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šØ Headlines
ā¾ļø Mets, Rangers swap gamers: The Mets and Rangers are reportedly that may ship 2B Marcus Semien to New York in change for OF Brandon Nimmo. Each gamers are represented by Scott Boras and each are at present in the course of long-term contracts.
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š CP3’s “Final Dance”: Future Corridor of Fame level guard Chris Paul , his twenty first within the NBA. Paul, 40, was chosen to 12 All-Star groups throughout his illustrious profession and ranks second all-time in assists and steals.
š Teaching carousel: LSU is to lure Lane Kiffin away from Ole Miss; Cal , who went 48-55 in 9 seasons; Mike Norvell will , sources inform Yahoo Sports activities; Jap New Mexico is , the ex-Baylor coach who was fired amid a sexual assault scandal.
š¾ Italy three-peats: High-seeded Italy defeated Spain , turning into the primary nation to three-peat on the “World Cup of Tennis” for the reason that U.S. gained 5 straight titles half a century in the past (1968-72).
š Wings win the lottery: The Dallas Wings on Sunday night time to earn the No. 1 choose for the second straight 12 months. Whereas Paige Bueckers was the plain alternative final 12 months, there isn’t any clear-cut candidate to go first general in 2026 (not but, no less than).
šÆ Huge numbers
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This can be a new part I am attempting out known as “Huge Numbers,” the place I recap the weekend utilizingā¦ BIG NUMBERS! “Huge” as in they’re actually written in a bigger font. But in addition “massive” within the sense of being noteworthy and vital, or on the very least, fascinating and/or absurd. In a sea filled with digits and statistics, these are the numbers value understanding about.
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š 18.0 sacks
Are we witnessing the best particular person defensive season in NFL historical past? Browns defensive finish Myles Garrett had three sacks in Sunday’s win over the Raiders, giving him 18 on the 12 months. He wants 5 extra sacks in Cleveland’s remaining six video games to interrupt the NFL single-season document of twenty-two.5, collectively held by Michael Strahan (2001) and T.J. Watt (2021).
Blowing up the backfield: Garrett can be on tempo to set the single-season NFL document for many tackles for loss. He has 26 TFLs in 11 video games, which is already tied for the seventh-most ever. The one gamers with extra? DeMarcus Ware in 2008 (27), Von Miller in 2012 (28), Chandler Jones in 2017 (28), J.J. Watt in 2014 (29), J.J. Watt in 2015 (29) and J.J. Watt in 2012 (39).
ā½ļø 12 aim contributions
Lionel Messi produced a classic efficiency in Sunday’s Jap Convention semifinal, to gasoline Inter Miami’s 4-0 victory over FC Cincinnati. That gave Messi 12 aim contributions this postseason (6 targets, 6 assists), which is a brand new league documentā¦ and he nonetheless has no less than one match (and doubtlessly two) left to play.
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MLS Cup Playoffs: NYC FC will face Miami within the Jap Convention Remaining after ; Vancouver to advance to their first Western Convention Remaining, the place they will play the winner of San Diego vs. Minnesota.
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ā³ļø 68.681 scoring common
Jeeno Thitikul on Sunday to cap a historic, record-setting marketing campaign. The world No. 1 tallied one final birdie on the ultimate gap to finish the season with a 68.681 scoring common, breaking Annika Sorenstam’s document of 68.697 set in 2002.
Cash listing: Regardless of being simply 22 years previous, Thitikul is already with $17.4 million in earnings. Almost half of that has come from her successful the previous two season-ending Tour Championships ($4 million every).
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š 95 wins, 0 losses
Ranked males’s faculty basketball groups are 95-0 towards unranked groups up to now this season. That is the longest such successful streak at any level in a season within the historical past of the AP ballot.
Will the streak finish tonight? The Gamers Period Competition kicks off in Las Vegas with loads of intriguing ranked vs. unranked matchups. Three groups on upset alert: No. 20 Tennessee vs. Rutgers, No. 24 Kansas vs. Notre Dame and No. 25 NC State vs. Seton Corridor.
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š 6 groups, 2 spots
Pittsburgh’s on Saturday blew up the ACC championship race. Coming into the ultimate weekend, no workforce is ensured a spot within the convention title recreation, and 6 groups are nonetheless mathematically alive: Virginia (6-1 within the ACC), Pittsburgh (6-1), SMU (6-1), Georgia Tech (6-2), Miami (5-2) and Duke (5-2).
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Extra from Saturday: Oregon beat USC to ; Oklahoma over Missouri; Arch Manning had in a rout of the Razorbacks; Duke ; Michigan with a win at Maryland; .
š 55 factors
James Harden on Saturday along with his twenty fifth profession 50-point recreation, tying Kobe Bryant for the third-most such video games in NBA historical past. The one gamers with extra? Wilt Chamberlain (118) and Michael Jordan (31).
Scoring machine: Harden has extra 50-point video games (25) than Steph Curry (15) and Kevin Durant (9) mixed, which is fairly outstanding. He additionally owns the single-game scoring document for the Rockets (61 factors), making him the one participant to carry that document for 2 franchises.
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ā¾ļø 35,000 kilos
Rawlings put in a atop their golden headquarters in St. Louis, which completely guidelines. The shiny, presumably record-breaking sculpture will function the centerpiece of the “,” a brand new two-story retail retailer and museum.
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What they’re saying: “We have suffered a bit little bit of an id disaster in that lots of people do not essentially know Rawlings is right here in St. Louis,” stated CMO Mike Thompson earlier this month. “However that is going to alter fairly fast. Everyone’s going to know.”
š 70-7
Notre Dame on Saturday, handing the Orange their worst loss in over a century. To sum this recreation up: The Irish had 21 factorsā¦ earlier than their offense took the sphere. They led 35-0ā¦ within the first quarter. Jeremiyah Love had 171 speeding yardsā¦ on eight carries.
Flashback: Whereas this was one in all Notre Dame’s most lopsided wins ever, it isn’t even near their largest margin of victory. That got here again in 1905, once they beat the American Faculty of Drugs & Surgical procedure, . The star of the sport that day? Invoice Downs, who left Notre Dame months later for a . Good a reimbursement then!
š Scoreboard: NFL Sunday
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Cowboys 24, Eagles 21 ā¦ Dallas got here again from 21-0 right down to stun Philadelphia and tie the document for the . Dak Prescott for many passing yards with the workforce.
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Chiefs 23, Colts 20 (OT) ā¦ Kansas Metropolis overcame a late 20-9 deficit to topple Indianapolis and keep away from a house loss that may have knocked them under .500 and been an enormous blow to their postseason hopes.
Bears 31, Steelers 28 ā¦ The vibes are excessive in Chicago! The primary-place Bears and first-place Eagles may have the identical document (8-3) once they meet 4 days from now within the third annual Black Friday recreation.
Patriots 26, Bengals 20 ā¦ Drake Maye and the Pats (10-2) have gained 9 straight video games for the primary time since 2015 and are at present the No. 1 seed within the AFC.
Lions 34, Giants 27 (OT) ā¦ Jahmyr Gibbs was unstoppable at residence, placing up numbers not seen since Barry Sanders. His remaining line: 15 carries, 219 yards, 2 TD; 11 receptions, 45 yards, TD.
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Jaguars 27, Cardinals 24 (OT) ā¦ NFL groups had gained their previous 50 video games with a +4 turnover margin. Arizona managed to interrupt that streak.
Seahawks 30, Titans 24 ā¦ Jaxon Smith-Njigba broke Seattle’s single-season receiving yards document (1,313 yards)ā¦ and it is solely Week 12.
Rams 34, Buccaneers 7 ā¦ Matthew Stafford has 27 TD passes since his final INT (tied for the longest regular-season streak in NFL historical past); Baker Mayfield .
Browns 24, Raiders 10 ā¦ Shedeur Sanders bought the win in his first profession begin; the Raiders (NFL’s highest-paid OC) after the sport.
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Ravens 23, Jets 10 ā¦ After beginning the season 1-5, Baltimore (6-5) now sits atop the AFC North and controls its personal future. Fairly the turnaround in Attraction Metropolis.
Packers 23, Vikings 6 ā¦ How dangerous has J.J. McCarthy been for Minnesota? We’re speaking .
Falcons 24, Saints 10 ā¦ Atlanta and New Orleans have performed 113 occasions relationship again to 1967. The Falcons now lead the all-time collection, .
ā½ļø Gotham completes epic run to NWSL title
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We’re within the thick of playoff soccer in North America, which is a overseas idea throughout the pond the place they name it soccer. European leagues (and lots of others world wide) crown their common season champions and finish issues there. On this continent, we tack on a postseason and embrace the unpredictable, illogical mayhem that tends to observe. Upsets. Cinderellas. Survive and Advance.
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Exhibit A: Gotham FC beat the Washington Spirit, 1-0, on Saturday night time in San Jose to and full the unlikeliest of playoff runs ā going from the eighth seed (in an eight-team subject) to champions, dispatching three of the league’s 4 greatest groups (Kansas Metropolis, Orlando, Washington) alongside the way in which.
DĆ©jĆ vu: The Spirit misplaced 1-0 to Orlando in final 12 months’s remaining. New opponent, identical precise consequence this time round.
The looming query: Was this Trinity Rodman’s remaining recreation within the NWSL? Her contract with the Spirit is ready to run out and the star ahead is drawing curiosity from golf equipment in competing leagues, the place she might than what NWSL groups can realistically supply her as a result of wage cap constraints.
Extra playoffs:
MLS: Miami, Vancouver and NYC FC have superior to the Remaining 4, which can be finalized tonight when top-seeded San Diego hosts fourth-seeded Minnesota (10pm ET, ).
NCAA Event: 16 groups are nonetheless alive within the males’s match* (), whereas 11 groups are nonetheless alive within the ladies’s match ().
šļø Podcast: (The Cooligans)
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*Cinderella within the snow! Hofstra upset defending nationwide champion and No. 1 seed Vermont with a on a snowy subject in Burlington.
šø Via the lens
āVegas Child, Vegas.ā (Mark Sutton/System 1 by way of Getty Photos)
šŗšø Las Vegas, Nevada ā Max Verstappen with the absolute best end result for his once-slim title possibilities: he gained the race whereas McLaren’s duo of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri had been each disqualified for unintentional guidelines violations.
The place it stands: With two races (and one dash) left, Pink Bull’s four-time defending champion is now tied with Piastri and 24 factors behind Norris. If Verstappen wins all three, he’ll earn 58 factors and pressure Norris to no less than end third in all three to take care of his lead.
The Goldeneyes take the ice. (Wealthy Lam/Getty Photos)
šØš¦ Vancouver, Canada ā The Vancouver Goldeneyes , 4-3, between the PWHL’s two new enlargement groups. The sellout crowd of 14,958 at a workforce’s major residence venue (i.e. not a impartial web site).
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What they’re saying: “I’ve performed a variety of actually massive hockey video games, and I’ve by no means felt the emotion like I’ve in that first 20 minutes of the sport,” stated Goldeneyes star Sarah Nurse. “It felt like one thing completely different was within the air, like I’ve by no means skilled it.”
Top-of-the-line to ever do it. (Abdullah Ahmed/Getty Photos)
šøš¦ Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ā Cristiano Ronaldo scored in Al-Nassr’s 4-1 win on Sunday. And that is the place I remind you that he is 40 years previous.
Elsewhere: Christian Pulisic in AC Milan’s 1-0 victory over Inter Milan within the 245th Derby della Madonnina; First-place Arsenal , 4-1, in a top-five Premier League conflict behind a hat trick from Eberechi Eze.
Shiffrin celebrates within the snow. (Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty Photos)
š¦š¹ Gurgl, Austria ā Mikaela Shiffrin on Sunday and record-extending 103rd general. Subsequent up: Two races this weekend at Copper Mountain in Colorado, simply 20 miles from her hometown of Vail.
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Queen of the Slalom: For nearly as good as Shiffrin is in each self-discipline, she actually has no match within the slalom, which has accounted for 66 of her 103 profession wins. , so it is no shock she’s the gold medal favourite on the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympics.
šŗ Watchlist: Monday, Nov. 24
Former Panthers star Christian McCaffrey is having one other standout season within the Bay Space. (Mike Christy/Getty Photos)
š Panthers at 49ers
Three years after being traded in the course of the season, Christian McCaffrey lastly will get an opportunity to tackle his former workforce because the 49ers (7-4) host the Panthers (6-5) in a matchup of NFC playoff hopefuls (8:15pm ET, ESPN).
Shock of the season? With a victory tonight, Carolina would match its win whole from the previous two seasons mixed (7) and take over first place within the NFC South.
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ā½ļø San Diego FC vs. Minnesota United
High-seeded San Diego, which already accomplished in MLS historical past, hosts No. 4 Minnesota (10pm, Apple) for a spot within the Western Convention Finals.
The Remaining 4: Tonight’s winner will be part of No. 2 Vancouver, No. 3 Miami and No. 5 NYC FC within the MLS Convention Finals.
š Gamers Period Competition
A stacked subject of descends on Las Vegas for the second version of this that pays $1 million in NIL cash to every taking part program.
Right this moment’s headliners: No. 14 St. John’s vs. No. 16 Iowa State (4:30pm, truTV); No. 2 Houston vs. Syracuse (6pm, TNT); No. 11 Alabama vs. No. 13 Gonzaga (9:30pm, TNT); No. 7 Michigan vs. San Diego State (10:30pm, truTV).
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Extra to look at:
š NBA: Cavaliers at Raptors (7pm, Peacock); Rockets at Suns (9:30pm, Peacock) ā¦ Toronto (12-5) has gained seven straight to surge into second within the East, simply forward of Cleveland (12-6).
ā½ļø Premier League: Manchester United vs. Everton (3pm, USA) ā¦ United (5-3-3) are unbeaten of their final 5 league matches.
ā½ļø NCAA Girls’s Soccer: No. 2 TCU vs. UNC (2pm, ESPN+); No. 1 Vanderbilt vs. No. 4 LSU (3pm, ESPN+); No. 1 Stanford vs. No. 5 BYU (4pm, ESPN+) ā¦ The quarterfinals .
š NHL: Pink Wings at Devils (7pm, ESPN+) ā¦ The one Jap Convention groups with a greater document than Detroit and New Jersey are the Hurricanes and Islanders.
š NBA trivia
Chris Paul in motion for Wake Forest in the course of the 2004-05 season. (Manny Millan/Sports activities Illustrated by way of Getty Photos)
Chris Paul has performed for seven completely different NBA franchises throughout his 21-season profession, which is able to come to an finish in a matter of months.
Query: Are you able to identify all seven groups?
Reply on the backside.
šæ Baker’s Dozen: High performs of the weekend
Head coach Ron Dickerson Jr. celebrates his workforce’s unlikely victory. (Benedict Faculty)
In one of the vital dramatic finishes of the 12 months, Benedict Faculty (D-II) erased a 24-0 deficit and executed a miraculous 86-yard backward cross play as time expired to beat Wingate College, 25-24, and win the primary playoff recreation in class historical past.
High 13 Performs:
Trivia reply: New Orleans Hornets (2005-11); Clippers (2011-17, 2025-26); Rockets (2017-19), Thunder (2019-20); Suns (2020-23); Warriors (2023-24); Spurs (2024-25)
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