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Hull KR clung on for a dramatic 10-6 win at defending champions Wigan that all but confirmed top spot in this year’s Betfred Super League after a blockbuster clash at the Brick Community Stadium.Dean Hadley’s first-half try and six points from the boot of Rhyse Martin completed what should have been a far more handsome win for the visitors, who might have been punished after Adam Keighran reduced the deficit late on. The defending champions had barely had a sniff throughout a one-sided encounter but as the seconds ticked down, it required a pair of heroic tackles from Elliot Minchella…

Aug 15, 2025, 04:40 PM ETA summer tradition returns Sunday when the Seattle Mariners and New York Mets take part in the eighth annual MLB Little League Classic. The clubs will travel to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the site of the Little League Baseball World Series, and attend Little League games before squaring off in a regular-season contest in front of the young players and their families at Historic Bowman Field. The Mariners will make their first trip to Williamsport, while the Mets will participate in the event for the second time. New York defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 8-2 in Williamsport in…

WBA featherweight champion Nick Ball will mount a defense of his title this Saturday when he meets former super-bantamweight Sam Goodman in Riyadh at Esports World Cup Fight Week. The two are part of the fight card headlined by a heavyweight bout between Moses Itauma and Dillian Whyte. You can catch the whole affair on DAZN PPV. Just keep an eye on the time; the Saturday fights start in the early afternoon at 12:45 p.m. ET.Here’s everything you need to know about the Ball vs. Goodman and Ituama vs. Whyte fights, including when and where the fight card takes place,…

Eric MoodyAug 15, 2025, 03:45 PM ETCloseEric Moody is a writer for fantasy football, men’s and women’s basketball, and sports betting at ESPN. Eric joined ESPN in 2021 after working as a senior fantasy analyst at Pro Football Network. Prior to that, he spent much of his career as a manager at a Fortune 100 financial services company.Change is the one thing you can always count on, both in sports and in life. While consistency is what fantasy managers strive for, the reality is that player performance can swing wildly over a long season.Trying to keep up with all the…

“When I started out, there was no 125 division,” he said. “There was no amateur or pro, I didn’t have any amateur fights. I just went and fought one weekend, and I started my pro career out with zero wins, two losses and a draw. Pretty much everybody was telling me, ‘Hey man, you got to hang this up.’ And then I went and stayed at Dominick Cruz’s gym up in his attic in California for a few months, and then that’s where I finally started putting it together.” When the wins started, they kept on piling up, and by…

Aug 15, 2025, 05:04 PM ETThe Premier League is finally back! Liverpool begin their quest to repeat as champions at home against Bournemouth, and an entertaining game ended with a 4-2 win for the Reds.On a night in which a packed Anfield celebrated the life of Diogo Jota and André Silva while also welcoming a new-look Liverpool into the 2025-26 campaign, everything looked to be going the hosts’ way for 50 minutes, with summer arrival Hugo Ekitike notching a goal and setting up Cody Gakpo for a 2-0 lead. Except, some substitutions and sharp counterattacking by Andoni Iraola’s Cherries saw…

The top teams in the National League West will square off on Friday night when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the San Diego Padres at 10:10 p.m. ET in a game that has an over/under of 9. San Diego has taken a one-game lead over Los Angeles by winning 14 of its last 17 games, and star third baseman Manny Machado has hit safely in 17 of his last 20 games. Machado, who is up to 20 home runs this season, has been successful against Dodgers veteran Clayton Kershaw during his career. He has four homers against Kershaw and has…

The NBA schedule for the 2025-26 season is out. We’ve broken down the league’s return to NBC and debut on Peacock and the more than 100 games you can watch across this network, as well as the 20 must-watch games of the season. Now let’s dive into the details of the schedule and talk about who has the advantage and disadvantage in back-to-backs, nationally televised games and more — including the most bobblehead nights.Which teams have the most nationally televised games?Four teams are maxed out at 34 games on national television:• Lakers• Warriors• Knicks• Thunder The Timberwolves and Rockets follow…

Liverpool vs Bournemouth was stopped in the 28th minute after an allegation of a racist comment aimed at Antoine Semenyo.Both Arne Slot and Andoni Iraola were spoken to by the referee Anthony Taylor after the game was paused.”I am told via the Premier League Match Centre that Antoine Semenyo was the subject of a racist comment from the crowd,” reported Sky Sports’ Peter Drury on commentary.”It was Semenyo himself who brought attention to it.”The game resumed again in the 31st minute.Sky Sports’ Laura Hunter, in attendance at Anfield, later reported a fan was ejected from the stadium.”In the wake of…

You like certainty. I like certainty. We all love certainty.That search for certainty translates to fantasy football in one particular, predictable way: We want running backs who are guaranteed a decent weekly workload. We don’t want to guess whether a running back will see eight touches or twelve or sixteen or none at all. We want to know. So we gravitate toward backfields that offer us at least some certainty.We take the backs who have the primary back job locked down. We turn up our noses at the uncertainty of backfields that may or may not feature one guy, or…