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馃毃 Headlines
馃彃 Three. Goals. Away: Alex Ovechkin cannot be stopped, scoring in his third straight game to move within three goals of passing Wayne Gretzky.
馃弨 JuJu wins POY: USC's JuJu Watkins was named the Naismith Player of the Year, beating out UConn's Paige Bueckers, Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo and UCLA's Lauren Betts to become the first Trojan to win the award since Lisa Leslie in 1994.
馃巹 Merry Chiefsmas: The Chiefs have requested that the NFL make them a fixture on Christmas Day, much like the Lions and Cowboys play every Thanksgiving.
鈿撅笍 Extensions galore: Padres CF Jackson Merrill (9 years, $135M), Diamondbacks 2B Ketel Marte (6 years, $116M), Red Sox 2B Kristian Campbell (8 years, $60M) and Red Sox LHP Garrett Crochet (6 years, $170M) all inked new deals.
馃弨 Houston clinches: The Rockets won their 50th game of the season to clinch their first playoff berth in five years. Not bad for a team that won 22 games just two years ago.
鈿撅笍 Ohtani is inevitable
Shohei Ohtanihit a walk-off home run on his bobblehead night to lift the Dodgers past the Braves and into the record books: They are now the first defending World Series champions ever to start the season 8-0. (Atlanta, meanwhile, falls to 0-7.)
