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🏀 KD passes LeBron: Kevin Durant has signed a with the Rockets. He now holds the report for the very best profession earnings in NBA historical past ($598.2M in present and future wage), surpassing LeBron James ($583.9M).
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🏈 Napier out in Gainesville: Florida halfway via his fourth season (22-23 report). His buyout is $20 million, 50% of which have to be paid out inside the subsequent 30 days.
⚽️ MLS Choice Day: FC Dallas and Actual Salt Lake clinched the final two playoff spots on the ultimate day of the common season, whereas San Diego overtook Vancouver to earn the No. 1 seed within the West. .
⚾️ Giants focusing on Vols skipper: The Giants are as their subsequent supervisor. The 47-year-old is likely one of the prime school coaches however has by no means appeared within the majors (or minors) in any capability.
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🎾 Sinner tops Alcaraz: Jannik Sinner dominated Carlos Alcaraz, 6-2, 6-4, , pocketing $6 million for successful the exhibition match in Riyadh.
🏈 Faculty soccer’s dynasty period is over
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Parity reigns in school soccer, as evidenced by yet one more upset-filled Saturday that noticed 9 ranked groups lose.
From Yahoo Sports activities’ Dan Wolken:
Welcome to the brand new period of school soccer. We have recognized it and we have seen it, however as we attain the second half of the 2025 season, the affect of motion via the switch portal, participant compensation and an expanded playoff subject have modified the game in beforehand inconceivable methods.
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Exterior of Ohio State and possibly Alabama (at the least till the subsequent loss), each one of many sport’s conventional blue bloods wakes up right now in some stage of an existential disaster.
In the meantime, Indiana is the nation’s No. 2 staff, Georgia Tech is wanting more and more like a favourite to make the CFP and ESPN’s “Faculty GameDay” is rightfully headed to Missouri at Vanderbilt subsequent weekend. It is completely different, alright. And it is superb.
“Faculty soccer was constructed round this tradition of two groups are going to be alive on the finish, so we’ve got to win each single sport and if we do not we’ll have an enormous meltdown,” Texas A&M coach Mike Elko instructed Yahoo Sports activities final week.
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“That is simply how school soccer was constructed. You do not see that within the NFL. There is not any inside meltdown from the Payments or the Chiefs in the event that they lose a sport. The Tremendous Bowl champions are in all probability going to lose 4 or 5 instances. That is what’s taking place in school soccer now. The top purpose is to make a 12-team playoff and win the 12-team playoff and I am unsure everyone has tailored to that new actuality.”
The handful of packages that hoarded all of the high-end expertise can not maintain gamers on their roster with the purpose of growing them into starters by their third yr on campus. Coaches cannot get by simply being elite recruiters.
The margins have contracted to the purpose the place, in every single place you look, it looks as if video games are coming right down to the fourth quarter and a training determination right here or one particular person play there turns into the separator on a given day. In different phrases, it is beginning to look rather a lot just like the NFL.
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Backside line: The dynasty period is over. That is now a year-to-year, week-to-week enterprise and nothing in American sports activities is delivering extra drama for a wider array of groups and fan bases.
⭐️ Stars of the weekend
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⭐️️ Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani virtually single-handedly lifted the Dodgers to the World Sequence on Friday with one of the best sport of his profession — and .
Two-way sensation: Ohtani hit three dwelling runs and reached base safely in all 4 at-bats. He additionally had 10 strikeouts and pitched six scoreless innings.
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That is Beethoven at a piano. That is Shakespeare with a quill. That is Michael Jordan within the Finals. That is Tiger Woods in Sunday crimson.
That is too good to be true, with no purpose to doubt it. That is the start of each baseball dialog and the tip of the talk:
Shohei Ohtani is one of the best baseball participant who has ever performed the sport, essentially the most proficient hitter and pitcher of an period by which knowledge and diet have made an everyman’s sport a sport for superhumans.
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And Friday evening, when he helped his Dodgers win the pennant with a 5-1 victory over the Brewers in Recreation 4 of the NLCS, was his Mona Lisa.
⭐️️⭐️️️ Montie Quinn
Montie Quinn of D-III Curry Faculty (Milton, Mass.) set a * in a 71-27 win over Nichols Faculty.
By the numbers: 20 carries, 522 speeding yards, 7 TD. Quinn averaged a mind-boggling 26.1 yards per try and had TD runs of 30, 58, 64, 76, 84 and 85 yards. He might have had extra too, however Curry held him out for its last two drives.
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This was no fluke: Quinn was a preseason All-American and entered the sport because the D-III speeding chief. He now has 1,450 speeding yards in six video games (241.7 per sport), and he is topped 200 yards in half of them.
*Rewriting the report books: Quinn broke the earlier NCAA report of 465 yards set by D-III Heidelberg’s Cartel Brooks in 2013. The FBS report is 427 yards, set by Oklahoma’s Samaje Perine in 2014.
⭐️️⭐️️⭐️️️ Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi recorded the sixtieth hat trick of his legendary profession in Inter Miami’s 5-2 win over Nashville. That clinched his first Golden Boot (most objectives) and all however .
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By the numbers: Regardless of lacking six video games, Messi completed the common season with 29 objectives (one fewer than D.C. United’s total staff) and 19 assists, giving him 48 purpose contributions* in simply 2,420 minutes. That is a purpose or help each ~50 minutes.
*Season for the ages: Messi’s 48 purpose contributions are one shy of the MLS report of 49 set by LAFC’s Carlos Vela in 2019.
🏈 NFL Sunday scoreboard
The Comeback Child. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Pictures)
The Broncos scored all 33 of their factors within the fourth quarter to stun the Giants, 33-32, on Sunday in a . The ultimate 5 minutes alone featured 4 TDs, a missed further level and a walk-off subject purpose.
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What they’re saying: “I felt unhealthy for the individuals who left early,” mentioned Denver QB Bo Nix, who turned the primary participant in NFL historical past to report 2+ passing TDs and a pair of+ speeding TDs in a single quarter.
All-time choke job: NFL groups had received 1,602 straight video games when main by 18+ factors within the last six minutes of regulation. The Giants (up 26-8 with six minutes left) snapped that streak.
Micah Parsons celebrates a sack. (Norm Corridor/Getty Pictures)
Extra scores:
Packers 27, Cardinals 23 … First profession 3-sack sport for Micah Parsons.
Panthers 13, Jets 6 … Gang Inexperienced falls to 0-7. Justin Fields benched. Two straight video games and not using a TD. It is unhealthy.
49ers 20, Falcons 10 … Christian McCaffrey (201 yds, 2 TD) starred on “Sunday Night time Soccer.”
Bears 26, Saints 14 … 4 straight wins for first-year head coach Ben Johnson and Da Bears.
Patriots 31, Titans 13 … Drake Maye was (21/23, 222 yds, 2 TD; 62 rush yds) for the first-place Pats.
Cowboys 44, Commanders 22 … Washington misplaced the sport and Jayden Daniels ().
Rams 35, Jaguars 7 … Matthew Stafford threw 5 TD passes within the last London sport of the season.
Chiefs 31, Raiders 0 … Kansas Metropolis had 30 first downs. Las Vegas ran 30 performs.
The place it stands: The Patriots (5-2), Steelers (4-2), Colts (6-1) and Broncos (5-2) are the division leaders within the AFC, whereas the Eagles (5-2), Packers (4-1-1), Buccaneers (5-1) and 49ers (5-2) are out entrance within the NFC.
🌎 The world in images
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🇺🇸 Austin, Texas — Max Verstappen to maneuver inside 40 factors of chief Oscar Piastri with 5 races to go. Is he now a severe risk to win his fifth straight Formulation 1 title?
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In the meantime, at Talladega: Chase Briscoe received Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence playoff race alongside Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin. There’s nonetheless one Spherical of 8 race left earlier than the season finale.
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🏴 Liverpool, England — Harry Maguire’s aerial talents helped Manchester United earn a on Sunday, marking the membership’s first win at Anfield in virtually 10 years.
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4 straight Ls: Liverpool have misplaced 4 straight matches (throughout all competitions) for the primary time in 11 years. Alarm bells are ringing for the reigning Premier League champs, who now sit in .
Tommy celebrates along with his son, Frankie. (Prakash Singh/Getty Pictures)
🇮🇳 New Delhi, India — Tommy Fleetwood’s profession yr acquired even higher on Sunday when he added to his FedEx Cup title and Ryder Cup victory.
Father-son second: Tommy’s 8-year-old son, Frankie, instructed him not too long ago that he’d by no means been capable of run out to the inexperienced to greet his dad after a victory. Mission achieved. “All day right now, I had in my thoughts, ‘May I put myself in place to make that occur?'” Fleetwood mentioned. “It is simply a type of little issues it means rather a lot to me. It means a lot to me. That was actually cool.”
📺 Watchlist: Monday, Oct. 20
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. after Sunday’s Recreation 6 win. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Pictures)
⚾️ ALCS, Recreation 7 | 8pm ET, FOX
All of it comes right down to this. Will the Mariners attain their first-ever World Sequence? Or will the Jays be returning to the Fall Basic for the third time (and first time in 32 years)?
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🏈 Buccaneers at Lions | 7pm, ABC
A pair of former No. 1 general picks go head-to-head, with Jared Goff and the Lions (4-2) internet hosting Baker Mayfield and the Bucs (5-1).
🏈 Texans at Seahawks | 10pm, ESPN
Houston’s protection is permitting simply 12.2 factors per sport. Can crack the code?
⚾️ World Sequence trivia
Joe Carter celebrates after hitting a walk-off dwelling run to win the 1993 World Sequence. (Rick Stewart/Getty Pictures)
The Blue Jays received back-to-back World Sequence titles (1992-93) of their solely two appearances.
Query: Which two groups did they beat?
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Trace: They hail from the identical division.
Reply on the backside.
⚾️ Third time’s the allure
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Vladdy Jr. hit what seemed to be a routine broken-bat single within the eighth inning on Sunday. However a better look reveals that .
Trivia reply: Braves (1992) and Phillies (1993)
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