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This is The Sports Reset for Friday August 7th

The NFL preseason opened in Canton, with the Carolina Panthers edging the Arizona Cardinals 33 to 30 in the Hall of Fame Game. The score matters less than the setting: Larry Fitzgerald and Luke Kuechly were part of the Hall class around this one, so it doubled as a football-is-back night with some real nostalgia attached. In the CFL, the Toronto Argonauts beat the Calgary Stampeders 33 to 30 at BMO Field, a tight home win in a league where every August result starts to carry a little more weight. In MLB, The Jays lost 3 to 2 to the Chicago Cubs in that June makeup game at Wrigley Field, a tough one before rolling straight into Philadelphia. Elsewhere, the New York Mets put up 13 in a 13 to 6 win over the Cleveland Guardians, the Detroit Tigers blanked the Seattle Mariners 11 to 0, and the Boston Red Sox survived the Chicago White Sox 12 to 11 at Fenway.

Looking ahead, the CFL has the Ottawa Redblacks in Regina against the Saskatchewan Roughriders, with Saskatchewan getting the home stage at Mosaic Stadium and Ottawa trying to turn a road game into a reset. In MLB, The Jays visit the Philadelphia Phillies, and that is the Canadian game to circle, with Toronto coming off the Wrigley makeup and Philadelphia bringing real middle-of-the-order thump. The Atlanta Braves at New York Yankees gives the night a big-market feel, while the Los Angeles Dodgers at Arizona Diamondbacks has star power with Shohei Ohtani and Corbin Carroll in the same park. On the PGA Tour, Beau Hossler starts the day at 9 under at the Wyndham Championship, one ahead of Sahith Theegala and Ben James, with the regular-season finish pushing toward the FedEx Cup playoff cut over the weekend.