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In the WNBA, Paige Bueckers put on a clinic in Dallas, dropping thirty-two points to power the Wings past the Seattle Storm ninety-two to seventy. Twenty-three of those came in the first half alone, and the Wings never looked back, controlling the game wire to wire with a dominant opening stretch.
Over in Indiana, Kelsey Mitchell and Caitlin Clark turned the third quarter into a shooting gallery, combining to go seven for nine from deep as the Fever pulled away from the Chicago Sky. That kind of perimeter efficiency in a critical window is exactly what Indiana needs as the playoff picture sharpens in the East.
And from the auction block, a piece of football history just changed hands for two and a half million pounds. The ball Diego Maradona punched into the net against England in the nineteen eighty-six World Cup quarter-final, the infamous Hand of God, sold at auction forty years after one of the most controversial moments the sport has ever seen. Whoever owns it now holds something truly irreplaceable.
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