Lazio have officially announced their signing of Portuguese centre-back Diogo Leite on a free transfer following their flying start to the 2026-27 Serie A season, which sees them joint top of the pack after three matches.
The Biancocelesti have confirmed that Leite has joined the club on a free transfer following the expiry of his Union Berlin contract earlier this summer, and that he has put pen to paper on a two-year deal with an option to extend for a further 12 months at the Stadio Olimpico.
BERLIN, GERMANY – MAY 16: Leite Diogo of 1. FC Union Berlin during farewell prior to the Bundesliga match between 1. FC Union Berlin and FC Augsburg at Stadion An der Alten Foersterei on May 16, 2026 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
"S.S. Lazio announces the official signing of the footballer Diogo Filipe Monteiro Pinto Leite following the expiration of his contract with FC Union Berlin on June 30, 2026," a statement on the club website confirmed.
"The player has signed a two-year contract with an option to extend for an additional two seasons."

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WNBA reverses Angel Reese suspension decision after Dream loss originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Angel Reese will be available for the Atlanta Dream's next game after the WNBA reversed a call that initially carried an automatic suspension. Reese was **** sed her eighth technical foul of the season during the fourth quarter of Atlanta's 101-83 loss to the Portland Fire on Friday. Under WNBA rules, that total would have resulted in a one-game suspension for Sunday's matchup with the Minnesota Lynx.
The league reviewed the play after the game and rescinded the technical foul, ESPN's Alexa Philippou reported on X. Reese was returned to seven technical fouls and avoided the suspension. The play occurred after Reese and Portland guard Carla Leite became tangled while battling for rebounding position. Reese appeared to push Leite as the two separated, prompting officials to issue the technical.
That decision did not survive the league's review.
Although Reese escaped an immediate punishment, she has little room for error over the remainder of the regular season. Her next technical foul would again be her eighth, automatically triggering a one-game suspension. Additional technicals later in the season could lead to further suspensions under the WNBA's escalating disciplinary system.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are moving one of their top prospects one step closer to the big leagues.
Pitcher Cam Leiter was promoted from Class-A Ontario to advanced Class-A Great Lakers on Thursday, Aug. 20. Leiter is the nephew of former major league pitchers Al and Mark Leiter. Two of his cousins, Mark Leiter Jr. and Jack Leiter, have already reached the major leagues.
Leiter was the Dodgers' second-round draft pick (65th overall) last year out of Florida State. For someone with such a long family pedigree in professional baseball, the Dodgers had relatively little idea what to expect from Leiter in 2026.
MORE: Dodgers make decision on Edwin Diaz, will promote Triple-A starter
The right-hander didn't pitch at all in 2025, his junior year of college, after undergoing surgery to clean up his shoulder in October 2024.

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PHOENIX (AP) — Carla Leite scored 23 points and the Portland Fire rallied to beat Phoenix 88-85 on Sunday night, when the Mercury had halftime and postgame ceremonies celebrating franchise icon Diana Taurasi.
Leite had the final two baskets in a 6-0 run and the expansion Fire (15-20) moved in front 81-80 with 1:12 remaining. Portland's Emily Engstler and the Mercury's Kahleah Copper traded baskets before Katie Lou Samuelson hit the second of two foul shots with 20 seconds left to put the Fire up 84-82.
Bridget Carleton blocked a shot by Copper and grabbed the rebound with 12 seconds to go, then sank two free throws for a four-point lead after Copper fouled her. Alyssa Thomas buried a 3-pointer, but Carleton sank two free throws to preserve the win.
Leite shot 9 for 15 and added five ***** ists. Megan DiLeo had 15 points.
DeWanna Bonner scored 23 to lead Phoenix (13-23). Copper totaled 19 points and seven rebounds. Thomas finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds, falling one ***** ist shy of a triple-double.

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Good morning, folks…
The Texas Rangers beat the Sacramento A's by a score of 5-3 last night.
Shawn McFarland writes that the game showed how the Rangers can succeed.
Before the game, the team activated reliever Jakob Junis from the injured list.
The DMN has updates on Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi and Jack Leiter.

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The Texas Rangers today purchased the contract of infielder Jonah Bride, the team announced today. To make room for Bride on the active roster, the Rangers optioned outfielder Alejandro Osuna to AAA Round Rock. To make room for Bride on the 40 man roster, the Rangers transferred pitcher Jake Leiter from the 15 day injured list to the 60 day injured list.
Bride is a 30 year old who played for Skip Schumaker in Miami in 2024, when he had a career best season, slashing .276/.357/.461 while playing first, second and third base. He has an overall career .221/.311/.313 line, however, which is why he signed a minor league deal with the Rangers this past offseason and has spent the year at Round Rock.
Bride's overall slash line for Round Rock is a rather pedestrian .282/.401/.425 in 431 plate appearances this season. However, he has put up a very impressive .388/.473/.669 slash line against lefthanded pitchers, which is why the Rangers, who are kind of desperate for a righthanded bench bat, have brought him up. Interestingly, Bride has reverse splits in the majors for his career, slashing .194/.295/.228 against lefties in 272 plate appearances in the bigs, against .238/.321/.367 against righthanded pitchers.
Osuna has played sparingly as of late, getting just one start in the month of April and mainly being used for pinch hitting duties. He's not a good fit for the roster, as currently constructed, given that he's a lefthanded hitting outfielder on the bench, and the Rangers need a righthanded hitting bench outfielder, not a lefthanded hitting one. It seems like this might have been an area the team would have wanted to try to address at the deadline, were it not for the fact that Ray Davis is apparently claiming that the team is po' like Kenny's family.
Bride will presumably fill in until Josh Jung returns, ****** uming Jung does return at some point this season.

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A lot of baseball players childhood dreams will come true this weekend in the 2026 MLB Draft.
The selections will take place in Philadelphia as The Show will bring in a new class of talented ball players and future stars. There are some players from the Jersey Shore that are likely to get selected this weekend.
AJ Gracia is a left-handed hitting outfielder that played his high school days at Ranney School in Tinton Falls. He's projected to go in the first round of the draft according to the MLB.com prospect list. This past season for Virginia, he batted .354 and had 14 home runs and 48 RBI. Prior to Virginia, he spent two seasons at Duke. As a Blue Devil, he set a new program freshman home run record with 14 and freshman RBI record with 58.
MORE: Wall's Andrew Fischer, Central's Cam Leiter go early in MLB Draft with 6 from Shore picked
Another is Reece Moroney out of Rumson-Fair Haven High School. He was invited to the 2026 MLB Draft Combine at Chase Field in Phoenix where the Diamondbacks play. He became a standout at the University of Rhode Island in the Atlantic 10 Conference. In May, he broke the single season record for most hits with 88. He's an infielder and just finished his junior season.

Portland Fire guard Carla Leite shows off toned abs in pregame look before Aces matchup originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
Carla Leite is becoming one of the WNBA's fastest-rising young stars, and before Thursday night's game against the Las Vegas Aces, she reminded fans that her pregame style is attracting attention, too.
The Portland Fire guard drew plenty of buzz after Athlete Vanity shared photos of Leite arriving before tipoff, showcasing a stylish outfit highlighted by her toned abs. The look quickly made the rounds on social media as fans continued to take notice of one of the league's emerging international talents.
While Portland ultimately fell to the Aces 88-80, Leite once again showed why she's becoming one of the franchise's brightest building blocks.
MORE: Caitlin Clark reacts after Fever shares slow-motion video of Makayla Timpson's game-changing block

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers swapped right-handed relievers on the 15-day injured list on Saturday, placing Jakob Junis on the IL with a right hip impingement and activating 40-year-old Chris Martin after his second stint out because of a right shoulder issue.
Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young also said left-handed reliever Jalen Beeks would have season-ending surgery for a flexor tendon strain. Beeks was close to being activated from the IL after being out since June 10 with lower back spasms when he started having elbow soreness during his rehab.
Junis has been one of the team's most reliable relievers, going 1-1 with five saves and a 2.80 ERA over 35 1/3 innings in 31 appearances. Young expressed hope that Junis would be out for only the 15-day period.
Martin, who is 1-1 with a 7.84 ERA in 12 games this season, missed 31 games from mid-April to mid-May and then 30 more games that included all of June because of a right shoulder impingement. Beeks was 2-1 with a 3.81 ERA in 29 appearances.
The shuffling of relievers came on the same day that right-handed starter Jack Leiter said he felt good in his recovery and hoped to pitch again this season after arthroscopic surgery June 23 to remove an extra but unneeded bone from behind his right ankle bone.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sonia Citron scored 32 points, including the basket that put her team ahead to stay with 21.4 seconds left, and the Washington Mystics held off the Portland Fire 124-123 on Sunday in four overtimes — tying the longest game in WNBA history.
The other four-overtime game was July 3, 2001, when Washington beat Seattle 72-69.
Michaela Onyenwere scored 30 points and Kiki Iriafen added 27 for the Mystics (9-9), who became the first team in league history to have three players score at least 27 points in the same game.
Carla Leite — who banked in a 3-pointer with 0.4 seconds left in regulation and sent the game to overtime — led Portland with 32 points. Sarah Ashlee Barker scored 25 and Megan Gustafson added 20 for the Fire (8-12).
The game had 21 ties and 12 lead changes — and took 3 hours, 35 minutes in real time.

Good morning.
Shawn McFarland writes about what we learned about the Texas Rangers over the last week which is that they continue to be unable to beat bad teams while holding up well against good teams.
MLB dot com’s John Henry writes about Wyatt Langford heating up after a forgettable first couple of months to the season.
McFarland writes that a healthy and productive Langford changes the dynamic for the Rangers and their oftentimes threatless lineup.
Jeff Wilson writes that the Rangers made it nearly half a season before a starting pitcher hit the IL, with an injury from late April finally doing Jack Leiter in.

Texas Rangers starting pitcher Jack Leiter has been placed on the injured list with a left ankle injury, the team announced today. To take his place on the active roster, the Rangers have recalled pitcher Jose Corniell.
Leiter had been dealing with the ankle issue for most of the season, but reportedly made it worse slipping on the on deck circle in the Rangers' April contest against the Pittsburgh Pirates. You remember the play, I'm sure, but in case you need a reminder, here it is:
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The general reaction to the play at the time was, oh ****** , now Jack Leiter is hurt. I think most of us of were surprised he even stayed in the game. Per Chris Young, Leiter felt he could pitch through the issue, but scans after his last outing showed it had gotten worse, so he's being shut down so the ankle can heal.
One might wonder whether the Rangers would have made this move sooner if they had a viable option to replace Leiter in the rotation. Jacob Latz, who was the de facto sixth starter early on, has taken on the closer role, and given the injuries the bullpen is dealing with currently, along with ineffectiveness by a lot of the non-Latz relievers, trying to stretch him out and have him starting again isn't realistic.

If there was any doubt that Seattle is a soccer city, today’s official World Cup kickoff put them to rest.
Egyptian fans were dancing in the street on Monday afternoon, celebrating a 1-1 draw with Belgium.
Seattle stadium was packed with 66,775 fans in attendance, leaving less than 200 empty seats.
“The Emerald City” is welcoming fans from around the world and Seattleites say they’re impressed by the soccer transformation, especially along the waterfront.
“People are going to get to see a lot of the beauty of Seattle when they walk up and down here,” says Molly.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike had 20 points and a season-high 17 rebounds, Dearica Hamby added 22 points and 12 rebounds and the Los Angeles Sparks beat the Portland Fire 89-72 on Sunday to snap their three-game losing streak.
Ogwumike had her third consecutive double-double and fifth this season. Kelsey Plum finished with 16 points, seven ****** ists, five rebounds and three steals for the Sparks (5-6). Rae Burrell added 10 points.
Megan Gustafson had 16 points and a season-high 12 rebounds, her first double-double since 2023, for the Fire (6-7). Carla Leite and Emily Engstler added 10 points apiece.
Portland committed nine — which included six steals by LA — of its 15 turnovers and was 5-of-14 shooting as it was outscored 23-12 in the third, the Fire's lowest-scoring quarter this season. Plum had nine points and two ****** ists, while Hamby scored seven in the period to help the Sparks take a 64-55 lead into the fourth.
Plum stole the ball from Leite, then threw it ahead to Hamby for a fast-break layup that capped an 11-2 run and gave Los Angeles an 18-point lead with 6:07 to play.