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AEW star MVP speaks highly of Bad Bunny.
Bad Bunny hasnâ€t appeared in a WWE ring in nearly two years, but his work ethic continues to be talked about to this day. During a recent episode of his Marking Out podcast, All Elite Wrestlingâ€s MVP revealed how Bad Bunny earned his respect.
“I went afterwards to Bad Bunny in his locker room and I shook his hand and I hugged him and I told him straight up, ‘Iâ€m usually not very fond of outside people coming in here, but you have earned my respect. Not that it matters, not that you care, but you have earned my respect,’†MVP said. “And Bad Bunny was cool as f**k. He said, ‘No, it does matter. Thank you, bro.’†[H/T: Wrestling Inc.]
Damian Priest reveals whatâ€s preventing Bad Bunny from returning to WWE
Bad Bunny and Damian Priest went to war in a San Juan Street Fight at WWE Backlash 2023. The match marked Bunnyâ€s last appearance for the company. Speaking to TMZ Sports in a new interview, Priest revealed whatâ€s preventing his former opponent from making his in-ring comeback.
“What heâ€s done, it speaks for itself – the performances, the showmanship, he basically is a WWE Superstar,†Damian Priest said. “Especially in this business, never say never. Iâ€ve talked to him about it, and itâ€s just scheduling, because obviously, he has a lot going on. But he still has that itch; he loves our business. Heâ€s had more than enough time to recover since our match, so heâ€s ready to come.â€
Fans will have to wait and see if Bad Bunny returns to WWE in the foreseeable future.
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As Xander Schauffele was outdueling Max Greyserman to win the Baycurrent Classic on Sunday in Japan, Matt McCarty was trying to make history.
Instead, he ended up collapsing in brutal fashion on the 72nd hole at Yokohama Country Club.
The left-hander started Sunday’s final round on the 10th hole. He shot a bogey-free four-under 31 on his first nine and then reeled off eight straight birdies beginning at No. 1. That put McCarty in position to shoot 59 with a par at the last or join Jim Furyk in the 58 club with a birdie.
The golf gods had other plans.
Standing on the tee box at the 490-yard par-4 ninth hole, McCarty seemed destined to finish his trip to Japan on a high note. Instead, he blocked his tee shot out of bounds to the left. The 27-year-old had to reload from the tee box. He found the fairway with his third, knocked his approach shot to seven feet, and rolled in the putt for a closing bogey and a round of 60, a career-best on the PGA Tour.
What could have been.
McCarty was on track to become the 16th player in PGA Tour history to shoot a sub-60 round. The last to do so was Jake Knapp in the first round of this year’s Cognizant Classic. But one poor drive ended those dreams and turned a good round sour.
“Yeah, I don’t know, just [got] a little tight [on that swing] and just kind of tried to guide it a little too much and just wiped it,” McCarty said. “[Chasing 59], I actually feel like it’s similar to being in contention. I came out of it and shoved it in the trees.
“I thought I kind of had a chance around the corner [to find the ball] but it probably hit one of those trees and kicked left. Yeah, tough finish to a really good day. One swing away from a 58.”
The 2024 Korn Ferry Tour graduate was still pleased with his round. It got him a T14 finish and moved him to 84th in the FedEx Cup Fall standings ahead of his title defense at the Black Desert Championship in Utah in two weeks. And while the blocked tee shot on the ninth hole sticks out, McCarty also looks at the missed eight-foot eagle putt on No. 4 as a reason he didn’t break 60.
“I hit it close on 4 for eagle and missed that, but I was kind of thinking if I made that I had a chance,” McCarty said. “But you never really think you’re going to birdie eight in a row or whatever. With three to go, I was like, I can get two and have a chance. I had two kick-ins on 7 and 8. I just hit it really well and played solid. It’s weird to play that well and come off the course feeling like this, but yeah, [overall] a good day.”
The 2025 Ryder Cup will be long remembered for its volatile and chaotic atmosphere. But two weeks later, the heightened emotions from the Battle at Bethpage Black haven’t completely worn off for members of the victorious European team. The evidence? Jon Rahm.
Playing his first tournament since helping win the Ryder Cup, Rahm had a testy exchange with a tournament marshal during his opening round at the Open de Espana.
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The Open de Espana, a DP World Tour event, is an important one for Rahm, one of the greatest Spanish golfers ever. It’s even more momentous given Rahm’s heroics during Europe’s recent Ryder Cup win.
That’s why it’s understandable that the two-time major champion grew frustrated when his play was lacking in the opening round.
The frustration seemed to boil over on the eighth hole. Rahm was not pleased when he arrived to find his drive in a bad lie in the rough.
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The Associated Press reported that Rahm first exclaimed “What a day, what a day,” along with an added expletive.
That’s when the marshal stepped in.
Having marked Rahm’s ball in the rough with a flag, the marshal attempted to calm the star pro, telling him, “It’s OK.”
But Rahm didn’t take kindly to that comment. According to the AP report, Rahm turned to the marshal and curtly responded, “Don’t tell me it’s OK, please. Thank you,” later muttering, “It’s not OK.”
Rahm’s fiery demeanor on the course is well known at this point. In a recent video with GOLF’s Dylan Dethier conducted alongside fellow LIV pro Tyrrell Hatton, Rahm explained despite the negativity that comes out of his mouth on course, inside his head are only positive thoughts.
“I am, like, irrationally positive in my mind,” Rahm said. “Never lose hope, always hoping for the best on the next shot in any situation — even though my mouth may be saying other things, I firmly believe it. The amount of times I’ll say in Spanish, ‘If you’re going to play like this, go home, what are you doing wasting your time,’ internally I really know i’m just trying to fire myself up yeah because I know, okay, you can do this.”
In the video, Rahm also admitted that when he plays with another fiery competitor, such as Hatton, he can get even more intense.
“To be honest, whenever I play with somebody that might get a little bit more fired up on the course — not just Tyrrell, but anybody — I laugh because I see myself in it.”
Hatton added, “I never understand why he swears in English. He’d get away with it, probably, if he’d just swear in Spanish.”
In the end, Rahm signed for a one-over 72 in Round 1 in Spain. But in Round 2 he got on a good streak early, making three birdies over his first seven holes to reach two under for the tournament, six shots off the lead.
Recording artist Bad Bunny quipped his critics “have four months to learn” Spanish while delivering his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live.
The three-time Grammy Award winner referenced his selection as the halftime performer at Super Bowl LX next February. He then teed up a carefully edited clip of Fox News personalities saying, “Bad Bunny is my favorite musician, and he should be the next president.”
Bad Bunny followed up by saying how excited he is to have the Super Bowl halftime slot before giving a message in his native Spanish.
“Especially all of the Latinos and Latinas in the world here in the United States who have worked to open doors, it’s more than a win for myself, it’s a win for all of us,” he said, as translated by People‘s Nicholas Rice. “Our footprints and our contribution in this country, no one will ever be able to take that away or erase it.”
He closed the monologue by reminding viewers how much time they have to brush up on the language before the Super Bowl.
The NFL announced on Sept. 28 that Bad Bunny will be taking the stage at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
The 31-year-old is one of the most popular musicians in the world, regularly sitting near the top of Spotify’s annual streaming rankings. Combine that with the NFL’s continued efforts to expand the sport abroad, and he’s the perfect fit for the Super Bowl.
Bad Bunny’s selection is historic as he’s the first halftime performer who sings exclusively in Spanish.
Rarely does it take four great rounds to win a golf tournament. Often, it takes three, maybe just two really great ones to be at the top of the leaderboard. But most importantly, it requires zero bad rounds, which Max Homa has come to understand quite well in recent years.
The 34-year-old tallied up just 64 strokes Saturday — his best round in three months — vaulting him up the leaderboard at the Sanderson Farms Championship, even with a closing bogey, to sit just a few strokes back of the lead. It’s the kind of round that stands out much more to casual golf fans at home than to pros in the thick of it like Homa. It’s natural when you see “HOMA -8” like many people saw Saturday, you might wonder if Homa could be trending back into form.
We thought this during the PGA Championship in May, when Homa carded a second-round 64, only for golf to quickly punch back, humbling him to a T60. We thought it in July when Homa contended at the John Deere Classic, finishing T5. And we’ll think it now for the next 24 hours at least. Just don’t expect Homa to hold on to this one round for proof. It was his Friday 72 that stood out to him more.
During a short interview following his third round, Homa was asked, “Do you feel like your swagger is maybe coming back to you a little bit?”
He’s been here before.
“I don’t know about that,” Homa began. “I think I know — especially after that long layoff — I know that, if I don’t get in my own way, I’m one good round away from being in a golf tournament. On a week that’s good, maybe I play two [great rounds] and I’m ahead.
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“I just think I know what’s in there, and I know if I can stay out of my own way, I can turn — like yesterday mentally felt like I could have shot 2-, 3-over and turned it into even. I know those are little things that don’t seem great when you’re in 40th, but I never really felt like I was out of this golf tournament on a hard golf course where the game feels pretty solid.
“I don’t know if it’s swagger, but I just think like my patience seems to be better and I’m more tolerant of things that don’t go great, and I have a lot of confidence that I can put up a few good scores.”
Homa didn’t have his best stuff in that second round but grinded out a bunch of pars, getting up and down six times when he missed the green. That’s how you turn 75 into 72, which has been one of the most difficult — but also most validating — things for Homa recently.
His good is still really good, which is part of what you hear in that answer. It’s just when he’s not great — keeping those days around par, maybe even one under, are how you make a bunch of cuts, how you hang around in tournaments, and how you simply survive until your best stuff comes back.
Taking his calendar year into account, Homa has had almost exactly the same amount of above average rounds as below average. To no surprise then, his season has fluttered with plenty of missed cuts and a handful of moments in contention. DataGolf has him at a 0.15 Strokes Gained rating, just a notch above the PGA Tour standard, which puts him at 127th in the DataGolf ranking.
That level of golf is still good, and totally sustainable, but it’s about as low as Homa has been in the last five years. The occasional 73, 74 or 75 has snuck in over the summer, but on a frequency of about once a month. Back in the spring and early summer, Homa was carding those rounds about once a tournament. All of which starts to look like he’s bottomed out. And is a reminder that it’s not always so much about your best rounds, but about limiting the damage of your worst rounds.
Former Alabama football head coach Nick Saban is “so happy” for his former player, ex-Crimson Tide quarterback Mac Jones, who has found great success with the San Francisco 49ers this season after a rough start to his NFL career with the New England Patriots.
Saban made his remarks on The Pat McAfee Show Friday (h/t Jordy McElroy of Patriots Wire).
“I’m so happy for Mac [Jones],” Saban said. “I think Mac was one of those guys who was in bad situations in New England relative to coaching and all that type of stuff, and who was the offensive coordinator, and how did he get developed when he came into the league. He hasn’t been in great circumstances. I think, right now, he is in a really good circumstance with Shanahan and their offense.”
After leading Alabama to the 2020 national championship, Jones went 15th overall in the 2021 NFL draft to the New England Patriots.
He was impressive in his first season, completing 67.6 percent of his passes for 3,801 yards and 22 touchdowns (13 interceptions). The Pats finished sixth in scoring, won 10 games and made the playoffs, marking the only time the team has made the postseason in the five full campaigns since quarterback Tom Brady left in free agency for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020. Jones also made the Pro Bowl and even finished second in the Associated Press Offensive Player of the Year race.
After the season, offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels left to become the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach. Head coach Bill Belichick opted to replace McDaniels with a defensive coach (ex-Pats defensive coordinator Matt Patricia) and his former special teams coordinator, Joe Judge.
Jones regressed in every way in 2022, seeing his completion percentage (65.2), yards per attempt (6.8), TD-INT ratio (14:11) and quarterback rating (84.8) all go down.
It went from bad to worse in 2023. The Patriots as a whole hit rock bottom under Belichick, going 4-13 and finishing second-last in points per game. New England opted for another offensive playcalling change, going with ex-Pats offensive coordinator (and ex-Houston Texans head coach) Bill O’Brien.
Jones struggled again, throwing more interceptions (12) than touchdowns (10) and getting benched for Bailey Zappe.
After the season, the Pats traded Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jones got a chance to start seven games in town after Trevor Lawrence suffered an AC joint sprain, but that was another tough spot for him as well with the team floundering (4-13) in head coach Doug Pederson’s final year. He completed 65.3 percent of his passes for 1,672 yards, eight touchdowns and eight picks.
Last March, Jones signed a two-year deal with the 49ers to be Brock Purdy’s backup. He’s been called into duty for three starts in five weeks with Purdy dealing with a toe injury that now has a week-to-week timeline.
Jones has flourished, leading the 49ers to three wins by completing 66.7 percent of his passes for 905 yards, six touchdowns and one interception.
He saved his best effort for Thursday against the heavily favored host Los Angeles Rams. The 49ers entered the game significantly shorthanded on offense due to injury, with notable absences including tight end George Kittle and wide receivers Ricky Pearsall and Jauan Jennings. Still, Jones dominated with 342 yards and two touchdowns to lead the 49ers to a 26-23 overtime win.
Jones could very well be in the lineup next week, when the 49ers visit the NFC South-leading Bucs for another pivotal matchup. Regardless, he’s found new life and taken advantage of his potential under head coach Kyle Shanahan, and the 49ers have benefitted greatly from his presence.
The key thing on the line other than cold, hard cash, is cold, hard coefficient points.
These are what determine where your country sits in the rankings, and ultimately decides how many European spots you’re going to get and where you’re getting them.
As things stand, Scotland are 40th in the table this season of coefficient points earned. That has them 18th in the overall table – which is based across five seasons – now behind the likes of Cyprus.
Unless the nation’s standing can be improved to 14th, Scottish clubs would go into future campaigns in their worst position since 2012.
That would mean representation dropping from five to four clubs in two years’ time.
Future champions would have three Champions League qualifiers instead of one, the runners-up would have three Conference League qualifiers – along with the team finishing third – instead of three in the Champions League, while the Scottish Cup winners would have four Europa League qualifying ties instead of one.
Falling out of the top 12 already means that next season’s Scottish Cup winners will enter the Europa League third qualifying round instead of the play-offs and will not be guaranteed group stage football.
Meanwhile, the team finishing third in the Premiership will now enter in the Conference League in the second qualifying round instead of the same stage of the Europa League.
Thursday was a grim day for Scottish teams in Europe. Plenty more may lie ahead unless the winds of change sweep in soon.
Former WWE star Jimmy Wang Yang says he felt uneasy about participating in Chris Benoitâ€s tribute SmackDown show.
In 2007, Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy, their son Daniel and himself, creating one of the darkest moments in professional wrestling history. WWE aired a tribute show for him, unaware that he was responsible. The moment also saw company scrapping the storyline of Vince McMahonâ€s death.
Former WWE star Jimmy Wang Yang, who was on the roster at the time, recalled the situation and said he no longer cared about Chris Benoitâ€s wrestling skills because of his actions. On Cheap Heat Productions, he said, “I donâ€t care anything about his wrestling ability now. What he did disqualifies him, to me, as a wrestler. I remember that meeting we had in Corpus Christi, Texas. The week before, Vince got blew up by the limo, so we had the memorial service at Corpus Christi. So they bring us into the arena, and I sit down, and this is kind of a crazy story.â€
“Iâ€m looking around and I look behind me, and Bruce Campbell is right behind me, Army of Darkness. I was like, ‘Oh my god! Bruce Campbell! I f*cking love you!†Oh, sorry for cussing too much, but, ‘I love you! I love Army of Darkness, Ash, Evil Dead, all of this stuff! I wanna talk to you right after this.â€
“I turn around, and Vince is there, and all of a sudden I hear Vickie Guerrero screech, like, ‘Oh my god, no!†Iâ€m like, ‘Oh shit, what the f*ck?†Sorry for cussing again. Then I turn around, and Vince announced what happened, like, ‘They found Chris dead, his wife and his kid.’â€
Jimmy Wang Yang explains why he no-showed Chris Benoit tribute on WWE SmackDown
Jimmy Wang Yang initially struggled to process the news. He said he even tried to convince himself that the deaths might have been caused by a robbery. “I looked directly to Brian Kendrick, and looked at him, and it was like, ‘Yep, he finally did it huh? He finally snapped and did that horrible act.†We both thought the same thing from our previous experience with him.â€
“But, after that, I was like, ‘No, I donâ€t wanna think that, he did have this mansion in Atlanta, maybe somebody robbed him and killed him and his family.†It was crazy mixed emotions at that time. And then, the next day, they say weâ€re gonna do a tribute show to Chris the next day.â€
“My gut felt weird. Iâ€m like, ‘I donâ€t know if I wanna do a tribute match to Chris Benoit. I need to see some more facts about what happened and all that kind of stuff.†Then, during the day, all that stuff, things started to leak out.â€
As details emerged, he no-showed SmackDown and was later cleared by WWE despite initial trouble. “And I no-showed SmackDown, because I didnâ€t want to be part of anything associated with what happened, I said, ‘Iâ€m not going.†And I didnâ€t go to SmackDown, I no-showed SmackDown because I just didnâ€t feel comfortable.â€
“I had a bad feeling about what happened. I no-showed SmackDown, kinda got in trouble, but then it got cleared after everything came out. I just didnâ€t wanna be part of it. “Personally, I donâ€t give a shit what wrestling matches he did or all this other stuff. I donâ€t care. The last thing he did, that sticks with me, so yeah.†[H/T: Wrestletalk]
“I mean, it speaks for itself—the performances, the showmanship. He basically is a WWE superstar. And as far as any chance? I mean, especially in this business, never say never. Iâ€ve talked to him about it, and itâ€s just scheduling, because obviously he has a lot going on. But he still has that itch. He loves our business, and heâ€s had more than enough time to recover since our match. So, heâ€s ready to come and wrestle again.â€
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The current state of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ bullpen is this: In a unit filled with veterans, some highly paid and some battle-tested across multiple postseasons, it was a 23-year-old rookie making his third career relief appearance who looked most comfortable in the wild-card series.
That would be Roki Sasaki, who pitched a 1-2-3 ninth and looked dominant doing it on Wednesday as the Dodgers swept the Cincinnati Reds. With a fastball sitting in the triple digits, Sasaki posted two strikeouts and ended the series, roughly a week after he returned from the injured list.
Overall, the Dodgers’ bullpen was awful this week. They still won, beating the Reds 8-4 on Wednesday to become the only team to sweep this round, but the eighth inning in both games illustrated how dire the situation has become.
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In Game 1, starter Blake Snell looked excellent and left the game after seven innings. By the time Alex Vesia, arguably the Dodgers’ most consistent reliever this season, entered the game, L.A. was up 10-2. And then Vesia, Edgardo Henriquez and Jack Dreyer lost the strike zone and yielded two hits, four walks and three runs before finally escaping the frame.
Together, the trio threw 59 pitches, the most in a single MLB postseason inning since pitch counts started to be tracked.
In Game 2, Yoshinobu Yamamoto looked excellent and left the game after 6 2/3 innings with the Dodgers leading 7-2. This time, Emmet Sheehan and Vesia combined to yield two hits, three walks and two runs in the eighth inning.
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How bad was it? Sheehan was ahead 0-2 against Reds pinch-hitter Will Benson until he lost his command and nearly hit the batter. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had seen enough and lifted Sheehan, mid-at-bat, for Vesia, who got credit for the strikeout with one pitch.
Expectations were low for the Dodgers’ bullpen going into this postseason, and they met them. They got away with it because they were facing a Reds offense that ranked second-lowest among all playoff teams in wOBA. But now they get the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS. If the bullpen performs similarly, the Dodgers’ starting pitchers are going to have to exit games with leads much larger than five or six runs.
Ultimately, there were only two relievers used who can leave the wild-card round with a modicum of confidence. One is Blake Treinen, who had a brutal September — at one point taking the loss in five straight Dodgers losses, an unprecedented MLB feat — but managed to throw a scoreless ninth in Game 1, then finished the seventh inning for Yamamoto without issue in Game 2.
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The other is Sasaki, who has taken quite a journey to becoming a potential relief ace for the Dodgers.
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Roki Sasaki’s long, winding road to the playoffs
You might remember Sasaki signing with the Dodgers several months ago, which was seen as so unfair at the time that several people started discussing a salary cap almost purely to hobble the defending champions.
Going into the season, Sasaki was one of the most hyped pitching prospects in recent baseball history, boasting triple-digit heat and arguably the best splitter in the world. He joined a Dodgers rotation that featured two other Japanese stars in Yamamoto and Shohei Ohtani, and the expectation was that he would be the latest monster to emerge from the Dodgers’ pitching machine.
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That didn’t exactly happen. Sasaki was hyped, yes, but one thing that frequently went unnoticed last offseason was that his velocity took a downturn in 2024. Despite the Dodgers’ efforts, that continued in 2025, and the result was a nearly unusable starting pitcher. Sasaki landed on the IL due to a shoulder impingement in May after posting a 4.72 ERA and 6.19 FIP in eight starts.
Hitters had no trouble with Sasaki’s fastball when it was sitting in the mid-90s, and having only two other offerings — his otherworldly splitter and an OK slider — didn’t help, nor did an inability to regularly find the strike zone.
Sasaki remained on the IL for four-and-a-half months. When he came back, the Dodgers had little use for him as a starter. Ohtani, Yamamoto, Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Clayton Kershaw and Sheehan were doing just fine as a six-man rotation, to the point that the latter two are expected to be used only as relievers in the postseason (if at all, in Kershaw’s case).
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So Sasaki made the transition to the bullpen, and it was clear from his first appearance that he and the Dodgers had figured something out during his time off.
Roki Sasaki, Reliever looks completely different for Dodgers
In two relief appearances last week, Sasaki threw two scoreless innings and looked so good it was basically a given that he would be on the wild-card roster.
That fastball hitters were crushing? They whiffed on it three times in six swings while it sat around 99 mph. That splitter that was supposed to be a weapon from day one? Four whiffs in six swings. That iffy slider? No longer used.
It was a small sample, but the Dodgers’ bullpen looked like enough of a liability that Sasaki immediately became an attractive option. And that came to pass Wednesday, when he looked even better in his first taste of postseason action.
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That’s how you go from being a mediocre starter to prompting questions about your potential role as the closer of the current World Series favorites at BetMGM in three total relief appearances.
Per Jack Harris of the Los Angeles Times, Roberts stopped short of saying Sasaki that is the team’s closer, but he indicated the trust is there for high-leverage situations:
“I trust him, and he’s going to be pitching in leverage,†Dave Roberts said. “So the more you pitch guys and play guys, you learn more … I don’t think the moment’s going to be too big for Roki.â€
Again, we are talking about a guy with three career relief appearances that all came in the past eight days, but that just emphasizes how bad the rest of the Dodgers’ bullpen has been. The Dodgers dropped $111 million combined on Treinen, Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates to turn what was already a strength into a fortress, only for the whole thing to fall apart in September.
Sasaki almost certainly has some bad innings ahead of him as the Dodgers continue their postseason run. That’s just how relievers work. But it’s still better than the alternative for now.