{"id":98344,"date":"2026-09-04T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=98344"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:09:06","slug":"the-ten-9-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=98344","title":{"rendered":"The TEN: 9\/4\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW-.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW--400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW--70x53.jpg 70w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW--768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/THE-TEN-NEW--150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;) <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>1. Colorado blocked a field goal attempt of 45 yards with no time remaining to beat Georgia Tech 14-13 Thursday night in the season opener for both teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Utah beat Idaho 66-14 Thursday night to open its 2026 season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. UMass ended a 16-game losing streak with a 37-21 win over Rutgers Thursday night in the season opener for both teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Former NFL defensive back Alphonso Smith passed away Wednesday at the age of 40. Cause of death was not revealed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Monrovia freshman Ian Macklin had a rushing touchdown, a receiving touchdown and returned a punt for a touchdown in a 49-0 rout of Roosevelt Thursday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Houston Rockets guard Amen Thompson signed a five-year, $208 million rookie-scale contract extension. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7. Clemson at LSU, Saturday 4:30 PM, ABC.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8. A Louisiana judge granted an injunction Thursday allowing Dae&#8217;Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris to return to college football after brief stints in the NFL. Wright and Harris, both former players at Ole Miss, plan to join their former coach at LSU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani told the training staff that his right biceps and neck were bothering him. He sat out Thursday&#8217;s game against the St. Louis Cardinals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10. Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies is the MLB leader in home runs with 40. The Cubs&#8217; Pete Crow-Armstrong has 39.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(&#8220;The TEN&#8221; is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in &#8220;The TEN&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98345,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98344\/revisions\/98345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}