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Oct 25, 2026 - Sports

Brighton’s impressive run was blown off course at Anfield where Liverpool performed with an appetite and urgency at both ends of the pitch that showed Andoni Iraola’s methods taking root. It was Liverpool, deserving winners on home soil for the first time in the Premier League this season, who looked upwardly mobile.There was more evidence of the expensive trio of Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak and Bradley Barcola feeling at home and adapting to Iraola’s demands. Wirtz was instrumental in an opening goal officially credited to Brighton’s Pascal Gross and Isak scored for the sixth time in six Premier League appearances to shatter the visitors’ sequence of four successive league wins. The sight of Barcola sprinting back to help his defence and Ronald Araújo smashing into challenges, as Liverpool stubbornly defended their lead and their box in the second half, satisfied Iraola just as much as his side’s incisiveness before the break. Continue reading...

Oct 25, 2026 - Sports

Everyone has a Pat Murphy story. These are some of the best from his Brewers players.

Oct 25, 2026 - Sports

Wisconsin joins the top 25 after upsetting USC, UCLA and Utah rise after 7-0 records in this weeks AP Top 25.

Oct 25, 2026 - Sports

Ryan Blaney is favored to win at Talladega, but Joey Logano could be one to watch this weekend. Here are the latest odds for NASCAR's YellaWood 500.

Oct 25, 2026 - Sports

The Dream and Valkyries are tied at 2-2 after four absorbing games. Many in America would rather we revisited the national anthem debateWhen Tyler Perry leading lady Crystal Renee took center stage at State Farm Arena to sing the national anthem before the Atlanta Dream’s WNBA finals clash with the Golden State Valkyries on Saturday afternoon, a smattering of photographers, game officials and event security took their familiar places around her as the capacity crowd stood for the flag. The teams, as is now customary, spent that time in their locker rooms. As soon as the lights went back up, the teams returned to the floor to resume their shootarounds. Anyone genuinely invested in the finals would have been unfazed by them briefly stepping away – if they remembered it at all after the Valkyries’ 67-62 win tied the series at two games apiece. But for many watching the game, basketball is beside the point.Seven years ago, Jay-Z declared that the culture had “moved past kneeling” and similar national anthem protests, seemingly sounding the death knell for an era of sports activism that had helped raise awareness of racial disparities as a broader social movement gathered force. The line cemented his partnership with the NFL as the league bowed to political pressure to crack down on anthem protests, with other major US sports eventually following the NFL’s lead. But rightwing media and politicians never got the memo. They’re still making sports a battleground for patriotism, with basketball as the war’s chief casualty. Continue reading...