Two WWE champions will sport extra hardware by the time WWE Crown Jewel ends. The promotion returns to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday to start a new annual tradition: the Crown Jewel championship matches. Raw and SmackDown’s world champions compete to become the inaugural Crown Jewel champions. World heavyweight champion Gunther takes on undisputed WWE […]
Getty Images UFC 310 needs a new main event. UFC welterweight champion Belal Muhammad announced his withdrawal from the Dec. 7 pay-per-view due to a bone infection, leaving title challenger Shavkat Rakhmonov with no opponent. “Caught a bone infection in my foot,” Muhammad captioned an Instagram post on Thursday. “Had to put a PICC (peripherally […]
Getty Images Legendary baseball broadcaster Bob Costas is retiring from play-by-play announcing, Andrew Marchand of The Athletic reports. Marchand writes that Costas has confirmed the news but said he would make his own announcement in the future. Costas, 72, has been broadcasting Major League Baseball games since 1980 and, over the decades, has become one […]
The New York Jets will attempt to end a five-game skid when they host the Houston Texans (+2.5, 43) on Thursday Night Football. The losing streak ties for the longest of Aaron Rodgers‘ career, but he’ll face a Houston team that just lost receiver Stefon Diggs (knee) for the season. With Nico Collins also on IR, NFL […]
Through his first three games with the New York Knicks, Karl-Anthony Towns had made 66% of his 3-pointers. Incredible, right? Not so much when you consider that one of the best shooters in the game somehow had only attempted six shots from beyond the arc over that span. To put it mildly, two 3-pointers per […]
Manchester United are reportedly close to hiring Sporting Lisbon’s Ruben Amorim as Erik Ten Hag’s replacement, landing one of Europe’s rising managerial stars in the process. The Red Devils’ approach is in line with other top clubs around the continent like Liverpool and Bayern Munich, who respectively hired Arne Slot and Vincent Kompany in recent […]
U.S. Army Fort Leonard Wood/Facebook (FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo.) — An Army specialist has been charged with the murder of a fellow soldier whose body was found on an Army base last week. Spc. Wooster Rancy, 21, is accused in the murder of Sarah Roque, a 23-year-old sergeant, officials said Thursday. Last week, Roque was […]
ABC/Randy Holmes GloRilla is already securing performances for 2025. She’s been announced as a performer for the Honda Battle of the Bands, a competition between marching bands from six historically Black colleges and universities. She’ll be closing out the event, which will take place Feb. 1 in LA, the competition’s first time on the West Coast. Nick Cannon […]
WWE Rhea Ripley is reportedly on the shelf again. WWE announced on Wednesday that Ripley is dealing with a fractured right orbital socket, an injury various professional wrestling journalists claim is legitimate. This would mark Ripley’s second injury this year. WWE staged a segment where women’s world champion Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez attacked Ripley […]
ABC News (Washington, D.C.) — With less than a week before the 2024 presidential election, the infrastructure has “never been more secure,” according to the head of the federal agency tasked with America’s cyber defense. Jen Easterly, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told ABC News’ Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas […]
