Check out these photos from the 2024 PFL Championship ceremonial weigh-ins and fighter faceoffs ahead of the event (ESPN+) at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Photos courtesy of PFL)
Tommy DeVito is not expected to play in Dallas
DeVito is listed as questionable with a right forearm injury, Drew Lock is set to start.
2024 PFL Championships faceoff highlights video, photo gallery from Saudi Arabia
The 2024 PFL finals take place Friday in Saudi Arabia, and Thursday, the fighters had one last chance to size each other up with $1 million on the line. After the ceremonial weigh-ins, the fighters competing for this season's six $1 million final prizes came…
Lions escape Bears’ comeback bid after Chicago completely botches final snap
Detroit won on Thanksgiving Day for the first time since 2016 in stunning fashion.
Tyrese Martin steps up for Nets with ‘surreal’ shooting performance in Phoenix
After receiving the news they’ll be without leading scorer Cam Thomas for at least three weeks with a hamstring strain, Brooklyn knew it needed someone to step up.
Amon-Ra St. Brown, David Montgomery are active for the Lions
Both players were listed as questionable for the Thanksgiving game against the Bears.
The Clint Longley game, 50 years later
Fifty Thanksgivings ago — and also exactly 50 years ago — the NFL was introduced to Clint Longley.
Katherine Grainger makes history as BOA’s first female chair in 119 years
- Former rower will succeed Hugh Robertson in new year
- Grainger is currently in second term as chair of UK Sport
One of Team GB’s greatest ever athletes, Dame Katherine Grainger, has become the first female chair of the British Olympic Association in its 119-year history.
Grainger, who is the only British woman to win medals in five separate Olympic Games, beat the BOA’s vice-chair, Annamarie Phelps, in a vote of the organisation’s 46 members on Thursday. She will take over from Hugh Robertson, who has helped lead the organisation since 2012, early in the new year.
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Suaalii wins fitness battle to start in Australia’s Dublin date with Ireland
- Tane Edmed gets surprise selection in replacements
- Farrell retains Prendergast at fly-half for the hosts
Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii has won his battle to be fit for Australia’s final Test of their British Isles tour and will hope to bow out against Ireland in the spectacular fashion that he began on his debut against England.
Coach Joe Schmidt, hoping to down the team he once led to glory for six years, has also offered up one final surprise selection to finish the rugby year as he’s primed to make replacement fly-half Tane Edmed the Wallabies’ record-extending 19th debutant of 2024.
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"We can’t talk to each other. Just a bunch of little kids. Just like we playing with a bunch of little kids."
Basketball Pickups: Dalton Knecht returns to the starting lineup
Dalton Knecht, Malik Monk, and De'Andre Hunter were among Wednesday's low-rostered standouts.
Ranking Mets’ Top 5 free agent outfielder targets for 2024-25 offseason
The Mets' offseason will be shaped by how the Juan Soto sweepstakes play out. Here's who their top five free agent outfielder targets should be.
Jets Rookie Progress Report: Olu Fashanu, Malachi Corley and Braelon Allen could see expanded roles
It’s been a tough season so far for the Jets, but there have been some signs of progress from some of their rookie class. Let’s check on the status of this year’s rookies.
Champions League review: pain for PSG but Inter and Arsenal on rise
Europe’s finest head-scratching struggles go on. We hand out honours and dishonours from the latest round of action
Inter: The 2023 finalists are second in the table and yet to concede a goal. They are yet to score many either, notching only seven goals in their five games. The latest victims of Simone Inzaghi’s smooth, efficient machine were RB Leipzig, whose own calamitous pointless campaign continued with a 1-0 defeat. An own goal from Castello Lukeba decided it after a wicked free-kick from Federico Dimarco, the wing-back playing an unfamiliar midfield role but was just as dangerous. As Leipzig desperately chased something from the match to rescue their campaign, it fell to the Inter defence to show off their usual control, the experience of Benjamin Pavard, Stefan de Vrij and Alessandro Bastoni as the defensive trio seeing out the job in some comfort.
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