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LOS ANGELES — It’s easy to take Shohei Ohtani for granted. By now, we’ve settled into the rote comfort: He is the best player on the planet, and that’s that. Ohtani’s baseline is everyone else’s peak. He is judged against himself and himself only.And it’s human nature that when we watch something often enough — even something as mind-bending as a player who’s a full-time starting pitcher and full-time hitter and among the very best at both — it starts to register as normal.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedWhich is why his performances on Friday — the unleashing of the full extent of…

England’s packed winter schedule began in underwhelming fashion as their first T20 international against New Zealand was abandoned due to persistent rain in Christchurch.With eyes already drifting toward the Ashes next month, England must first navigate a white-ball series across the Tasman Sea. Put in to bat, Harry Brook’s side struggled for fluency on a tricky surface, with only Sam Curran passing 30 as his unbeaten 49 off 35 balls rescued England from 81-5 as they posted a competitive 153-6 after 20 overs.But the weather had the final say. The heavens opened during the interval, and a reduced-overs chase was…

October 17, 2025 05:25 PM Fresh off a massive outing against the Steelers, Ja’Marr Chase has comfortably reasserted himself as a top-three fantasy wide receiver, while Tee Higgins remains a “frustrating” WR2 with an “elite ceiling.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice says he’s learned a lot about himself over the past 13 months while not playing in a regular-season game since September 2024.Rice is set to make his return to the Chiefs’ lineup in Sunday’s home contest against the Las Vegas Raiders following a six-game NFL suspension to start the season for his involvement in a high-speed crash in March 2024.“It’s been a long time coming,” Rice said Friday in his first media availability since the preseason, “and the time’s finally here.”Rice, who agreed to the suspension in late August, also…

Jeff KassoufOct 17, 2025, 01:16 PM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.United States forward Trinity Rodman has a Grade 1 MCL sprain and will be sidelined for an unspecified amount of time, Washington Spirit head coach Adrian Gonzalez said Friday. There is no timetable for her return.Rodman is expected to miss the U.S. women’s national team’s upcoming games against Portugal and New Zealand due to the knee injury sustained earlier…

A dream season for the Milwaukee Brewers is over. After winning a franchise record 97 games during the regular season, the Brewers were unceremoniously swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS. The Brewers scored four runs in the four games and pitched with a lead for exactly one-third of an inning. Holding the Dodgers to 15 runs in four games was good work, but the offense no-showed, and the Brewers are going home.Milwaukee’s 97 wins led baseball and were the fewest by MLB’s best team since the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals tied for the league…

After slow-playing stars Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, rotating different lineups to accommodate an unreasonably busy six-game preseason schedule and giving their two-way players extended run, the Lakers buttoned up the rotation for a final preseason game Friday that coach JJ Redick called a “dress rehearsal.”With the curtain finally lifting on Tuesday, the Lakers are not quite ready for showtime.AdvertisementDoncic dazzled with 31 points, nine assists and five rebounds to lead five double-digit Lakers scorers, but the Kings came back for a 117-116 win at Crypto.com Arena. Despite playing without Keegan Murray, Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozen or Malik Monk, the…

Oct 17, 2025, 07:32 AM ETEddie Hearn has hinted that Ben Whittaker could make his debut in the United States early next year.Whittaker will fight for the first time under Hearn’s Matchroom banner on Nov. 29 against German Benjamin Gavazi in Birmingham after signing from Boxxer.The 28-year-old light heavyweight is considered a rising star in the sport and Hearn teased the prospect of crossing the Atlantic next year at a pre-fight news conference on Friday.”The global mission as well [for Whittaker], a bit of a toe in the water perhaps in the United States early in 2026,” Hearn said.”We know…

Friday afternoons are my opportunity to connect with FantasyPros readers and the FantasyPros Discord community. If you haven’t already done so, be sure to join our Discord to get answers to your questions. This week, I jumped on to answer questions in the morning. Nevertheless, I host weekly AMAs on Fridays, and other analysts also routinely answer questions. Below were three standout topics from Friday’s busy Week 7 AMA. Discord AMA: Week 7 What is Rico Dowdle‘s Outlook This Week? Unfortunately, I don’t have a crystal ball. As a result, I don’t know precisely how Dave Canales will divvy up…