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Dream, Valkyries tied 8-8 early in WNBA Finals Game 5

Golden State beat Atlanta sixty-seven to sixty-two in Game Four to level the best-of-seven series at two games each; nobody has cracked the tie since.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGame Five of the WNBA Finals is tied eight-eight with two-fifty left in the first quarter, and the series is level at two games each.

  2. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistEight-eight. That's a pressure system sitting right over the arena and refusing to move.

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorKiah Stokes has blocked fourteen shots through four games, a Finals record, and she still can't block a tie.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLook, I'm telling you, that's the one shot you want rejected.

  5. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistIs that a lot, fourteen?

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIt's a record, Brock. And this is the first time the best-of-seven Finals, which started last year, has ever reached a Game Five.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistThen it's a cold front meeting a warm front, and neither one's blinking. Give me a high-five on that.

  8. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorDone. Atlanta gave it away eighteen times in Game Four, Golden State won sixty-seven to sixty-two, and that's a family in crisis.

  9. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistOver in the NBA, Celtics fifty-four, Bulls forty-four with three twenty-six left in the second, and Mavericks thirty-six, Heat forty-six.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistWorld Series Game Three, Brewers and Rays, scoreless in the bottom of the first.

  11. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFourteen blocks, Brock, and the only thing still standing is the tie. Your pressure system won.

  12. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGloria, you're in the game! Go, go, go!

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