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Former AEW coach Sarah Stock has criticized a spot from the Jon Moxley vs. Darby Allin I Quit match at AEW WrestleDream.
Stock, who departed AEW in April, took issue with Moxley shoving Allin’s head into an aquarium filled with water on Saturday’s pay-per-view, saying it could lead to kids trying to mimic the move.
AEW posted a clip of the spot along with the caption, “SOMEBODY STOP THIS!”
Stock responded to the post:
“You know who should stop this? Mothers. With their remote control. This is worse than the plastic bag over the head. Kids are going to end up dead trying this stuff at home.”
Fightful Select reported in April that Stock was no longer with AEW, although the nature of her departure was not revealed. It was reported that she had raised issues regarding AEW’s “mental health program and department being shifted,” but it was unclear if this was related to her leaving the company.
Stock first joined AEW as a coach in 2023 after having worked in a similar role for WWE from 2015 until being released at the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic in 2020.
You know who should stop this? Mothers. With their remote control. This is worse than the plastic bag over the head. Kids are going to end up dead trying this stuff at home. @aew https://t.co/DjCBNr4KiY
— Sarah Stock (@SSDarkAngel) October 19, 2025
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Giants eyeing Tennessee coach Tony Vitello (reports)
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The San Francisco Giants are reportedly going outside the box and then some for their manager hire. The franchise is reportedly closing in on Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello as their next skipper, according to The Athletic.
The 47-year-old head coach has spent seven seasons with the Volunteers, leading the team to a College World Series championship in 2024. Vitello has never appeared in the major leagues or even minor leagues in any capacity, but has been one of the top coaches in college baseball.
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Vitello did not comment directly on The Athletic’s report, with the outlet saying that he said “There is nothing to confirm” when reached via text message.
After a series of assistant coaching stints at Missouri, TCU and Arkansas, Vitello took over the Volunteers’ baseball program in 2018 and completely turned it around. Within a year, he led Tennessee back to the playoffs for the first time in 14 years, and has made the College World Series three times since (2021, 2023 and 2024).
The team had two highly-decorated seasons in 2022 and 2024, winning both the SEC regular-season title and the SEC tournament in both of those years. The Volunteers’ 2024 championship was the first in school history, and the team’s first World Series final appearance since 1951.
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With that said, Vitello would be an unexpected hire for the Giants given his lack of experience in the pros. Vitello has never held any coaching role in MLB, and (unlike many managers) didn’t even play in the majors, going straight from college baseball into coaching.
While it’s not unheard of for MLB teams to hire former college coaches as managers, those coaches typically have some major-league experience before getting tapped. Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy, for example, spent years as a head coach at Notre Dame and Arizona, but spent more than a decade as a coach in the San Diego Padres and Brewers organizations before being promoted to manager.
If the Giants do hire Vitello, the coach will be reunited with a couple of his former Tennessee players: San Francisco’s first-round draft pick in 2025 was second baseman Gavin Kilen, while former Volunteers and 2022 draft picks Drew Gilbert and Blade Tidwell were both acquired by the Giants ahead of the July trade deadline.
The MMA world has lost an important figure.
Duke Roufus, the man behind Roufusport, has passed away at the age of 55. His death was announced by Roufusport coach Scott Joffe, who wrote on Facebook that Roufus passed away peacefully in his sleep on Friday.
Joffe wrote:
“Today, the Roufusport family and martial arts world was stunned by the heartbreaking news that Duke Roufus, world-renowned top MMA coach, founder, and namesake of Roufusport MMA Academy, passed away peacefully in his sleep. Duke was more than a celebrated trainer and champion kickboxer—he was a mentor, innovator, father and friend whose influence transformed the landscape of mixed martial arts. His knowledge, charisma, and passion inspired countless fighters to reach heights they never imagined possible. From world champions to first-day students, everyone who crossed his path felt his genuine care and unwavering belief in their potential. His loss leaves an irreplaceable void in the sport and in the hearts of all who knew him.
Though we grieve deeply, Roufusport MMA Academy will continue forward, driven by Dukeâ€s enduring philosophy and commitment to excellence. The culture he built—rooted in respect, hard work, and family—will live on through the fighters, coaches, and students who proudly carry his torch. His impact will echo in every strike, every lesson, and every victory that bears the Roufusport name.
Champions. Today. Tomorrow. Forever.
My fantastic business partner for 29 years…”
A cause of death has not been revealed.
Roufus, who transitioned from kickboxing to coaching in 2008, helped train numerous MMA stars, including Tyron Woodley, Anthony Pettis, Sergio Pettis, Ben Askren, and Stephan Bonnar. He also coached CM Punk for his two UFC fights, with Punk traveling from Chicago to Milwaukee to train with the Roufusport team.
Punk commented on the news of Roufusâ€s passing on Instagram, writing: “Waking up in Japan trying to process the news. Itâ€ll take a while. You made me a better person, coach.â€
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Little Rock has agreed to a contract extension with head coach Chris Curry that will keep him in charge of the Trojans through the 2030 season.
The new deal caps a landmark year for Curry and the Trojans, who reached the NCAA Tournament in 2025 for the first time since 2011 and won a postseason game for the first time in program history. Little Rockâ€s run ended in Baton Rouge, where it pushed eventual national champion LSU to an elimination game in one of the most-watched regionals of the year.
It was the kind of breakthrough that redefined the programâ€s national perception. The Trojans entered the conference tournament below .500 but caught fire at the right time, riding a complete-game performance from righthander Jack Cline, the teamâ€s projected 2026 ace, to capture the league title and automatic bid.
For a team that had never won on the NCAA stage, the moment validated a decade of incremental growth under Curry, who is intent on ensuring 2025 was a beginning rather than a blip.
“Weâ€re serious about the future of Little Rock baseball,†he told Baseball America. “Weâ€re here to stay and really want to win.â€
Curry said this yearâ€s roster is the most physical and talent-rich the program has assembled during his tenure. The Trojans return a core of veterans from last spring and have supplemented it with an older transfer class drawn to the momentum of the postseason run.
“It means to me that they are serious about winning here for a long time,†Curry said of his extension. “We talked through a lot of details that took three or four months to see investment in baseball from the chancellor down to the AD. I wanted to see the tangible investment in our program and our staff. I wanted to make sure all of that was right before talking about me personally.â€
That investment, Curry said, extends beyond his contract. Facility improvements, enhanced recruiting resources and staff support were all part of the discussions that preceded the deal. The goal, he emphasized, is to make Little Rock a consistent postseason contender rather than a once-a-decade story.
Curry, 47, has led the Trojans since 2015, becoming the longest-tenured head coach in program history. By the start of the 2027 season, he will have guided the team through two conference realignments—first from the Sun Belt to the Ohio Valley in 2023, and again to the newly formed United Athletic Conference. Each move has required recalibration in recruiting and scheduling, challenges Curry has met with a steady hand.
The 2025 season showcased what patience and persistence can yield. Little Rockâ€s postseason appearance marked the culmination of years spent developing players overlooked by larger programs and establishing a gritty, player-first culture. Clineâ€s title-game masterpiece became emblematic of that ethos—an unheralded righty delivering on one of the biggest stages in school history.
As the Trojans continue fall practices, the energy around the program is unmistakably different.
“Thereâ€s a lot of excitement about baseball in Little Rock right now,†Curry said. “This has historically been more of a basketball school. Thereâ€s no football here. But we have some momentum in baseball now and weâ€re really looking forward to the future.â€
Say you don’t have the technology.
None of that sweet 3D tech. None of those cool pressure sensors.
Just old-fashioned, mid-80s player you.
But say little ole, mid-80s shooter you wants to improve.
What’s a techless, hopeful, mid-80s shooter to do?
As part of an answer, a GOLF Top 100 Teacher had a story. Occasionally, Tony Ruggiero will watch players hit range balls. And, for the most part, the swings are consistent.
But a couple other items are off.
“You’ll see golfers hitting balls,” Ruggiero said, “and every shot, their feet are angled a little different, ball’s in a little different place, and the swing really doesn’t change very much.
“But they’re very haphazard in how they approach it.”
And that’s part of how he would advise the hypothetical subject who started this story. It’s a fun subject. Speaking on a recent episode of “The Smylie Show” — which you can watch in full here — Ruggiero had been asked by host Smylie Kaufman what he’d say to that player.
The coach said there were a few things, all of them being part of what happens before the shot.
– “I think the first thing you ought to do,” Ruggiero said on the podcast, “is if you could learn to get balanced at address and set up correctly.”
– “Then just monitor the things you can control.”
– “And wherever the ball is when you hit it good — whatever that place is — like figure that out and practice that. …
“I would tell, say, somebody that shoots mid- to low 80s, you’ve probably already got some pretty good stuff in there. If you figured out how to get to that point, especially the folks that get where they shoot low 80s and every now and then throw in a 78 or 9. I would say figure out what you do and what you’re doing when you hit it good.”
Ruggiero did say one piece of tech would help.
But you probably have one.
“Like we all have these phones now,” Ruggiero said on the podcast, “so you can film yourself when you’re hitting it good. And figure out what do you look like at address. Get balanced at address, get the ball in the same spot, fix your aim, those types of things.
“I think just taking care of the details that happen before you swing are the biggest things for golfers that are in that range you’re talking about.”
Editor’s note: To watch the complete Smylie Show episode with Ruggiero, please clickhere.
Manny RamÃrez is hoping to return to baseball in a coaching capacity.
“He wants to bring his greatness to teach the young guys,” his agent, Hector Zepeda, told Jon Heyman of the New York Post, who added that the former slugger has reached out to all 30 MLB teams about becoming a hitting coach.
That mirrors comments RamÃrez made in late September during an appearance on Foul Territory.
“I just need the opportunity. To be honest, I spoke to Boston last year,” he said at the time. “We were talking a little bit and I know they hired a guy from Driveline Baseball. We were talking, but then we never got back to, like, getting serious about it. So, they never got back to me. So I never went back to them to see if it was really an opportunity.”
His credentials as a hitter are impressive: A .312 career batting average with 555 home runs, 1,831 RBI and a .996 OPS. While some of those numbers were perhaps inflated by PED use, there’s no doubt that RamÃrez was born to hit.
Hitting and teaching hitting are not the same, of course. Plenty of amazing athletes aren’t great coaches for that very reason. Having innate gifts doesn’t always translate into understanding the underlying mechanics behind them, not to mention being able to communicate that understanding in a digestible way. But RamÃrez is hoping to give it a shot.
Jack Draper will no longer work with the man who coached him to the Indian Wells title as James Trotman wants to prioritise time with his family.
The British number one has already hired Jamie Delgado as his head coach for next season but had been hoping there would also be a role for the man with whom he has enjoyed much success over the past four years.
Trotman says it has become increasingly difficult to “juggle” Draper’s career with his own family life.
“I’ve made the decision that four years has been a great run,” Trotman told BBC Sport.
“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it, but it was getting increasingly difficult for me juggling the demands Jack deserves as the player that he is – and also being a father and a husband.
“I need to start to get those energy levels back up and have a little bit more normality – watch my son play football on a Sunday, go on some family holidays, have a bit more of a normal life.”
Trotman says he first spoke to Draper about his future after Wimbledon, having felt mentally and physically tired over the previous year.
The pair have been working together this week, with 23-year-old Draper returning to the practice court after resting the left arm injury that ended his season early.
If the bruising in his arm heals as expected, Trotman will head to San Diego for some warm weather training with Draper and Delgado at the end of November.
But after that, he will return to his job as an LTA men’s national coach.
The 2025-26 NBA season is here! We’re rolling out our previews — examining the biggest questions, best- and worst-case scenarios, and win projections for all 30 franchises — from the still-rebuilding teams to the true title contenders.
2024-25 finish
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Record: 51-31 (lost to the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals)
Offseason moves
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Additions: Guerschon Yabusele, Jordan Clarkson
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Subtractions: Precious Achiuwa, P.J. Tucker
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The Big Question: Can Mike Brown improve these Knicks?
The Knicks pulled off somewhat of a stunning upset, ousting the defending champion Boston Celtics in a six-game second-round playoff series. They ran into their ceiling a round later, losing to the fifth-seeded Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals. They defied expectations, only to fall short of them.
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It is a weird situation. On the one hand, nobody figured them for the league’s final four, not with two 60-win teams plying their trade in the East. On the other, they got there and had a real chance to make the Finals. For that, the Knicks decided to part ways with Tom Thibodeau, the coach who got them there.
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There is no doubt that over the course of Thibodeau’s tenure the Knicks overachieved. They reached the playoffs in four of his five seasons on the bench, winning four playoff series — more than the franchise’s 13 other coaches this century combined. And their best player, Jalen Brunson, is a 6-foot-2 point guard.
Brunson also happens to be one hell of a player. He averaged 26 points (49/38/82 shooting splits) and 7.3 assists per game at the helm of a top-five offense, garnering MVP votes for a second straight season. He was incredible in the playoffs, making clutch play after clutch play. How much longer he can maintain this pace as an undersized superstar remains to be seen, but at 29 years old he is squarely in his prime.
He is also bolstered by one of the league’s best playoff rotations, featuring Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, Josh Hart and Mitchell Robinson. The additions of Guerschon Yabusele and Jordan Clarkson make the Knicks deeper. With Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton sidelined for the Celtics and Pacers, respectively, New York has as clear a view of the NBA Finals as it has had since 1999.
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The Knicks saw a chance and took it. Kind of. Upon firing Thibodeau, the Knicks sought interviews with a handful of employed coaches, all of whom turned them down. In the end, they landed on Mike Brown.
Brown is a good coach. He took what he learned offensively as an assistant for the 2022 NBA champion Golden State Warriors and applied it to the Sacramento Kings, ending the franchise’s 17-year playoff drought. They thought they were better than they were, too, and fired him in the middle of last season.
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That’s the thing. Sometimes it isn’t the coach. Sometimes it is the personnel. And the Knicks have not had the personnel to reach the Finals. They have what some might consider a fatal flaw — the defense of Brunson and Towns. Neither is a stopper. Not close to it. Only they have to be on the floor together. And together they submitted a middling defense last year. Can Brown scheme around two defensive issues?
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More likely, Brown will lean into his team’s incredible offensive prowess, using more Brunson-Towns pick-and-rolls and movement in the offense, hoping to squeeze more from what was already a top-five outfit.
With Tatum and Haliburton out of the picture and the East’s last two champions in a gap year, the path to the Finals is open for the Knicks. They think they have the personnel now, but do they have the coach?
Best-case scenario
Brown coaches the Knicks up as one of the league’s elite offenses and finds a way to field a serviceable defense, perhaps benefitting from the presence of Robinson, who missed a good chunk of last season with an injury. Brunson maintains as one of the league’s elite playmakers. Towns, who has reached the finals of both conferences the last two years, carries that confidence into this season. Bridges and Anunoby find some consistency as reliable two-way performers, and the Knicks are the class of the East.
If everything falls apart
Brunson steps back from the MVP race. He and Towns cannot scrape together a top-10 defense. Bridges and Anunoby are as inconsistent as ever. Yabusele and Clarkson are not playoff difference-makers. Brown is no better than Thibodeau. The Knicks slam their heads against a sub-Finals ceiling once again, even in a watered-down Eastern Conference, and the outlook for the 2026-27 season is no better. Maybe they take another crack at trying to trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo, but do they have the assets to get him?
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2025-26 schedule
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Season opener: Oct. 22 vs. Cleveland
Who else but the Knicks are capable of winning 55 games in the East? The Cleveland Cavaliers? Somebody has to win games, and the road could not be clearer for New York. Take the over.
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East: Atlanta Hawks • Boston Celtics • Brooklyn Nets • Charlotte Hornets • Chicago Bulls • Cleveland Cavaliers • Detroit Pistons • Indiana Pacers • Miami Heat • Milwaukee Bucks • New York Knicks • Orlando Magic • Philadelphia 76ers • Toronto Raptors • Washington Wizards
West: Dallas Mavericks • Denver Nuggets • Golden State Warriors • Houston Rockets • LA Clippers • Los Angeles Lakers • Memphis Grizzlies • Minnesota Timberwolves • New Orleans Pelicans • Oklahoma City Thunder • Phoenix Suns • Portland Trail Blazers • Sacramento Kings • San Antonio Spurs • Utah Jazz
England bowling legend Stuart Broad has declared the Australia side to be their “worst team since 2010”, but Southee was in little doubt over what to expect during the series, which starts on 21 November.
“I don’t think there’s ever a bad Australian cricket team,” Southee said.
“Our focus is firmly on what we’re trying to do. I think the quality of [England’s] side that’s going out to Australia is brilliant.
“It should be an absolute cracker, that series. Not only [are] English and Australian people looking forward to it, I think the whole cricket world is.”
England white-ball captain Harry Brook has said he is managing to avoid the pre-Ashes discourse, which has included former Australia opener David Warner claiming the tourists are more concerned with “moral victory” than the series result.
Brook says his and England’s “main focus” for now is the white-ball series against New Zealand, which begins in Christchurch on Saturday and is an important step towards next year’s T20 World Cup.
“I haven’t seen any of [the Ashes talk]. We’ve got an extremely strong New Zealand side coming up and that’s the main focus at the minute,” Brook said.
“We’ve got a hell of a long winter, so I’m just concentrating on the first game here in New Zealand.
“With the bigger picture being the T20 World Cup, there’s lots of areas that we can improve on. There’s lots of areas we can keep on getting better at, so it’s just about continuing that momentum, playing together as a group, and heading in the same direction.”
England XI v New Zealand: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook (c), Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Jordan Cox, Brydon Carse, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Luke Wood.