ICYMI – WNBA Has One of It’s Best Seasons

A phenomenal season from the WNBA, upcoming finals in the Women’s Soccer League, a crazy set of stats in week 2 of the NFL season are just a few things that highlighted this past week.

WNBA (WNBA Season Recap)

· Breanna Stewart takes home regular season MVP and WNBA Finals MVP (the sixth player in WNBA history to do so: Sylvia Fowles, Lauren Jackson, Diana Taurasi, Lisa Leslie and Cynthia Cooper) in her third season in the WNBA.

· The first final that did not feature either Minnesota Lynx, Los Angeles Sparks or Phoenix Mercury since Seattle Storm won in 2010.

· The Washington Mystics made their first ever Finals appearance

· Courtney Vandersloot had a triple double (7^th WNBA Player to do so)

· Most points in a game: Liz Cambage (53) vs. New York

· 2^nd Most three points in a season: Diana Taurasi with (106), she holds the record with 121 in 2006.

· Most rebounds in a season: Sylvia Fowles (404)

· Most assists in a season: Courtney Vandersloot (258)

NFL (Week 2)

· Ryan Fitzpatrick might be legitimate (402 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT), Ben Roethlisberger was either going to be out with injury or put up 452 yards and 3 TDs, Blake Bortles lead the Jaguars to a win past the Patriots with a 377 yard, 4 TD, 1 Int effort. Patrick Mahomes ONLY threw for 326 yards and 6 TOUCHDOWNS.

· Your top three Rushing leaders in yards: Matt Breida (138), Tevin Coleman (107), Phillip Lindsay (107) because we all saw that one coming 2 weeks into the NFL season right?

· Your top 2 wide receivers in terms of yards Brandin Cooks (159) and Jesse James (138).

· The Cardinals fail to put up a point vs the Rams, the Cleveland Browns find new ways to lose, Buffalo Bills Vonate Davis quits/retires at halftime of their game, we had a 2^nd consecutive week with a tie (had not had 3 ties in a season since they went to OT in 1974. The Broncos overcame a 12 point deficit to beat the Raiders 20-19

MLB (93% of the way into the season)

· Oakland, LAA and Pittsburgh have all won at least 4 straight while Baltimore, CWS, San Francisco and Texas Rangers have lost at least 4 straight. The Giants are on a 8 game losing streak.

· Shohei Ohtani with 12 runs, 12 RBI’s and 3 SB batting .364 over the last two weeks. Justin Verlander with 3 wins, 1.71 ERA and a 0.76 WHIP over his last 21 IP.

· Justus Sheffield is joining the bigs!

NASCAR – (South Point 400)

· Brad Keslowski takes a third consecutive win and a commanding start to the playoffs

· Kyle Larson and Martin Truex Jr take 2^ndand 3^rd and I had all three in my picks this week! Ryan Blaney (5^th) and Aric Almora (6^th) topped out my other two. That’s right, five picks in the top six results!!

Soccer

· EPL (Week 5)

o Clean sheets by Crystal Palace, Manchester City, Wolverhampton Wolves,

o Manchester United’s Paul Pogba is hurt, Liverpool and Chelsea are 5-0, Huddersfield Town and Newcastle United remains winless and Watford finally lost (to Manchester United)

· NWSL – (regular season is done)

o Semi Finals result: Portland Thorns beat the Seattle Reign FC 2-1.

o Semi Finals Matchup: North Carolina Courage vs. Chicago Red Stars. Regular season results: North Carolina Courage – 1 win; 2 ties.

o The Portland Thorns FC won the Play-offs last year (beating the North Carolina Courage).

· MLS – the season is about 85% done.

o Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores his 500^thcareer goal

o Atlanta beat Colorado 3-0, Spoting Kansas City beat Orlando 1-0, Seattle beat Vancouver 2-1 and New York Red Bulls tied 3-3 behind a Bradley Wright-Phillips Hat Trick

Boxing

· Canelo Alvarez wins by decision over Gennady Golovkin

· Floyd Mayweather announced a rematch vs. Conor McGregor

UFC (Russia’s First Fights – UFC Fight Night: Moscow)

· Mark Hunt wins by submission over Aleksei Oleinik in the first round.

· A year and a half in the motion, Russia’s minister of sport Vitaly Mutko worked through WME-IMG (now Endeavor) to get this in motion amidst a tumultuous political landscape with sanctions occurring between the two countries.

College

· No 2. Stanford beats No. 3 Texas in womens volleyball.

· No 5. Denver beats No. 22 San Francisco in mens soccer, Cal State Northridge beats No 11 UCLA.

· College Football: Ohio State beat TCU, BYU upset Wisconsin, LSU upset Auburn with a last minute field goal, Oklahoma State upset Boise State in a commanding fashion and Texas beat USC to avenge last year’s 3 point loss.