Good News on X: Kucherov Owns the Record, the NFL Landed in Paris and Your Cat Is Basically a Mood Ring

It's Sunday, the wind is still trying to steal patio umbrellas, and the Bucs kick off at 1. If you're the person in the group chat who already said "big game today" before 9 a.m., this one's for you.

Here's what people on X were smiling about since last night.

Kucherov owns the record now. Alone.

On Wednesday we told you Nikita Kucherov had tied Steven Stamkos for the most points in Lightning history and needed one more. He got it last night in Salt Lake City, in the first period, with an assist on Brayden Point's goal. That's 1,138 career points, all in a Tampa Bay sweater, one more than Stamkos, who had held the record since April 2022, per the ESPN game recap.

Watching Kuch make history never gets old 👏

— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) Watch on X

The Bolts' account followed it with a photo set captioned "That's our all-time points leader", which is the kind of sentence you get to type maybe twice a decade. The night itself went to overtime and Utah won it 5-4, but nobody in Brandon is going to remember the score. They're going to remember 1,138.

Bucs at Carolina at 1, Rays back at the Trop Monday

The Buccaneers play the Panthers at 1 p.m. on Fox. The team's morning post was "IT'S GAMEDAY, KREWE," in all caps, which is the correct volume.

The line, per DraftKings via ESPN (pulled about 9:20 a.m. ET Sunday): Carolina is a 3-point favorite, CAR -3 (-102) / TB +3 (-118). Moneyline CAR -162 / TB +136. O/U 44.5.

The World Series comes home Monday night. The Rays are down 2-0 (the overnight roundup has the Game 2 details), and Game 3 is at Tropicana Field at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. ESPN lists Freddy Peralta for Tampa Bay and Robert Gasser for Milwaukee.

The line, per DraftKings via ESPN (pulled about 9:25 a.m. ET Sunday): Tampa Bay is a slight favorite at home, TB -118 / MIL -102. Run line MIL -1.5 (+176), TB +1.5 (-216). O/U 7.

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The NFL plays its first game in France this morning

While most of us are still on coffee number one, the Steelers and Saints kick off at Stade de France outside Paris at 9:30 a.m. our time. It's the NFL's first regular-season game ever played in France, per the stadium and the Saints, who point out the place has also hosted a World Cup, a Rugby World Cup and the 2024 Olympics. Now it gets a Pittsburgh tailgate. Big year.

The line, per DraftKings via ESPN (pregame, pulled about 9:20 a.m. ET): Pittsburgh is a 3-point favorite, PIT -3 (-115) / NO +3 (-105). Moneyline PIT -162 / NO +136. O/U 43.5.

My favorite detail came from NFL France: World Cup winner Paul Pogba is working the game as a photographer.

Notre Champion du Monde @paulpogba sera photographe du premier match NFL de l'histoire en France 📸

— NFL France (@NFLFrance) See it on X

A World Cup champion holding a camera on an NFL sideline is the most "anything can happen on a Sunday" thing I've seen in a while. Also, the NFL reminded everyone that it's National Tight Ends Day, so go ahead and appreciate the large man who blocks and occasionally catches.

Last call for pumpkins at Hunsader, with a dog costume contest

Local, and a good one if you've got kids or a dog who tolerates hats. Today is the final day of the 35th Hunsader Farms Pumpkin Festival out on County Road 675 in Bradenton, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Per the farm's info page, Sunday adds children's costume contests by age group starting at 1 p.m., a dog costume contest at 2:30 p.m. and trick-or-treating for kids in costume from 3 to 5. Admission is $15 for ages 10 and up, $5 for ages 5 to 9, free under 5, and $5 to park. It's cash only at the gate, so hit the ATM before you hit 675.

James A. Jones Jr. went yesterday and summed up the vibe perfectly:

It was just us, all these pumpkins and a cast of thousands of our best friends.

— James A. Jones Jr. (@J_A_JonesJr) See it on X

The farm lost its opening weekend to rain this year, so today is a nice day to show up. Friendly, leashed dogs are welcome. A dog dressed as a hot dog is, I assume, extremely welcome.

Blue Origin's Cape tower is standing again

Over on the Space Coast, Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp posted that the last module of the Vehicle Access Tower at Launch Complex 36 is in place, with every module repaired after a rough May on that pad.

Module 9 done. Standing tall again at LC-36!

— Dave Limp (@davill) Watch on X

He called it "a monumental effort" and said he's proud of the team. The day before, he noted the tower is over 430 feet above sea level, with umbilical extensions next. More rockets from Florida is always good news around here. More reasons to stand in a parking lot in Cape Canaveral at 4 a.m. holding a coffee, also good news.

A very rare bird caused a very English traffic jam

In Mundesley, on England's Norfolk coast, a resident found a Northern Nutcracker in their garden on Friday. It's a chocolate-brown, white-spotted member of the crow family that lives in the conifer forests of Siberia, and per BirdGuides, it set off what could be one of the biggest twitches (birder for "everybody drop everything and drive") in British history. Britain hasn't had a widely viewable one since 1991. The Norfolk bird news page calls it the first in the county since 1979.

The bird is there because the pine cone crop failed up north, and per BirdGuides hundreds or possibly thousands of nutcrackers have pushed west this fall. Each one buries tens of thousands of seeds every autumn to get through the winter. I can't find my sunglasses when they're on my head.

Your cat is good for your mood, science says (if you sit close)

A Kyoto University team followed 19 owners and 29 cats for a month, with little Bluetooth beacons on the cats' collars to measure how close they stayed to their people at home. Owner and cat oxytocin levels moved together, and owners whose cats had higher oxytocin had lower stress hormones and fewer bad moods, per the university's summary and the study in iScience. The interesting part: owners' good moods tracked with how much time they spent physically near the cat, not how many years they'd owned it.

"I think many cat owners are familiar with the sense of comfort and peace they feel when their cat climbs onto their lap seeking affection, they start to pet it, and the cat begins purring contentedly," said corresponding author Saho Takagi. The researchers are careful to say it's a link, not proof of cause. Every cat owner reading this has already decided it's proof.

Planning the rest of the day? Coming This Week has the list.

That's Sunday. A record that belongs to one guy now, football in Paris, pumpkins in Bradenton, a tower back on its feet and a cat who is, technically, helping. Go Bucs.