This week’s 5-on-5: five points on five of this week’s biggest sports stories.
- Dallas Cowboy’s offensive lineman suffers from heat-related illness
- Dallas Cowboys offensive lineman Ty Nsekhe was released from the hospital after experiencing heat-related symptoms.
- Nsekhe was sat-out of Sunday’s game as a result of the incident.
- Nsekhe was taken to the hospital by ambulance from practice, where he then spent the night.
- “Our medical staff felt it was best that he spend the evening in the hospital,” Coach Mike McCarthy said.
- Nsekhe will be replaced by Terence Steele
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- USC Trojans’ plane tips backward on tarmac with team inside
- The Trojans’ plane tipped backward on the tarmac, sending the nose of the plane into the air after the team landed in Lewiston, Idaho
- The incident happened during the deplaning process, with coaches and staff still inside.
- The players, on the other hand, had already exited the plane.
- The incident was a result of the ground crew failing to put the plane’s tail stand in place.
- The plane was quickly leveled and no one was injured.
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- WNBA record tied by Seattle Storm’s Jewell Lloyd
- Jewell Lloyd tied the WNBA record for most points scored in a first quarter with 22-points.
- Lloyd ended the game with a career-high 37-points.
- The record was first set by Diana Taurasi in 2006 and tied by Brittany Sykes in 2019.
- Lloyd’s performance helped the Seattle Storm secure the win over the Phoenix Mercury 94-85.
- The win secured the Storm a first-round bye in the playoffs.
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- Record holding former England, Tottenham, and Chelsea striker dies at 81
- Jimmy Greaves passed away at home at the age of 81 on Sunday Morning.
- Greaves’ is Tottenham’s record goalscorer, scoring 266 times in 379 games.
- Greaves’ 37 league goals in the 1962-63 season remains a club record.
- Beyond that, Greaves was part of England’s 1966 World-Cup winning team, and ended his international career with 44 goals.
- Greaves is survived by his wife Irene, four children, and 10 grandchildren and great-grandchildren
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- Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao announces run for Presidency of the Philippines
- Manny Pacquiao, a Philippine senator and boxer, has accepted the nomination to run for president of the Philippines in May, 2022.
- Pacquiao is running as the anti-corruption candidate, saying that “we need progress” and that corrupt politicians will “soon end in jail together.”
- Pacquiao has accepted the nomination of the PDP-Laban party, of which he is president.
- The current president, Rodrigo Duterte, was nominated as a Vice President by a rival political party as he could not constitutionally run again.
- However, because the President and Vice President are voted on separately in the Philippines, Duterte could possibly be a part of Pacquiao’s cabinet.
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