After two weeks of starting their third-string quarterback, the Atlanta Falcons will get their preferred starting quarterback back out there for Week 3. Michael Penix Jr. will start for Atlanta against the Green Bay Packers on Thursday Night Football, the team announced.Between reporting from insiders yesterday and Kevin Stefanski saying earlier that there could be an announcement today, it seemed likely we’d hear Penix’s name called. Blessedly, we now have.Penix is the only quarterback on this roster that could credibly be Atlanta’s long-term starter, and his audition for that role under the new Stefanski/Ian Cunningham/Matt Ryan regime begins on Thursday…
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After an 18-year NBA career, French forward Nicolas Batum announced his retirement.This was no surprise, Batum had hinted at retirement for a couple of years and said outright before last season that it would likely be his last. In July, the Clippers declined the team option to bring him back next season.AdvertisementThe No. 25 pick of the Houston Rockets back in 2008, he was traded on draft night to the Portland Trail Blazers, where he played the first seven years of his career. He would go on to play for Charlotte, then rebounded his career when he came to the…
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It wasn’t supposed to end this way, with Tarik Skubal in the Dodgers’ rotation and October spent on vacation. Especially because it started with legitimate optimism.The 2026 Detroit Tigers, fresh off an impressive postseason run that ended just outs from the ALCS, entered this season with massive stakes. Skubal, the back-to-back AL Cy Young, sat at the center of it all. With his contract expiring at season’s end and the Tigers unlikely to retain him long-term, this campaign almost certainly represented the franchise’s last chance to contend with the consensus best pitcher on the planet.AdvertisementIt proved to be a chance…
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Follow Michael Whitaker On XTraining Camp for the Detroit Red Wings has officially wrapped up, and they’ll be skating in their first preseason game on Monday evening against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena (7:00 p.m. ET).AdvertisementDetroit held a brief morning skate at BELFOR Training Center inside Little Caesars…
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If Ryan Blaney’s analysis of the NASCAR Chase is accurate, then his championship bid is already over after only three of 10 races in the run to the title.”I just don’t see that you can finish outside the top 30 multiple times and have a shot,” Blaney said last week.…
Refereeing designator Daniele Orsato outlined the statistics showing how this season’s new approach to fouls and VAR has transformed Serie A. ‘The objective is to favour football.’The officials made it clear from the summer that they would be taking a looser view of the sport, after criticism from players and…
The Laver Cup comes to London from September 25-27, 2025, with Team Europe looking to win the trophy back after defeat last year.Team World prevailed 15-9 in San Francisco in 2025, the first tournament for new team captains Yannick Noah (Europe) and Andre Agassi (World).Noah and Agassi are back for…
The 2026 Presidents Cup takes place this week at Medinah Country Club in Chicago, as 12 of the best golfers from the U.S. take on 12 international stars in a four-day match play competition, beginning Sept. 24 and ending Sept 27.Captain Brandt Snedeker’s American team will look to defend home…
The Chase continues in NASCAR this weekend at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas, with both the Truck Series and Cup Series hitting the track for two important races that will help determine the 2026 champions. While there’s no O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race this weekend, racing fans should still…
What better way to kick off this international break than with the first images of Zinedine Zidane in charge of the France team? On Monday evening, the new man at the helm of Les Bleus led his first training session at Clairefontaine. Zidane slipped back into his old habits: pulling…
J.J. Spaun didn’t get the invitation he wanted to Medinah, so he delivered a response that was impossible to ignore at Wentworth.The 2025 U.S. Open champion won the BMW PGA Championship on Sunday, closing with a 5-under 67 and making four birdies over his final five holes to finish 17…
Bristol delivered an instant classic on Saturday night, with Joey Logano charging from fourth to first on the final restart while Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar brawled in the pits.The Penske driver was showered with boos while Hocevar was met like a conquering hero by a sea of fans when he…
QPR striker Richard Kone was substituted less than 30 minutes into a game for the club’s development squad on Monday.The 23-year-old, who was QPR’s leading scorer last season, has made only four first-team appearances this term without a goal.AdvertisementHe picked up an injury against Middlesbrough on 5 September and made…
The International Presidents Cup team is not just seeking its second-ever win in the 32-year-old golf competition this week at Medinah Country Club just outside Chicago. The ever-underdog squad of players from outside the U.S. and Europe is also hoping to gain ground in its long-term push for more independence…
The Sept. 19 NASCAR Bass Pro Shops Night Race was a little more eventful than usual. The race took a turn when Ryan Blaney and Carson Hocevar began fighting.Blaney crashed out of the race on Lap 457. Hocevar was attempting to pass Blaney on the inside as the two were…
Jordan James insists depleted Wales will not be overawed when they line up against “the best players in the world” in their Nations League A opener against Portugal on Thursday.A Wales squad already missing the likes of Joe Rodon and Dylan Lawlor has been hit by the withdrawals of Karl…
