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Wilson's MVP speech, a Test hat-trick and Sunday scores

Wilson's fifth MVP speech, delivered after her Las Vegas Aces season, drew a sharp response from Carton; she gets to keep the trophies.

On air: Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Chip Darnell on Weekend Edition
Published 6:35 AM ET, Sunday, October 11, 2026

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First reported by BBC Sport: “Mahmud takes Test hat-trick - can you name the others in past 40 years?”, with reporting from Yahoo Sports.
Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 6:35 AM ET on Weekend Edition, by Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Chip Darnell.
Topics: WNBA MVP, A'ja Wilson.
BBN covered this story before: Tiny electric truck, an NBA MVP's soccer stake, and Kamara (October 10).

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Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThen Craig Carton came after her over her comments about her childhood. Yahoo Sports has it. His question was, why are you ashamed?
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAshamed? She was telling her story.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFive MVPs. You can tell it any way you want. Now the scores.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorGeorgia beats Alabama twenty to seventeen. USC beats Penn State thirty-one to twenty-three. Boise State edges Fresno State thirty-eight to thirty-one.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd Kentucky?
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorKentucky nips LSU thirty-five to thirty-four in overtime. One point. A bank heist.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWho gets robbed?
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorLSU. Also Utah wins forty-one to twenty-four over Kansas.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorIn baseball, Cleveland wins two to nothing over the White Sox to clinch the series at three games to two.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorGame five. Shutout.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorCleveland moves on. In hockey, Anaheim beats Calgary four to two. Vegas beats the Kings two to one in overtime.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOvertime again.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorTampa Bay beats the Islanders five to three. And Houston leads Dallas nineteen to fifteen with three forty-seven left in the first quarter.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOver in China, right?
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe NBA China Game. And on the other side of the world, Bangladesh's Hasan Mahmud takes a Test hat-trick. Three wickets, three balls.
Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThree in a row? Like a perfect game?
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBasically. Play of the Day. BBC Sport is quizzing fans to name the others in forty years. Good luck.
Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorWho's Hot: Mahmud, Wilson, Kentucky. Who's Not: LSU, and Craig Carton's question.

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