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The Buffalo Bills started things off by falling behind their AFC East rival New England Patriots by three touchdowns, yet they came back to win the game 35-31. Then QB Philip Rivers, who retired five years ago and is 44 years old, started for the Indianapolis Colts mere days after signing a contract -- and he nearly led his team to a stunning road win against the mighty Seattle Seahawks defense. Alas, the Seahawks won in the closing seconds.

Starting with the hosts, suffering major heartbreak over the weekend as they fell to a 1-0 loss away at arch-rivals Sunderland, it appears that the pressure on Eddie Howe's shoulders is once again starting to intensify. Still scrapping it out in the bottom-half of the Premier League table, Newcastle have continued to show some rather glaring inconsistencies this season. Mustering just a single win from any of their previous four appearances across all competitions,

On Sunday, they came out flat against Charlotte, recovered and forced overtime before missing all 10 shots in the extra session to lose 119-111 to the Hornets, who were without star LaMelo Ball and have been one of the NBA's worst road teams this season. In the final moments, some of the Cleveland fans who stayed around in Rocket Arena until the bitter end, booed the home team, which has too often played uninspired ball this season.

Nobody needs to tell Washington Commanders fans that their fortunes this season have been significantly hindered by injuries. It's been one problem after another for head coach Dan Quinn to navigate, and it's shown no real signs of slowing down late in the campaign. One player has suffered more than most. And his latest injury setback means the Commanders have every right to take matters into their own hands.

"If you go over here. You can see there is a line right here. This used to be all painted shut, and now it's open. Then, right here is a two-foot crack," said Cathy Rodriguez.

I knew I'd be asked more about our opponents than about Alaves... it's not my place to comment on that, but Real Madrid are very prestigious opponents and they have a manager who's earned his position for a reason. It will be very difficult because they have a lot of resources, but we will try to maintain our style and take the initiative.

Sunderland's Reinildo Mandava has been back in training following a groin injury and is in contention to return, while fellow left-back Dennis Cirkin could be available for a first appearance of the season. "Dennis is ready," said Le Bris. "He has trained properly now for two or three weeks and he's connected in the group. It's good news. Right now, we don't have many injuries."

Following a hard-fought win over Frankfurt in the Champions League in midweek, Barcelona are ready for their next challenge as they play a La Liga match against Osasuna (and their lawyers) at the Greatest Stadium on Earth on Saturday evening. Barça come into this one looking to open up a temporary seven-point lead at the top of the La Liga table with a win at home before Real Madrid and Villarreal face tricky away matches on Sunday.

Harry Byrne's goal-kicking proved the difference as error-strewn Leinster held off a determined Leicester to claim a 23-15 Investec Champions Cup victory at Mattioli Woods Welford Road. Each team scored two tries but three penalties and a conversion from Byrne were decisive as the bottom side Leicester's European campaign continued to falter and they remain pointless after their opening two fixtures.

At any rate, we got into full analysis and breakdown of their 3-2 OT loss against San Jose. Firstly, they got a point, so that means the point streak is now up to six games (4-0-2). That said, there's no question that they let that game slip away. John Klingberg tied it with 1:25 left in regulation, then Alex Wennberg potted the OT winner. And yes, we did discuss the carelessness with the puck from William Nylander and Auston Matthews late in the game.

"The younger girl had blood all over the face. She was in complete shock. I think there might have been something with her arm being dislocated because she had kind of like an awkward position. They looked in shock and easily that the explosion took out their ear drum - I assume - because people were trying to talk to them and they were not really hearing it," said Oscar Vazquez, a resident in the area.

Left-back - Milos Kerkez Our first change from Tuesday's 1-0 win over Internazionale, Milos Kerkez is likely to come in for Andy Robertson. Robertson has seldom played two games a week this season, and Kerkez's byline runs will make him a prime candidate to start a home league game at Anfield.

The Washington Capitals were back on the ice at MedStar Capitals Iceplex on Wednesday morning after taking two days off earlier this week. The Capitals are dealing with a few injuries after a run of 15 games from November 11 to December 7, during which the team had no more than one day of rest between games. Ryan Leonard, Charlie Lindgren, and John Carlson have all been out for varying amounts of time,

All of a sudden the front wheel hit the car, just came crashing down, sparks flying, debris everywhere,

The Toronto Raptors, amid a weeks-long collapse, are about to face a real basketball test. The first one posed to the team since 2022, which team rostered one single player who remains on the team: Scottie Barnes. (By the way, a shocking seven players from that team are no longer in the NBA.) Vis a vis that aforementioned collapse? If the Raptors continue to play unlike themselves and slime their way around the court, they could be absolutely humiliated by the Knicks, who are currently 16-7 and second in the East.

Speaking in his pre-match press conference, manager Arne Slot confirmed the nature of the absences and provided an update on their recovery timelines: Cody Gakpo will be out for a few weeks he's injured, Slot revealed, as reported by Fabrizio Romano. Federico Chiesa is out today because he's ill. We'll monitor him closely, but it's not serious. Slot did not go into detail about Endo's absence but he will be a huge miss as well along with the other two players.

It's an immensely difficult game. I think we're going to play against the best team in Europe. Besides the individual talent, they have a collective aspect that's out of the ordinary, which makes it difficult. Their game is very mobile. They're a great team and have a great coach. We're going to do our best to compete and try to win, that's the objective, despite the difficulty of the task. We're going to do our utmost to honor Sporting,

The 2025 Boston Bruins had a template for success before the puck dropped on a new campaign in October. A lot of it involved two of their franchise fixtures in Charlie McAvoy and David Pastrnak doing plenty of the heavy lifting, night in and night out. Such was the case for most of the first six weeks of the season.

Chelsea head to Italy looking to keep their strong start to the Champions League season going in a tricky game against Atalanta. Enzo Maresca's side have not won their last four away games in the Champions League and need to bounce back from two disappointing Premier League results last week. This is the first meeting of the two teams, while the Italian side have only won one of their previous seven games against English sides in the Champions League.

The NBA's Eastern Conference is as unpredictable as any point in recent history. Superstar injuries during last season's playoffs depleted two East powers. The upstart Detroit Pistons sit atop the standings at the quarter mark.