Good evening. In tonight’s edition:

• 🏇 Pony up
• 🧩 New puzzles
• ⚾🏀 GOAT baseball and basketball players

…and much more.

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In yesterday’s PM send, we forgot to include the years in the answer to On This Day in History (February 24):

• A) 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII introduces a new calendar.
• D) 1803 – US Supreme Court establishes judicial review.
• B) 1868 – House votes to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
• C) 1991 – US-led coalition forces launch ground invasion of Kuwait and Iraq in Operation Desert Storm.

Apologies for any confusion!

Each of the following events happened on February 25. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom!

• A) The NCAA suspends the Southern Methodist University (SMU) football program for one season for repeated rules violations, enacting college football’s so-called "death penalty." The sanctions are the most severe in history against a major CFB program.
• B) Samuel Colt is awarded a patent for his revolving cylinder pistol. It marks a significant innovation in firearm design, introducing the concept of a repeating firearm that can automatically load without manual assistance.
• C) 22-year-old Cassius Clay shocks the odds-makers by dethroning world heavyweight boxing champ Sonny Liston in a seventh-round TKO, claiming the world heavyweight title.
• D) Hiram Rhodes Revels, an American clergyman, educator, and politician, is sworn in to the US Senate, becoming the first African American to serve in Congress.

Hint: SMU is the last time the “death penalty” was handed out in D1 sports

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Today’s Conjoiner is all about putting that perfect period at the end of the sentence. Can you complete the sequence and ride off into the sunset?

The first clue of today’s sequence is: “Book ending where the characters live in joy forever more”...

Mini

It only takes one strike to ignite today’s mini. Solve the puzzle and burn it up:

• Play today’s mini crossword here.

Sudoku

Just a few minutes will do; fill in this grid and see it through.

• Play today's puzzle here.

The MJ vs. LeBron debate has no right answer. Neither does any of this: and that’s the point.

Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, where you can pick the winners and define what greatness truly means.

The first battles are live:

• Michael Jordan 🆚 LeBron James
• Magic Johnson 🆚 Larry Bird
• Stephen Curry 🆚 Shaquille O’Neal

⚾ THE GREATEST BASEBALL PLAYERS OF ALL TIME

1. Babe Ruth
2. Willie Mays
3. Ted Williams
4. Shohei Ohtani
5. Nolan Ryan

Explore the full list.

Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change.

B, D, C, A

• B) 1836 – Samuel Colt is awarded a patent for his revolving cylinder pistol
• D) 1870 – Hiram R. Revels becomes the first African American to serve in Congress.
• C) 1964 – Cassius Clay defeats Sonny Liston, with former world champ Joe Louis calling it "the biggest upset in the history of boxing."
• A) 1987 – The NCAA suspends the Southern Methodist University football program for the 1987 season, giving them the “death penalty.”

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