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Lakers Rout Kings 127-103 Behind Doncic's 21; Jaylen Brown Scores 22 as Sixers Top Knicks

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Preseason Monday gave us two new looks — a Lakers defense that pressed all over the floor, and Jaylen Brown in a Sixers jersey. In Sacramento, the Lakers beat the Kings 127-103 . Luka Doncic scored 21 before sitting the second half with LA up 26, and the Lakers forced 15 steals after averaging 8.5 per game last season, per the Los Angeles Times. Ziaire Williams went 3-for-3 from deep for 13 points, and the Lakers played without Austin Reaves (ankle) and Walker Kessler (finger). Kings rookie Darius Acuff Jr. had 19 points. In Philadelphia, the Sixers beat the defending champion Knicks 120-97 with LeBron James, Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey sitting out. Brown scored 22 in 17 first-half minutes in his Sixers debut, and VJ Edgecombe added 12 points and seven assists with no turnovers, per NBC Sports Philadelphia. The bad news: center Ariel Hukporti left in the first quarter with a non-contact right Achilles injury and was set for imaging Tuesday. More league-wide on the NBA as the...
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No Bye-Week Rest in Boulder: Buffs Practice All Week as Problems Pile Up

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Buffs fans, Coach Prime isn't taking this off week off — and after Saturday, can you blame him? "The team is practicing all week ," a Colorado spokesman told USA Today's Brent Schrotenboer on Monday, after the 29-7 home loss to Texas Tech dropped the Buffaloes to 2-3. The spokesman also said Julian "JuJu" Lewis "is still part of the competition for the starting quarterback job," after Lewis was benched at halftime at Baylor and didn't play against Tech. Schrotenboer's list goes beyond the quarterback: only nine Buffs lined up for a Tech field goal even after a timeout, Colorado missed field goals from 29 and 52 yards, the team ranks 129th nationally in punt returns, and a playbook was reportedly left at the team hotel. He also notes Sanders is 2-13 against Power Four opponents since the end of the 2024 season and 18-24 overall in Boulder. Sanders on Oct. 3: "We're going to work. We're going to right the wrongs." K...
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Baylor-TCU Revivalry Set for 6 P.M. 'Blackout on the Brazos' on FS1

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Sic 'em — the Revivalry is going under the lights, and Waco is going black. The Big 12 announced Monday that Baylor's home game against TCU will kick off at 6 p.m. CT on FS1 , and this year's theme is a blackout . Both teams are off this week. Baylor is 4-1 after the 55-19 rout at Arizona State, while TCU's recent losses include a 17-10 decision against BYU and a 21-13 loss to UCF, per SI's Baylor site. The history cuts both ways. TCU leads the all-time series 49-36-3 and has won five of the last six, including a 42-36 win in Fort Worth last season when Baylor rallied from 28-10 down but came up short. The last time the Frogs came to Waco, in 2024, Isaiah Hankins hit a 33-yard field goal as time expired for a 37-34 Baylor win . Next for Baylor Football : TCU comes to Waco on Oct. 17. Radio question — does the blackout crowd make this Baylor's biggest home game of the year? Sources: SI (Baylor) — Time, channel for TCU ; BaylorBears.com — ASU recap .
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Texas Football Week 7 Rankings: Waxahachie Holds No. 1; SOC, Lone Star, Argyle Ride High

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DFW, the statewide poll is out — and it sets up Friday's showdown perfectly. In Dave Campbell's Texas Football Week 7 rankings, distributed by the Associated Press, Waxahachie (5-0) stays No. 1 in Class 6A, with North Crowley (5-0) third and Allen (5-0) fourth — all three were idle in Week 6. Coppell is ninth, Denton Guyer (4-1) is 10th after a 51-7 win over Braswell, Lewisville is 12th, Prosper 16th and Southlake Carroll 21st. In 5A Division I, Frisco Lone Star (5-0) is No. 2 after a 62-0 win over Frisco Liberty, DeSoto sits seventh, and Denton Ryan (4-1) enters at No. 10 after beating Sherman 40-27 while Richland drops out. In 5A Division II, South Oak Cliff holds No. 1 , Argyle climbs to third, Mansfield Timberview is fifth, Anna slides from second to sixth after a 16-14 win over Frisco, and Lovejoy is eighth. Dallas First Baptist (6-0) tops the private-school 11-man poll, with Fort Worth All Saints third and Parish Episcopal fifth. Catch every week on DFW High Scho...
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Wings Offseason: Is Jessica Shepard the Playoff Co-Star Dallas Needs?

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Wings fans, the regular season was a breakthrough — the playoffs raised a fair question about the frontcourt. High Post Hoops' Elaine Blum points to Jessica Shepard's series against Golden State: 12 points and 12 rebounds in Game 3, but just 4 points, 11 rebounds, 9 assists and 6 turnovers combined over the first two games. Blum asks whether that was the Valkyries' defense or a sign Shepard isn't the playoff riser Paige Bueckers' co-star needs to be. Her regular season was a different story. Blum notes Shepard jumped from 8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists as a Minnesota backup in 2025 to 14.5, 11.1 and 5.3 in Dallas, joined Angel Reese as the only players to average a double-double, posted six triple-doubles , made her first All-Star team and won Most Improved Player . The knock is defense, with Alanna Smith in and out and Awak Kuier unable to cover for everything. Jose Fernandez, after Game 3: "We only get to this point because of Paige." Thi...
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Oettinger Blanks Sharks 5-0 as Stars Finally Break Through for First Win

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Victory Green, exhale — the goals showed up, and Otter slammed the door. Dallas beat San Jose 5-0 Monday at American Airlines Center for its first win of the season. Jake Oettinger made 13 saves for his 17th career shutout , per NHL.com. Miro Heiskanen opened the scoring with a backhand at 18:51 of the first, Joel Kiviranta made it 2-0 early in the second, Jamie Benn finished a between-the-legs touch pass from Jason Robertson, Robertson buried a wrist shot at 16:30, and Mikko Rantanen closed it out in the third. Benn and Robertson each had a goal and an assist, Roope Hintz had two assists, and it was the first goal of the season for Benn, Robertson and Rantanen. Dallas outshot San Jose 26-13. The Sharks played without captain Macklin Celebrini, a late scratch with a lower-body injury; Yaroslav Askarov made 21 saves. The Stars (1-2-0) pushed their point streak against San Jose to 10 games (9-0-1) . Next for the Dallas Stars : at Buffalo on Thursday. Radio question — was this the...
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SMU-Virginia Set for 11 A.M. CT on The CW as Mustangs Settle Into the Bye

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  Pony Up — the off week is here, and now we know when the Mustangs get back to work at Ford. The ACC announced Monday that Virginia's Oct. 17 visit to SMU will kick off at noon ET — 11 a.m. CT — on The CW. It's the second all-time meeting and the first in Dallas; SMU won 33-17 at Scott Stadium in 2024. Virginia's athletics site notes SMU (4-1, 2-1 ACC) brings a seven-game home win streak dating to Oct. 4, 2025, and is 16-3 in ACC play since joining in 2024, the most league wins in that span. Both teams already have a conference loss, so SI's Virginia site calls it, at best, an elimination game for the ACC title race. Virginia (3-2, 1-1) is coming off a 38-7 loss at Florida State. For SMU, Kevin Jennings has 1,588 passing yards and 14 touchdowns , and Kendrick Raphael has 418 rushing yards and six scores. Rhett Lashlee liked the BC formula: "What we did that we haven't done for four games, we made ourselves hard to beat." Follow SMU Football throu...
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