We have hit the last week of the Tennessee high school football regular season. And like recent years, the TSSAA has split high school games to Thursday and Friday. So about half the state will play their Week 11 games on Thursday. The rest will play on Friday.
It's a chance to give teams better officials each day. But it also gives us a chance to see the TSSAA football playoff picture become clearer before the brackets are released Friday, Oct. 30.
Note: Games with asterisks are region games. Most games this week will be region games. And almost all games play at least a small part in determining playoff order.
Here are the TSSAA football scores for Week 11.
Bradley Central 35, Bearden 21 (Thu) *

#week #tssaa #school #chance

The Arizona Cardinals conducted their second practice of the week Thursday in preparation for Sunday's road game against the Dallas Cowboys and distributed their second injury report.
Center Hjalte Froholdt (knee) was added Thursday and was limited. The injury likely occurred in practice, so the key will be his status on Friday. Froholdt was among three offensive linemen with injuries listed.
One is right guard Jon Gaines (ankle), who hasn't practiced this week and did not play on Sunday against the Broncos, while the other is right tackle Elijah Wilkinson (knee), who was upgraded to limited after not practicing Wednesday.
The full details of their Thursdday injury report are below. Starters are noted with an asterisk.
Did not participate

#report #limited

Five Pensacola area volleyball teams now know their path to the Final Four after brackets were released Oct. 18. District tournaments were supposed to wrap Oct. 16 but wrapped a day later locally after teams got an exception due to damages from Hurricane Isaias
Navarre (6A), Pensacola Catholic (3A) and Jay (Rural) already knew they were in the field by winning their respective district ***** les, while Gulf Breeze (5A) and Booker T. Washington (4A) picked up at-large bids. No local teams qualified for the FHSAA's brand new Open Division, though a couple that did had direct ramifications on Region 1 brackets.
Playoff action will start with regional quarterfinals on Oct. 20 for classes 1A-3A and Oct. 21 for classes 4A-6A. Regional semifinals for all classes will be Oct. 24, followed by regional finals for Rural and 1A-3A on Oct. 27 and 4A-6A on Oct. 28.
All roads lead to Polk State College and the Winter Haven Health Center for the state semifinals and finals, which will take place Nov. 2-7.
Below are the regional brackets featuring Pensacola-area teams and what to know in each classification. District champions are marked with an asterisk (*) and will host a regional quarterfinal unless matched up with a higher-seeded district champion.

#regional #state

STERIS plc (STE), with a market capitalization of approximately $20.8 billion, is a global healthcare company focused on infection prevention and patient care. The Mentor, Ohio-based company provides consumable products, capital equipment, maintenance and repair services, sterilization solutions, laboratory testing, outsourced reprocessing, and operating room connectivity solutions.
Companies worth between $10 billion and $200 billion are generally classified as "large-cap stocks," and STERIS fits this description, with its market capitalization reflecting its substantial size and established position within the healthcare sector. STERIS stands out by combining a leading position in infection prevention with a broad range of healthcare and sterilization products and services. Its trusted brand, loyal customer base, strong financial position, and strategic acquisitions strengthen its competitive position while supporting continued expansion and innovation.
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The TSSAA football season continues on Sept. 11 with Week 4 games across west Tennessee and the state.
Here is the Tennessee high school football full schedule with scores as they are reported. All TSSAA football scores are from what is submitted to the Tennessee high school state office.
Note: All games with an asterisk are TSSAA football region games.
Hillcrest 48, B.T. Washington 6 (Thu)
KIPP Memphis Collegiate 8, Manassas 6 (Thu) *

#Football #state #high #sept

The Arizona Cardinals conducted their second practice this week on Thursday in preparation for Sunday's season opener against the Los Angeles Chargers., and they released their second injury report of the week.
Edge rusher Josh Sweat, who did not practice Wednesday, was limited in Thursday's work.
The full details of the Cardinals' second injury report of the week are below. Starters are noted with an asterisk.
Did not participate
*RG Isaiah Adams (knee)

#injury #thursday

Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) spent its fiscal 2027 second quarter proving a point it has been arguing for months: that artificial intelligence is expanding its business rather than replacing it. The company used its August 26 earnings call to unveil Claudeforce, a joint product with Anthropic that layers Claude's reasoning on top of Salesforce's customer data, while posting numbers that gave management fresh ammunition against the idea that AI agents make traditional software obsolete.
The headline metric was Agentforce annual recurring revenue crossing $1.5 billion, up more than 240% year over year, with AI and data ARR nearing $3.9 billion after growing over 210%. That growth showed up in usage too. Customers generated 3.2 billion Agentic Work Units in the quarter, a 97% jump from the prior quarter, and agentic activity through Model Context Protocol and Claude calls surged sixfold as customers moved past standard software interfaces.
Slackbot became the company's fastest adopted AI product ever, reaching 1 million active users just five months after launch and growing 150% quarter over quarter. Current remaining performance obligation climbed 14% in constant currency to $33.5 billion, a point ahead of guidance, while net new annual order value growth hit its strongest level in four years. Bookings from the premium Agentforce 1 Edition and Agentforce for Apps bundles more than doubled from the prior quarter, and contract terms lengthened across every segment.
On the data side, the Data 360 platform ingested 104 trillion records, up 355% year over year, with Zero Copy architecture usage climbing 731%. Nine of the top 10 AI companies now run on Salesforce and Slack, and their combined spending rose 435% year over year, a detail management used to argue that frontier AI firms depend on CRM infrastructure rather than displacing it. Free cash flow reached $1.1 billion, up 81% year over year, and the U.S. Army expanded its contract to potentially drive up to 55 million monthly Agentforce conversations.
Not every line told a clean growth story. Non-GAAP operating margin actually slipped slightly to 34.1% from 34.3% a year earlier, even as revenue and earnings per share climbed. Overall revenue growth remained a comparatively modest 11%, and management pointed to continued volatility in licensed revenue within its integration and ****** ytics segments, even as Slack and Agentforce carried the results. The raised full-year guidance also comes with an asterisk. Of the $300 million constant currency increase to fiscal 2027 revenue guidance, only $100 million reflects organic momentum, while $200 million depends on the anticipated closings of the Contentful and Fin acquisitions in the coming weeks, deals that have not yet closed.

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The Tennessee high school football season has reached Week 2. The slate of Tennessee high school football games remain primarily TSSAA football non-region for most of the state. Those games that are region contests are denote with an asterisk.
Here are the TSSAA football scores as reported to the TSSAA.
King's Academy 44, Tri-Cities Christian 14 (Thu)
Knoxville Catholic 42, Anderson Co. 21 (Thu)
Loudoun Sports Academy, VA at Baylor

#Football

Home Depot's earnings beat looked great on paper, but **** ysts on the call kept circling one large one-time gain to see if the company's core profitability is really holding up.
Home Depot (HD) stock has struggled over the past twelve months, but its latest earnings report sent shares higher on what looked like a solid beat, with sales up 5.7% for the quarter. When **** ysts got management on the line, however, they weren't focused on the headline numbers. They kept circling back to one central, awkward question: was the company's strong performance real, or was it an illusion created by a large, one-time $685 million tariff refund?
The Margin Math Had a $685 Million Asterisk
The core of the investment case was tested immediately. The market was already questioning whether Home Depot's profitability actually missed expectations once you stripped out the tariff refund. This isn't just an accounting debate; it's a direct challenge to whether the underlying business can handle rising costs. One **** yst framed the worry bluntly, referencing "discussion in the market this morning" about a potential miss if the refund were excluded.
Management's response was direct and numerical. They explained the $685 million refund was about a 145-basis-point gross impact to margin. Of that, roughly 60 basis points offset 'unplanned pressure from fuel, energy and other product input costs,' and another 60 basis points of mix impact from a recent acquisition ate into the rest, leaving a net benefit of about 85 basis points, which flowed through to the quarter's 25-basis-point year-over-year gross margin gain. The argument was that this was a 'market-borne benefit' used to absorb market-borne costs, allowing them to maintain value for customers. It was a confident answer that provided a clear breakdown of the moving parts, rather than a general **** urance.

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The TSSAA football season begins on Aug. 21 with Week 1 games across west Tennessee and the state.
There are also several games on Aug. 20 and 22 as schools open their 2026 campaigns.
Here is the Tennessee high school football full schedule with scores as they are reported. All TSSAA football scores are from what is submitted to the Tennessee high school state office.
Note: All games with an asterisk are TSSAA football region games.
Briarcrest 44, ECS 7 (Thu)

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On August 13, Fermi Inc. (NASDAQ:FRMI) held its second-quarter earnings call and delivered exactly the kind of update a young power developer needs: proof that its plans are turning into contracts. Chairman Marius Haas told investors the company had hit all five commitments from a 90-day plan he laid out three months earlier, topped by a binding customer agreement with AI infrastructure company TensorWave. For a business that still has no meaningful revenue and years of construction ahead of it, a signed customer paired with visible progress on the ground is exactly what shareholders wanted to see.
The headline item is the TensorWave agreement itself: up to 650 megawatts of power if every expansion option is exercised, split across three phases. The initial phase is a 15-year commitment for 222 megawatts of gross power delivered through a turnkey data center solution, worth about $6.5 billion in revenue over that term. Chief Commercial Officer Anna Bofa described the deal as more than one customer's order, noting that the $6.5 billion figure is tied strictly to this Phase 1 commitment, while the campus holds a total expansion potential of up to 650 megawatts. This positions TensorWave as a gateway to hyperscalers and chipmakers that could add more workloads to the campus later on.
Fermi backed the contract with hardware. Three Siemens Energy F-class units, each rated above 242 megawatts, reached the Port of Houston in July and cleared customs to advance the company's 2028 and 2029 power delivery objectives, while a separate configuration of simple cycle turbines and utility power feeds the plan to deliver 640 megawatts of nameplate capacity by the fourth quarter of 2027, with the first 210 megawatts online by July 1, 2027. A new alliance with Hillcore Energy Partners adds another 2.6 gigawatts within three years, with Hillcore financing and building that facility while Fermi simply collects rent, doubling the campus's planned output to 4.8 gigawatts at no extra capital cost to Fermi. The quarter also brought a stronger balance sheet, via an upsized offering of more than $430 million in convertible senior notes, yielding approximately $382 million in net proceeds after a capped call, and a new chief executive in Lee McIntire, whose résumé includes running major projects at Bechtel, McDermott, and TerraPower.
Some of the biggest figures on the call still come with asterisks. The backstop agreement sitting behind the TensorWave lease wasn't finished as of the call, and Fermi hasn't named the counterparty standing behind it, only that a deal was expected within days. Management also said the broader campus can't break ground until project financing beyond this round is lined up, a reminder that the recent convertible note raise alone doesn't cover building out a multi-billion dollar site. The $6.5 billion figure is tied strictly to the initial Phase 1 commitment (222 megawatts), whereas the full 650-megawatt potential depends on future expansion o

On August 11, Aramark (NYSE:ARMK) reported fiscal third-quarter results that beat expectations on nearly every line, with organic revenue climbing 9% to $5 billion and adjusted earnings per share jumping almost 30% from a year earlier. The company also raised its full-year revenue growth outlook and pointed to a growing footprint inside AI data centers as its next act. A closer look at the numbers shows some of that strength leaning on adjustments and calendar quirks that are worth understanding before getting too excited.
Aramark's growth is broad and not dependent on one segment. Organic revenue in the Food and Support Services/FSS US segment rose 8% to $3.5 billion, and would have topped 10% if not for a calendar shift in the education business that pushed some revenue into the fourth quarter. FSS International organic revenue rose 11% to $1.5 billion, led by strong performance in Spain, Canada, the UK, and Germany, contributing to nearly 200 new client locations added globally during the quarter. Client retention sits near 98%, and the company has landed more than $1.6 billion in new client wins so far this fiscal year, 51% ahead of the same stretch a year ago.
The more interesting story sits inside Aramark Nexus, the unit built to serve hospitality needs at data centers and industrial sites. Aramark began operating its first site for a major hyperscaler in Texas just weeks before the earnings call, and management said the scope of work across that client's two locations has already grown roughly 40% beyond original estimates. A second site is being mobilized, and Aramark separately signed a multiyear deal with an AI data center colocation provider to run hospitality services for workforce communities in Wyoming and Texas, with the first site set to open early in the next fiscal year. If AI infrastructure spending keeps expanding the way it has, Aramark has positioned itself as a landlord of sorts for the workers building it.
Not every number tells as clean a story. Aramark's GAAP earnings per share came in at $0.36 for the quarter, well below the $0.52 adjusted figure the company highlighted, a reminder that a meaningful chunk of the improvement comes from items management chooses to exclude. The calendar shift created an estimated $18 million to $19 million drag on adjusted operating income this quarter, temporarily weighing down reported growth rates across the international and domestic food segments. That means the reported 13% AOI growth and 9% revenue growth both come with an asterisk, making quarter-over-quarter comparisons harder to trust at face value.

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Personal care products provider Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB)'s shares are down by 17% over the past year and are up by 9% year-to-date. It is currently undergoing a major transformation through acquiring Kenvue. Cramer has discussed Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB)'s acquisition several times and linked its performance with consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble. In his morning appearance on August 6th, the CNBC TV host discussed Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB)'s earnings and the tailwinds from the acquisition:
"I like the way Kimberly acted, even though they had a asterisk China diaper problem which I did not know about. The stock started down and then finished up nicely. I think that Chu is doing is a nice job. I think that Kenvue acquisition's going to be very good. Proctor was not as good, so I think that maybe you're going to start seeing, even though Proctor's much bigger than Kimberly, maybe we're going to have a new colossus."
On the 4th, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) had reported its second quarter earnings to post $4.19 billion in revenue that missed **** yst estimates of $4.22 billion. Yet, the firm also cut its organic sales growth and earnings forecasts. Yet, the shares close 3.7% higher on the 4th, exhibiting solid momentum after the report hit the wires before market open.
Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB)'s business model, i.e., selling personal care products, is resistant in a tough economy as consumers continue to spend on its products even if they reduce discretionary spending. Cramer's previous comments about the firm have also noted this, but the firm's sluggish revenue performance in the second quarter opens up concerns about its growth. Additionally, turmoil in the oil market stemming from the Iran war and other factors can stress its margins. This stress, at a time when Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) might have to deal with high debt levels as well. Consequently, 15% of the float being short as of July-end is unsurprising.
On the other hand, the difference between Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE:KMB) and Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) is visible when we compare their forward P/E. While the former has a multiple of 14.93, the latter is valued better through a 20.9 multiple. Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)'s ability to sustain high prices courtesy of its brand strength and market share (60% in blades and razors and 45% to 50% in fabric) is one of its strongest suits. It enables the firm to deliver stable revenue growth, as evidenced by a 2% jump in its June quarter sales. Additionally, Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)'s stable defensive market lead it to commit to stable stock buybacks ($6 billion to $7 billion in FY27) and stable dividends (2.48% yield). Naturally, the P/E is higher, and the short interest is negligible at 1.17% of the float.

#company

MADISON – Hockey returns to the Kohl Center the first weekend of October.
The Wisconsin men's hockey team opens the 2026-27 season with a nonconference series against Robert Morris.
Wisconsin announced the nonconference portion of its schedule Aug. 10 with four series plus the previously announced Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
Three of the series will be played at home. The exception will be a trip to Minnesota State on Oct. 9-10 that will mark a homecoming for UW coach Mike Hastings. He spent 11 seasons as the Mavericks coach before leaving for Wisconsin.
Here is how the Badgers' schedule unfolds. Nonconference dates are marked by an asterisk. The exact days and times of the Big Ten series will be announced later. The start times for the nonconference series also will be announced later.

#coach #later

MADISON – Hockey returns to the Kohl Center the first weekend of October.
The Wisconsin men's hockey team opens the 2026-27 season with a nonconference series against Robert Morris.
Wisconsin announced the nonconference portion of its schedule Aug. 10 with four series plus the previously announced Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.
Three of the series will be played at home. The exception will be a trip to Minnesota State on Oct. 9-10 that will mark a homecoming for UW coach Mike Hastings. He spent 11 seasons as the Mavericks coach before leaving for Wisconsin.
Here is how the Badgers' schedule unfolds. Nonconference dates are marked by an asterisk. The exact days and times of the Big Ten series will be announced later. The start times for the nonconference series also will be announced later.

#trip

The semifinals of the U.S. Women's Amateur will carry into Sunday after another weather suspension halted play for roughly three hours on Saturday.
No. 1-ranked junior Asterisk Talley leads No. 5-ranked Lily Peng, 3 up through nine holes. Anna Iwanaga, this week's co-medalist, is also 3 up through nine over Samford senior Gabriella Nicastro.
Play will resume at 7 a.m. ET, followed by a 36-hole championship match.
Multiple weather suspensions this week at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee, led to the Round of 16 spilling into Saturday morning. The quarterfinals went off without a hitch, but dangerous conditions against forced players off the course early in the semis.
Golf Channel will carry live coverage of the final, beginning at 3 p.m. ET Sunday.

#saturday #play #weather #ranked

Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA) stock broke into a run on Tuesday morning, up 20.3% as of 11 a.m. ET. The rugged-device and **** et-tracking specialist reported strong second-quarter results before the opening bell, and the stock is now trading at fresh 52-week highs.
Zebra's adjusted earnings hit $6.35 per share. **** yst consensus was $4.36. Zebra's own guidance in May topped out at $4.50, so management beat the optimistic end of its own homework by 41%. Sales rose 20.4% to $1.56 billion, with organic growth of 9.2% and gains in every region.
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A $73 million tariff recovery flattered the quarter, and only $41 million of that promised payback has materialized as cash so far.
But that's OK. Strip out the tariff payback benefits, and earnings still come in near $5.10 per share. Zebra's beat survives the tariff asterisk.

#signal #tariff #Stock

The USGA championship season continues with the U.S. Women's Amateur, which begins Tuesday at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee.
Beginning with this year's championship, stroke play will be contested on Tuesday and Wednesday with match play starting on Thursday, a day later than usual. The 36-hole final will still take place on Sunday.
World No. 1 Kiara Romero is not in the field, neither are Stanford teammates Paula Martin Sampedro and Andrea Revuelta, the Nos. 2 and 3 amateurs in the world.
Texas senior Farah O'Keefe, however, is competing and at No. 4 in the world, she's the highest-ranked name in the 156-player field. She is joined by No. 7 Aphrodite Deng, last year's U.S. Girls' Junior winner (this year's champ, Clairey Lin, is also competing); No. 8 Asterisk Talley, who finished runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur two years ago; No. 9 Soomin Oh of South Korea; and No. 10 Rianne Malixi, the 2024 U.S. Women's Amateur champion.
So far this year, O'Keefe has won three of the six highest-rated individual tournaments, according to WAGR – Therese Hession Regional Challenge, Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and NCAA Championship. She also reached the semifinals of the Women's British Amateur and was third at the Charles Schwab Women's Collegiate.

#World #play

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Philips had the kind of quarter that sounds great until you read past the headline. Sales up, margins up, cash flow guidance up. Then you notice the margin beat is wearing a costume: a U.S. tariff refund, not better medicine.
Philips posted second-quarter sales of €4.4 billion (about $5 billion), up 4% on a comparable basis. Adjusted EBITA margin jumped to 16.4%, but a €186 million US tariff refund did most of the actual lifting, worth 4.2 percentage points out of €609 million in operating income. Take that refund away and underlying margin actually slipped.
Orders told a rougher story: comparable intake fell 1%, dragged down by several big Connected Care contracts in North America that simply slid into next quarter. Europe, meanwhile, posted strong double-digit order growth, no asterisk required. All three divisions still grew, Diagnosis & Treatment up 2%, Connected Care up 2%, Personal Health up a genuinely solid 8%.
Management left full-year sales guidance untouched at 3-4.5%, but raised margin guidance to 13.5-14% and lifted free cash flow guidance to €1.5-1.7 billion, all while quietly excluding the still-unresolved Respironics legal mess, including active US investigations. Shares fell anyway. Investors did the math on the refund themselves.

#billion #connected

O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory, an investment advisory firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. During Q2 2026, the market experienced notable dispersion between perceived AI losers and winners. The firm has made investments early in AI infrastructure companies, which yielded gains during market repricing. The second quarter experienced strong equity rallies, with the S&P 500 gaining 15.2% and the Nasdaq 21.4%, marking the best quarter since Q2 2020. While the software sector faced challenges, with the iShares Software ETF dropping ~27% before a rally, reflecting high volatility. This volatility is seen as an opportunity, despite the potential for 'dead money' in underperforming stocks. The firm remains cautious, focuses on owning durable businesses at reasonable prices, holding cash, and hedging risks to navigate unpredictability. In addition, please check the Strategy's top five holdings to know its best picks in 2026.
In its Q2 2026 investor letter, O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory highlighted Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC). Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) is a US-based company that provides sterilization solutions, lab testing, and advisory services for the healthcare industry. On July 27, 2026, Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) closed at $17.24 per share, reflecting a market capitalization of $4.92 billion. Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) posted a one-month return of -2.87%, while its shares gained 42.01% over the past 52 weeks.
O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory stated the following regarding Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC) in its Q2 2026 investor update:
"Sotera Health Company (NASDAQ:SHC): We have been following Sotera Health for several years. The business is exceptional: a sterilization duopoly with Sterigenics and Steris combined controlling an estimated 70% of the sterilization market. Sotera's Sterigenics business boasts 50% EBITDA margins, mission-critical regulated services, and cobalt-60 production that is nearly impossible to replicate. Yet we never bought it because of one thing: Warburg Pincus held a material stake and was consistently selling into the market. We do not buy high quality businesses where forced sellers will pressure the stock regardless of fundamental improvement. We look for situations where forced sellers create dislocation, allowing us to buy a stock for cheaper than what it would trade for without such selling pressure. On the bip side, we look to sell into forced buyers pushing stock prices up irrespective of fundamentals. In early 2026, Warburg sold its last share. Combined with a valuation that was cheap given the quality of the business model, we thought it made sense to purchase the stock.
At their November 2024 Investor Day, management outlined a 2025-2027 plan targeting 5%-7% organic revenue growth and 5%-8% adjusted EBITDA growth, with at least 50bps of EBITDA margin expansion annually. Sterigenics represents over 60% of revenue, and we expect

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On one hand, UPS beat on everything that mattered this quarter. EPS of $1.76 against $1.66 expected, revenue of $22.8 billion against $21.81 billion expected, and raised full-year guidance on top of it. On the other hand, the stock fell 8% anyway, because Wall Street also got to see UPS' third-quarter outlook.
The best line of the whole call, though, came from CEO Carol Tomé, who said, "if you ignore Amazon and the volume that we intentionally made available to the market, we actually grew our volume in the second quarter." Which, sure, if you ignore the baseball playing, the Mets look great this year. Half the companies in America would probably love the chance to report earnings with an asterisk that says "excluding our biggest, most demanding customer, everything here looks fantastic." Tomé is just the one honest enough to say it out loud on a recorded call.
The Amazon divorce is real, though, and mostly finished. UPS has cut roughly 2 million pieces a day of what it calls "lower quality Amazon volume," stripping out about $4.5 billion in related costs so far, on purpose, in exchange for a leaner network it insists will pay off as volume grows elsewhere. Domestic revenue rose 6% on higher revenue per piece, international jumped 12.5%, and healthcare logistics cleared $3 billion for a second straight quarter, with Tomé bragging UPS is the only carrier offering true end-to-end healthcare delivery on its own ******* ets.
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Myles Garrett is heading into his 10th NFL season, and his first with the Rams. If he has the kind of big year the Rams are hoping for, he could break the NFL record for the most sacks ever in a player's first 10 seasons.
Through nine years, Garrett has 125.5 career sacks. The record for the most sacks in a player's first 10 seasons is 145, set by Reggie White in his 10th NFL season, in 1994. So if Garrett gets 20 sacks this season, he'll break White's record.
It's worth noting that the record has an asterisk: Official NFL records for a player's sack total have only been recorded since 1982. Deacon Jones has the unofficial record, with 155 sacks in his first 10 seasons.
Garrett set the NFL record for sacks in a season last year, when he had 23. So a 20-sack season is possible for him this year.
After Jones and White, Jared Allen has the next-most sacks through 10 seasons, with 128.5. Garrett will almost certainly get the 3.5 sacks he needs to surpass Allen.

#first #seasons

As we pass the midway point of the 2020s, it's worth looking back at which players made the biggest impact on the NFL over the past five season.
The Los Angeles Rams were one of three teams to have at least three players listed on Fox Sports' "Half-Decade Team," with Davante Adams, Myles Garrett and Aaron Donald all earning spots on the star-studded roster. Los Angeles tied with the Kansas City Chiefs for the second-most representatives of any franchise, behind only the Baltimore Ravens' four. And if you're wondering where Matthew Stafford is, Fox Sports only picked one quarterback, and it was hard to leave Patrick Mahomes off this list.
But the Rams' total comes with an asterisk the Chiefs and Ravens don't share: two of the three honorees have spent a combined one season in Los Angeles so far. Adams arrived via trade in 2025 and just completed his first year with the team. Garrett only just joined this offseason after being dealt from Cleveland in a blockbuster move, and has yet to play a single snap in a Rams uniform. Only Donald's Rams tenure predates the recent roster overhaul — and he's been retired the past two seasons.
Adams made the cut at wide receiver alongside Justin Jefferson and Ja'Marr Chase. The 33-year-old is one of two receivers with three first-team All-Pro nods since 2020, alongside Tyreek Hill, and led the NFL with 14 receiving touchdowns in his first season with the Rams.
Garrett headlines the edge rusher spot after setting a single-season NFL record with 23 sacks last season — while still a Brown. No edge rusher in the league has more first-team All-Pro selections since 2020 than his five, a total he shares the position slot with Pittsburgh's T.J. Watt.

#season

The District 10 football season is right around the corner with teams getting ready to attend camp in a few weeks. Below are the team-by-team schedules and on the bottom is a scrimmage schedule as well. Teams have the option to play one scrimmage and start the regular season on Aug. 28 or play two scrimmages. All D-10 teams choose the first option. The games with an asterisk are region games.
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#teams #region #season #games

Have you ever wanted to see the schedule of every Gainesville area high school football team, but didn’t want to scour pages of MaxPreps?
We have a solution, and it’s this article right here from the Gainesville Sun.
We compiled the schedule of every football program in the area, from Bell to Williston.
Many of our programs have moved to the Sunshine State Athletic ***** ociation (SSAA), which begins its season on Aug. 14. That Friday is the preseason game for FHSAA squads. Their season begins a week later, Aug. 21.
Each team’s schedule comes from MaxPreps, and asterisks are district games. All times are in eastern.

As is an All-Star break tradition, here's a look at where I think things currently stand for next season. I planned on a top 400, but I still wound up with too many names I wanted to squeeze in, so 450 is what you're getting. This is supposed to be a fun exercise, so please don't be too upset if you think I have No. 259 ranked 100 spots too high or too low.
Rankings are for 5x5 leagues and are for 2027 only. Also listed is each player's ranking in the 2026 preseason top 300 and the most recent top 300 update from July 6. I've tried to update positions with my best guess at 2027 eligibility, so there's no more Ben Rice at catcher or Luis García Jr. at second base. Players listed without teams will be free agents at season's end, and players whose teams have asterisks are on options that may or may not be exercised. I don't bother with the asterisks for players whose options are obviously getting picked up, like Ronald Acuña Jr. and Andrés Muñoz.
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2027 Fantasy Baseball Top 450 overall ranks
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Zito Madu joins Baker Machado of Front Office Sports to discuss:
Trump calling FIFA to suspend Folarin Balogun’s red card before Belgium
Why Article 27 is now a punchline and what it means for FIFA’s credibility
Whether anything the USMNT does from here carries an asterisk
The floodgates opening for political interference across all nations

United States Men's National Team head coach Mauricio Pochettino opted against taking any chances in his team's final FIFA World Cup group game against Turkiye on Thursday, despite the result having no bearing on their tournament progression or group placement.
The Argentine tactician has made nine alterations from the side that secured a 2-0 victory over Australia last Friday in Seattle, with only midfielder Weston McKennie and forward Ricardo Pepi keeping their spots. Pepi's inclusion comes with an asterisk, however, as he slots in only because captain Christian Pulisic is sidelined with an injury picked up in the World Cup opener.
Former USMNT defender and fiercely patriotic FOX ****** yst Alexi Lalas has consistently pushed for Pochettino to maintain the team's momentum, pointing out that the United States has never swept all three World Cup group stage matches.
Australian soccer fans' anti-Donald Trump chant could spark World Cup controversy
USMNT World Cup star caught in political row over Mike Johnson's 'transplanting Sharia law' comments

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** - Player listed in red and with two asterisks next to his name is currently recovering from a major injury.
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CJ Carr may not be running the triple option at Notre Dame, but we do here at OFD.
One of the things we all noticed, wrote about, talked about, and laughed about this past spring was just how chippy this Notre Dame football team was with each other during their practice sessions. You don’t expect the clean-cut Heisman frontrunner from Saline, Michigan, to be one of the big instigators and culprits of all of the trash talking that goes on before it gets chippy… and yet CJ Carr was a lot of times. NBA legend, Larry Bird, is having a great PR run over the last 10 years as more and more former players talk about how big of a mouthy menace he was out on the court — and it looks like Carr may get that kind of treatment one day.
Personally, I love it. I love that Carr isn’t just a competitor, but one that gets right up in his opponents face about it — practice or game.
Did Charlie Weis copyright that phrase? Anyways… for the same article as above, Leonard Moore also talks about Notre Dame being their own worst enemy last season when it came to the college football playoff. While a lot of us had complaints and finger pointing (and still do) it looks like Marcus Freeman has really got his team wrapped around a view of accountability. This is a MUCH better and much more appropriate vibe than “revenge tour” or anything else similar.
I like this graphic… kind of. It’s a fun graphic to see all of Notre Dame’s football wins since 1887, but the whole asterisk thing remains lame.