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šµ Playing headlines: The within the wake of scandals within the NBA and MLB; Guardians nearer Emmanuel Clase to the fees he faces within the aforementioned MLB scandal; 14 folks for his or her roles in a Mafia-backed betting ring involving school athletes.
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š Curry splits from Underneath Armour: After greater than a decade, Stephen Curry and Underneath Armour are . The Warriors guard’s Curry Model, which was launched in 2020, will proceed independently of the corporate.
š CFP committee shake-up: Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek because the Faculty Soccer Playoff choice committee chair after Rhoades amid an investigation into a possible violation of college insurance policies.
ā¾ļø Coming dwelling: The Tampa Bay Rays subsequent 12 months after being displaced this previous season on account of damages brought on by Hurricane Milton.
šŗ Pac-12’s new dwelling: The rebuilt Pac-12 has finalized its TV contract for the close to future, to televise 22 soccer video games a 12 months by means of the 2030 season.
šŗ Weekend Watchlist
Will MVP frontrunner Matthew Stafford proceed his torrid tempo in an enormous divisional matchup towards Seattle? (Ezra Shaw/Getty Pictures)
š NFL, Week 11
The Commanders and Dolphins meet in Madrid on Sunday morning (9:30am ET, NFL) for the seventh and last worldwide recreation of the season. Again dwelling, the is headlined by 4 tantalizing heavyweight matchups:
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Buccaneers at Payments (1pm, CBS): Each are 6-3. Each are led by MVP candidates. Each are coming off losses.
Seahawks at Rams (4pm, Fox): The sport of the weekend. These NFC West foes are tied atop the division at 7-2 and have each gained 4 straight video games. Los Angeles has the second-best title odds (+700 at BetMGM) and Seattle has the fifth-best (+1100).
Chiefs at Broncos (4:25pm, CBS): With an eighth straight win, Denver (8-2) would make it very robust for KC (5-4) to problem for his or her tenth consecutive AFC West crown.
Lions at Eagles (8:20pm, NBC): Not a foul technique to finish the day, with first-place Philly (7-2) and first-place Detroit (6-3) enjoying on “Sunday Night time Soccer.”
Better of the remainder: Bears at Vikings (1pm, Fox); Bengals at Steelers (1pm, CBS); Chargers at Jaguars (1pm, CBS); Panthers at Falcons (1pm, Fox)
š NCAAF, Week 12
options 4 matchups between ranked groups, together with two SEC showdowns inside the highest 11.
No. 9 Notre Dame at No. 22 Pitt (12pm, ABC)
No. 11 Oklahoma at No. 4 Alabama (3:30pm, ABC)
No. 21 Iowa at No. 17 USC (3:30pm, BTN)
No. 10 Texas at No. 5 Georgia (7:30pm, ABC)
Better of the remainder: NC State at No. 15 Miami (3:30pm, ESPN); No. 13 Utah at Baylor (7pm, ESPN2); UCLA at No. 1 Ohio State (7:30pm, NBC); TCU at No. 12 BYU (10:15pm, ESPN).
š¾ ATP Finals
As we speak’s group stage finale pits Jannik Sinner towards Ben Shelton (8am, Tennis) and Alexander Zverev towards FĆ©lix Auger-Aliassime (2:30pm, Tennis). Sinner is already by means of to the semis, the place he’ll play Alex de Minaur tomorrow, whereas the winner of the Zverev-FAA match will face Carlos Alcaraz in tomorrow’s different semifinal. The championship is on Sunday (12pm).
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ā½ļø NWSL Semifinals
The second-seeded Washington Spirit host the third-seeded Portland Thorns on Saturday (12pm, CBS). The fourth-seeded Orlando Delight host eighth-seeded Gotham FC on Sunday (3pm, ABC).
Enjoyable truth: It might have been practically unimaginable to hand-pick a extra applicable last 4. The league’s final 4 champions? Washington (2021), Portland (2022), Gotham (2023) and Orlando (2024).
Extra to look at:
š NBA: Warmth at Knicks (Fri. 7pm, Prime); Warriors at Spurs (Fri. 9:30pm, Prime) ā¦ Day 3 of the in-season event.
š NHL: Bruins at Canadiens (Sat. 7pm, NHL) ā¦ Montreal and Boston are a part of a three-way tie with Ottawa atop the Atlantic
š NCAAM: No. 5 Arizona at No. 15 UCLA (Fri. 10pm, Peacock); No. 3 UConn vs. No. 7 BYU (Sat. 7pm, Fox); No. 1 Houston vs. No. 22 Auburn (Solar. 3pm, ESPN)
š NCAAW: No. 18 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Michigan (Sat. 4pm, NBC); No. 2 South Carolina at No. 8 USC (Sat. 9pm, Fox); No. 17 TCU at No. 10 NC State (Solar. 1pm, ESPN)
ā½ļø Pleasant: USMNT vs. Paraguay (Sat. 5pm, TNT) ā¦ At Subaru Park outdoors Philadelphia.
ā³ļø DP World Tour: Tour Championship (Fri-Solar, Golf) ā¦ Season-ending event in Dubai.
ā³ļø LPGA: The Annika (Fri-Solar, Golf) ā¦ Haeran Ryu (-6) leads by one stroke after Spherical 1.
š MMA: UFC 322 (Sat. 10pm, ESPN+ PPV) ā¦ Jack Della Maddalena vs. Islam Makhachev (welterweight) and Valentina Shevchenko vs. Zhang Weili (flyweight) at MSG.
š„ Boxing: Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn (Sat. 4:30pm, DAZN PPV) ā¦ Household rivals at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.
ā¾ļø Ohtani, Choose win MVP (once more)
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For the primary time in MLB historical past, the identical two gamers gained Nationwide League and American League MVP in back-to-back years.
NL MVP: Shohei Ohtani (all unanimous) to affix Barry Bonds (7) as the one gamers with greater than three.
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From Yahoo Sports activities’ Jack Baer:
When Ohtani signed his 10-year, $700 million with the Dodgers in 2023, the value shocked a baseball world that had by no means seen a contract bigger than Trout’s $426 million deal. And two years later, that contract, and its deferrals, couldn’t seem like an even bigger cut price.
Ohtani has been essentially the most beneficial participant within the NL in back-to-back years, and a World Sequence champion in back-to-back years. He has reworked the enterprise of the Dodgers, turning them into an promoting powerhouse in his native Japan, one of many richest international locations on the earth and a nation that worships him at a stage of superstar past something within the U.S.
It is fairly doable Ohtani has already paid for himself so far as the Dodgers are involved. The staff had an unlimited set of benefits, comparable to its huge TV contract and the biggest stadium in MLB, however Ohtani’s success has despatched them to the next airplane, and there is not any telling if they arrive down so long as he is on the sector.
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AL MVP: Aaron Choose beat out Cal Raleigh in a detailed race to , becoming a member of Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio as the one Yankees to take action.
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From Yahoo Sports activities’ Jake Mintz:
This third MVP all however secures Choose a spot in Cooperstown. All the opposite three-time winners are both within the Corridor of Fame (Berra, Roy Campanella, DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Mike Schmidt), not but eligible (Ohtani, Albert Pujols, Mike Trout) or can be first-ballot shoo-ins if not for alleged PED use (Bonds, Alex Rodriguez).
There’s a sturdy case to be made that Choose is the one biggest right-handed hitter within the sport’s historical past. His 179 OPS+ is the very best profession mark for a righty since integration. Solely 10 different hitters (Mike Trout, Mark McGwire, Dick Allen, Frank Thomas, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Manny RamĆrez, Frank Robinson, Ralph Kiner and DiMaggio) are even above 150.
Put in a different way, Choose is the kind of hitter so unavoidably good that he supersedes seasons just like the one Raleigh simply put up. It is one more information level on Choose’s rĆ©sumĆ© as probably the greatest sluggers to ever play the sport. There stays a gaping void in his trophy case; that ever-elusive first World Sequence title. However as this October confirmed us, one locked-in dynamo can’t carry a franchise alone. Choose dominated this postseason and it made little distinction.
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MLB Awards:
ā½ļø MLS 3.0: New calendar, no paywall
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Main League Soccer made two sweeping modifications on Thursday, voting to (1) overhaul its schedule and (2) ditch its paywall.
MLS will dispose of the “Season Move” paywall subsequent season, which means all video games can be obtainable to Apple TV subscribers at no further value.
From Yahoo Sports activities’ Steven Goff:
For many years, MLS rowed towards the present, beginning the season early within the calendar 12 months, enjoying by means of soccer-busy summers and ending as Christmas lights went up.
Beginning in 2027, nonetheless, the 30-team circuit will align itself with most European leagues by conducting the season from mid-to-late July till late Could.
It is a seismic transfer, one which MLS executives and staff house owners weighed for years earlier than lastly discovering consensus Thursday on the Board of Governors assembly in South Florida.
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The final time they took such pronounced motion was 2007 by instituting the Designated Participant rule, a mechanism for groups to get across the wage cap and signal international superstars, comparable to David Beckham and Lionel Messi.
For a league with massive ambitions however a historical past of puzzling choices, the schedule change wanted to occur. Ideally, it could have been enacted earlier than the World Cup in North America casts an unlimited shadow over the league subsequent summer time. However it’s going to lastly occur. Good for MLS.
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š The world in images
Henderson after scoring his third landing. (Kathryn Riley/Getty Pictures)
šŗšø Foxborough, Massachusetts ā The Patriots (9-2) cruised previous the Jets, , for his or her eighth straight win behind a monster recreation from rookie RB TreVeyon Henderson (93 whole yards, 3 TD), clinching their first profitable season since 2021.
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MVP? Drake Maye’s MVP-caliber marketing campaign continued (281 yards, TD) and put him in rarefied air as the primary QB in NFL historical past with at the least 2,500 passing yards, 250 dashing yards, 20 passing TDs, a 70% completion charge and an .800 win proportion in a single-season span of 11 begins.
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š®š¹ Turin, Italy ā Carlos Alcaraz defeated Lorenzo Musetti to complete the group stage of the ATP Finals undefeated and for the primary time since 2022. His document this season? 70-8. Not dangerous.
De Minaur lastly breaks by means of: Within the day’s different match, to safe his spot within the semifinals alongside Alcaraz, snapping an 0-5 lifetime document within the ATP Finals and an 0-16 streak towards top-10 gamers.
Ronaldo sarcastically acknowledges Eire’s followers after being despatched off. (Charles McQuillan/Getty Pictures)
š®šŖ Dublin, Eire ā Nicely, there is a first time for all the things, and in Cristiano Ronaldo’s 226th profession worldwide match, the 40-year-old , which fell 2-0 to Eire in World Cup qualifying.
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Elsewhere: Norway beat Estonia, , behind a brace from Erling Haaland for his or her first World Cup this century. Haaland has now scored 30 objectives for membership and nation in simply 19 video games this season. An absolute machine.
Rory McIlroy strains up a putt on the sixteenth inexperienced. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Pictures)
š¦šŖ Dubai, UAE ā Whereas the PGA Tour continues its fall swing, the European Tour is holding its season-ending event, the place Rory McIlroy seeks his second straight title, and document fourth total.
Opening spherical recap: McIlroy (-6) is 2 strokes off chief Michael Kim (-8), (!) on Thursday. Tommy Fleetwood (-7) is in second, persevering with his . He is made only one bogey in his final 98 holes.
š NBA all-breakout staff
(Joseph Raines/Yahoo Sports activities)
First Workforce
Deni Avdija, F (Path Blazers)
Jaime Jaquez Jr., F (Warmth)
Austin Reaves, G (Lakers)
Stephon Fortress, G (Spurs)
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Second Workforce
Alexandre Sarr, C (Wizards)
Trendon Watford, F (76ers)
Ajay Mitchell, G (Thunder)
Reed Sheppard, G (Rockets)
ā¾ļø MLB trivia
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The Padres , based on a press release from the Seidler household on Thursday.
Query: 4 MLB groups have been offered thus far this decade. Are you able to identify them?
Trace: Three AL, one NL.
Reply on the backside.
š No extra report playing cards?
(Taylar Sievert/Yahoo Sports activities)
The NFL has over its annual follow of surveying gamers and handing out “Report Playing cards” for each staff.
The league’s grievance stems from CBA Article 51, Part 6, that requires the NFLPA and league administration council to “use cheap efforts to curtail public feedback by Membership personnel or gamers which categorical criticism of any membershipā¦”
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Above: How all 32 groups fared on their most up-to-date report card (February 2025).
Trivia reply: Rays (2025), Orioles (2024), Royals (2020), Mets (2020)
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