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1. 02

   City win at Anfield while awaiting their punishment

   Manchester City beat Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield on Sunday, in their first league game since an independent panel found them guilty of 114 charges of breaking the Premier League's money rules. [18][26] Liverpool's Ryan Gravenberch was sent off after 62 minutes, and Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki then scored. [27][18] City have won all six league games and stay top. [18] Liverpool have not won in five home league games, and this was Andoni Iraola's first league defeat as their manager. [28]

   Why it matters — City have appealed, and the punishment could include relegation or a record points deduction, BBC Sport reported. [26] Until it is set, nobody can say how much this season's wins will be worth. [29]

2. 03

   UK prime minister to publish his City meetings

   Andy Burnham, the UK's prime minister since July, said he will publish details of his meetings with Manchester City's bosses from his nine years as mayor of Greater Manchester. [30][31] Kemi Badenoch, who leads the opposition Conservative party, had demanded them. [31] After the verdict, Burnham said he would be 'really concerned' to lose City's Abu Dhabi owners. [30] Some rival clubs told BBC Sport they were worried about political interference in City's appeal. [31] Burnham said his only significant meeting with the club was in 2021. [31]

   Why it matters — The panel found City used 'sham' contracts with sponsors to bring in more than 830m pounds. [31] A final ruling on the appeal is expected next year, and the league has not yet set a punishment. [32]

3. 04

   Canelo still plans to fight in Riyadh after airport strike

   Canelo Alvarez, the Mexican boxing star, still plans to fight Christian Mbilli for a world title in Riyadh on 31 October, Turki Alalshikh said on Sunday. [33][34] Alalshikh runs Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority, and under him the country has used its money to stage many of boxing's biggest fights. [33] On Saturday a missile from the Houthis, an armed group in Yemen backed by Iran, hit Riyadh's main airport, killing at least 12 people. [35] Another projectile hit the airport on Sunday. [33]

   Why it matters — DAZN, the streaming service showing the fight, is still planning to broadcast from Riyadh, The Athletic reported. [35] Several airlines have stopped flying to Saudi Arabia, and the attacks have raised doubts about big events in a country that has spent heavily to host world sport. [33]

4. 05

   Antonelli one race from the F1 title

   Max Verstappen won the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday from pole position, his second win in a row. [36] Kimi Antonelli of Mercedes finished third and now leads his teammate George Russell by 102 points, with six races left and 25 points for each win. [37] If Antonelli wins in Austin in two weeks, with Russell ninth or lower and Lewis Hamilton fifth or lower, he becomes Formula One's youngest champion, at 20. [37] Hamilton ignored Ferrari's call to change tyres, fell from third to sixth, and apologised. [23]

   Why it matters — Ferrari had been heading for second and third, so Hamilton's choice cost the team points, as he said himself on the radio. [23] Russell, Antonelli's only close rival, finished ninth. [36]

5. 06

   Martin back on top of MotoGP

   Marco Bezzecchi won MotoGP's Indonesian Grand Prix on Sunday, and Jorge Martin's third place put him back on top of the motorcycle championship. [38] Martin, the 2024 champion, has 355 points to Marc Marquez's 353, with five races left. [38] Marquez, the reigning champion, had taken the lead for the first time this season by winning Saturday's shorter sprint race, but finished sixth. [38] Aprilia, an Italian maker, filled all three podium places. [38]

   Why it matters — Bezzecchi is third on 309 points. [38] The next race is at Phillip Island in Australia in two weeks. [38]

6. 07

   Kentucky fined $500,000, paid to the team it beat

   The SEC, the group of US universities Kentucky plays college football in, fined the university $500,000 when its fans stormed the field after a 35-34 overtime win over LSU on Saturday. [17][39] Under a rule changed in 2025, the money goes straight to LSU, and the fine is the same for a first offence as for an eighteenth. [17] It can be waived if the visiting team and officials reach their changing room before fans come on. [17] The same night, Alabama fans threw bottles and cans at Georgia's players after a 20-17 loss. [40]

   Why it matters — The win still counts, and Kentucky rose to 15th in the weekly national rankings. [39] The money goes to the team that lost the game, not to the conference. [17]

7. 08

   Patriots player fined for a foul referees missed

   The NFL fined New England Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson $12,537 for a chop block, an illegal low block on a defender, in the last minute of a win over the Buffalo Bills a week earlier. [16] Referees did not call it during the game. [16] Had they done so, the Patriots would probably have been pushed back 15 yards and had to punt, Sports Illustrated's Bills site wrote. [16] The NFL banned all chop blocks before the 2016 season. [16]

   Why it matters — The win still counts. [16] The Patriots have now won two in a row and could move above the Bills in their division. [16]

8. 09

   NCAA will not promise more money for concussion study

   The NCAA, which runs US college sport, would not say whether it will keep paying for the CARE Consortium, the concussion study it started with the US Defense Department in 2014. [41] The project's funding runs out at the end of October. [41] It began by following 53,000 college athletes and military cadets, and has received more than $105m, at least $23m from the NCAA. [41] A source told Sportico, a sports-business site, that the NCAA is not part of the latest funding talks, which are with the US Defense Department. [41]

   Why it matters — A study of its data published in March linked several concussions to worse physical and mental health five years after college. [41] The Defense Department has moved its research money toward military work, and has not said whether it will pay. [41]

9. 10

   Commanders let the clock run out on a win

   The Washington Commanders and New York Giants drew 27-27, the NFL's first tie this season, after both sides blundered in overtime. [42][10] First the Giants' Cam Skattebo fumbled when they were in range of a winning kick. [10] Then Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels held the ball and went down with 12 seconds left and no timeouts, and the clock ran out before the Commanders could kick. [10][43] Mike Tomlin, the former Steelers coach, called the finish 'disgusting' on television. [44]

   Why it matters — The Giants lead their division at 3-1-1, a game and a half ahead of the Eagles and Cowboys, so even a tie moved them forward. [45] Magic Johnson, a part-owner of the Commanders, said he was in 'total disbelief'. [46]

10. 11

    Last-second kick wins the London game

    Cam Little kicked a 57-yard field goal as time ran out to give the Jacksonville Jaguars a 19-17 win over the Philadelphia Eagles at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. [22][47] The Eagles had gone ahead with eight seconds left, but Ameer Abdullah's 53-yard kick return left one second on the clock. [47] Two players were thrown out for fighting on the opening kickoff. [48][22] The Jaguars' specialist snapper was hurt early, so defensive tackle DaVon Hamilton snapped the ball for the winning kick. [49]

    Why it matters — It was officially a Jaguars home game, but the stadium was packed with Eagles fans. [49] Jacksonville are now 4-1, and Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said 'I lost us that game'. [50][47]

11. 12

    49ers stay unbeaten after a rough game in Seattle

    The San Francisco 49ers beat the Seattle Seahawks 32-29 to win their first five games. [10][50] 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw was thrown out for head-butting Seattle's Ernest Jones, who had no helmet on. [51] Seattle's last chance ended when receiver Cooper Kupp was ruled short of a first down on fourth down. [52] The game had seven turnovers, the most in any NFL game this season. [10]

    Why it matters — Seattle beat San Francisco twice last season, once 41-6 in the play-offs. [10] The 49ers are top of their division, two games clear of Seattle. [10]

12. 13

    A safety reads a quarterback's tap

    Cincinnati Bengals safety Jordan Battle intercepted Miami quarterback Malik Willis twice in a 31-24 win. [10] Days earlier Battle had said Willis taps the ball before every throw, and that the Bengals could use the tap as a signal to move. [53] CBS Sports said it is not clear how much the tap helped. [53] In baseball, the Dodgers' Max Muncy said teams now run video through AI programs to spot small changes in how a pitcher holds his glove and hand. [54]

    Why it matters — Muncy said the programs flag movements in large amounts of video that people might miss. [54] Miami are 0-5. [10]

13. 14

    Top draft pick plays his first NFL snaps

    Fernando Mendoza, picked first overall in this year's draft by the Las Vegas Raiders, played his first NFL game in the fourth quarter of a 45-17 loss to the New England Patriots. [55] He came on for Kirk Cousins with the game already lost and completed 6 of 8 passes for 48 yards. [55] He is the first quarterback picked first overall not to start in week one since Baker Mayfield in 2018. [55] Patriots quarterback Drake Maye threw four touchdown passes. [10]

    Why it matters — Cousins went into the week tied for the most touchdown passes in the league, which is why the Raiders had kept their top pick on the bench. [55] Las Vegas have now lost two in a row after a 3-0 start. [55]

14. 15

    Rodgers passes Manning on the touchdown list

    Aaron Rodgers, 42, threw three touchdown passes as the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Indianapolis Colts 34-22. [10] His 80-yard pass to Jaylen Warren moved him past Peyton Manning into third place on the NFL's list of career touchdown passes. [56] The two had been level on 579. [56] Only Tom Brady, with 737, and Drew Brees, with 608, have thrown more. [56]

    Why it matters — This is Rodgers' farewell season, and the Steelers are 3-2. [56] He took a crushing hit from a 314lb Colts lineman as he threw the record pass. [10]

15. 16

    Packers rout the Bears as Chicago honours Ditka

    The Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears 31-7, as the Bears honoured Mike Ditka, their Hall of Fame player and coach who died recently. [57] Jordan Love passed for 367 yards, a Packers record against the Bears at Lambeau Field, Green Bay's home ground. [57][10] Green Bay forced five turnovers against Tyson Bagent, who started for the injured Caleb Williams. [10] It was the Packers' biggest win over Chicago since 2014. [57]

    Why it matters — Chicago had won three of the four games before this one, including a play-off game last season. [10] Both teams are now 3-2. [57]

16. 17

    Backup quarterback wins it for Baltimore

    Tyler Huntley, playing for the injured Lamar Jackson, scored on a one-yard run in overtime as the Baltimore Ravens beat the Atlanta Falcons 30-23 on Sunday night. [10] Huntley had led a tying touchdown and two-point play in the last minute of normal time. [10] Ravens tight end Mark Andrews dropped a touchdown pass and fumbled earlier in the game. [58] Atlanta's Michael Penix Jr. left hurt, and his stand-in Tua Tagovailoa threw the interception that ended it. [10]

    Why it matters — Baltimore are 4-1, and Huntley threw two touchdown passes as the stand-in starter. [58][10] Derrick Henry ran for 102 yards against the league's best run defence. [10]

17. 18

    Chargers lose a fifth game in a row

    The Los Angeles Chargers lost 23-17 to the Denver Broncos and are 0-5. [10] Four of their blockers were rookies, and quarterback Justin Herbert was sacked five times. [10] Asked for his message to the team, coach Jim Harbaugh said: 'I don't know what that message is.' [59] Denver coach Sean Payton called the plays himself, after taking the job back from his offensive coordinator during the week. [10]

    Why it matters — The Chargers also started 0-5 in 2023, the year before Harbaugh arrived. [10] Denver won at the Chargers' stadium for the first time since 2023. [10]

18. 19

    Brewers take Game 1 against the Dodgers

    The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 on Sunday in the first game of baseball's National League semi-final, a best-of-seven series. [60][61] Brice Turang hit a home run, and Milwaukee's relief pitchers held on after their starter Jacob Misiorowski left in the fifth inning. [61][60] It was the Brewers' first play-off win over the Dodgers since 2018. [60] The Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians start the other semi-final on Monday. [61]

    Dodgers$433m

    Brewers, Rays and Guardians together$360.50m

    Why it matters — The Dodgers spent $433m on players this season, and the other three semi-finalists spent $360.5m between them. [62] Owners want a salary cap in talks for a new deal with the players, whose current one expires on 1 December. [62]

19. 20

    Knibb wins Kona as the leader collapses

    Taylor Knibb of the US won the Ironman world championship in Kona, Hawaii, after the leader, Norway's Solveig Lovseth, collapsed less than a mile from the finish. [63][21] An Ironman is a 3.8km swim, a 180km bike ride and a 42.2km run, and Knibb finished in 8 hours 36 minutes 29 seconds. [21] A year ago Knibb herself collapsed near the end while leading. [63] France's Vincent Luis, 37, won the men's race at his first Kona. [21]

    Why it matters — Lovseth got up and walked to the finish, in eighth place. [21] Winning would have paid her $125,000. [63]

20. 21

    Kipruto wins Chicago; Feysa sets a course record

    Kenya's Amos Kipruto won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday in 2 hours 1 minute 9 seconds, ahead of Ethiopia's Tadese Bikila. [64] Last year's winner, Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda, was fourth. [64] Ethiopia's Hawi Feysa won the women's race again, in 2:13:33, a record for the Chicago course. [64] Australia's Izzi Batt-Doyle was sixth in 2:20:38, taking 46 seconds off her country's record. [65]

    Why it matters — It was Kipruto's second win at one of the 'majors', the sport's biggest city marathons, after London in 2022. [64] Batt-Doyle improved her own best time by two minutes. [65]

21. 22

    Zheng first Chinese woman to win in Beijing

    Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese woman to win the China Open, beating Russia's Mirra Andreeva 7-5, 6-4 in Beijing on Sunday. [25] She entered on a wildcard, a free place the organisers give, ranked 54th in the world. [25] She saved three set points in the first set and then won the last 11 points of it. [25] It was her first title at the WTA 1000 level, the tier below the four Grand Slams, and her first title in two years. [25]

    Why it matters — Zheng had elbow surgery last year, and said after the final that she had been through 'a very, very tough year'. [25]

22. 23

    Forrest wins in Spain, and a trip to the Masters

    Scotland's Grant Forrest won golf's Spanish Open by one shot after holing a birdie putt on the final hole. [66] He finished 14 under par, ahead of Spain's Eugenio Chacarra and France's Victor Perez. [66] It was his third win on the DP World Tour, Europe's main men's tour, and his first as a professional outside Scotland. [66] The win earns him places at next year's Open Championship and the Masters. [66]

    Why it matters — Forrest said it had been 'such a tough year', and called a trip to Augusta, where the Masters is played, 'fairytale stuff'. [66]

23. 24

    Australia's veteran bowlers take control in Durban

    Australia bowled South Africa out for 284 in reply to 390 on day three of the first Test in Durban, and led by 139 at the close. [67][68] Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon are the only four bowlers in history to play together with more than 300 Test wickets each. [67] They have now played 38 Tests together, a record. [67] Cummins took three wickets and the other three took two each. [68]

    Why it matters — All four are over 33, and many people in Australia call the team too old. [67][68] This series against South Africa, the world Test champions, starts a run of Tests against the strongest sides. [68]

24. 25

    Bangladesh fast bowler takes a Test hat-trick

    Hasan Mahmud took a hat-trick, three wickets with three balls in a row, against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi on Sunday. [69] He is the first Bangladesh fast bowler to do it in a Test, after two spin bowlers in 2003 and 2013. [69] His five wickets in the innings took him to 50 in Tests in his 17th match. [69] Bangladesh ended the day 329 runs ahead in the one-off Test. [69]

    Why it matters — He is the fastest Bangladesh fast bowler to 50 Test wickets. [70] He has now taken five wickets in an innings in four different countries. [70]

25. 26

    Record Bangladesh stand, easy Australia win

    Georgia Voll scored 131 not out from 97 balls as Australia's women beat Bangladesh by nine wickets in Brisbane and took the one-day series 2-0. [71] Earlier, Bangladesh's Sobhana Mostary, 24, scored 118. [71] She and captain Nigar Sultana added 195 together, the biggest partnership against Australia in women's one-day internationals. [71] Australia reached their target of 221 in 28.1 of their 50 overs. [71]

    Why it matters — It was Bangladesh's highest total against Australia. [71] The 195 stand was the biggest for any Bangladesh wicket in women's one-day internationals. [71]

26. 27

    Celtic back on top as Jota returns

    Celtic won 2-0 at Motherwell on Sunday to go back to the top of the Scottish Premiership, a day after Rangers had gone above them. [72] It ended a run of three defeats, two of them to Rangers. [20] Winger Jota came on for his first game in almost 18 months after injury. [20] During the game fans sang against Dermot Desmond, the club's largest shareholder. [72]

    Why it matters — Manager Martin O'Neill had wondered whether he had the energy to go on after losing to Rangers last month, before deciding to stay. [20]

27. 28

    Freiburg top of Germany's league

    Freiburg beat Schalke 2-1 with ten men to go top of the Bundesliga, Germany's top division, with 13 points. [73] Keisuke Goto scored the winner in the 85th minute. [73] Bayern Munich, the champions, are third after a 2-2 draw with Augsburg. [73] In Cologne, police surrounded the away fans after Borussia Monchengladbach supporters fired fireworks into the home sections, and Gladbach have lost all five games. [73]

    Why it matters — Freiburg had already made the best start in their history before Sunday. [73] In Spain, Real Betis won 5-2 and moved above Real Madrid into third. [73]

28. 29

    Exeter cut prices and still play to empty seats

    Exeter Chiefs beat Newcastle Red Bulls 34-28 for their first win of the English rugby union season. [74] Newcastle's Christian Wade, 35, scored three tries and became only the second player with 100 in the league. [74][75] Only 7,071 people came to a ground that holds about 15,000, even though Exeter cut ticket prices this week. [75] The club closed its North Terrace for a league game for the first time. [74]

    Why it matters — Exeter played in the league final in June. [75] The Guardian's reporter named value for money in hard economic times as one reason people stay away. [75]

29. 30

    Southampton coach free to work despite spying ban

    Southampton beat Portsmouth 1-0, their first home win over their neighbours in 22 years, with ten men for more than half the game. [76] Their coach, Tonda Eckert, was in the dugout because his six-week ban for spying on three opponents last season is suspended until the end of the 2027-28 season. [76] He was also fined 28,000 pounds. [76] The club was thrown out of last season's play-offs in May and docked four points. [76]

    Why it matters — Many people were surprised at how light his punishment was, the Guardian reported. [76] Without the four-point deduction, Southampton would be third. [76]

30. 31

    Robbie Savage wins his first league game as a manager

    Robbie Savage, the former Leicester midfielder turned TV pundit, won 3-1 at Leicester in his first game as Peterborough manager in League One, England's third tier. [77] It was his first job managing a club in the English Football League. [77] Before that, he won promotion with Macclesfield, a club rebuilt after the old one closed, with 109 points. [77] Last season he took Forest Green Rovers to the National League play-offs. [77]

    Why it matters — Peterborough's chairman, Darragh MacAnthony, hired him after a long interview and said his character and work rate were needed across the club. [77]

31. 32

    Corinthians turn to Seedorf in a relegation fight

    Corinthians, a club in Brazil's top league, hired Clarence Seedorf as head coach on Sunday after sacking Fernando Diniz, whose team lost seven league games in a row. [19] Corinthians are 16th of 20, one place above the relegation zone. [19] As a player Seedorf won the Champions League with three different clubs. [19] As a coach, each of his three club jobs lasted less than six months, and his last coaching job was with Cameroon in 2019. [19]

    Why it matters — His contract runs to the end of next year. [19] The squad includes the Dutch forward Memphis Depay, Seedorf's countryman. [19]

32. 33

    Wilfredo Gomez dies at 69

    Wilfredo 'Bazooka' Gomez, the Puerto Rican boxer who won world titles at three weights, has died aged 69. [78] He won 44 of his 48 professional fights, 42 of them by knockout. [78] His best-known win was against Mexico's Carlos Zarate, then unbeaten in 52 fights, whom he stopped in five rounds in San Juan. [78] He entered the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. [78]

    Why it matters — He lost his two biggest fights, to Salvador Sanchez in 1981 and Azumah Nelson in 1984, both for a world featherweight title. [78]

33. 34

    Kyrie Irving plays again after 20 months

    Kyrie Irving scored 17 points in his first game in more than 20 months, as the Dallas Mavericks beat the Houston Rockets 132-115 in a pre-season game in Macau. [24] He tore a ligament in his left knee in March 2025. [24] He was scoring 24.7 points a game when he was hurt. [24] The Rockets are among the most popular NBA teams in China because Yao Ming, the Chinese star, played for them. [24]

    Why it matters — Dallas reached the NBA finals in 2024 but missed the play-offs in the two seasons since. [24]

34. 35

    Clayton beats Humphries in Basel

    Wales's Jonny Clayton beat world number two Luke Humphries 8-4 to win the Swiss Darts Trophy in Basel, his first ranking title this year. [79] The two scored almost the same, about 101.7 points for every three darts. [79] Clayton won on finishing: he took 61.5% of his chances to win a leg, against 22.2% for Humphries. [79] He won the last four legs from 4-4. [79]

    Clayton61.5%

    Humphries22.2%

    Why it matters — The win also gives Clayton a place at November's Grand Slam of Darts. [79]

35. 36

    Briscoe wins again by 0.029 seconds

    Chase Briscoe won NASCAR's Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday, his second win in a row, by 0.029 seconds over Christopher Bell. [80] Briscoe passed Bell for the lead with 60 laps left. [80] Kyle Larson led the most laps, 97. [80] The result became official only after the cars passed inspection, the check that they meet the rules. [80]

    Why it matters — Briscoe, Bell and Larson are all in the Chase, NASCAR's end-of-season play-off. [80]

36. 37

    Fans vote Russo England's player of the year

    Alessia Russo was voted England women's player of the year by fans, for the second time in three seasons. [81] The Arsenal forward played all ten of England's games and scored five goals. [81] She beat Chelsea's Lucy Bronze and Hannah Hampton to the award. [81] England play the second leg of their World Cup play-off semi-final against Greece at Leicester on Tuesday, leading 3-1. [81]

    Why it matters — England won the European Championship in 2022 and kept it in 2025, with Russo in the team both times. [81]

37. 38

    Vinicius ban will not cover Europe

    Real Madrid expect Vinicius Junior to be banned for three matches after his red card for pulling an opponent's hair, Sports Illustrated reported. [82] Madrid plan to appeal. [82] A ban from a Spanish league match only covers Spanish league games, so he can still play in the Champions League. [82] A three-match ban would keep him out against Sevilla, Barcelona and Racing Santander, with a return against Valencia on 8 November. [82]

    Why it matters — Madrid play three Champions League games in that time, against Roma, RB Leipzig and AEK Athens, and he could play in all of them. [82]

38. 39

    Billy Sharp retires at 40

    Billy Sharp, the striker who scored 129 goals for Sheffield United, has retired at 40. [83] He scored 299 goals in a 22-year career at nine clubs. [83] He had been without a club since leaving Doncaster, where his last game was a hat-trick against Peterborough. [83] He became Sheffield United's captain and played a big part in three promotions. [83]

    Why it matters — Sharp said he wanted to stop on his own terms, after seeing friends' careers ended by injury. [83]