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Current Sports | August 19, 2018

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Detroit Lions Preseason; Lions vs. Texans; Puerto Rico; Meet The Spartans; College Football AP Top 25 poll; Weekend Winners

On today's episode of Current Sports with Al Martin, Al leads the show by giving you some of his takeaways from the Lions second preseason game against the Houston Texans. Al also reacts to Lions head coach Matt Patricia's decision to sit Matthew Stafford for the second straight preseason game. In segment two, Al discusses the trip he will take later on in the week and learns that Puerto Rico is actually part of the United States. Al and Jack argue whether or not this is common knowledge, and we conclude the segment by discussing MSU being ranked No. 18 in the inaugural AP Top-25 college football poll. We conclude this monday edition of Current Sports with our Weekend Winners segment. 

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