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Weekend winners
Lots of options to start with, but I am beginning this beautiful Monday worming with Caitlin Clark. She set the WNBA record in assists for a rookie Sunday. She’s averaging 25 points and 11 assists since the Olympic break (motivation, anyone) and Sunday got her 10th gamer of the season with 20-5-5. That’s more than anyone in league history other than Breanna Stewart, who did it last year when she won MVP. A’ja Wilson is clearly the best player in the WNBA, but if the word valuable is the centerpiece, there has not been a basketball player worth more to their league since Sir Swoosh himself left Chapel Hill for the Windy City. Book that.
Bo Nix. My posted theory of betting on QBs in the preseason — and depth — proved to be correct Sunday night with Denver’s dueling for AU transfer portal people fighting for the QB1 tag in Denver. And The Bo Show was lights out — 8-for-9 with a TD in limited work — again.
Shohei Ohtani. Dude may get to 40-40 before we leave August. He homered Saturday and Sunday for the Dodgers and now has 39 homers and 37 steals. Marcel Ozuna is having an amazing season — he’s three homers back of Shohei and leads the NL in RBIs and average — but will anyone vote against Shohei for MVP at this point?