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Andreas HaleSep 19, 2025, 10:54 AM ETCloseAndreas Hale is a combat sports reporter at ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas’ free time, he plays video games, obsesses over music and is a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is also a host for Sirius XM’s Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a senior writer at DAZN and Sporting News. He started his career as a music journalist for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z’s Life+Times. He is also an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker as a producer for the animated short film “Bridges” in 2024.Raja…

© IMAGO – Alexander Isak Liverpool Liverpool suffered a second successive defeat on Tuesday night – losing out to Galatasaray in the Champions League. The away game in Istanbul was always likely to be a challenging fixture and the Reds were defeated courtesy of a controversial penalty. Article continues under the video Dominik Szoboszlai was deemed to have fouled Baris Alper Yilmaz inside the box and Victor Osimhen made no mistake from the spot. Liverpool rallied but were unable to find an equaliser. Ibrahima Konate had a penalty claim of his own overturned following consultation with VAR. Arne Slot’s side…

NEW YORK — In the end, it was the players who weren’t in the lineup in Game 1 who helped the New York Yankees force a Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox. It was Ben Rice early and Jazz Chisholm Jr. late Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium, extending New York’s season with a Game 2 win (NYY 4, BOS 3). Thursday’s Game 3 will send one team to the ALDS to face the Toronto Blue Jays and the other home. Rice did not start Game 1 against Garrett Crochet because he’s a lefty hitter who can have trouble with…

HOUSTON — Houston Rockets forward Dorian Finney-Smith is expected to miss the start of the NBA season while recovering from offseason ankle surgery.Coach Ime Udoka was asked Wednesday after training camp if Finney-Smith would be ready for Houston’s opener against Oklahoma City on Oct. 21.”No, probably not,” Udoka said.He added that he didn’t know how long his debut with the Rockets would be delayed.Editor’s Picks2 RelatedFinney-Smith joined the Rockets this offseason on a four-year contract worth almost $53 million. He spent last season with the Los Angeles Lakers before undergoing a procedure on his left ankle in June to address…

World Boxing’s acting secretary general, Mike McAtee, explained: “The World Boxing Congress is one of the most significant events in the calendar, and following discussions with the BFI we reached a mutual agreement to separate this from the forthcoming World Boxing Cup Finals, which will take place around the same time.

Subscribe to Yahoo Fantasy ForecastIt’s another edition of the Fantasy Film Room with Matt Harmon and Nate Tice. Given we’ve reached the first quarter pole of the season, the two look at the biggest surprises in the top 12 at each of the four main positions in fantasy. The two do a deep dive on the biggest positive surprises at the QB, RB, WR and TE position and determine if those starts are sustainable. The two end the show previewing the TNF matchup between the 49ers and Rams.Advertisement(3:00) – Fantasy fallout from RB injuries: Latest on Bucky Irving, Trey Benson…

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Lennox Lewis has advised his successor as undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, Oleksandr Usyk, to “retire on top. Like I did.”Last year Usyk became the first undisputed heavyweight champion of the world since Lennox Lewis in 1999. Usyk, an Olympic gold medallist like Lewis too, is unbeaten as a professional fighter but has suggested he expects to have only one more fight in boxing before he closes out his career. Spreaker This content is provided by Spreaker, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission to use cookies. You can…

LOS ANGELES — Thursday will be a slightly less busy day of playoff baseball as the Los Angeles Dodgers became the only team in the four Wild Card Series to sweep their series, finishing off the Cincinnati Reds with an 8-4 victory in Game 2 on Wednesday. The Dodgers move on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Division Series beginning Saturday at Citizens Bank Park.Yoshinobu Yamamoto, certified October performerYoshinobu Yamamoto’s first foray into the postseason last October brought with it doubt. He was still feeling things out. So Kiké Hernández invited him to breakfast before Yamamoto’s start…

Once all the papers were signed and the fight was officially on, Muhammad Ali knew exactly what to do.The master quipster, fight-promoting wizard and most famous and outrageous boxer in the world — the longtime heavyweight champion who had trumpeted his boxing style as one to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” — told the media what would happen on Oct. 1, 1975.Advertisement“It will be,” he bellowed, “A killa and a thrilla and a chilla when I get to the gorilla in Manila.”It turned out to be all of that 50 years ago, as well as being…