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Brewers outperform preseason expectations again to win third NL Central title in four years MILWAUKEE (AP) The Milwaukee Brewers became the first major league team to clinch a division championship when they sealed their third NL Central title in the last four years.

The Chicago Cubs 5-3 loss to the Oakland Athletics enabled the Brewers to wrap up the division crown.

This marks the Brewers seventh postseason berth in the last eight years, the franchises longest run of sustained success.

But this run to the playoffs has been a little different.

Manager Craig Counsell left for the rival Cubs.

Corbin Burnes, the 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner, was traded.

All-Star outfielder Christian Yelich and pitchers Wade Miley and Robert Gasser suffered season-ending injuries.

Yet the Brewers took over first place for good at the end of April and never looked back, Man City and Inter Milan draw 0-0 in goal-shy Champions League.

PSG scores late to beat Girona GENEVA (AP) Where did all the goals go? The 0-0 draws between Manchester City and Inter Milan in their rematch of the 2023 final, after Bologna and Shakhtar Donetsk also could not find a goal, capped an untypically goal-shy evening for the Champions League on Wednesday.

Just 13 were scored in six games one day after 28 were fired in Tuesday.

There were only four 0-0 draws in the 96-game group stage last season.

Paris Saint-Germain got a stoppage-time goal to beat Girona 1-0.

Borussia Dortmund scored three late goals to win 3-0 at Club Brugge.

Panthers star Matthew Tkachuk opens up about the death of his friend Johnny Gaudreau FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

(AP) Matthew Tkachuk estimates that he tells a story about Johnny Gaudreaus exploits, both the on-ice and off-ice variety, to somebody at least once a week.

And hes not going to stop, either.

Tkachuk spoke Wednesday about the death of his longtime friend and former teammate, calling Gaudreau the most offensively talented player Ive ever seen.

Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, were killed on Aug.

29 when police said they were struck by a suspected drunken driver while they were riding bicycles on a rural road in New Jersey.

Tkachuk spoke at the Panthers' media day, the first formal event of the new NHL season.

Coco Gauff splits with coach Brad Gilbert after more than a year and one Grand Slam title together Coco Gauff has split from coach Brad Gilbert after more than a year and one Grand Slam title together.

The pair announced the news via separate messages on social media on Wednesday.

The end of their partnership comes 2 1/2 weeks after Gauffs defense of her 2023 championship at the U.S.

Open unraveled amid 19 double-faults during a three-set loss to Emma Navarro in the fourth round at Flushing Meadows.

That was the latest in a series of disappointing-for-her results in recent months for Gauff, a 20-year-old American who recently dropped from No.

3 to No.

6 in the WTA rankings.

WNBA awards Portland an expansion franchise that will begin play in 2026 The WNBA is headed back to Portland, with Oregon's biggest city getting an expansion team that will begin play starting in 2026.

The team will be owned and operated by Raj Sports, led by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal.

They paid $125 million for the franchise.

The Bhathals started having conversations with the WNBA late last year after a separate bid to bring a team to Portland fell through.

Its the third expansion franchise the league will add over the next two years, with Golden State and Toronto getting the other two.

The Golden State Valkyries will begin play next season and Toronto in 2026.

Derek Carr and the Saints buck the NFL trend of early season offensive struggles The worst start to an NFL season for passing offenses in years hasnt hit the New Orleans Saints.

While quarterbacks and offenses around the league have struggled to get going, Derek Carr and the Saints are clicking with an early efficiency that might not ever have been reached before in the NFL.

The Saints followed up a 47-point outburst in the season opener against Carolina by beating the Dallas Cowboys 44-19 on Sunday, becoming the fifth team to score at least 44 points in each of the first two games of a season.

College football picks: New conference rivalries for No.

11 USC and No.

15 Oklahoma take spotlight Conference realignment has done more harm than good for college football and its easy to lament what has been lost in the name of chasing dollars.

Then Week 4 of the season rolls around and the schedule is highlighted by No.

6 Tennessee at No.

15 Oklahoma in the Sooners first Southeastern Conference game and No.

11 Southern California visiting No.

18 Michigan in USCs Big Ten debut.

Yes, those matchups were created by greed, but they are pretty tasty.

Thats how they get you.

Wojnarowski is leaving ESPN for alma mater to become GM of St.

Bonaventure men's basketball team ESPN NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski is retiring from broadcasting to return to his alma mater, St.

Bonaventure, to take over the newly created position of general manager of the mens basketball program.

The Atlantic 10 school in western New York announced Wednesday that Wojnarowski will oversee a wide range of responsibilities while working alongside coach Mark Schmidt and his staff.

His duties will include focusing on name, image and likeness opportunities, transfer portal management, recruiting and alumni player relationships.

Wojnarowski graduated St.

Bonaventure with a journalism degree in 1991 and received an honorary doctorate from the school in 2022.

Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter hopes to play cornerback and receiver at the next level, too BOULDER, Colo.

(AP) Colorado coach Deion Sanders has one of the top receivers in college football.

He also has one of the top shutdown cornerbacks.

It just so happens to be the same person rolled into one in Travis Hunter.

Hes vaulted himself into the Heisman Trophy conversation for his pass-catching skills and pass-breakup abilities.

Hunter believes he can be a cornerback and receiver on the next level as well.

Sanders also believes his protege can handle the workload in the NFL.

Several early mock drafts have him as a top-10 pick.

Colorado opens Big 12 play this week at Folsom Field against Baylor.

Once known for its tough defenses, the SEC has started to open up the offense this season Tennessee is scoring a touchdown more than anyone in the country after the first three weeks of the season.

Anyone happens to begin with Southeastern Conference rival Ole Miss.

And while the sample size is small, and nonconference schedules in particular are hardly created equal, there is reason to believe that a league that was once known for its defense has swung the other way.

The scary thing for the rest of the nation, and each other as SEC teams begin conference play: The Vols and many other high-scoring teams think they have yet to truly hit their stride..

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