Sports, in brief

Kimi Antonelli, 20, became Formula One's youngest ever world champion on Sunday in Mexico City. [1]

He clinched the title by finishing third, behind Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. [1]

Formula One still has 4 races left this season, so nobody can now catch him. [2]

Russell, the pre-season favourite, finished sixth and fell out of the top three overall. [9]

Sports science calls it talent identification: spotting a child early and paying for each step. [4]

A Mercedes scout flew to Italy to watch him race karts when he was 11. [4]

Mercedes gains twice: income heading for a record now, and this season's prize money next year. [8]

Nobody knows yet if the last two races, in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, will go ahead. [11]

Imola, in Italy, is being readied in case the two Gulf races cannot go ahead. [11]

Why Yamaha can stay home from a race its organiser calls safe

A hazard, something that can hurt people, exists: a war near the track, or a virus where a player has been

Each employer owes its own people a duty of care, so it makes its own risk assessment

Safety courses rank the controls: removing the hazard comes first, rules and promises come last

Staying away removes the danger; assurances only make it smaller

So two employers can judge one event and give two different answers

MotoGP can promise that the Qatar race is safe. It cannot take over Yamaha's duty to Yamaha's own staff, so Yamaha decides for itself, and it chose to stay away.

One race, one war nearby, two different answers from two organisations judging the same danger.

Yamaha kept its company-wide travel limits, the strongest control there is, while MotoGP relied on assurances from Qatar and its advisers.

Saint Kitts and Nevis removed the risk at its border with a 21-day entry ban, so a player England picked could not come in.

US health rules applied the same 21-day control to her after a match in Uganda, and her club lost her for three games.

Formula One accepted security promises for Qatar and Abu Dhabi but readied Imola as a back-up, a second control in case the first fails.

Staying away is not free: Yamaha may be punished under its contract, and Tribe lost his place on a tour.

Everyone travelling to Qatar next weekend is trusting a judgment that someone else made about a war none of them controls.

Mercedes won Formula One's title with a driver it has paid to develop since he was 12, and its income is heading for a record $1 billion. [3][8]

A title season brings new sponsors such as Microsoft and Stripe, and income heading for $1 billion. [8]

Ferrari's two drivers fought each other on lap one, and Verstappen took the win and second place overall. [2]

Florida State University fired its American football coach, Mike Norvell, on Sunday. [23]

A day earlier, Clemson beat them 36-24 at home, leaving 3 wins and 5 losses. [23]

In 2023 his team won all 13 games and its conference, the ACC. [24]

Since then Florida State has won 10 games and lost 23. [24]

The university now owes Norvell about $50 million, money known as a buyout. [15]

Only Jimbo Fisher, near $77 million, and Brian Kelly, $54 million, were paid more to leave. [15]

Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee's head coach for 18 seasons, takes over for now. [24]

Florida State gave Norvell a longer, richer deal after 2023, which made firing him costly. [25]

In contract law this is mitigation: the sum shrinks if Norvell finds another job. [15]

Reports differ on the bill: about $50 million, or just under $49 million. [23][25]

It owes about $50 million to a coach it no longer employs, because it lengthened his contract after 2023. [15][25]

How much Florida State will finally pay Mike Norvell.

The Athletic puts the buyout at about $50 million and CBS Sports at just under $49 million, and either falls if he takes another job. [23][25]

Arsenal beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield, Liverpool's ground, in England's Premier League on Sunday. [26]

It was Arsenal's first league win there since September 2012. [26]

Kai Havertz scored the only goal, his first in 10 games. [26]

Arsenal are now 3 points clear of Manchester City at the top. [27]

The win came four days after Arsenal lost to Fleetwood Town, a fourth-tier club. [28]

Liverpool wanted a penalty when Arsenal's Jurrien Timber pulled Alexander Isak's shirt. [21]

Neither the referee nor the video referee, called VAR, gave the penalty. [21]

Liverpool's manager, Andoni Iraola, said he will now tell Isak to go to the floor. [21]

Liverpool finished without a shot on target and are fifth, 9 points behind. [27]

Economists call this an incentive: if falling wins penalties, players learn to fall. [21]

Liverpool's Alexis Mac Allister fell to try to get an opponent sent off, the Guardian reported. [26]

A first league win at Anfield since 2012 puts them three points clear at the top. [27]

Why the video referee did not look again at Isak's shirt being pulled.

The Guardian's report called it a mystery, and the officials gave no reason in any report we read. [26]

Yamaha, the Japanese motorbike maker, pulled its MotoGP team out of next weekend's Qatar race. [12]

MotoGP is motorbike racing's top series; the race at Lusail is set for 6-8 November. [11]

The race was first meant to be held in April, and was put back. [11]

The United States and Israel have been at war with Iran since February. [11]

Yamaha said it found no reason to lift its company-wide limits on travel there. [12]

Japan's government advises its people against needless travel to the region. [11]

MotoGP says Qatar and independent safety advisers have assured it the race can go ahead. [11]

Reports say 19 of the 22 riders signed a letter raising worries about racing there. [11]

MotoGP warned Yamaha that it has a contract and could be punished. [12]

Nobody has said what punishment Yamaha faces; the FIM, the sport's governing body, will decide. [12]

Yamaha is last among the makers, on 105 points to leader Ducati's 537. [12]

Yamaha kept its company-wide travel limits, the strongest control there is, while MotoGP relied on assurances from Qatar and its advisers.

Staying home breaks a contract to race, and MotoGP has warned of sporting consequences. [12]

What punishment Yamaha will face for missing the Qatar race.

MotoGP says there will be sporting consequences, to be set by the FIM, the sport's governing body; no penalty has been named. [12]

Lamar Jackson, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback, hurt his throwing thumb on his first play back. [18]

He had missed the Ravens' three previous games with an ankle injury. [18]

He needs surgery and goes on injured reserve, the list for players out long-term. [18]

His coach, Jesse Minter, said the injury could "potentially" end his season. [18]

Backup Tyler Huntley was also hurt, so undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano played. [18]

Jackson is on a five-year, $260 million deal; Fagnano is paid $885,000 this season. [18]

Jackson's deal runs out after 2027, and he and the Ravens have no new one. [18]

Jackson has no agent and negotiates his own pay, now with surgery ahead of him. [18]

They lost their quarterback on a $260 million deal and turned to a rookie paid $885,000. [18]

Whether Lamar Jackson plays again this season.

His coach said the thumb injury could potentially end his season, and declined to give details of the surgery. [18]

A shooting outside a college game in Alabama killed 1 person and wounded 8, police said. [29]

It happened on Saturday night near Legion Field, Birmingham's stadium, where vendors had stalls. [29]

Most fans and families had already left the stadium grounds, police said. [29]

The game, the Magic City Classic, is played every year by two historically Black universities. [29]

The rivals have met for more than 100 years. [29]

Nearly 70,000 fans watched Alabama A&M win 31-28. [29]

Police detained one person and found several weapons. [29]

The police chief called it the city's largest event and "extremely taxing" on his officers. [29]

Police have not said what led to the shooting. [29]

Ashley Sanchez of North Carolina Courage won the NWSL's Golden Boot with 20 goals. [14]

That equals the league's single-season record, set by Temwa Chawinga in 2024. [14]

But the Courage finished 9th and missed the eight-team playoffs. [14]

Only once before has the top scorer missed the playoffs: Sam Kerr, in 2017. [14]

Barbra Banda of Orlando Pride, second with 17 goals, missed the last three games. [14]

Banda, from Zambia, had played for her country in Uganda on 8 October. [14]

Rules from the CDC, the US public health agency, kept her out for 21 days. [14]

Orlando lost 1-0 to Seattle, who took the last playoff place. [14]

US health rules applied the same 21-day control to her after a match in Uganda, and her club lost her for three games.

US health rules kept their top scorer, Barbra Banda, out of the last three games, and Seattle beat them to the last playoff place. [14]

Asa Tribe, a batter for Glamorgan, was barred from joining England Lions in the West Indies. [13]

England Lions is the national team's second string. [13]

In late October Tribe played three one-day games for Jersey in Nairobi, Kenya. [13]

Kenya has an outbreak of Ebola, a deadly virus. [13]

Saint Kitts and Nevis, the host, bars non-nationals who were in Kenya within 21 days. [13]

The rule covers Kenya and 7 other countries in Africa, England's cricket board said. [13]

Public health officials call this a travel ban: it keeps a risk out at the border. [13]

Tribe is back in the UK, and the board is talking to the authorities. [13]

England Lions won the first T20 game without him, by eight wickets. [13]

Saint Kitts and Nevis removed the risk at its border with a 21-day entry ban, so a player England picked could not come in.

Away from the track, the Iran war and an Ebola outbreak in Kenya are now deciding who can turn up to play. [12][13]

A 21-day entry ban for anyone who had been in Kenya cost him his place on England Lions' tour. [13]

Ciara Mageean, Ireland's European 1500m champion in 2024, died on Sunday, aged 34. [30]

She had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in May 2025. [31]

Mageean came from Portaferry in Northern Ireland. [30]

She won the 1500m at the 2024 European Championships in Rome, her first major title. [31]

She was Ireland's first individual European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan. [30]

She ran for Ireland at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. [31]

An injury to her Achilles, the tendon above the heel, kept her out of Paris 2024. [31]

She married her partner, Thomas Moran, in October. [31]

Ireland's prime minister, Micheal Martin, said he was "deeply saddened". [30]

Spain's Marc Marquez won MotoGP's Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday by over four seconds. [20]

Marquez has won the MotoGP title seven times. [20]

It was his first win in Malaysia since 2018. [20]

Pedro Acosta was second, and Marquez's brother Alex finished third. [20]

Marquez now has 399 points. [20]

His rival Jorge Martin could not race on a wrist he broke a week earlier. [20]

Marquez seals the title in Qatar if he stretches his lead to 74 points. [20]

Martin, the 2024 champion, cannot close the gap while his wrist heals. [20]

William Byron won NASCAR's top-series race at Martinsville, Virginia, on Sunday. [32]

Byron led 362 of the 500 laps, for his first win of the season. [33]

His Hendrick team-mate Chase Elliott finished second. [32]

Kyle Larson, the points leader, finished 9th after his team's pit plan went wrong. [32]

His team kept him out on old tyres, hoping for a caution that never came. [32]

Larson leads Christopher Bell by 67 points and Denny Hamlin by 70. [32]

The Chase is NASCAR's 10-race title run at the end of the season. [32]

Four drivers, including Joey Logano and Ryan Blaney, were knocked out of the title race. [33]

Larson needs only 9 points at Homestead-Miami on 8 November. [32]

Bell and Hamlin can still win, but only if Larson has a very bad day. [32]

His rivals failed to gain much at Martinsville, so he needs only nine points in the last race. [32]

Sweden's Andreas Almgren won the New York City Marathon on Sunday, in his first marathon. [34]

He finished in 2:06:01: 2 hours, 6 minutes and 1 second. [34]

Almgren had raced half marathons and the 10,000 metres before. [35]

Italy's Yemaneberhan Crippa was second, 13 seconds behind. [36]

Almgren's time was the 3rd fastest in the race's 50-year history. [36]

Kenya's Sheila Chepkirui won the women's race in 2:24:36, as she did in 2024. [36]

American Jessica McClain came second, the first US woman in the top three since 2018. [36]

Switzerland's Marcel Hug won the men's wheelchair race for the eighth time. [36]

Both of New York's 2021 winners were suspended for doping this year. [37]

Under anti-doping rules, a banned runner loses results and prize money, and others move up. [37]

Third place pays $40,000 and fourth $25,000, so a late ban moves real money. [37]

Jessica McClain finished second in the New York City Marathon, the first American woman in the top three since 2018.

Manchester United will keep Michael Carrick as head coach for Tuesday's game against Roma. [16]

United have not won in 9 games, their worst start to a season since 1988. [16]

They lost 2-0 at Chelsea on Saturday. [16]

Only goal difference keeps United, 17th on seven points, above the bottom three. [16]

Erik ten Hag, a former United manager, said relegation is "certainly possible". [38]

United have not been relegated since 1974. [38]

Eddie Howe is the director of football's preferred choice if Carrick goes, the Guardian reports. [16]

Hiring Howe would cost United about £3m in payment to Newcastle. [16]

Carrick's job will be reviewed again in the international break. [16]

Whether Michael Carrick is still Manchester United's coach after the international break.

His job is due to be reviewed in the break, after United host Aston Villa next Sunday. [16]

The Minnesota Vikings lost 19-15 at Detroit, so no NFL team is still unbeaten. [39]

Minnesota had won their first 6 games. [39]

The NFL's business is built on any team being able to win, Front Office Sports says. [39]

The 1972 Miami Dolphins are still the only NFL team to finish a season unbeaten. [39]

Minnesota spend $300.1 million on players, the 30th most of the 32 teams. [39]

The Dallas Cowboys spend the most, $391 million, against a $301.2 million cap. [39]

Minnesota's quarterback, Kyler Murray, earns $1.3 million, the minimum for his experience. [39]

Economists call the goal competitive balance: teams share TV money and live under a pay cap. [39]

A team can spend above the cap now, but it pays for it in later seasons. [39]

Arizona still owes Murray $36.8 million this season, though it released him in March. [39]

The Dallas Cowboys led Arizona by 14 points in the fourth quarter and lost 33-30. [40]

Dallas had been 202-0-1 at home when 14 points up in a fourth quarter. [40]

Arizona's Chad Ryland missed a kick to win at the end, then won it in overtime. [41]

Owner Jerry Jones, asked about coach Brian Schottenheimer, said: "I'm not pointing at Schotty." [40]

No NFL head coach has been fired so far this season. [17]

The last season to go this late without a coaching change was 2017. [17]

The best-paid NFL coaches now earn around $20 million a season. [17]

Owners may hold back because a fired coach is still owed his pay. [17]

The NFL's trade deadline is 10 November. [17]

The Denver Broncos beat the Kansas City Chiefs 28-24 in the NFL on Sunday. [22]

Denver had trailed 24-13 in the third quarter. [41]