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Oct 20, 2025, 05:21 PM ET

SUTTON, Mass. — Keegan Bradley knew the stakes when he accepted the Ryder Cup captaincy.

“You win, it’s glory for a lifetime. You lose, it’s ‘I’m going to have to sit with this for the rest of my life,'” Bradley said Monday in his first public comments since leaving Bethpage Black last month. “There’s no part of me that thinks I’ll ever get over this.”

A two-time Ryder Cup competitor, Bradley was appointed captain of the U.S. team last year and brought a stacked squad to face Europe on New York’s Long Island. Although they were favored to win at home, the Americans fell into a 11½-4½ hole heading into the final day — the biggest Sunday morning deficit in modern Ryder Cup history.

“You put so much into it, and you have all this planning, and the first two days went as poorly as we could have ever thought,” said Bradley, who needed to step outside the tent and gather himself before he addressed the team Saturday night. “It was pretty emotional. It was sad, to be honest.”

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“You win, it’s glory for a lifetime. You lose, it’s ‘I’m going to have to sit with this for the rest of my life. There’s no part of me that thinks I’ll ever get over this. … This effing event has been so brutal to me. … It’s such a weird thing to love something so much that just doesn’t give you anything.”

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley

The Americans won 8½ points from the 12 singles matches Sunday to make the final score close.

Bradley has accepted the blame for some mistakes, including a setup that combined with the rain to make the notoriously difficult course more manageable. Others have pointed to his pairings and even the decision to leave himself off the team.

“Since the Ryder Cup to now has been one of the toughest times in my life,” Bradley said at media day for the Travelers Championship, where he is the defending champion.

“I really would enjoy playing in one more. I don’t know if I’ll get the chance,” said Bradley, who at 39 would have been older than all but one player, Justin Rose, on either team this year.

“This effing event has been so brutal to me. I don’t know if I want to play. No, I do,” Bradley quickly corrected himself. “It’s such a weird thing to love something so much that just doesn’t give you anything.”

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Bradley said he is still trying to emerge from the “Ryder Cup fog” and get back to being just one of the top players on the PGA Tour. After being named captain, he won the 2024 BMW Championship, and his win in Hartford this June gave him more individual victories in that span than any American other than Scottie Scheffler.

A different captain might have picked him for the U.S. team.

Although there were moments when he wished he had made himself the first playing Ryder Cup captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963, Bradley said he knows he made the right decision.

“I’ll forever wonder and wish that I had a chance to play there,” Bradley said. “The first practice day, I was out on the tee, and I was watching the guys walk down the fairway all together, and I said: ‘I wish I was playing. That’s what it’s all about. I’m missing out.’

“By the second or third day I was like, ‘It’s a good thing I’m not playing,’ because I was so physically exhausted. … Good thing I didn’t do it because it would have been bad,” Bradley said. “I just didn’t think I could do both jobs.”

Even so, spending the past year as the Ryder Cup captain gave Bradley an experience few can claim. At tour stops across the country — before the players knew if they would be on the team — he felt the love from American fans.

“I didn’t expect the support,” Bradley said. “In the history of the game — back to Bobby Jones, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus — I don’t know if any of them got to experience what I experienced this year.

“I got to experience something in the game of golf that I don’t think anyone’s ever experienced: where I’m the Ryder Cup captain but also competing at a very high level, and winning tournaments, and contending in tournaments. And it was really incredible.”

Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards is aiming to hit another level on the court in order to make his team an NBA championship contender.

“I know that s–t would be so fun for Minnesota. I already know,” he told The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski about the significance of a title. “That’s why I be trying to do it. … Don’t worry about it. I’m going to make it happen. I’m going to get fly as hell to where they can’t stop me.”

Over the past two years, Edwards averaged 26.7 points on 45.4 percent shooting along with 5.6 rebounds and 4.8 assists. Minnesota also made back-to-back trips to the Western Conference Finals, with the 6’4″ guard putting up 26.5 points per postseason contest.

Still, the three-time All-Star admitted by the end of the 2025 playoffs he “got my ass whooped” by the Oklahoma City Thunder. In the final two games of the Conference Finals, he was held to 35 points on 12-of-31 shooting.

When a player is drawing favorable comparisons to Michael Jordan, the crown can be incredibly heavy. Edwards only turned 24 in August, yet the legacy conversations have started in earnest.

He at least seems to understand that burden.

“He has his own vision. He wants to be one of the greatest of all time, but he doesn’t want to be a social media star,” Timberwolves minority stakeholder Ãlex Rodríguez said to Krawczynski. “He wants to be Jordan-esque, Larry Bird-esque, Magic Johnson-esque. And he knows the responsibility he has on his shoulders to put people around him.”

Edwards can’t do it all on his own. Minnesota’s supporting cast will need to step up as well.

The limits of individual brilliance against collective strength were apparent in the Conference Finals and when the Thunder knocked out Nikola Jokić and the Denver Nuggets a year earlier.

But Edwards is clearly taking it upon himself to lead by example.

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SHOW SUMMARY:Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Oct. 11 and 12, 2010.

On the Oct. 11, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and PWTorch columnist Bruce Mitchell includes discussion with live callers on the TNA Bound for Glory PPV, a Lively Argument on how to rate a PPV with horrible booking vs. decent-to-good wrestling, people in TNA conning Dixie into thinking re-creating WCW in the 1990s is the way to go, Raw vs. ESPN’s Monday Night Football that night, whether the Raw ratings would hold up from last week’s rebound, the audience caring about John Cena Week 1, but will they care Week 2 in Nexus, and much more.

On the Oct. 12, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and ProWrestling.net’s Jason Powell discussed in-depth last night’s Raw, in particular the John Cena-Nexus follow-up. Also they take live calls on a variety of subjects including the PG rating hurting fan interest, Hell in a Cell being overused, and more.

Then, in the previously VIP-exclusive Aftershow, they discussed Matt Hardy in TNA, Kevin Nash, and more.

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SHOW SUMMARY:Today we jump back 15 years to two back-to-back episodes of the PWTorch Livecast from Oct. 1 and 4, 2010.

On the Oct. 1, 2010 episode, PWTorch assistant editor James Caldwell and PWTorch columnist Greg Parks includes discussion with live callers the previous night’s TNA Impact – the good signs and the bad final 30 minute signs, Smackdown premiere tonight, Mick Foley and Ric Flair’s verbal exchange and the sad reality of the promo in the big picture, potential WWE PPV changes including going back to brand exclusivity, plus PPV discussion of which matches could be added to Hell in a Cell on Sunday, which young stars could be main-eventing WrestleMania in six months, and how TNA works around Hulk Hogan’s health issues for the Bound for Glory PPV six-man tag, concussion comparisons in WWE & NFL & MMA, and much more.

In the Aftershow, they break down the Hell in a Cell PPV and look at potential twists. In the VIP Aftershow, Caldwell is joined by Pat McNeill for the pre-recorded McNeill Mailbag with listener questions, plus discussion of the Mick Foley book mention on WWE’s website, and more.

On the Oct. 4, 2010 episode, PWTorch editor Wade Keller and PWTorch columnist Bruce Mitchell take live phone calls leading up to WWE Raw, including instant reaction to Linda McMahon’s televised Senate debate on Monday night, the Hell in a Cell PPV on Sunday, expected fall-out on Monday’s Raw, how WWE can spark interest in Raw going forward, and more.

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After undergoing foot surgery on Sept. 19, Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro provided an update on his recovery timetable on Monday.

“I’ll be back in eight to 12 weeks,” Herro told reporters, per Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald.

ESPN’s Shams Charania and Ohm Youngmisuk previously reported Herro was expected to miss approximately the first 12 games of the season. Herro dealt with an impingement in his left foot during the 2024-25 season and subsequently suffered an ankle injury this offseason that ultimately led to him having surgery.

Herro earned his first All-Star nod last season, as the Kentucky alum averageda career-high 23.9 points on 37.5 percent three-point shooting and 5.5 assists per game in 77 starts.

Herro has had an interesting journey in the NBA thus far. He was the No. 13 overall pick in the 2019 draft and played a big role off the bench for head coach Erik Spoelstra to help the Heat advance to the Finals during his rookie season.

In 21 appearances during that postseason run, Herro averaged 16.0 points on 37.5 percent three-point shooting with 5.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists. He continued to be used primarily off the bench for the next two seasons.

Herro was awarded the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award for the 2021-22 campaign. The Kentucky alum averaged a career-high 20.7 points per game and shot 39.9 percent behind the arc in 66 appearances.

The Heat made a surprise run to the NBA Finals without their sharpshooting guard. He was active for Game 5 of the Finals against the Denver Nuggets, but Spoelstra opted not to use him.

NBA insider Jake Fischer noted in the aftermath of the 2023 NBA draft there was “increased speculation” from team personnel that Herro could be on the trade block following Jordan Poole’s move from the Golden State Warriors to the Washington Wizards.

However, Herro—who signed a four-year, $130 million contract extension in December 2022—has seemingly found a home in Miami, as he has turned into an All-Star.

Now, the Heat will hope to get Herro back early on in the season to try to build on last season’s playoff appearance.

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — After an out-of-control Saturday at the 45th Ryder Cup — when jingoistic, Mich Ultra-fueled tryhards and even the event’s official 1st-tee emcee turned Rory McIlroy and other members of the European team into their personal punching bags — the vibe felt kinder and gentler in the early-going of Sunday’s singles matches.

Part of that might have been due to the energy-zapping heat on a warm, mostly still afternoon at Bethpage Black when temperatures crept into the 80s, but most of it was due to the stunning seven-point lead Europe had opened up in foursomes and four-ball play, which had had the same effect on this event that a pinprick would on a balloon.

Still, the fat lady wasn’t singing just yet, even if supporters of the blue-and-gold were. On Sunday, McIlroy landed in the marquee bout, in the fourth of 12 singles matches against Scottie Scheffler. World No. 1 (that would be Scheffler) vs. world No. 2. Four majors vs. five. Future Hall of Famer vs. Future Hall of Famer. Dream stuff, even against the backdrop of what was shaping up to be a European rout. Any fans who needed help getting amped on the 1st tee (most didn’t) were aided by The Killers’ heart-pumping anthem “Mr. Brightside,” which boomed through speakers as McIlroy and Scheffler readied to hit their opening blasts.

McIlroy took the early lead with a birdie at the 2nd and was still 1-up after the players hit their tee balls at the par-4 4th. As McIlroy exited the tee box, European fans flanking the right rope line began regaling him with the familiar melody of The Cranberries’ “Zombie,” but with lyrics tailored to McIlroy. “He’s in your heaaaad / He’s in your heaaad / Roaaar-uh-ee, roaaar-uh-ee…”

When the song — a popular one on property this week — petered out, one of the revelers yelled, “Rory, we have your back!”

On the other side of the fairway, inside the rope line, McIlroy’s manager, Sean O’Flaherty, was walking with a couple of acquaintances.

One of them with an Irish accent jokingly said, “Did you pay them to say that, Sean?”

O’Flaherty laughed and said, “Ah, it’s brilliant.”

THE EXCHANGE SPOKE TOthe deeply taxing week McIlroy had here at Bethpage Black. Ryder Cups are never easy on the road team — and especially on road teams’ stars — but the amount of abuse McIlroy endured wasn’t just regrettable, it was flat-out repulsive. “F— you, Rory!” was a common jab. Other fans took shots at his major heartbreaks, his height and even his wife; Shane Lowry said the vitriol Erica McIlroy heard was “astonishing.”

McIlroy ignored many of the barbs but not all of them, sometimes glaring at hecklers, telling them to shut up or having them ejected from the property, as he did with one offender on the 10th hole Sunday. “This should not be what is acceptable in the Ryder Cup,” McIlroy said Sunday evening. “We will be making sure to say to our fans in Ireland in 2027 that what happened here this week is not acceptable. I think if I was an American, I would be annoyed that people — I didn’t hear a lot of shouts for Scottie today, but I heard a lot of shouts against me.”

Every match drew a crowd Sunday, but the Mcllroy-Scheffler clash was the main event. Following the action from inside the ropes were a tournament-inside-a-tournament swarm of team representatives, players’ family members, reporters and even a couple celebrities in SNL cast members Colin Jost and Marcello Hernández, who earlier in the week had served as part of NBC’s TV coverage; comedian Nate Bartagze also made a brief cameo. On the 6th hole, Jost and European captain Luke Donald’s wife Diane discussed Justin Rose’s awe-inspiring play in his Saturday four-ball match. “You just never know who’s going to get hot,” said Diane, who’s seen her husband captain two Ryder Cup teams and play on four more.

As the match progressed, so did the heckling. As McIlroy sized up a short putt on 7, a fan reminded McIlroy of a similarly short putt he had missed on the 72nd hole at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst. On the next hole, a par-3 set in a natural amphitheater, a fan yelled “F— you, Rory!” as McIlroy paced across the green. McIlroy’s father, Gerry, who was sitting greenside could only shake his head. As Rory’s lengthy birdie try scooted past the hole, someone yelled, “Get in the water!”

Rory McIlroy celebrating Europe’s 15-13 win.

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MCILROY DIDN’T HAVEhis best stuff (neither did Scheffler), but he wasn’t about to capitulate to the foul-mouthed fans. All week, he’d found a way to fight through the resistance. On Friday morning, he and Tommy Fleetwood teamed for five birdies and waxed Collin Morikawa and Harris English, 5 and 4. That afternoon, in four-ball, he and Shane Lowry scratched out half a point against Sam Burns and Patrick Cantlay. In Saturday foursomes, he and Fleetwood had a rematch with their Friday opponents and collected another point. Friday afternoon, McIlroy rejoined Lowry for four-ball and they beat Justin Thomas and the U.S.’s hottest player, Cameron Young, 2 up.

Four matches for McIlroy, 3.5 points, which increased his all-time points total to 21.5, one point more than José María Olazábal’s haul and within half a point of Nick Faldo and one point of Seve Ballesteros. These names mean something to McIlroy. Much more than something, actually. This event does, too, its place in his heart seemingly growing with each passing edition.

“We talk about all the people that came before us that paved the way for us,” Luke Donald said Sunday evening in the wake of Europe’s 15-13 win. “Now future generations will talk about this team tonight and what they did and how they were able to overcome one of the toughest environments in all of sport. And that is inspiring to me, and that’s what Rory gets and all these other 11 guys get.”

As Donald spoke, McIlroy blinked back tears and rubbed his eyes. He was emotional, grateful and exhausted.

That fatigue showed Sunday in a match that McIlroy dubbed “a pillow fight.” It didn’t sound like a pillow fight, though. As McIlroy and Scheffler crossed the road that bisects the Black course to play the final four holes, the heaving crowds, bunched by the thousands, resembled scenes from Woodstock, minus the peace and love. On the tee at 18, where McIlroy was 1 down, he finally ran out of steam, blocking his tee shot into a bunker 50 yards right of the fairway — and, with it, any real chance of making a 3 to force a tie.

Scheffler’s 1-up win kept alive the U.S.’s slim hopes of pulling off a historic comeback, as his three teammates ahead of him had already put 2.5 points on the board and the eight behind him were keeping things interesting. As McIlroy and Scheffler finished out their match, Ben Crenshaw, who captained the Miracle-at-Brookline U.S. team in 1999, was looking on from the back of the green. On Saturday night, had he had a feeling, as he did 26 years ago, that the U.S. team might pull off the unthinkable on Sunday?

“I got to be honest, I really didn’t,” Crenshaw told me. “The margin was so huge. But you just never know about golf. Golf is so inexact, and they’ve played their hearts out today. But Europe played some of the greatest golf ever played. On Saturday, it’s like they birdied every hole.”

In the face of fire-breathing galleries, McIlroy made or contributed to 10 of those birdies, helping to position his team to accomplish something that, he said, “everyone thought was pretty impossible to do — not just win in America but win here in New York.”

AS MCILROY AND HIS FELLOWStella Artois-guzzling teammates addressed the media Sunday evening in a tent next to one of the Black course’s putting greens, an intruder without a credential tried to push his way into the press conference. He wore a straw hat and a long-sleeved polo brandished with the American flag. “This is the People’s Course!” he cried, believing Bethpage’s muni status should grant him entrée. He was quickly ushered out, but for McIlroy the interruption served as a fitting bookend to his wild week.

Soon after the unwanted guest departed, McIlroy was asked about another spot of unruliness: the moment, in his Saturday four-ball match, when he answered an f-you heckle on the 16th hole by stuffing his approach shot to three feet. How satisfying was that, a reporter asked.

McIlroy didn’t miss a beat.

He leaned into his mic and said, “Very f—ing satisfying.”

Despite the disappointment of potentially missing the 2025-26 season because of a torn ACL, Houston Rockets point guard Fred VanVleet is maintaining an optimistic outlook as he prepares to start rehabbing the injury.

In a video posted on X that starts with messages in the wake of his knee injury before showing him walking into the doctor’s office for surgery, VanVleet vowed to “knock this lil s–t” out in reference to his rehab and recovery.

VanVleet suffered the injury during a workout as he was preparing for the start of training camp with the Rockets. He had surgery to repair his knee on Thursday, per an announcement from the team.

The Rockets haven’t officially said VanVleet will miss all of the upcoming season, but post-surgery recovery ranges from six to nine months. If that timeline follows, late-March would be the absolute earliest he could be back on the court.

News of VanVleet’s injury was particularly crushing because the Rockets made a big move in the offseason to acquire Kevin Durant with the goal of becoming a Finals contender after winning 52 games last season.

Houston still possesses a lot of high-level talent, including Durant, Alperen Şengün and Amen Thompson, but the lack of a proven point guard does leave a significant void without an obvious solution.

The hope, presumably, will be that Reed Sheppard, the No. 3 overall draft pick in 2024, can emerge as a reliable option after playing a total of 654 minutes as a rookie. Aaron Holiday is also going to be a huge piece for head coach Ime Udoka.

VanVleet averaged 14.1 points, 5.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game in 60 starts for the Rockets last season.

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Inter Miami CF midfielder Sergio Busquets announced he will retire at the end of the 2025 Major League Soccer season.

The Spaniard revealed his decision by publishing a video to his Instagram account, detailing his experience after an almost 20-year career with Barcelona, Miami and Spain.

“I feel like it’s time to say goodbye to my career as a professional soccer player. It has been almost 20 years of enjoying this incredible story that I always dreamed of. Soccer has gifted me unique experiences in wonderful places, with the best travel companions,” Busquets said on Instagram.

“Thank you to FC Barcelona, the club of my life. There, I fulfilled the dreams of my childhood of wearing the shirt I loved in hundreds of games. I celebrated many tales and lived unique moments at Camp Nou that I’ll never forget.

Thank you to the Spain National Team. It was an honor to represent it so many times and to enjoy achievements that will always remain in my heart.

Thank you to Inter Miami for letting me be part of a new and growing club, where I wanted to live a new experience and contribute my part.”

Sergio Busquets won 32 trophies with Barcelona, the World Cup and Euros with Spain, and the Leagues Cup and Supporters’ Shield in Miami. Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Image

He walks away from football after recording more than 700 appearances for FC Barcelona, where he lifted multiple La Liga titles, Champions League trophies and Copa del Rey triumphs.

Busquets also formed part of the historic Spanish National team that completed the treble, winning the 2008 European Championship, 2010 World Cup and 2012 European Championship.

Following a historic career in Barcelona, Busquets decided to join Inter Miami in 2023 alongside Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba.

He became part of Miami’s history by playing an important role in the inaugural 2023 Leagues Cup win, 2024 Supporters’ Shield and setting the league record for most points in a single season.

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“Thank you to all my colleagues, staff and everyone with whom I shared so many beautiful and unforgettable moments. The best thing I take away is you all. Thanks to the fans around the world for their love and respect. I hope I was able to give back a small part of everything you’ve meant to me…These will be my last months on the pitch. I am retiring very happy, proud, fulfilled and above all grateful. Thank you very much, see you soon… All end is a new beginning.”

Busquets will retire right as his original contract with the club expires. Inter Miami has qualified for the MLS playoffs, allowing the Spaniard one more opportunity to lift a trophy.

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MVP stepped into an AEW ring for the first time since the “Dynamite” Maximum Carnage special on January 15 when he teamed up with his Hurt Syndicate stablemates Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin in a losing effort to The Demand’s Ricochet and The Gates of Agony at AEW All Out last Saturday. In a recent conversation with “TMZ Sports”, MVP shared his elation with making his in-ring return.

“I felt great,” he said. “You know, more than anything, I enjoy reminding people that MVP is not ‘just a manager’. I’m not a manager like any manager you’ve seen in a very, very long time. I’m not your undersized pipsqueak chicken s*** manager because I’m a 250 pound, over 6 feet tall, multi-time champion, Brazilian Black Belt World Champion. I don’t run away because I can fight and I’m in the business of hurting people for money and I never retired.”

Although Gates Of Agony unsuccessfully challenged Brody King and Bandido for their AEW World Tag Team Championship this past Wednesday on “AEW Dynamite” as The Demand continues their quest capture some gold, MVP did note that The Hurt Syndicate still looked to teach them the difference between demanding respect and commanding it prior before he revealed if fans could expect to see him step back into the ring in the future.

“I just think there’s two things. One, yes, I am back training because I plan to be active in the ring again and I got some big jiu-jitsu matches coming up. So, yeah, my appetite goes up exponentially when I’m training and burning the calories.”

If you use any quotes from this article, please credit “TMZ Sports” with an h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.

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Even after two energy-sapping days, seven thrilling events, and one almighty final heave, Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson sat slumped on the…