Will Guillory: Rockets injury report: -- Alperen Sengun (low back soreness) and Marcus Smart (left forearm strain) are QUESTIONABLE. -- Reed Sheppard (low back soreness) and Steven Adams (right soleus strain) are OUT.
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#soreness #sengun #marcus

Buffalo Bills safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson was ejected from the Bills' Week 6 win over the Las Vegas Raiders for spitting on Raiders tight end Brock Bowers.
San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk chimed in and said this isn't new for the 28-year-old and accused Gardner-Johnson of spitting on him during the 49ers' win over the Chicago Bears last season.
"This is the least surprising thing ever," Juszczyk posted on Twitter above a clip of the ejection. "(Gardner-Johnson) spit on me last year when we beat Chicago."
Gardner-Johnson pleaded his case to officials that he wasn't spitting on Bowers, but it was clear he did something in the direct vicinity of the TE that caused an official to immediately throw a flag and eject the eight-year veteran.
It's also not a surprise Juszczyk and Gardner-Johnson had a dustup last year. Gardner-Johnson and the 49ers have a bit of history starting in 2019 when Gardner-Johnson was a rookie in New Orleans for an epic 48-46 win for San Francisco. In that game Gardner-Johnson was hit with a 15-yard penalty for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Juszczyk.

#gardner

The game time has been set for the Texas A&M Aggies and the LSU Tigers in their monstrous Week 4 matchup at the end of the month.
According to multiple reports, LSU will host the Aggies for a night game at Death Valley, with kickoff slated for 6:30 p.m. ET in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This will be the second consecutive meeting between Texas A&M and LSU in Baton Rouge, and the second-straight primetime matchup. The Aggies won last year's contest, 49-25.
After Week 2, Texas A&M is ranked No. 9 in the AP Top 25, while LSU sits at No. 7. Both teams are riding high after strong starts to the season, with the Aggies beating both Missouri State and Arizona State, while the Tigers have wins over Clemson and Louisiana Tech.
We have a week to wait until the matchup, with Texas A&M hosting Will Stein and the Kentucky Wildcats this weekend in College Station. Meanwhile, LSU will have a very tough top-10 matchup against the No. 8 Ole Miss Rebels, pitting coach Lane Kiffin against his former team and creating one of the most intriguing matchups of the college football season this coming Saturday.
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#louisiana

For the third time in the last 16 games, the No. 4 Texas Longhorns have a chance to overcome the No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes, this time with the advantage of 100,000-plus partisans behind them at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium.
Kick is at 6:30 p.m. on ABC and this is your gamethread.

#time

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Kyle Tucker has started to click for another promising run of games, this time due to a mechanical shift.
He finished Friday's game against the Miami Marlins going 3-for-3 with a sacrifice fly, along with a triple and a grand slam.
Over his last two games, he is 6-for-8 with just one strikeout, two home runs, a triple, and a double.
Tucker has been a disappointment by all accounts this season, hitting just .225/.323/.361 with a 93 wRC+ and a 0.2 fWAR, per FanGraphs.
Sep 11, 2026; Miami, Florida, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Kyle Tucker (23) runs toward third base after hitting a triple against the Miami Marlins during the sixth inning at loanDepot Park. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images

#triple #angeles #kyle #games

There was a single change on either team's practice participation report on Friday with Kansas City Chiefs' defensive lineman Chris Jones getting limited by a calf issue. We'll have to see what they do with him on Saturday's practice and official game status. For the Denver Broncos, having Jones limited inside would certainly be helpful to keep Bo Nix on schedule. However, I wouldn't count on it as the likely future Hall of Famer is used to terrorizing inside.
Here is your full Broncos-Chiefs practice participation report for Friday.
Player
Pos.
Injury

#practice #chiefs #participation #inside

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Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes produced a sensational performance to help the team to a 4-0 victory over Sabah FK in their Champions League opener.
Matheus Cunha broke the deadlock for United inside 27 minutes when he supplied a delicate finish to Patrick Dorgu's delivery.
Fernandes doubled United's advantage 15 minutes later, rounding off a brilliant team move, with Youri Tielemans registering the first **** ist of his Old Trafford career. Benjamin Sesko then rounded off the goalkeeper to make it 3-0 just before the break.
Lisandro Martínez pounced on a scramble inside the box to add a fourth in the second half, removing any lingering uncertainty about the outcome.

#inside #minutes

Real Madrid kicks off its Champions League campaign against Inter Milan on Tuesday, with new coach Jose Mourinho aiming to win the trophy for a third time.
Mourinho is back at Madrid for a second spell after last managing the club in from 2010-13.
He won a league ****** le and the Spanish cup during that time, but not the Champions League. Since then Madrid has gone on to dominate European club soccer's biggest trophy, winning it six more times and extending its record to 15 ****** les.
And while another Champions League would see Mourinho join Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Zinedine Zidane and Bob Paisley on three wins, he doesn't feel the need to make up for the fact that he was unable to lift the trophy when he was last at Madrid.
"I finished my work here in 2013. We won what we won, and we lost what we lost. We gave everything, but it's a closed chapter," Mourinho said. "This has nothing to do with the past — absolutely nothing. These are two different moments in Real Madrid's history.

#madrid #mourinho

The Boston Red Sox made a late-season roster move Sunday, calling up utility player Nate Eaton rather than top prospect Kristian Campbell.
Interim manager Chad Tracy explained the decision, noting that Eaton is simply the better option in the outfield right now. Eaton has appeared in 14 games with Boston this season, posting a .125 batting average with one home run, five RBIs and two stolen bases across 32 at-bats.
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His value is not in his bat but in his glove, as he has shown the ability to play third base, center field, right field, shortstop, left field, designated hitter and second base at the big-league level.
Campbell, 24, remains at Triple-A Worcester, where the Red Sox want him getting consistent at-bats rather than sitting on a bench in a limited role.

#season

The UCLA Bruins first football game of the 2026 season comes against the California Golden Bears at the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, Calif. on Sept. 4.
Head coach Bob Chesney will reveal the new-look Bruins to the world as they battle against head coach Tosh Lupoi's Golden Bears. The Bruins still have some core pieces from last season like star quarterback Nico Iamalaeava, but Chesney brought plenty of star power with him from James Madison, which should be on full display.
UCLA vs California
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#head

In one of the first days of the 2026-27 college football season, chaos ensued at the SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey. On Thursday, Sept. 3, coach Greg Schiano's Rutgers Scarlet Knights hosted coach Joe Harasymiak's Massachusetts Minutemen for their first game of the campaign. Unfortunately for the Scarlet Knights, the Minutemen defeated them by 16 points, 37-21.
It was an embarrassing defeat, to say the least, for the Scarlet Knights, as they were the overwhelming favorites to beat the Minutemen. As the rest of the college football world reacts in shock to the game, insider Brett McMurphy called out the Big Ten Conference, where the Scarlet Knights play, following the Minutemen victory with a post on X/Twitter.
"Can a conference be considered the nation's best conference if one of its teams loses to UMass? Asking for a friend," McMurphy wrote.
– Brett McMurphy, September 3, 2026
McMurphy later reported on On3 that the Scarlet Knights paid the Minutemen $1.5 million for the fixture, which ended up backfiring for the Big Ten program.

#scarlet #conference #coach

The Arizona Cardinals' best player entering 2026 is tight end Trey McBride, who had a record-setting 2025 season. He was second in the NFL with 126 receptions, and he set the single-season record for receptions in a season by a tight end.
He could hit another league milestone this season.
He should set the NFL record for the most tight end receptions in the first five seasons of a career.
McBride has 347 career receptions, 39 short of Jimmy Graham's record of 386.
McBride should smash that record, surpassing it in the first half of the season. With 237 catches over the last two seasons, he could hit 450 by the season's end.

#tight

For the first time this century, the full-time midfield logo at Kyle Field will not have a bevel. After two seasons with the lone star logo at midfield, and several decades before that with a TAM logo that featured a beveled T, Texas A&M announced on Wednesday that this season the midfield logo will be an UNBEVELED "TAM." This is the first time Kyle Field's full-time midfield logo has featured an unbeveled logo since natural grass was re-installed 30 years ago.
A classic logo taking center stage.#GigEm | aggiefieldstaff pic.twitter.com/5ImQaevgvJ
I broke the story earlier this summer that Texas A&M had made the block TAM it's primary logo once again (rather than the lone star logo), and this definitely seems to align with that change. Of course the Texas A&M helmets have always featured an un-beveled T, so it only makes sense for the field to match that identity.
The bevel has always been pretty divisive among A&M fans, with many advocating to "level the bevel" for decades now. It will be interesting to see if this is a football-specific change or if it signals a larger logo shift across the athletic department.

#featured

With Cincinnati's season opener approaching, Bengals receiver Ja'Marr Chase remains hampered by a knee injury that he sustained at practice last week.
Head coach Zac Taylor told reporters Tuesday that Chase will be limited at practice this week as the Bengals turn the page from the preseason to preparing for their season opener.
Taylor also said that wide receiver Tee Higgins is dealing with a heel contusion. He expects that both of them "will be good at the end of week." The Bengals will open their season on Sept. 13 at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Here's the play from practice on Aug. 25 in which Chase injured his left knee. He fell down clutching his knee after landing awkwardly on it while attempting to make a catch. He stood up briefly after initially crawling on it, then immediately sat down on the sideline.

#chase #taylor #opener #receiver

Barnes & Thornburg filed the lawsuit, opens new tab on August 26 in Cook ⁠County Circuit Court, alleging breach of contract and other claims. It said Deng hired the firm to handle the refinancing of a New York-based property, as well as negotiating with lenders, exploring financial options and restructuring loans on a Chicago-based property.
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#barnes #thornburg #property #august

The NFL's cutdown day has come and gone — and with it, all 32 teams have their initial 53-man rosters for the 2026 season.
That is far from the end of transactions in the lead-up to the start of the season on Sept. 9 — on Monday, teams can begin to ******* emble their practice squads — but for more than 1,000 players, the reality this weekend was getting news they had been released or waived.
This reality hit a number of players with Utah ties. Over the weekend, 34 players who have played at either a Utah college or high school were cut, and four more were moved to a reserve list.
There were 54 players with Utah ties, though, who found a spot on initial 53-man rosters.
The University of Utah leads the way, with 23 former Utes making an initial 53-man roster. BYU followed with 12, while Utah State has four, Weber State has four, Snow College has three and Southern Utah has two, while 29 of those 54 played high school football in Utah (there is some overlap with those who also played college ball in the Beehive State).

#initial #played #four

Everton are in talks to re-sign Jack Grealish on loan from Manchester City on a busy day where Iliman Ndiaye looks set to join Tottenham with Richarlison heading the other way.
The Toffees have also called off plans to sell homegrown star Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest.
The possible reunion with Grealish will grab the headlines as David Moyes wants to bring the 30-year-old back to the Hill ***** inson Stadium.
Grealish spent last term with the Toffees, making 22 appearances, but suffered a foot injury in January which ended his campaign.
The England international has been linked with a move to Sunderland, but a return to Merseyside is on the cards with clubs in talks.

#everton #city #ndiaye #TOTTENHAM

Well, they lost the first one. But they're back to try it again! The San Francisco Giants are hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks for the second game of a doubleheader, and are hoping to split the four-game series.
It's an exciting pitching situation for the Giants, as right-hander Yunior Marte takes the mound for his MLB debut. Marte — not to be confused with the reliever of the same name, who pitched for San Francisco in 2022 — is a young prospect whom the Giants acquired a year ago in the Mike Yastrzemski trade. He is, shockingly, following in Jonah **** 's footsteps as the second player the Giants have called up directly from AA this year … after going nearly a decade without making such a move.
Marte, who turned 23 earlier this month, has a strong fastball/slider combo, with a splitter as well. He's fastball reliant, and sits mid-90s, while occasionally touching high-90s. He does a good job limiting walks, despite a slightly herky-jerky motion that isn't always conducive to consistent strike-throwing. In 13 starts with AA Richmond this year, Marte posted a 3.92 ERA and a 3.97 FIP, with 72 strikeouts and 22 walks in 64.1 innings. He started the year with High-A Eugene, where he had a 3.74 ERA and a 4.11 FIP in nine games, with 41 strikeouts and 19 walks in 43.1 innings. He was not on the 40-man roster (though he would have been a Rule 5 decision this winter), so the Giants made a spot for him by moving Casey Schmitt to the 60-Day IL. The Giants made **** e on the active roster by optioning lefty Seth Lonsway, who made his MLB debut in the first game of the doubleheader.
For Arizona, it's lefty Mitch Bratt, who is also a 23-year old lefty. Bratt, who was a fifth-round pick in 2021, has made nine appearances in his debut season, and is 1-2 with a 4.54 ERA, a 5.28 FIP, and 28 strikeouts against 25 walks in 39.2 innings. After a pair of great starts to open the month, Bratt has given up three runs in three innings in each of his last two games.
Enjoy the baseball, everyone!

#walks #made #game #strikeouts

Two NFL seasons have transpired without should-be Hall of Fame head coach Bill Belichick, who had spent half of a century in pro football.
Today at noon ET, he embarks on his second season at the college level, with North Carolina.
Like last year, the season commenced with a game against TCU. (It started well, before imploding.) Unlike last year, the game will be played not in Chapel Hill but in Dublin, Ireland.
UNC won't have defensive coordinator Steve Belichick, who remains on medical leave. And the Tar Heels haven't had the services of G.M. Michael Lombardi, who was placed on paid administrative leave last month while the school conducts an internal investigation of him.
The bigger question is the quality of the roster that Belichick and Lombardi have compiled for the coming season. They opted to go heavy on high-school recruits for 2026, with less of an emphasis on the transfer portal.

#last #year #school #hall

College students spend four years planning for what to do once they leave campus, and spend the next 40 years trying to figure how to get back. It's a truism that college administrators and broadcasters would do well to remember as they continue to separate college football from college campuses.
On Saturday, North Carolina will kick off its season against TCU in Dublin, the fifth straight year that Ireland has hosted a Week 0 game. A few weeks later, Arizona State will face Kansas in London's Wembley Stadium.
If you're wondering what the Tarheels and Horned Frogs have to do with the Emerald Isle, or why the Sun Devils will travel halfway around the planet to play football, well, you're asking the right questions. As with everything else in college football right now, there are multiple vectors at play here, and absolutely none of them point in the direction of the average fan.
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American universities have played football in international stadiums for as long as the game has existed, sometimes for bowl games, sometimes as part of barnstorming or goodwill tours. (Bo Jackson's final snaps as a college player technically came in a **** anese all-star game in 1986.)

#years

On Saturday, our ADMIRAL Women's Bundesliga away tour takes us to face another set of last season's championship group opponents. Following matches against SK Sturm Graz and FK Austria Vienna, we now take on the perennial Austrian champions. Our team faces SKN St. Pölten at 14:00 CEST, with the match broadcast live on ORF Sport+.
As is well known, our previous encounters with the other top teams did not go as hoped. After a perfect start to the season taking maximum points from two games - our Salzburg side was unable to secure further results against these tough opponents. Now, a new opportunity arises - albeit against a team that boasts a flawless league record under their coach Laurent Fassotte and was in action on the European stage just yesterday. It remains to be seen how much energy was drained by a Women's Champions League qualifier against Italian heavyweights Juventus - a match the Old Lady won decisively, 3–0. Last season, we had to yield to the eventual runners-up, with the She-Wolves winning all four of our head-to-head clashes. Oliver Fix will officiate this showdown at the NV Arena.
In St. Pölten, we face our next top opponents and, consequently, a major challenge. For us, the key is to work for one another and stick to our principles, even under pressure.
Dusan Pavlovic

#lten #season

An Ohio defensive lineman in the 2028 recruiting class has announced his intentions to take a game day visit to Michigan State this year. Via social media, Tatum Hill shared that he will be in East Lansing on Sept. 26 for the Spartans home matchup with Nebraska.
Hill, a 6-foot-1, 285-pound defensive line man is a native of Hillard, Ohio. He plays his high school football for Pickerington North in a highly competitive area of football in the state of Ohio.
He currently does not have a ranking, or an offer from Michigan State, but after a big sophomore season, he is on the radar for teams to monitor heading into this fall. He was named as a top defensive lineman to watch for this 2026 season.
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#ohio

Liverpool and PSG are closing in on a deal for Bradley Barcola to move to the Premier League, according to reports coming out of France.
Loic Tanzi reports for L'Equipe that the France international is "expected to become the biggest transfer of a Ligue 1 player to a foreign club".
The Merseysiders are understood to be in the market for a minimum of two offensive signings, including the 23-year-old, and may push for a third transfer beyond that.
(Photo by Pau Barrena/Getty Images)
It seems that PSG won't make it entirely easy for the Reds' negotiators, however, with the Parisians sitting firm on their €140m [£119.7m] valuation.

#loic

An ordinary round of golf turned into an extraordinary masterclass as an English amateur defied astronomical odds to card eight birdies across just nine holes.
Allan Harrison started his round at Fairhaven Golf Club with four dropped shots down the front nine before a "pasty and a drink" at the halfway house gave him a burst of life.
The 64-year-old then fired seven consecutive birdies and eight in nine holes - a run of form rarely seen in professional golf, let alone at an amateur level.
Harrison has some prowess as a former foursomes partner of Tommy Fleetwood at Southport and Ainsdale Golf Club.
England Golf calculated the odds across all golfers for making eight birdies in nine holes as an astonishing one in 322 billion.

#birdies

Hansi Flick revealed why he was "concerned" about Barcelona's first-half performance against Elche, as the Blaugrana went on to secure a dominant 0-5 win to kickstart their LaLiga campaign.
Much has been made of Barcelona's lack of an out-and-out striker, but finding the back of the net was not a problem for the clinical visitors on Sunday as they scored with five of their seven shots on target.
Raphinha and Fermín López both bagged braces, while Karim Adeyemi also found his way onto the scoresheet on his competitive debut for the club and Anthony Gordon registered two ***** ists on his first outing in Blaugrana.
Speaking in his post-match press conference, Flick praised Raphinha's mindset and flexibility to play in any required position, explaining that "he's the player for me who is a good example for intensity, a good example for improving this and also to start the pressing.
"When he's doing this, the other players are following him and this is great. This, for me, is a captain."

#flick #hansi #elche #sunday

David Bailey is officially on the board.
The highly-touted first-round pick had a pretty quiet first preseason showing against the Bucs, but he was able to make his presence felt early in Pittsburgh on Saturday night.
With the Steelers lining up for a third-and-eight on the brink of field goal range, Bailey flew past OT Broderick Jones and brought down QB Will Howard for an 11-yard loss.
It was (unofficially) the first of what figures to be many sacks in his NFL career.
"It felt amazing, it was a sense of relief," Bailey told Brian Costello of the NY Post postgame. "It felt good knowing that my interior line did their job and the coverage did their job and just allowed me to capitalize."

#bucs

There have only been two teams in the history of the ****** ociated Press preseason poll (dating back to 1950) that have gone wire to wire as the No. 1 team in the country from the preseason to ultimately winning the national championship. As we enter the 2026 season, Ohio State becomes the next team with that opportunity.
Ohio State enters the season as the top-ranked team in the preseason AP Poll -- a ranking that no team really cares to have. It's the one at the end of the season that matters most. The Buckeyes were able to reach that pinnacle back in 2024 and are looking to make their way back to the top of the mountain this year.
Whether or not it's wire-to-wire is to be determined. But according to former Florida State quarterback and current college football ****** yst EJ Manuel, he believes Ohio State can do it this season.
"Well, my bold prediction is Julian Sayin, the Ohio State quarterback, will lead his team to a national ****** le, wire-to-wire as the number one team in the country," Manuel said on ESPN's Get Up. "When reading this poll, think about some of the games they have on the road at Texas, at Iowa, at Indiana, at USC. I think Ohio State can win them all."
The Buckeyes, who not only play at Texas in Week 2, will be tested each and every week in the Big Ten. With one of the most difficult schedules in the country, four of Ohio State's five road games are going to be against preseason top-25 opponents. That's no easy task to come out of each week unscathed.

#ohio #wire #team

Rainbow Wahine soccer team falls to 0-3
The Hawaii women's soccer team remained winless after a 3-1 defeat to Western Michigan on Thursday at UH lower campus field.
Sophia Bowman (5:06), Tessa **** erson (19:30) and Irelyn Sheldon (42:51) scored in the first half for the Broncos (1-0-1).
Olivia Dianda scored off an **** ist from Anuhea Aluli at 55:25 for the Rainbow Wahine (0-3-0).
Western Michigan's Reagan Sulaver made three saves and Hawaii's Kennedy Justin had five.

#rainbow #hawaii #michigan #sophia

Monster Jam is returning to Fresno this weekend as the event marks its 20th anniversary at the Save Mart Center.
The family entertainment show will run from Friday, August 21 through Sunday, August 23, as part of the Monster Jam Summer Series.
Drivers and trucks will take part in the weekend's events, including MJ Solorio, driver of "El Toro Loco."
Fans can also buy Pit Party passes for an up-close look at the trucks and a chance to meet crew members.
Tickets are available at MonsterJam.com.

#mart

Liverpool now have less than two weeks to finalise their plans and figure out what their first-team squad is going to look like.
This means that, although there isn't a lot of time left in the window, changes can still be made.
Andoni Iraola still has a couple of problem areas among his ranks and, without figuring out how to plug those gaps, it's unclear how he's going to do any better than Arne Slot did last term.
Obviously, a couple of players have already been brought in to try and solve some of these issues but, it's clear that, if Liverpool want to start competing for silverware again, they're going to have to keep up with their rivals and start making more transfers.
However, without moving some of their current crop on, they won't really have enough room in their squad or money in the bank to sanction new deals.

#couple #without