ATLANTA -- The Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves have different motivations for their final meeting at Turner Field.The Marlins are clinging to hopes they can steal a wild-card spot and make the National League playoffs, while the cellar-bound Braves are trying to win enough games to avoid the teams first 100-loss season since 1988.The teams begin a three-game series Monday in the Braves soon-to-be-abandoned ballpark. Atlanta will send right-hander Mike Foltynewicz (8-5, 4.16 ERA) against Miami right-hander Andrew Cashner (5-11, 4.77 ERA).Miami won two of three against the Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend, including a 3-0 victory Sunday. However, the Marlins remain in a big hole after going 1-10 over a recent stretch. They are 70-71 and five games out of the second wild-card spot.The Braves lost five of their past six games, three at Washington and two of three at home against the Mets over the weekend. New York took the series finale 10-3 Sunday. Atlanta (55-88) needs to win eight of its final 19 games to avoid losing 100 games.Atlanta is 8-4 against the Marlins this year. The Braves are 4-3 in games played against Miami at Turner Field.Foltynewicz has started only once against the Marlins this season. That outing on June 30 was his first after a stint on the disabled list. He pitched only three innings that night, when the game was interrupted for 68 minutes by a rain delay. He gave up three runs, including a monstrous homer to Jason Bour.Foltynewicz has made two career starts against the Marlin, going 1-0 with a 4.15 ERA. In 8 2/3 innings, he has struck out five and walked six.Foltynewicz received no decision in his most recent start on Wednesday against the Nationals. He allowed one run in six innings and struck out eight.In his past seven starts, he is 4-0 with a 3.40 ERA.Hes believing in his stuff and hes committed to it, Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. Hes just coming along exactly the way we thought he would.Cashner was acquired from the San Diego Padres in late July to bolster Miamis playoff run. He will be making his ninth appearance for the Marlins, his eighth start, and he is 1-4 with a 5.40 ERA for his new team.Cashner is coming off a strong appearance against Philadelphia on Wednsday that netted him his first win in a Miami uniform. He allowed four hits and struck out nine in 5 1/3 scoreless innings against the Phillies.Its kind of been a struggle since Ive been over here, Cashner said afterward. We still have a lot of baseball left. There is no telling what we can do. We control our own destiny.Cashner has not faced the Braves this season. In three career starts against Atlanta, Cashner is 1-0 with a 4.20 ERA. His last start against the Braves came in 2015, and he received no decision after allowing four runs, two earned, in 6 2/3 innings. Tyreek Hill Chiefs Jersey . 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There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. NEW YORK -- Louisville coach Jeff Walz is never one to mince words. After his team lost to No. 5 Maryland on Thursday, he called out his players for their lack of hustle, missed free throws and inadequate defense.He then went on to discuss societys decision to hand out trophies to nearly everyone who plays a game now regardless of whether they win or lose.Youve got to have a will. Youve got to have a will, he said. Right now the generation of kids that are coming through, everybody gets a damn trophy, OK? You finish last, you come home with a trophy. You kidding me? I mean, whats that teaching kids? Its OK to lose. And unfortunately, its our society. Its what were building for. And its not just in basketball; its in life. You know, everybody thinks they should get a job. Everybody thinks they should get a good job. No, thats not the way it works. But unfortunately thats what we are preparing for. Because you finish fifth, you walk home with this nice trophy, parents are all excited.His team responded to their coachs viral rant by showing toughness down the stretch in an overtime win over rival Kentucky on Sunday.We all took it to heart, Louisville star Myisha Hines-Allen said. We knew we had Kentucky coming in next, so we had to chew it, had to take it and come ready to play. It started in practice because we had energy that next day. He was completely right.In other things that happened this week:POLL MUSINGS: Its was a rough week for a few teams in the Top 25. Third-ranked South Carolina dropped its first contest of the season, losing at Duke. The Gamecocks could see their run of top five appearances in the poll end as theyve been in the first five every week since the start of the 2014 season. The win was Dukes highest since the Blue Devils beat No. 3 Ohio State in 2009. No. 12 Oklahoma lost a pair of games. No. 22 Tennessee also got blown out by Baylor on Sunday, and should fall out of the poll Monday. That would mark the second straight season that the Lady Vols fell out of the Top 25.STRONG STARTS: No. 21 Colorado continues its unbeaten run to start the season as the Buffaloes won their eighth consecutive game (8-0) under first-year head coach JR Payne.dddddddddddd. Theyve already surpassed last seasons win total (7-23) and are off to their best start since 2013. Its only the sixth time that Colorado has won its first eight games and is only the second time the school has done it while beating a Top 25 team (Kentucky) in those contests. Next up for the Buffs is rival Colorado State on Thursday. ... Providence is also undefeated through its first seven games, the best beginning to a season for the Friars since 1990-91. ... Boise State has won its first seven games for the first time since 2009-10. The Broncos beat Washington State 77-73 in OT on Sunday, their first road win over a Pac-12 opponent since Dec. 9, 2007.HONORING NIELE: Notre Dame honored longtime assistant and former star Niele Ivey by putting her in the schools Ring of Honor on Sunday . The 39-year old has coached at the school for the past decade and is the third womens basketball player to have the accolade, joining teammate Ruth Riley and Skylar Diggins. Ivey helped the Irish win the national championship in 2001 as the starting point guard.RISING TO THE RAFTERS: Rutgers retired the No. 25 jersey of former great Cappie Pondexter on Thursday night at halftime of the game against Duke. The former star became the third womens player at the school to have that honor, with her No. 25 joining June Olkowski and Sue Wicks in the rafters. Pondexter helped the Scarlet Knights reach the NCAA Tournament regional final her junior season. The current team all wore shirts with Pondexters jersey number on itMILESTONES: Marquettes Natisha Hiedeman had a triple-double against Western Illinois on Friday night -- the second in program history. She had 12 points, 18 rebounds and 10 assists. The 18 rebounds were the most in the Big East this season.---Follow Doug on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dougfeinberg ' ' '