before the deadline. The starting pitching market is still alive, and contenders who missed out on Skubal will need to move fast. The window is closing and the names still available won't last long.
And in the WNBA, a star is quietly rewriting the rookie conversation in Chicago. Sydney Taylor, undrafted and overlooked coming out, just buried a game-winning three-pointer against Las Vegas to cap a performance that has her firmly in the Rookie of the Year discussion. Nobody saw her coming, and now nobody can look away.
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