High school sports scores and top performers from Tuesday, Sept. 26 • Will UCF return to form with rushing defense vs. Baylor? | Analysis
 Sentinel Sports Final Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | | |
| | | | | Here's an inconvenient truth about sports teams twisting the arms of municipalities to build them a new billion-dollar facility every 20 years (and I studied this extensively for a project for a national publication in the early 2000s): The economic impact figures tend to be skewed. Instead of spending their money on season tickets, people go out to dinner more often; buy more expensive gifts for holidays; are more inclined to spend on other forms of entertainment. The money doesn't stop circulating. It just shows up in other areas locally. But you don't want to be the city that lost an NFL team like Jacksonville. That's just the reality, and the political ramifications are huge. ...If Billy Napier can win at Kentucky, it validates the win vs. Tennessee and combs over the stuggle vs. Charlotte as just one of those blips on the screen every team has (see Bama vs. USF). ... UCF 's national ranking against the run after three games shows why those early rankings mean little. I haven't seen men get run over the way K-State 's DJ Giddens trucked the Knights' defense since the last season of 90-Day Fiance. Or was that Love After Lockup? ... Who you got for MLB awards? | | | | If Jacksonville loses the Jaguars, the city becomes Birmingham — a minor-league baseball town that is a candidate for alphabet football leagues, start-up basketball leagues, Major League Table Tennis and the National Pickleball League. | | | | | Among girls volleyball winners on Tuesday were Winter Park, Lake Brantley, Hagerty and Orangewood Christian, while The First Academy and Circle Christian had boys golf wins. Circle Christian and Lake Mary Prep notched girls golf wins. | | | | | It was the most rushing yards allowed by the Knights since giving up 298 yards to USF last season. The six rushing touchdowns were the most allowed since giving up the same amount to Cincinnati in 2021. This weekend, in the home Big 12 opener, UCF will face the conference's 12th-ranked run defense in Baylor. | | | | | Kentucky look to extend its winning streak against UF to three games, a development once unfathomable in this longstanding series. Yet, coach Mark Stoops has brought stability and instilled a physical, winning brand of football. | | | | | Zach Eflin looked very much ready to be the Game 1 playoffs starter, most likely on Tuesday in the Wild Card Series opener at Tropicana Field, in working five innings and overcoming a small blister issue, to earn his AL-leading 16th win. | | | | | Lake Mary, Edgewater and Orlando Christian Prep rate as the No. 1 teams in their respective regions in the first Florida High School Athletic Association playoff power rankings. | | | | | Answering reader questions on the Dolphins, including what coach McDaniel should do with his RB unit after rookie De'Von Achane's monster game vs. the Broncos. | | | | | The Eagles held a huge 201-41 advantage in rushing yards, even though the Bucs entered the game second only to Philadelphia in stopping the run, allowing 54 yards per game. Running back D'Andre Swift did most of the damage, rushing 16 times for 130 yards. | | | | | The Americans have won more majors. The Europeans have won more Ryder Cups. There's really no connection, except that it might explain why the Americans always seem to be the favorite on paper, and Team Europe has more often left with the Ryder Cup. | | | | | Remember this about the annual awards doled out in Major League Baseball: Voting is completed before the playoffs begin. No postseason heroics figure into MVP, Cy Young or rookie of the year winners. Same with manager of the year, which almost always results in the award going to a skipper whose team finished short of a World Series title. | | | | | Coming off his best season since being drafted out of his native Sweden in 2014, Johansson has the talent but doesn't fit the mold of recent Lightning backups. Last season, it was Brian Elliott, 38, who had 14 years in the league before coming to Tampa Bay in 2021-22, playing behind Vasilevskiy. | | | |
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