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“You’ve Embarrassed Yourself”: Rays Under Fire as Tropicana Field’s Attendance Drops Below Capacity
The Tampa Bay Rays waited 17 years for another ALCS at home, then left 3,000 seats empty in Game 2. Game 1 sold out with 35,361 fans. Game 2 drew 32,125, and after dethroning the Yankees for the division title, the dip did not sit well with MLB analyst Evan Roberts. For Roberts, the issue […] The post “You’ve Embarrassed Yourself”: Rays Under Fire as Tropicana Field’s Attendance Drops Below Capacity appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Rory McIlroy, Ryan Fox, and Others Are Scared to Add Driver in Their Bags at DGC; Here’s Why
At most golf courses, the driver is a player’s ticket to an advantage. But at Delhi Golf Club, it might be the quickest way to throw away a good round. As the stars prepare for the DP World India Championship 2026, some of the game’s biggest names are considering a rather unusual strategy: leaving their […] The post Rory McIlroy, Ryan Fox, and Others Are Scared to Add Driver in Their Bags at DGC; Here’s Why appeared first on EssentiallySports.
NFL star Tyreek Hill’s estranged wife awarded $500,000 damages in battery trial
Receiver liable for two counts, not liable on eight othersLakeeta Vaccaro alleged abuse by NFL receiverA Miami jury on Tuesday found Tyreek Hill liable for two counts of battery but not liable for the eight remaining claims made by Lakeeta Vaccaro – ending the high-profile civil trial involving the NFL wide receiver and his estranged wife.Hill, who has played for the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins, was found liable for two counts of battery – one stemming from an incident in January 2024, and another from April 2025. The jury awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages but did not award her punitive damages. Continue reading...
Dana White Reacts to Ex-UFC Star Shot Multiple Times in Ambush
Former UFC fighter and U.S. Army veteran Tim Kennedy was hospitalized after reportedly being shot multiple times during an ambush in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month. Thankfully, the 47-year-old survived the deadly incident and is currently recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. However, concerns about the ex-fighter’s condition continue to […] The post Dana White Reacts to Ex-UFC Star Shot Multiple Times in Ambush appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Late-Season Injury Issue Forces Linda Noskova Out of Wuhan as WTA Finals Hopes Hang in Balance
Linda Noskova has had a season to remember, but a calf problem has interrupted her run at a crucial point. The Czech star has already won Wimbledon and qualified for her first WTA Finals. Now, she’s been forced to pull out of the Wuhan Open, leaving her with limited time to recover before the season-ending […] The post Late-Season Injury Issue Forces Linda Noskova Out of Wuhan as WTA Finals Hopes Hang in Balance appeared first on EssentiallySports.
Gianni Infantino faces grilling at potentially ‘explosive’ Fifa council meeting
World Cup sell-off, Balogun and peace prize on agendaOpponents will press home need for independent reviewGianni Infantino will be questioned by Fifa council members over his involvement in the aborted World Cup sell-off plan, the Folarin Balogun affair and the decision to award Donald Trump the inaugural Fifa peace prize at what is expected to be a heated meeting at the world governing body’s headquarters on Thursday.The Fifa president rejected repeated calls for an extraordinary general meeting of council during the summer after the emergence of the Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposals, but will meet his critics for the first time since in Zurich with one attender predicting that the talks could be “explosive”. Continue reading...
How to Watch Brewers vs. Dodgers: NLCS Game 3 TV Channel, Live Stream, Time
Learn which TV channel or how to live stream the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers NLCS game 3.
Netflix’s Mike Tyson docuseries offers an incomplete portrait of a troubling figure
The once heroic boxer showcases a frankness in this compelling new series but also an unwillingness to take accountability for his darkest momentsMike Tyson never envisioned old age. And yet here he still is, having outlived his parents, Brooklynites of ill repute who died when he was a teenager, and the Brownsville tough guys who teased him for being scrawny and having a lisp. Here he is after doing hard time for rape in his prime, winning and losing great fortunes and battling addiction to drink, drugs and fame. Here he still is, 60 years old and a grandfather now, mixing it up with Jake Paul in the ring, opening up to manosphere-adjacent podcasters, bobbing into an impromptu White House press briefing – Māori face-tattoo unmistakably in the frame – while on a DC visit to buck up his old pal as his party faces a bleak midterm forecast. “I don’t have to exist,” the champ says in Tyson, the latest four-part vanity project on his turbulent life and times. “Some reason, something allowed me to exist.”In his heyday, Tyson was a mesmerizing sporting event unto himself – the ruthless knockout machine who struck fear into opponents at first sight, felled them in seconds and looked back on the carnage with cool nonchalance. His darkest episodes – the combustive relationship with actor Robin Givens, the six-year prison sentence for rape, biting off Evander Holyfield’s ear – only deepened the public fascination with him, adding to the lore of boxing’s baddest man. In the winter of his life, Tyson’s self-reflection, so deep it tips into self-parody, is the enthralling spectacle now. And if generations of Black comedians have proved anything, it’s that the appetite for Mike Tyson impersonations is inexhaustible. Continue reading...
Have any footballers ended their career with more own goals than goals? | The Knowledge
Plus: the earliest trophyless seasons, scoring off one’s backside (part II) and the origins of ‘shithousery’Mail us with all of your questions and answers“How many professional players have ended their senior careers with more own goals than goals for their own team?” wonders Peter Clark.In the past we’ve looked at the players with the most own goals, but we haven’t looked at those who ended their professional career in debit. “Southampton cult hero Francis Benali scored only one ‘positive’ goal in his career and was legendary for banging in goal-of-the-month contenders at his own end, most notably a bullet header against Oldham in the 1993-94 season,” writes Daz Pearce. We could only find a couple of OGs for Benali, the other being against Manchester United in 1999-2000. But we were unable to find a comprehensive Southampton database, so there’s a chance we’ve missed some beauties. Continue reading...
Joining Shakhtar as they make base in London: ‘We’re here to show the world that we are alive’
With no ‘home’ games in Ukraine, Arda Turan’s side hit the road again, with Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge hosting their Champions League campaignThe morning has thinned out into low, wispy cloud. Beneath it, Shakhtar Donetsk’s players are going through their paces. It is a light session for those who did not start against Veres Rivne the previous day; that means Arda Turan observes from the side, watching with the director of football, Darijo Srna. A stray ball zips towards them and Srna, after juggling it up, bends it into the goal with a familiar right-footed arc. “Modric!” exclaims Turan. But the two men are football legends in their own right and, as they continue to joke before Srna dashes away to take another phone call, the thought occurs that this happy scene could be played out almost anywhere else. Nearby, just beyond the team’s accommodation, a lake shimmers under the emerging sun.It masks the fact that, around dawn, air raid sirens disrupted the peace for everyone in view. Even here, in Shakhtar’s bucolic spa hotel base 15 minutes outside Lviv, nobody is safe from the threat of Russian rockets and drones. In Rivne, three hours’ drive to the north-east, another alarm had sent the players and staff down to the stadium’s shelter. The second half was delayed by 20 minutes and that, no matter the corner of the country or the vividness of the autumn colours, is a weekly reality. Continue reading...
Peralta shines as Rays seize on Ramírez error to level ALCS against Guardians
Freddy Peralta pitches six scoreless innings in 3-1 winJosé Ramírez error opens door to three-run fourthALCS heads to Cleveland at 1-1 for Thursday’s Game 3Freddy Peralta pitched six innings of four-hit ball, Liam Hicks lined a two-run single after a fielding error by José Ramírez and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 on Tuesday night to level the American League Championship Series at 1-1.Game 3 of the best-of-seven series is Thursday night in Cleveland. Continue reading...
Freddy Peralta Is Boosting The Rays' World Series Hopes — And His Free Agency Stock
Rays players have bonded with Freddy Peralta in what has been a seamless transition to his third team in 13 months. This winter, he might be heading to his fourth.
