Weekend Wake Up: ALCS Rests, Squeaker Saturday, Low Scores Galore, UFC Reaction

Last night’s first swing at Game 6 of the American League Championship Series was scuttled as rain swamped Yankee Stadium. There’s no change in the pitching matchup for today, but if there is a Game 7 on Monday, John Lackey should be available for the Angels.Cardiologists Love Saturdays. The season without a dominant team continues: Florida, Alabama, Iowa, USC, Miami and Nebraska played nail-biters. And, because even the predictable should be unexpected, the dominant performances were stunners, too: Texas, Cincinnati, and Boise State looked much stronger than usual. If nothing else, there is a surfeit of intrigue this season. More on this later in the Hangover Cure.

Golf Unleashed! All sorts of crazy golf is going on at a PGA TOUR event named for a website. Three holes-in-one happened on Saturday, which is abnormal enough. But Nicholas Thompson had to go and turn a three-hole stretch of double eagle-par-ace in from the 11th to the 13th, and generally shame anyone else who has ever picked up a club. So, of course, he trails Troy Matteson, who has shot two straight 61s by five shots entering the final round. How wacky.

UFC 104: Robbery? I still know next to nothing about mixed martial arts, but I can tell you that Twitter was on fire when Lyoto Machida’s victory by unanimous decision was announced. The Rumble will have cogent reactions and analysis all day today; check them out.

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