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WNBA playoffs: No 8 Liberty spring upset to take down No 1 seed Lynx

The Guardian Australia (Sport) Associated Press

30 Sept 2026 12:55 AEST Summary

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Headline as published: WNBA playoffs: No 8 Liberty spring historic upset to take down No 1 seed Lynx

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Niral Score 10.1 · mostly calm mundaneloaded

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Sentiment -0.1 hostilefavourable Sourcing 39 unattributednamed sources Mood 56 sorrowjoyful

5 read zero: political diction, generational, gender, jingoistic, religious

Political diction 0 left-codedright-coded Generational 0 harder on the oldharder on the young Gender 0 no gendered framingframing throughout Jingoistic 0 reports to a readerwrites from a camp Religious 0 not invokedovert

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