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History At Wrigley: Cubs Set Single-Game Home Run Record In 17-3 Rout Of Brewers
The Chicago Cubs are making history once again, but this time it comes at the expense of their division rival, the first-place Milwaukee Brewers. Following a convincing 17-3 victory, the Cubs found themselves back in the record books. The Cubs' offense was unstoppable on Monday night at Wrigley Field. Chicago set a franchise single-game record by launching nine home runs, capping off a historic month in which they hit over 60 home runs in August. Brewers starting pitcher Kyle Harrison had a start he will certainly want to forget, allowing nine earned runs in just 3.2 innings of work. Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman led the charge with three home runs, channeling his inner Pete Crow-Armstrong, who did the same earlier this week. Crow-Armstrong has been on an offensive tear this season, firmly placing himself alongside Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani in the National League MVP race. His spark has energized the rest of the lineup, as seven of nine Cubs starters hit home runs against the Brewers. With Monday night’s win, the Cubs still remain seven games behind the Brewers in the NL Central. However, they hold a comfortable five-game cushion over the Arizona Diamondbacks and San Diego Padres for the top Wild Card spot. With Chicago's offense firing on all cylinders, the Cubs are building the kind of momentum that wins in October. If Crow-Armstrong and company can sustain this production, nobody will want to face them come playoff time and that includes the World Series-favorite Dodgers.
Lane Kiffin Defends NFL Transfers While Steve Sarkisian Calls Moves 'Morally Wrong'
A Louisiana court ruling permitting NFL players to return to campus has ignited immediate pushback from college football’s top powerhouses. Despite heavy penalties from the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12, head coaches remain sharply divided over how to handle the roster chaos. To no one's surprise, LSU head coach Lane Kiffin is leaning right into the storm. Rather than diffusing the backlash over his latest roster additions, Kiffin doubled down during his Monday press conference, seemingly embracing the heat. "I feel like my decision should always be made in the best interest of the players that sit in this team room and not for my reputation and how the decisions play in the national media or other fanbases," Kiffin said. "I’ve never been that way and that could be wrong." Rather than backing down, Kiffin leaned directly into the chaos as he normally does. Kiffin framed college football and the NFL as two sides of the same coin, positioning the shift not as a temporary phase, but as the sport's inevitable future. "Those players and the people that hire me always know he’s constantly trying to do the best thing for them," Kiffin said. "So I struggle too. Even though that’s what you do in the NFL and there’s an argument that these players are paid like that and it’s what happened yesterday." Kiffin might back it, but Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian isn't buying in. In fact, he's questioning the very ethics of bringing former NFL players into the college game. "The fact that somebody out there is going to take a player off of an NFL roster and tell somebody who’s been doing it for nine months to go kick rocks, that doesn’t sit well with me" Sarkisian said. "I think that’s wrong. That morally is wrong." Even with the brutally honest response from Sarkisian, Kiffin took the matter to LSU’s player leadership committee before making any moves. Even if Kiffin isn’t solely to blame, he’s clearly shielding his decision behind the green light from his team. "I met with our leadership committee and every one of them was emphatic about, 'If they can help us win, bring them,'" Kiffin said. "We understand that we have a team that's practiced together all offseason, but this is how it works at the next level and this is how the real world works." Whether you side with Kiffin's cold pragmatism or Sarkisian's ethical stand, this debate is just getting started. Expect every late-season roster addition to be judged under this exact spotlight. newsbetting.cv
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Locker-room attack put TCU receiver in hospital for three days
Football is premised in many respects on controlled violence. The emotions of the game can lead to uncontrolled violence, and that can create a major problem for players and teams.
At TCU, a locker-room fight earlier this month resulted in the dismissal of safety Jacob Fields. It also resulted in very serious injuries for TCU receiver Dozie Ezukanma.
Via Shambhavi Rimal of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Ezukanma spent three days in a hospital with a concussion and a brain bleed after the August 13 attack.
The delayed transport of Ezukanma to the hospital apparently made the situation worse. After multiple brain scans and with treatment (including medication), doctors finally got the situation under control.
Fields was charged on Sunday with aggravated assault for allegedly punching and kicking Ezukanma in the head.
The assault was reported to TCU police on August 14. Fields was expelled from the team the next day, and the move was announced three days later.
Fields, after the incident, said the following in a text message: “I made an emotional decision cause how I felt I played the last few practices. . . . I’ll pay every hospital bill and then some to make this right.”
He'll be facing far greater consequences than that, and if he did what he's accused of doing, he should.