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Tarik Skubal is wasting absolutely no time. Less than two weeks removed from elbow surgery to clear out a loose body, the Tigers ace is already back on the mound throwing bullpen sessions and reporting zero symptoms. For Detroit, that is enormous news — Skubal is the engine of that rotation, and every day he looks healthy is a day the Tigers breathe a little easier heading into the stretch.
Shifting gears to the octagon — Colby Covington is done. The former interim welterweight champion and three-time title challenger officially informed the UFC he's retiring, and the organization wasted no time updating his fighter page to reflect it. Love him or hate him, Covington was must-watch television, a guy who understood the assignment when it came to selling a fight. The welterweight division moves on, but it'll feel the absence of that energy.
And in football, Xabi Alonso is Chelsea-bound, and the soccer world cannot stop talking about it. One of the most coveted managers in Europe is walking into Stamford Bridge, a club notorious for its dysfunction and revolving door of coaches. Whether Alonso can impose his identity on that environment is the real question — and Liverpool fans are quietly wondering why their former midfield icon didn't come home instead.
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