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Good morning! Might want to make your offer to Yoshinobu Yamamoto about now.
This is the time of the NFL season when playoff favorites truly separate themselves from the rest. This is also the time when teams need guys to step up, replacing injured superstars and fortifying weaknesses.
A nod to Sunday’s unheralded stars, from most surprising to least:
1. Browns QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson
The fill-in for Deshaun Watson won’t have yesterday’s.
Erin Matson became the youngest college head coach to win a national championship, according to the NCAA.com, after the 23-year-old guided the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (UNC) to the field hockey title on Sunday.
Ryleigh Heck scored in the sixth round of a shootout to lift defending champion North Carolina to a 2-1 win over Northwestern on Sunday in the NCAA Division-I field hockey championships, the 11th title for the Tar Heels.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Three hundred and sixty-four days have passed since Northwestern and UNC last met on the pitch. Nearly a full calendar year ago, fifth-year Tar Heel stalwart Erin Matson was the hero in her final collegiate contest, bagging the game-winning goal with less than two minutes on the clock. Her tally —.