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Rich CiminiOct 5, 2025, 06:00 AM ETCloseRich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University.FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — A look at what’s happening around the New York Jets:1. Fields day: Look through the team’s quarterbacking history, and you will find mostly statuesque pocket passers. Now look at Justin Fields. What he’s doing with…

After Veronica Hardy opened the show with a unanimous decision win over the returning Brogan Walker, welterweight Ramiz Brahimaj collected his third straight upset win, submitting Austin Vanderford. Three straight decisions followed, with Farid Basharat, Yana Santos, and Punahele Soriano al getting the nod on the cards before Edmen Shahbazyan opened the televised slate with a first-round stoppage win over Andre Muniz. BREAKING: Alex Pereira Stops Magomed Ankalaev In Round 1 To Reclaim Title From there, newcomer Jakub Wiklacz registered a split decision win over Patchy Mix and Daniel Santos hustled out and dispatched JooSang Yoo seconds into the second…

Imagn Images The Seattle Mariners earned a bye to the ALDS round by virtue of finishing 90-72 this season, which was good enough for their first AL West title since 2001 and the second-best record among AL division winners. The Detroit Tigers had hopes of getting a bye for nearly the entire season, but blowing a 14-game lead in the AL Central meant they needed to hit the road in the Wild Card Series as a No. 6 seed. No matter — the Tigers took down the Guardians in three games to advance here.Detroit eked out an extra-inning win in…

For all that that business model makes sense, however, its execution is far from easy. Altruism doesn’t exist in boxing; when someone in a position of power claims they want to make a 50-50 fight it’s rarely true, because there are managers, promoters and other figures involved. Managers and promoters want to see their fighters win – they don’t want them involved in 50-50 fights. They want fights that appear to be 50-50s, but in which their fighters actually have the edge, and they often won’t risk their fighter in a fight of that nature. They also don’t want to…

Everyone loves to make fantasy football trades. Therefore, I’m here to give some early fantasy trade advice heading into Week 6. Let’s dive into some players you should buy or sell following this past week’s games. Early Fantasy Football Trade Advice for Week 6 Players to Buy Matthew Stafford (QB – LAR) After a poor Week 1 performance, Stafford has been one of the better fantasy quarterbacks this season. The future Hall of Famer has averaged 314.5 passing yards, 2.5 touchdowns, and 21 fantasy points per game over the past month. More importantly, the veteran quarterback has been on fire…

If you heard champagne popping at around 11:30 p.m. ET on Sunday night, it was probably the ’72 Dolphins. The last unbeaten team in 2025 has a loss, as the Patriots pulled off an upset to defeat the Bills, 23-20, in Western New York on Sunday Night Football. Second-year quarterback Drake Maye put together his first game-winning drive, with a couple of completions setting up rookie Andy Borregales’ go-ahead 52-yard field goal with just 15 seconds left on the clock.Maye showed some significant growth in his first primetime start, completing 22-of-30 passes for 273 yards. He had just one incompletion…

Championship legacy demands proper closure, and Myanmar icon Aung La N Sang delivered exactly that. The legendary former two-division ONE World Champion wrote the final glorious chapter of his storied career while earning a Hall of Fame induction. Aung La N Sang defeated Zebaztian Kadestam via second-round TKO at ONE Fight Night 36 on Friday, October 3, inside Bangkok, Thailand’s Lumpinee Stadium. The 40-year-old “Burmese Python” secured his 31st career victory before learning he would be inducted into the ONE Championship Hall of Fame at ONE 173 in Tokyo, Japan, on November 16. Tension filled the opening round as both…

Gary Neville has revealed he removed a union flag from one of his Manchester development sites because it was being “used in a negative fashion”, as he urged his followers to question what it means to be patriotic.In a video posted on Friday, the day after a deadly attack at a Manchester synagogue, the former footballer turned property developer said he believed that “we’re all being turned on each other”, attributing much of the blame for the divide to “angry, middle-aged white men … who know exactly what they’re doing”.He described driving down Littleton Road, in the Salford neighbourhood, and…

SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners had done the hard part in Game 2 of this American League Division Series, building a lead off Tarik Skubal and taking it into the late innings on Sunday night. But after fumbling away their edge with a critical error in the eighth, they wasted no time in wresting the game back to pull even with the Detroit Tigers.Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez came through in the bottom of the eighth inning to rescue the Mariners with a 3-2 victory before 47,371 raucous fans at T-Mobile Park. Facing Kyle Finnegan with one out, Raleigh, the…

Stephen Curry came out firing in the Warriors’ preseason opener on Sunday, rattling off 14 points in 15 minutes before being shut down for the night halfway through the second quarter as Golden State defeated the Lakers, 111-103. Curry got on the board a little more than two minutes into the game in impressive fashion. Jarred Vanderbilt (who looked great for the Lakers, by the way), tried to pressure him 30 feet out and Curry just calmly routed him into a Draymond Green screen and proceeded into the paint for a nifty one-legged finish like he hardly even noticed the defense…