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🏆 Five things to know Wednesday
UEFA Women’s Champions League Matchday 2 begins on Paramount+. Two days of UWCL action begin with four matches this afternoon, and you can catch it all on Paramount+. OL Lyonnes, Wolfsburg and Barcelona seek their second wins in as many matches, which would put them in the driver’s seat one-third of the way through the league phase. Chelsea, meanwhile, need to bounce back after last week’s 1-1 draw with Twente. We have you covered with the full Matchday 2 schedule, the league phase table and all the storylines to follow.The Dodgers extended their NLCS lead with a historic effort on the mound. Yoshinobu Yamamoto went the distance in a 5-1 win over the Brewers to give Los Angeles a commanding 2-0 series advantage. It was the first postseason complete game for a Dodgers pitcher since 2004 and the first for anyone since 2017. The Brewers are now in the danger zone; only five teams have ever come back from a 2-0 hole to win a best-of-seven LCS.UConn tops the preseason women’s basketball rankings. The first AP Top 25 of the season is out, and the Huskies are the team to beat. The reigning national champions are preseason No. 1 for the first time since 2017, but South Carolina is breathing down their necks as the only other team to receive first-place votes. Dawn Staley is confident the Gamecocks will not skip a beat despite Chloe Kitts’ season-ending injury.Alex Bregman will reportedly opt out of his Red Sox contract. The veteran infielder will hit MLB free agency this offseason on the heels of a productive year in Boston. A quad strain put him on the shelf for a significant portion of the season, but Bregman still managed a 3.5 WAR and earned the third All-Star nod of his career. He was set to make…..
