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Keely Hodgkinson ended her 800m season with victory at the all-female Athlos meet in New York on Friday evening.

The Olympic champion, who won bronze at the World Championships last month, cruised to an impressive win in one minute 56.53 seconds in what was only her sixth race in a season blighted by a hamstring injury.

Fellow Briton and world silver medallist Georgia Hunter Bell was second again in 1:58.33, while St Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney (1:58.57) was third.

“I’ve barely raced this season so it was probably less of a struggle for me to go out there and want to give it something,” said Hodgkinson, 23.

“The atmosphere out there is crazy so it was really, really fun.”

The women-only meet packed Icahn Stadium in its second year, bringing a party atmosphere to traditional track, with live music and Tiffany & Co. crowns replacing traditional winners’ medals.

The 23-times tennis major winner Serena Williams, who is married to Athlos founder Alexis Ohanian, was on hand to present the winners with their crowns.

Last year’s winners took home $60,000 (£44,603) – one of the largest prize purses in athletics.

The event also attracted some of the sport’s biggest names, as Kenya’s three-time Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Faith Kipyegon won the mile, crossing the finish line in four hours 17.78 minutes.

American Brittany Brown, the 200m bronze medallist from last year’s Paris Olympics, won the 100m and 200m double.

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The feud between Jon Moxley and Darby Allin rages on.

During a New York Comic-Con discussion panel on Friday, Darby Allin interrupted a panel and asked Moxley if he really thought heâ€d quit at WrestleDream. The two quickly got into a brawl with Allin smashing a water bottle over Moxleyâ€s back.

The two are to meet in an I Quit match at WrestleDream on October 18. The two have continued to feud after they took part in a coffin match at All Out. Although Darby Allin had the upper hand towards the end of the match, a returning PAC interfered, allowing Moxley to get Allin into the coffin for the win. However, Allin retaliated by escaping from the coffin and lighting Moxley on fire.

On this weekâ€s Dynamite Title Tuesday, the program ended with Allin costing PAC a match against Orange Cassidy. As Allin taunted him in the crowd, PAC chased Allin but Allin threw something in his eyes. The rest of the Death Riders came out but Allin produced a taser to keep them away. Despite this, Moxley continued to go after Allin until he produced a molotov cocktail, apparently threatening to throw it at Moxley. Security finally came in and ended the chaos as the show went off the air.

The panel on Friday was on the upcoming Justice League comic book crossover special between AEW and DC Comics.

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NEW YORK — Statistically speaking, Aaron Judge had a nice day.

In Game 4 of the ALDS, he went 2-for-4 with an intentional walk. His two outs were a strikeout and a 112-mph liner smoked right at the second baseman. He made a few nice plays in the field. Judge did not send one flying to the heavens — not every day is Christmas — but it was a productive trip to the office.

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Yet he finished the evening in the same scattered fashion he has finished every year of his career. Disappointed, downtrodden, his eyes puffy and distant with the remnants of tears, his words low and tired. Once more, Judgeâ€s Yankees did not win the World Series. The “October in the Bronx†dream is dead yet again.

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And as the current face of this institution, as the living emblem of all that Yankeedom represents, as the captain forced to shoulder the 16-year championship drought, Judge was once again left to explain his clubâ€s failures on Wednesday, after a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays ended the Yankees’ season.

“It’s tough to say right now,†Judge replied when asked whether there’s anything the Yankees were missing to get them over the hump. “I gotta review this season, kind of go through it. I might have a better answer for you.â€

The scene around Judge in the Yankees†locker room featured all the typical sights and sounds of a group understanding it will never be together again. Hugs, thank-yous, handshakes, make-sure-you-text-mes. There were fewer tears than a November goodbye but more than a September goodbye. The weepiest person in the room was Paul Goldschmidtâ€s 10-year-old son, Jake, who received consolations from what seemed like the entire Yankees roster.

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At one point, Andy Pettite strolled in, making him the only one in the room who’d won a World Series in pinstripes. Meanwhile, clubhouse attendants unfolded scores of cardboard boxes, filling them with the various bric-a-brac one finds in a clubhouse. The loud screeches of packing tape being unspooled were often louder than the humbled mumbles of Yankees players conducting postmortems with the media.

“Very disappointed,†second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. said. “Everyone in here believed that we had such a great team, and we were the team to beat. We believe so much in each other. It’s heartbreaking.”

“We didn’t do our job, didn’t finish the goal,†Judge lamented. “Had a special group in here. Lotta special players that made this year fun. But didn’t get the ultimate prize.”

That ultimate prize, a World Series championship, continues to elude and define Judge. Even though he ended all doubts about his postseason fortitude with that unforgettable swing in Game 3, he knows the expectations that come with wearing the pinstripes. He is already, far and away, the greatest Yankee of all time without a ring.

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He did his best Wednesday, delivering a commendable performance that also served to reinforce baseballâ€s limitations in legacy creation. This sport, more than any other, restricts the myth of the lone hero. Itâ€s in the gameâ€s DNA, both frustrating and beautiful. One player can dominate, inspire, ignite, but he cannot do it all alone. Every at-bat is a solitary experience, but the end result is a collaboration.

And while the outcome of Game 4 was compelling, the game itself was not, especially compared to the thrill ride that transpired the night before. This contest was much quieter, a slow burning away of the Yankees†season, a gradual realization in the Jays dugout that the Bronx dragon would be slayed. But while the evening was light on drama, this result will linger sourly in New York and stand the test of time in Toronto.

“The ending’s the worst, right?†Yankees manager Aaron Boone commiserated afterward.

Aaron Judge did his part, but the Yankees came up short in the ALDS against the Blue Jays. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

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The beginning wasnâ€t so good, either. The game started with the Jays striking quickly against Yankees rookie Cam Schlittler, fresh off that magnificent wild-card performance last week against Boston. Toronto plated a single run in the top of the first courtesy of — who else? — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. With a runner on second, Torontoâ€s top bat sliced a liner over the first-base bag for an RBI knock. New York punched back in the third with a solo home run from nine-hole hitter Ryan McMahon, a glove-first veteran acquired at the deadline from the baseball backwater that is Denver.

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The Jays retook a one-run lead in the fifth on a pair of singles and a sac fly. Meanwhile, a carousel of Toronto relievers continued to silence the Yankees†bats. Then Toronto broke it open in the seventh, the crucial moment a brutal error from Chisholm. A soft one-hopper that wouldâ€ve been a double play caromed off the heel of his glove and trickled into the outfield. A few batters later, outfielder Nathan Lukes shot an elevated Devin Williams fastball into center for a two-RBI single.

That was, effectively, the ballgame. The Jays added a run in the eighth to stretch their lead to four. New York threatened in the bottom of that frame, loading the bases with two outs to bring the tying run to the dish in Austin Wells. He flew out weakly on the first pitch of his at-bat to end the threat. Judge clobbered one off the wall in the ninth, an RBI single that trimmed the lead to three, but the game never seriously felt within reach for the Yankees.

“I’m confident we’ll break through,†Boone asserted afterward. “I have been every year, and I believe in so many of the people in that room. That hasn’t changed. The fire hasn’t changed. It’s hard to win the World Series. Been chasing it all my life.â€

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And as Boone well knows, he canâ€t do it alone. Nobody can, not even the greatest hitter on the planet. Both Aarons are likely to be back next season — Boone, when asked, stated that heâ€s under contract and expects to return as manager — to do it all over again. Theyâ€ll have as good a shot as anybody else. The Yankees wield enormous financial might and boast a formidable pitching rotation. They also have Judge, a player so brilliant he makes anything seem possible.

Even winning a World Series.

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Aaron Judge just put together what should have been remembered as a legendary run through the ALDS.

Emphatically shutting up everyone who questioned his clutch gene in recent Octobers, Judge went 9-for-15 at the dish in the plate appearances in which Toronto didn’t intentionally walk him, including that instant classic of a game-tying three-run home run off the foul pole in Game 3.

Nevertheless, Judge’s inevitable march to the Hall of Fame continues without a World Series ring, as the Hal Steinbrenner-owned, Brian Cashman-assembled and Aaron Boone-managed Yankees squandered yet another year of Judge’s prime by simply not caring about winning like they used to.

Here are some cold, hard cash facts to chew on as the Yankees shift into offseason mode.

From 1999-2013, the Yankees ranked No. 1 in payroll for 15 consecutive years, per The Baseball Cube. Usually, it was by a laughable margin. Their 2005 payroll of $208M wasn’t far off from equaling the combined total of the second-most (Boston Red Sox at $123.5M) and third-most (New York Mets at $101.3M) aggressive spenders.

George Steinbrenner repeatedly laughed in the face of the competitive balance (luxury) tax.

Since 2013, however, the Yankees have assembled the largest payroll just once in 12 years, doing so in 2020. That one-off year came two seasons after they ranked seventh in spending in 2018, behind even the Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels. Seventh!

This goes well beyond the fact that others, such as the Mets and Dodgers, have stepped up their spending.

The Yankees have become content with being “good enough to contend” while turning a profit, which comes in stark contrast to the decades in which they were obsessedwith being the best, trying/spending to win it all every year.

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In the final season of that 15-year run of No. 1 payrolls, they were at $229M. That represented 7.2 percent of the MLB-wide payroll ($3.2B) and almost 10 percent of their Forbes valuation of $2.3B in 2013. Multiple years during that decade-and-a-half run they were responsible for eight percent of all league payroll.

Fast-forward to 2025 and the Yankees had an Opening Day payroll of $287.5M. That’s down to 5.6 percent of league-wide payroll ($5.1B) and just 3.5 percent of their Forbes valuation of $8.2B.

In other words, they’ve increased spending by 25 percent since 2013, but league-wide payroll has gone up almost 60 percent during that time and the franchise’s value has gone up over 250 percent.

If Steinbrenner the Younger cared about rings as much as his father did, the Yankees’ payroll would be well north of $400M, probably pushing $700M.

And I’ll tell you one thing for sure: They wouldn’t have gotten outbid by the freaking Mets for Juan Soto last winter.

They wouldn’t have settled for a well-past-his-prime first baseman in Paul Goldschmidt for an umpteenth consecutive season, while Pete Alonso just sat there as a free agent for months.

When Gerrit Cole went down for the count in spring training, George Steinbrenner would have gone out and demanded someone who could actually help them win, as opposed to shrugging shoulders and hoping for the best with a 38-year-old Carlos Carrasco.

With each passing year, it becomes increasingly clear that this is no longer the Evil Empire it once was.

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Heck, look no further than the incredible job security for the Yankees manager.

When the Yankees failed to win the World Series even once in 16 tries from 1979-1995, they churned through 11 different managers, plus several cycles of hiring and firing Billy Martin. Buck Showalter was the only one to survive three full seasons, and even he was let go after four years with a .539 winning percentage.

When “The Boss” was in his prime, managers existed almost for the express purpose of becoming the sacrificial lamb when times got tough.

Joe Girardi sputtered through eight championship-less seasons (2010-17), even missing the playoffs three times before they finally shifted gears to Boone.

Incredibly, the general consensus seems to be that Boone will return in 2026 for a ninth season, because he’s good enough, because the players like him and because they extended him through 2027 back in February.

Cashman’s probably going to be back, too, despite what is now a 25-year stretch with just the one ring in 2009.

Heads would have rolled long ago and multiple times over if George Steinbrenner were still alive and calling the shots. And then he would have gone out this winter and signed Kyle Tucker and/or Munetaka Murakami for a few hundred million to ensure they do better next year.

But the current era Yankees will probably more or less just run it back again with mostly the same players, manager and GM to waste another year of one of the best sluggers to ever walk the earth.

At least Judge has won some playoff games. More than 30 of them, in fact. That’s certainly more than three-time AL MVP Mike Trout can claim.

However, as we wait to find out whether Judge is also a three-time AL MVP or merely a four-time top-two finisher in that vote, he is absolutely lapping the field for the title of best Yankee ever without a ring.

If his contract ends in 2031 while still fitting that ringless description, what a colossal failure and waste of greatness that would be for a franchise that can buy a championship every now and then.

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Sep 27, 2025, 08:56 PM ET

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has praised the quality of MLS and said the league will continue to grow in the next five years, while visiting with the New York Red Bulls this week.

Klopp, who was appointed head of global soccer with Red Bull after leaving Liverpool last year, took in training with the MLS club ahead of Saturday’s Hudson River derby against rivals New York City FC.

And the German coach said he has been impressed with the level of play in MLS.

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“I’m 100% sure, in five years time, we [will] speak completely differently,” Klopp said before he attended Saturday’s rivalry match Harrison, New Jersey. “I’m really sure it will grow and grow and grow.

“The kids coming up, starting playing soccer earlier, training, getting better. Obviously, the place where you can play and train getting better. Everywhere.

“I can tell you, the quality is really, really good. Good players, a lot of talent, high intensity. All these things you want to see when you watch it in a stadium or in television. I think [MLS] found its spot and now let’s work with it.”

Jurgen Klopp watches New York Red Bulls training ahead of the Hudson River derby. Courtesy of New York Red Bulls

MLS clubs spent a record total of close to $336 million on transfers in 2025, nearly doubling the previous record spend in a calendar year, as the league looks to close to gap to the top competitions in Europe.

The league’s reputation has grown since the arrival of record eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi to Inter Miami in 2023. South Korea star Son Heung-Min was the most high-profile arrival in 2025, joining for an MLS-record $26 million fee from Premier League Tottenham Hotspur.

The New York Red Bulls are one of several clubs owned by the energy drink brand that Klopp now helps oversee, along with RB Leipzig in Germany, Austria’s Red Bull Salzburg and Bragantino in Brazil.

The New York team went into Saturday’s derby in 10th place in the Eastern Conference, one place below the playoff line as it looks to extend its record streak of 15 straight postseason appearances.

“I don’t think we played exactly the season we wanted to play, but that’s OK, that happens, but we are still in a position to fight for it,” Klopp said. And that’s exactly the vibe I realized. That’s the mood. … What I saw now gives me a really positive feeling.”

Klopp also declared gave a big thumbs up to the Red Bulls’ new training facility in Morris Township, New Jersey.

“Massively, massively impressed,” he said. “This is outstanding. It’s something you never really can dream of, because you cannot win when you win or whatever you do in football and soccer.

“But then you think guys that possibly, this is fine. This is fine. This fine. This is a completely next level. It’s really it’s really cool. It’s really well thought through. It’s so many opportunities. It’s easy to say we will not be successful in the future. This is not the reason”

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  Jorge CastilloSep 21, 2025, 07:43 PM ET

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  ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.

NEW YORK — For nearly six months, almost the duration of an entire Major League Baseball regular season, the New York Mets occupied a spot in the National League playoff picture. That changed Sunday after a brutal loss that concluded an ugly weekend and prolonged a baffling three-plus-month swoon with a week remaining on their schedule.

The Mets’ 3-2 loss to the last-place Washington Nationals at Citi Field — a sloppy, toothless showing cemented with two jaw-dropping catches by Nationals center fielder Jacob Young — combined with the Cincinnati Reds’ 1-0 win over the Chicago Cubs dropped them from postseason position for the first time since April 5 when their season was eight games old.

“It’s the way it’s gone,” Mets left fielder Brandon Nimmo said. “I can believe it because I’ve watched it. We’ve been watching it happen right in front of us.”

While both teams have an 80-76 record with six games remaining, the Reds hold the tiebreaker after winning the season series between the clubs. The Mets, who have lost 11 of their past 15 games, finish the regular season with a road trip against the Chicago Cubs and Miami Marlins starting Tuesday. Cincinnati hosts the Pittsburgh Pirates for three games before concluding its schedule on the road against the Milwaukee Brewers.

The Arizona Diamondbacks are also looming just one game behind the Reds and Mets in the standings for the third NL wild-card spot. Arizona owns the tiebreaker over both clubs.

“We just got to win,” Mets first baseman Pete Alonso said. “It’s simple. Winning solves everything at this point. We just got to do it. That’s it. We got to solve our issues between the lines. That’s the simple fact.”

The Mets, at 45-24, boasted the best record in the majors through June 12. They looked like a club that would sail into October after clawing their way into the playoffs and defying expectations with a trip to the 2024 National League Championship Series through 69 games.

But this year’s team has produced inverse results from the 2024 version that stumbled early before a magical summer pushed them deep into October. These Mets, with the second-most expensive roster in the majors, have gone 35-52 since June 13. That is tied for the fourth-worst record over that stretch with the Chicago White Sox. Only the Nationals, Minnesota Twins and Colorado Rockies have been worse over the 87-game span.

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They enter their final two series with a 50.1% chance of reaching the postseason, according to FanGraphs. They were given a 96.2% chance on June 12.

“I can’t put my finger quite on it other than we just haven’t been able to put it together as a team for an extended period of time,” Nimmo said.

The Mets, coming off an encouraging series victory over the playoff-bound San Diego Padres, took the series opener Friday behind an offensive outburst. But they fell on Saturday in 11 innings on an inside-the-park home run before early mistakes, coupled with Young’s defense, buried them on Sunday.

In the first inning, Juan Soto, who went 1-for-2 with two walks, was picked off at first base. In the second, Francisco Lindor committed a throwing error that allowed the game’s first run to score.

“If we want to be where we want to be, those things can’t happen,” Lindor said. “Full accountability on that. I have to be better.”

And in the third inning, Cedric Mullins failed to take second base on a line drive that he hit down the left-field line, a decision that potentially cost the Mets a run.

Mullins said he thought the ball was caught by Daylen Lile as he crashed into the wall. Meanwhile, first base coach Antoan Richardson thought it was ruled foul. But the ball was ruled fair and bounced out of Lile’s glove.

Luis Torrens, who was on second base, was unsure if Lile made the catch so he retreated to tag up and scored on the play as Lile writhed in pain. Mullins, despite teammates yelling and signaling to him to run to second base, remained at first base. He was doubled off moments later when Lindor cracked a line drive to first base. Soto then lined what would’ve been an RBI double.

“You just got to go,” Mendoza said.

On the mound, the Mets deployed Sean Manaea and Clay Holmes as a piggyback for the second time in the past week after both veterans struggled to effectively pitch deep into games in the second half. The duo combined to give up just three runs — all in the second inning off Manaea — over six innings, with the biggest damage coming from the light-hitting Nasim Nunez swatting a two-run home run.

In the end, the Mets’ $38 million tandem was outpitched by the Nationals’ $1.4 million piggyback of Jake Irvin and Mitchell Parker, who entered Sunday with the highest ERAs in the majors among qualified pitchers this season.

They were buoyed by two highlight-reel catches from Young in center field. The first, a circus grab in which he kicked the ball to himself, robbed Brett Baty of extra bases in the fifth inning. The second took away a potential tying home run for Francisco Alvarez in the ninth.

“Those were crazy plays,” Mullins said. “In the stretch we’re in, every win matters. To see plays like that made, definitely deflates [you] a little bit. [We’ve taken] some tough losses on the chin. We have a week left. We’re going to do some damage so that’s what we’re focused on.”

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