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🚨 Headlines
💔 Tragedy in Dallas: Cowboys defensive finish Marshawn Kneeland of an obvious suicide. The 24-year-old was a second-round decide final 12 months and performed in seven video games this season, scoring his first profession TD final week after recovering a blocked punt towards Arizona.
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⚾️ Padres rent skipper: Former Padres reliever Craig Stammen has been . Stammen, 41, retired in 2022 after a 13-year massive league profession and joined the Padres as an assistant final season. He’ll now handle lots of his former teammates.
🏈 Antonio Brown extradited: Former NFL participant Antonio Brown was , per a number of stories. Brown was booked within the Essex County jail in New Jersey on Thursday and can be transported to Miami, the place he is set to face trial in connection to an incident in Could at influencer Adin Ross’s boxing occasion.
🏀 LeBron nears return: LeBron James, who has been sidelined with sciatica, has been and can be re-evaluated in 1-2 weeks. He’ll now start ramping as much as 5-on-5 motion whereas eyeing a mid-November return.
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⚽️ Pochettino names November roster: The USMNT’s 25-player roster for upcoming friendlies towards Paraguay and Uruguay . Notable absences embody Christian Pulisic (damage), Tim Weah (damage), and Weston McKennie.
📺 Weekend Watchlist
After the 49ers beat the Rams on the highway in Week 5, the Rams will attempt to return the favor on Sunday. (Harry How/Getty Pictures)
🏈 NFL, Week 10
begins with the Colts and Falcons taking part in the NFL’s first recreation in Berlin (9:30am ET, NFL). The remainder of the day is headlined by three video games between groups with profitable information: Patriots at Buccaneers (1pm, CBS); Rams at 49ers (4:25pm, Fox); Steelers at Chargers (8:20pm, NBC).
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Better of the remainder: The Ravens and Vikings, each trying to put early struggles behind them, meet in Minnesota (1pm, Fox); the red-hot Seahawks host the Cardinals (4pm, CBS), who’ll begin Jacoby Brissett for the fourth straight recreation after Kyler Murray (foot) .
🏈 NCAAF, Week 11
Saturday’s marquee matchup is the between No. 8 Texas Tech and undefeated No. 7 BYU (12pm, ABC). The opposite ranked matchups: No. 3 Texas A&M at No. 22 Missouri (3:30pm, ABC) and No. 9 Oregon at No. 20 Iowa (3:30pm, CBS).
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Better of the remainder: No. 5 Georgia at Mississippi State (12pm, ESPN); No. 2 Indiana at Penn State (12pm, Fox); Navy at No. 10 Notre Dame (7:30pm, NBC); LSU at No. 4 Alabama (7:30pm, ABC).
⚽️ MLS Playoffs
The primary spherical concludes with 5 winner-take-all Recreation 3s streaming on Apple TV: No. 4 Charlotte vs. No. 5 NYC FC (Fri. 7pm); No. 4 Minnesota vs. No. 5 Seattle (Sat. 4pm); No. 2 Cincinnati vs. No. 7 Columbus (Sat. 6pm); No. 3 Miami vs. No. 6 Nashville (Sat. 8pm); No. 1 San Diego vs. No. 8 Portland (Solar. 9pm).
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Trying forward: No. 1 Philadelphia, No. 2 Vancouver and No. 3 LAFC have already certified for the single-elimination convention semifinals, which start in two weeks.
⚽️ NWSL Playoffs
The postseason kicks off with 4 single-elimination quarterfinal matches: No. 4 Orlando vs. No. 5 Seattle (Fri. 8pm, Prime); No. 2 Washington vs. No. 7 Louisville (Sat. 12pm, CBS); No. 1 Kansas Metropolis vs. No. 8 Gotham (Solar. 12:30pm, ABC); No. 3 Portland vs. No. 6 San Diego (Solar. 3pm, ABC).
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Beware the juggernaut: KC simply accomplished the very best common season in league historical past, setting information for wins (21), factors (65), shutouts (16) and objectives conceded (13). Their greatest star is Temwa Chaŵinga, who ought to seize her second straight league MVP after securing her second straight Golden Boot (15 objectives).
🎾 WTA Finals
We’re all the way down to the ultimate 4 in Riyadh, with Jessica Pegula and Elena Rybakina going through off in at present’s first semifinal (10am, Tennis), and Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova going through off within the second (11:10am, Tennis). The winners will face off within the season-ending championship on Saturday at 11am.
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Prize cash: All of those ladies are going house a lot wealthier than they arrived because of a document $15.5 million purse. Spherical-robin wins have been already price $355,000 every, semifinal wins are price $1.3 million and the champion will take house a further $2.5 million.
⚽️ Premier League
The highest 4 groups on the desk all play one another this weekend, with fourth-place Sunderland internet hosting first-place Arsenal on Saturday (12:30pm, NBC) and second-place Manchester Metropolis internet hosting third-place Liverpool on Sunday (11:30am, USA).
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Membership on the rise: Three years in the past, Sunderland was within the third tier. Final 12 months, they have been within the second tier. This 12 months? They’ve gained 18 factors from their first 10 video games again within the prime flight (5-3-2) and convey an undefeated house document into Saturday’s match towards the league leaders.
Extra to observe:
🏀 NBA: Rockets at Spurs (Fri. 7:30pm, Prime); Warriors at Nuggets (Fri. 10pm, Prime) … Day 2 of the in-season event.
🏀 NCAAM: No. 19 Kansas at No. 25 UNC (Fri. 7pm, ESPN); No. 15 Alabama at No. 5 St. John’s (Sat. 12pm, FS1); No. 14 Arkansas at No. 22 Michigan State (Sat. 7pm, Fox) … Potential No. 1 decide Darryn Peterson (Kansas) scored 21 factors in 22 minutes in his debut.
🏀 NCAAW: No. 24 Richmond at No. 4 Texas (Fri. 8pm, SEC+); No. 18 USC at No. 9 NC State (Solar. 3pm, ESPN) … Longhorns junior Madison Booker was a first-team All-American final season and a preseason All-American this fall.
🎾 Tennis: ATP Finals (Solar. 8am, Tennis) … Group stage begins for the season-ending event in Turin, Italy, that includes the world’s prime eight males.
🏒 NHL: Rangers at Purple Wings (Fri. 7pm, NHL); Avalanche at Oilers (Sat. 10pm, ESPN+) … Perennial MVP candidates Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon sq. off in Edmonton.
🏎️ F1: Brazilian Grand Prix (Solar. 12pm, ESPN2) … McLaren’s Lando Norris (357 factors) and Oscar Piastri (356) are just about tied with 4 races left, whereas Purple Bull’s Max Verstappen (321) is not far behind.
⛳️ DP World Tour: Abu Dhabi Championship (Fri-Solar, Golf) … 70 golfers together with Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood battle for 50 spots in subsequent week’s Tour Championship.
🏒 Ladies’s Hockey: USA vs. Canada (Sat. 6pm, NHL) … Buffalo hosts the second of 4 video games within the annual Rivalry Sequence.
🌎 Sports activities on Earth
Bo Nix celebrates with Troy Franklin after scoring their solely landing. (Tyler Schank/Getty Pictures)
🇺🇸 Denver — The Broncos’ protection smothered Geno Smith and the Raiders, whereas their offense did simply sufficient to flee with their seventh straight win, a that was one of many uglier video games you will see all 12 months.
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By the numbers: The groups mixed for 15 punts (one among which was blocked), three interceptions, two missed discipline objectives and one turnover on downs. Guess what number of drives went fewer than three yards? 12! 12 drives went fewer than three yards!
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🇸🇦 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Aryna Sabalenka , 7-6, 6-2, to turn out to be the primary participant to achieve 4 straight semis on the WTA Finals since Maria Sharapova (2004-07).
Up subsequent: Sabalenka will meet a well-recognized foe in at present’s semifinal when she faces Amanda Anisimova for the fourth time this 12 months, all in enormous matches. Sabalenka gained the US Open ultimate and French Open fourth spherical, whereas Anisimova gained the Wimbledon semifinals.
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The second gap at El Cardonal. (Alex Slitz/Getty Pictures)
🇲🇽 Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — The World Extensive Know-how Championship teed off on Thursday at El Cardonal at Diamante, a Tiger Woods-designed course whose large fairways helped a pair of struggling golfers shoot the lights out within the first spherical.
Course information: Nick Dunlap and Sami Välimäki with an 11-under 61, hitting all 14 fairways regardless of coming into the day ranked 153rd (Välimäki) and a hundred and seventy fifth (Dunlap) this season in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee.
🏈 NFL midseason awards
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Patriots QB Drake Maye is the midseason NFL MVP, . The second-year signal-caller ranks first in dropback success fee, “has proven the power to push the ball to all areas of the sphere,” and is explosive as each a passer and as a runner.
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Extra Midseason Awards:
OPOY: Jaxon Smith-Njigba, WR (Seahawks)
DPOY: Myles Garrett, Edge (Browns)
OROY: Gray Zabel, G* (Seahawks)
DROY: Abdul Carter, Edge (Giants)
Protector Of The Yr: Creed Humphrey, C (Chiefs)
Coach Of The Yr: Shane Steichen (Colts)
Asst. Coach Of The Yr: Chris Shula, DC (Rams)
*A lineman as prime rookie?! “In a large open OROY race, I went with a participant that deserves as a lot recognition as attainable regardless of taking part in a place that may probably by no means give him the award (however we should always, dang it!),” . “Gray Zabel was a refined participant coming into the NFL, however it’s nonetheless a troublesome transition from faculty to the NFL, particularly from the FCS degree. The North Dakota State product has already performed like an excellent starter, and I might say even at a Professional Bowl degree, over the primary two months of his profession.”
🏈 Heisman watch: Sayin, Mendoza, Simpson
Ohio State QB Julian Sayin. (John Fisher/Getty Pictures)
It is a with a couple of month to go within the 2025 faculty soccer season. Unsurprisingly, all three frontrunners are QBs. And if the School Soccer Playoff started at present, they’d be main the No. 1, No. 2 and No. 4 groups within the discipline.
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Ohio State QB Julian Sayin (+150 bat BetMGM)
Passing stats: 176-218, 2,188 yds, 23 TD, 3 INT
Schedule: at Purdue, vs. UCLA, vs. Rutgers, at No. 21 Michigan
Sayin has emerged because the Heisman favourite in his first full season as a starter because of his historic accuracy. The California native’s completion proportion (80.7%) is on tempo to shatter the single-season document (77.44%) set by Oregon’s Bo Nix in 2023.
Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza (+250)
Passing stats: 162-225, 2,124 yds, 25 TD, 4 INT
Schedule: at Penn State, vs. Wisconsin, at Purdue
The Cal switch has constantly confirmed why he is in his first season with the Hoosiers. He is thrown for a number of TDs in six of 9 video games thus far and has additionally rushed for 220 yards and 4 scores.
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Alabama QB Ty Simpson (+350)
Passing stats: 177-261, 2,184 yds, 20 TD, 1 INT
Schedule: vs. LSU, vs. No. 11 Oklahoma, vs. Jap Illinois, at Auburn
Will marquee video games over the subsequent two weeks assist Simpson’s case? Being the highest QB on the highest workforce within the SEC might be a bonus within the Heisman race, and there is a probability Alabama may have a spot within the SEC title recreation locked up with wins over the Tigers and Sooners.
Different Heisman contenders: Texas A&M QB Marcel Reed (+750); Georgia QB Gunner Stockton (+2000); Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia (+2500); Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss (+3500); Ohio State WR Jeremiah Smith (+4000); Oregon QB Dante Moore (+4000); Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love (+400); Georgia Tech QB Haynes King (+5000); Notre Dame QB CJ Carr (+6000).
🏀 School hoops trivia
Kansas and UNC gamers through the 2022 Nationwide Championship. (Jamie Squire/Getty Pictures)
Kansas (2,415 wins) performs UNC (2,396) on Saturday in a matchup of the second- and third-winningest applications in males’s D-I historical past.
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Query: Are you able to title the opposite three applications that fill out the highest 5?
Trace: Three completely different conferences.
Reply on the backside.
🏀 Good reads: NBA version
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Dan Devine:
Dončić is averaging 40 factors, 11 rebounds and 9 assists per recreation after one other monster efficiency on Wednesday. Requested to explain what he is seen from Dončić thus far, Marcus Sensible discovered himself compelled previous grammar, diction and sense. “Fantasticness,” he mentioned.
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Tom Haberstroh:
The Spurs have been initially slated to be on nationwide TV solely 22 instances, which wasn’t even among the many prime 10 groups. It is time to appropriate that and deal with Wemby like the worldwide phenomenon he’s. Put him in entrance of American audiences as a lot as attainable. The way forward for the NBA’s reputation will depend on it.
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Steve Jones:
VJ Edgecombe (76ers) scored 34 factors in his NBA debut, the third most ever by a rookie, and has not seemed again since. He tops our listing, adopted by Cedric Coward (Grizzlies), Cooper Flagg (Mavericks), Dylan Harper (Spurs) and Kon Knueppel (Hornets).
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Kelly Iko:
Ja Morant is distant. The spacing is poor. The taking pictures is off. Add all of it up, and little goes proper for the Grizzlies, who’ve misplaced 4 straight video games and seem like a shell of the fun-loving, energetic model they’ve worn proudly for years.
Trivia reply: Kentucky (2,423 wins), Duke (2,336), UCLA (2,026)
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