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In Sacramento, UFC Fight Night delivered a card worth talking about for a while. Thirteen fights, ten finishes, eight of them knockouts — that's a night that does the work for you. Two fighters came in with game plans so misguided they almost seemed designed to fail, and the results were exactly as painful as you'd expect.
Shifting to the Premier League, Newcastle and Liverpool kicked off their seasons with genuine stakes and fresh faces on the pitch. Jacquet and Ngumoha both earned starting spots as both clubs look to establish the tone of what they're building. Early-season openers like this one carry weight, and neither side came in treating it like a warmup.
And over in Nashville, SC pulled off the kind of result that fuels a title run. Down and nearly out, the club scored twice in stoppage time — Reed Baker-Whiting and Andy Najar doing the damage — to steal a three-two win over Columbus. Midfielder Patrick Yazbek called it one for the memory books, and honestly, it's hard to argue with that.
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