By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – Jalen Williams might not be ready to return this season, but the Oklahoma City Thunder termed his Thursday surgery a success. Williams underwent an operation in New York to address a broken left fibula and to reconstruct ligaments in his dislocated a
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – Sam Houston moved swiftly in making a determination on its football coach, cutting ties with Phil Longo on Wednesday after less than two seasons on the job. Longo, 1-7 this fall after a 2-10 season in 2025, finished his tenure with the Conference USA
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – The Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday announced the retention of Zaccharie Risacher for the 2027-28 season. The team exercised a fourth-year option on the small forward, worth $17.4 million, after acquiring him in a July three-team trade. The 21-year-old
By Field Level Media Oct 29 (Field Level Media) – Minnesota president of basketball operations Tim Connelly confirmed that arthroscopic right knee surgery is in the cards for Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards on Wednesday, offering additional information on the nature of the injury and the thou
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Novak Djokovic rallied 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to get past France’s Ugo Humber on Wednesday at the Swiss Indoors Basel in Switzerland. In doing so, he avoided falling further in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin standings behind Rafael Jodar, who had also advance
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh is keeping offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel in charge of play-calling despite an 0-6 start that has left the club as the NFL’s lone winless team. Harbaugh confirmed Wednesday that McDaniel will retain the ro
Oct 28 (Reuters) – Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will kick off Major League Soccer’s 2027 “Sprint Season” when they face Cincinnati on February 19, launching the league’s transition to a traditional autumn-to-spring calendar. The standalone match at Nu Stadium in Miami will begin a truncated 14-game re
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – New York Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson is frustrated with losing and his diminished role in the offense, but he isn’t looking for a way out. Amid growing speculation ahead of the Nov. 10 NFL trade deadline, Wilson said Wednesday he has not reques
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley said NFL rules forced him to sell his ownership stake in prediction-market company Polymarket. Barkley told Front Office Sports that he previously held equity in the company but divested after the leagu
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – The Los Angeles Lakers ruled guard Luka Doncic out of Wednesday night’s game against the crosstown Clippers with back tightness. Los Angeles is holding out Doncic on the second night of a back-to-back. He scored 41 points in 37 minutes Tuesday in the
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Green Bay wide receiver Matthew Golden is among four Packers players listed as questionable for the team’s home game Thursday night against the Carolina Panthers. The Packers (4-3) listed Golden (shoulder/foot), edge rusher Brenton Cox Jr. (quad) and
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Beloved broadcaster Ernie Johnson will step down as host of “Inside the NBA” following the 2026-27 season. “It’s just time,” Johnson, 70, said Wednesday in a video posted to social media. Johnson made it clear in his message that he was not pushed ou
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – With their season on the line for a second consecutive night, the Tampa Bay Rays named right-hander Drew Rasmussen as their starter for Game 5 of the World Series against the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Rasmussen, 31
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Washington Wizards forward Justin Champagnie underwent surgery to repair a fracture in his right foot, the team announced Wednesday. Champagnie sustained the injury during the first quarter of Monday’s 110-103 loss to the host Charlotte Hornets. Whil
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – The Edmonton Oilers placed forward Zach Hyman on injured reserve Wednesday because of a “stiff neck,” head coach Mike Babcock said. Hyman, 33, will miss at least seven days, including the club’s contest Wednesday night against the visiting Calgary Fl
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – The Carolina Panthers ruled out three starters and a key reserve for Thursday’s game against the host Green Bay Packers. The Panthers (3-3) will be without linebacker Jaelan Phillips, who also missed last Sunday’s 43-13 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccanee
LOS ANGELES, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Kathleen Kennedy, a veteran Hollywood producer and the former president of “Star Wars” film studio Lucasfilm, will lead production of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics in Los Angeles, organizers said on Wednesday. Kennedy was nam
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Andre Lacroix, an original member of the Philadelphia Flyers who became the World Hockey Association’s all-time leading scorer, has died at 81. The NHL announced the passing of the prolific, Quebec-born center on Tuesday. Lacroix launched his NHL car
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Detroit Lions All-Pro safety Kerby Joseph is set to practice for the first time this season, head coach Dan Campbell confirmed Wednesday. Campbell said the team is opening the 21-day practice window for Joseph, who began the campaign on the physicall
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Indiana Pacers star guard Tyrese Haliburton is expected to miss an undetermined amount of time with a strained left hamstring, ESPN reported on Wednesday. Per the report, team doctors and Haliburton are working on a clear timeline for his recovery. H
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – No. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa debuts for the Washington Wizards on Wednesday after missing the first four games of his rookie season with an ankle injury. Dybantsa is slated to start for the Wizards as part of a lineup featuring Trae Young, Anthony Davis, A
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Hall of Famer and Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins is the new general manager of the Alabama State men’s basketball program, the school announced. Wilkins, 66, will help the Hornets with “strategic initiatives in fundraising, donor engagement,
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Wide receiver Josh Downs has requested a trade from the Indianapolis Colts, ESPN reported on Wednesday. The report comes one day after the Colts made a pair of deals, shipping eight- time Pro Bowl guard Quenton Nelson to the Seattle Seahawks and thre
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – The Tennessee Titans signed 40-year-old punter Thomas Morstead to the practice squad on Wednesday following a knee injury to Tommy Townsend on Sunday. Morstead has played for five teams in 17 seasons, most recently with the San Francisco 49ers in 202
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – After a disheartening loss last Saturday at Wisconsin all but doused Southern California’s College Football Playoff hopes, head coach Lincoln Riley insisted that he remains the right man to lead the Trojans. Including this season’s 6-2 record, Riley
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Britain’s Harriet Dart outlasted No. 2 seed Janice Tjen 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Guangzhou Open in China. Dart raced to a 3-0 lead in the deciding set and held on to win in 2 hours and 28 minutes. She served seve
By Field Level Media Oct 28 (Field Level Media) – Owners of the Atlanta Dream blame the league’s lack of “urgency” for a scheduling issue that resulted in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals being played at 12:30 p.m. ET on Thursday. “Playing a midday game on a Thursday is not what we would have chosen and no
Oct 28 (Reuters) – Sergio Perez has signed a multi-year contract extension with Cadillac that will keep the Mexican driver with the American Formula One team until 2029, the team said on Wednesday. Perez celebrates a milestone 300th Grand Prix start at the 36-year-old’s home race in Mexico City this
By Alan Baldwin MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Alberto Ascari was a boyhood hero for US motor racing great Mario Andretti, now 86, but few of Kimi Antonelli’s compatriots were around when Italy’s last Formula One world champion was making headlines. Antonelli, 20, is set this weekend to become the
Oct 28 (Reuters) – Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Mexico City Grand Prix at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, round 19 of the championship. TITLE PERMUTATIONS Sunday’s race is set to crown Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli as Formula One’s youngest champion, at 20 years old, and Italy’s first since Albe
