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- Fever guards make history! This is The Sports Reset for Saturday August 29th In the WNBA, the Indiana Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 111 to 91 behind 34 points apiece from Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell. Clark added 12 assists, while Mitchell extended her 20-point streak to 24 games. They also pushed their league record to four games with both guards scoring at least 30, and Indiana used an 18-to-2 run before halftime to take control and win for the seventh time in nine games. In MLB, Tarik Skubal struck out seven over six innings in his emotional return to Detroit, and Freddie Freeman’s late RBI single lifted the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Detroit Tigers 2 to 1. The New York Yankees edged the Boston Red Sox 1 to 0 as Paul Goldschmidt homered and Cody Bellinger threw out the potential tying run at home plate. Looking ahead, college football opens with the North Carolina Tar Heels facing the TCU Horned Frogs in Dublin. Bill Belichick begins his second North Carolina season after a 4-and-8 debut, with transfer Billy Edwards Jr. starting at quarterback against a TCU team coming off nine wins. On the PGA Tour, Ryan Gerard and Viktor Hovland share the TOUR Championship lead at 10 under entering Saturday’s third round, with Collin Morikawa one shot back at East Lake. In NASCAR, Ross Chastain starts from the pole at Daytona, where the Cup Series regular-season finale will decide the last three postseason places. In MLB, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox play a Saturday doubleheader, beginning with makeup Game 1. The U.S. Open begins Sunday in New York. Beyond the scoreboard, the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche signed Cale Makar to an eight-year, 163.2 million dollar extension with a record 20.4 million annual value.