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Decorated wrestler Gable Steveson will make his highly-anticipated mixed martial arts debut next month.The Olympic gold medalist will face Braden Peterson at LFA 217 on Sept. 12 at the Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, Minnesota. The promotion announced the heavyweight bout on Tuesday. LFA 217 is headlined by a bantamweight clash between Mitch McKee and Christian Strong and airs on UFC Fight Pass at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT. “Gable Steveson’s arrival in the sport is a historic moment, and pairing it with a high-level bantamweight clash makes LFA 217 an event you can’t miss,” said LFA CEO…

Crystal Palace are in talks with Nottingham Forest, and the Metropolitan police, over the provision of increased security for Sunday’s Premier League game between the teams at Selhurst Park.Palace supporters are understood to be planning a protest at the fixture over Forest’s perceived role in getting them demoted to the Conference League, with Nuno Espírito Santo’s side replacing Palace in the Europa League after they were found by Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body [CFCB] to have broken multi-club ownership rules due to their former shareholder John Textor’s ownership of the French club Lyon, who also qualified for the latter competition.…

It’s Wednesday, August 20 and the Rangers (62-65) are in Kansas City to take on the Royals (65-61). Noah Cameron is slated to take the mound for Kansas City, while Texas has not announced its starter yet. The Royals continued to cook with a 5-2 win on Tuesday night, which gives Kansas City a chance to sweep the Rangers if they win today and Thursday. Kansas City is now 7-1 in the past eight games, while Texas trends in the opposite direction with a 1-6 record over the last seven and 2-10 record dating back a dozen games. The Royals…

It’s Wednesday, August 20 and the Rangers (62-65) are in Kansas City to take on the Royals (65-61). Noah Cameron is slated to take the mound for Kansas City, while Texas has not announced its starter yet. The Royals continued to cook with a 5-2 win on Tuesday night, which gives Kansas City a chance to sweep the Rangers if they win today and Thursday. Kansas City is now 7-1 in the past eight games, while Texas trends in the opposite direction with a 1-6 record over the last seven and 2-10 record dating back a dozen games. The Royals…

After going through the bottom-10 teams in the first part of my annual recap of every NBA team’s offseason, we arrive at the 10 in the middle. The top 10 will be revealed Thursday.Again, for the uninitiated: These aren’t power rankings. They’re just an opinion of how well each team did, or didn’t, improve during the offseason. Most importantly:• If your team is ranked in the top 10, it doesn’t mean I love your team.• If your team is ranked in the bottom 10, it doesn’t mean I hate your team.The one big question: Is the team better now than at the…

Sebastian Juarez, who fights Louis Hernandez on Friday at the Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida, reckons the middleweight division is up for grabs

Here, I’ll go through my favorite pick in every round in Yahoo fantasy football leagues right now. I’ll try to put together a complete team in the exercise as well, so don’t worry … you won’t just get 13 wide receiver picks from me in this space. Also, I’ve used Yahoo ADP from the last seven days (up to August 18) for the most up-to-date draft slots for these players. That made the exercise harder for me, but will be more useful to you.[Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season]We’ll go 13 rounds deep…

Last year, the Steelers drafted wide receiver Roman Wilson in the third round, but only got six snaps out of him as a rookie, thanks to ankle and hamstring injuries. This year, Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers believes Wilson can be a big part of the offense.Wilson has played very well in the preseason, and Rodgers said Wilson is showing the same things on the practice field and in the meeting rooms.“I think he’s improving every day,” said Rodgers. “You can’t skew the results from the details. You look at his game the other night, he made a couple splash plays.…

The ninth season of Dana White’s Contender Series continues, with the UFC boss handing out a contract to every winner on last night’s show.After only Ty Miller and Baysangur Susurkaev impressed enough to earn deals with the promotion on the first episode, the pressure was on for the MMA hopefuls to impress Dana White.Susurkaev’s win on short notice at UFC 319 will give them hope of launching into a career with the UFC, which many have proved they could do with their performances on episode 2 of the show.Here are the results from the second episode of the ninth season…

Leon Bailey has completed a loan move from Aston Villa to Italian club Roma.The Jamaica winger has joined the Italian side for the 2025-26 season and the deal includes an option to buy.The 28-year-old made a £25m move to Villa from German club Bayer Leverkusen in 2021 and went on to score 22 goals in 144 appearances.Bailey claimed a career-high 14 goals in 52 games in all competitions in the 2023-24 season, but he scored just twice in 38 games last term.He signed a new contract with Villa in February 2024 that runs until 2027.