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Deadline Day: 10 players were traded before the buzzer, with the Jets (CB Sauce Gardner to Indy; DL Quinnen Williams to Dallas) and Saints (WR Rashid Shaheed to Seattle; OL Trevor Penning to Chargers) accounting for four of them. Winners and losers.
Battle of the Sexes: Women’s No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will play men’s No. 652 Nick Kyrgios in a “Battle of the Sexes” exhibition match next month in Dubai. This is the latest in a series of similar matches, none more famous than when Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs in 1973.
️ LIV changes format: LIV Golf, which was named after its shortened 54-hole tournament style, will switch to standard 72-hole events next season. This is part of the tour’s push to be recognized by the Official World Golf Rankings, which are used to build out the fields for majors and other marquee events.
Tempo hire Brondello: The Toronto Tempo have hired Sandy Brondello as their first head coach, bringing in the two-time WNBA champion (2014 Mercury, 2024 Liberty) to lead the 2026 expansion team.
️ Sir David: David Beckham was knighted for his service to sport and charity, receiving the honor from King Charles III in a ceremony at Windsor Castle. Beckham, 50, called it his “proudest moment.”
The first College Football Playoff rankings of the season were unveiled on Tuesday night, and the top five teams were the same as Sunday’s AP poll:
After that, there were some differences. Oregon was No. 6 in the AP poll but No. 9 in the CFP rankings, which meant No. 6 Ole Miss, No. 7 BYU and No. 8 Texas Tech all slid up a spot. Teams like No. 11 Texas (+2) and No. 13 Utah (+4) are higher in the CFP rankings than the AP poll, while teams like No. 12 Oklahoma (-1) and No. 14 Virginia (-2) are lower. No. 20 Iowa and No. 24 Pitt are in the CFP rankings despite being unranked in the AP poll, while the opposite is true for unranked Memphis (AP No. 22) and Cincinnati (AP No. 25).
The bracket: The top five conference champions are guaranteed playoff spots, which is why No. 14 Virginia (highest-ranked ACC team) and unranked Memphis (best Group of 5 team) are in the projected field. If this holds (which it won’t), we’d get first-round home games in Lubbock (Texas Tech), Athens (Georgia), Provo (BYU) and Oxford (Ole Miss).
Good read: What did we learn from the inaugural Top 25? (Dan Wolken, Yahoo Sports)
Charlotte, North Carolina No. 6 Duke opened its season with a 75-60 victory over Texas in the inaugural Dick Vitale Invitational, held in honor of the broadcasting legend who’s battled cancer on and off for four years but is back calling games this season.
Other scores: Elsewhere in college hoops, the No. 1 men’s and women’s teams both got off to strong starts. Top-ranked and defending women’s champion UConn held off No. 20 Louisville in a 79-66 win, and Purdue rolled over Evansville, 81-52.
Chicago Iconic halftime performer Rong Niu, better known as Red Panda, returned to an NBA court on Tuesday for the first time since breaking her wrist in July. If you’ve never seen her dazzle the crowd with her patented unicycle-riding, bowl-flipping routine please enjoy.
The game didn’t disappoint either: The Bulls stormed back from 24 down to beat the 76ers, 113-111, on Nikola Vučević’s game-winning three and take sole possession of first place in the East. Josh Giddey (29-15-12) recorded his second straight triple-double, the first Bulls player to do that since some dude named Michael Jordan.
Paris Bayern Munich beat defending champion PSG, 2-1, in Champions League action for their 16th straight win across all competitions. How good is that? Well, it’s the longest season-opening winning streak in the history of Europe’s “Big Five” leagues. So yeah, pretty good.
Elsewhere: Liverpool beat Real Madrid in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s return to Anfield, and 15-year-old Max Dowman became the youngest player in Champions League history when he took the field for Arsenal.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Defending champion Coco Gauff kept her season alive on Tuesday at the WTA Finals, where she knocked out Jasmine Paolini to set up a critical group stage finale against top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka on Thursday.
Where it stands: Two of Gauff, Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula will advance to the semifinals from their group. In the other group, Elena Rybakina already clinched and Madison Keys was eliminated, leaving Iga Świątek and Amanda Anisimova fighting for the final spot.
With the World Series in the rearview, it’s time to turn our attention to another offseason of hot stove activity. So without further ado, here are our top 10 free agents, courtesy of Yahoo Sports’ Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman:
Full list: Top 50 free agents
New York (4-3) hosts Minnesota (4-3) in the second annual Karl-Anthony Towns bowl. The Knicks superstar went off against his former team in last year’s matchup, tallying 32 points, 20 rebounds and 6 assists.
Early MVP contenders Luka Dončić and Victor Wembanyama meet in a clash of Western Conference frontrunners. The Lakers (6-2) have won four straight to climb into a virtual tie for second in the West with the Spurs (5-1), who are coming off their first loss of the season.
More to watch:
Today’s full slate.
The Dodgers have now won nine World Series titles, tied with two other franchises for the third-most ever.
Question: Which other two franchises have won exactly nine World Series?
Answer at the bottom.
Anyone who’s lost a pet can sympathize with the desire to spend just one more day together, but Tom Brady went one step further: His current dog, Junie, is apparently a clone of his old dog Lua, who died in 2023.
Wait, what? You heard right. Lua was reportedly cloned by Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company in which Brady is an investor. And for the low low price of $50,000, you can clone your pet, too.
Bottom line: Brady did this with slot receivers for decades. Dogs were just the logical next step.
Trivia answer: Athletics and Red Sox
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