The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to win their first World Series title. Jacob Misiorowski pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, while rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs.
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The Brewers won the five-game series and clinched the title at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Misiorowski allowed two hits and no runs in 5 2/3 innings before leaving with a right calf cramp.
Rookie Cooper Pratt had two hits and two RBIs in Game 5.
Pratt set a World Series rookie record with six consecutive hits before a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning.
Jackson Chourio set a record for a five-game World Series with 11 hits.
The championship was the Brewers’ first in their 58-season franchise history.
The franchise began as the Seattle Pilots in 1969 and moved to Milwaukee the next year.
Milwaukee’s only previous World Series appearance was in 1982, when it lost to the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 to win the 2026 World Series, four games to one. The title is the first in the franchise’s 57-year history and its first since moving to Milwaukee in 1970.
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Cooper Pratt drove in two runs for Milwaukee.
Jacob Misiorowski pitched five and two-thirds scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk.
The Brewers built a 4-0 lead before Tampa Bay scored once in the ninth inning.
Trevor Megill recorded the final out when Richie Palacios grounded out.
Milwaukee had reached the World Series once before, losing to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982.
The Rays won Game 4 in 12 innings after the Brewers came within three outs of a sweep.
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Canada beat the United States 5-3 in Windsor, Ontario, ending an eight-game losing streak against its rival. The exhibition game was a rematch of February’s Olympic gold-medal game, and the teams will meet again Friday before the women’s world championship in Denmark.
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Canada’s win was its first against the United States since 2025.
Sarah Fillier scored the winning goal with 8:15 left in the third period.
Daryl Watts, Caitlin Kraemer, Rosalie Tremblay and Laura Stacey also scored for Canada.
Kraemer and Tremblay scored their first senior international goals.
The United States came back from a 3-1 deficit to tie the game at 3-3 before Fillier scored.
Canada goaltender Ann-Renée Desbiens made several late saves to protect the lead.
The teams will play again Friday in Plymouth, Michigan.
The women’s world championship is scheduled for November 6-16 in Herning and Esbjerg, Denmark.
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A quiz invites readers to find out which celebrity from this year’s Celebrity Traitors they would play like. The article says the finale is due on Friday, when viewers will learn whether the traitors stay undetected or the faithful identify them.
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The Celebrity Traitors finale is scheduled for Friday.
The quiz asks readers which star they would play like in the castle.
The article names Michael Sheen as an example of someone who leads with theories.
It describes Maya Jama and Romesh Ranganathan as using charm to stay in the game.
Richard E Grant is cited as an example of someone who causes chaos.
The article links to other coverage about the show and its contestants.
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A study published in JAMA Network Open estimated that 75% of former NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023 showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease. The report identifies the study’s lead expert as Yorghos Tripodis, a biostatistics professor at Boston University.
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The study appeared in JAMA Network Open.
Researchers estimated that 75% of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 showed signs of CTE.
CTE is a degenerative brain disease.
Yorghos Tripodis is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University.
The article does not provide the number of former players included in the study.
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Chelsea forward Estevao has played 172 minutes this season and has not started any of the eight Premier League matches since Xabi Alonso took charge. Alonso said the Brazilian wants more playing time but is still adjusting to the physical demands of English football, and promised he would get opportunities.
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Estevao joined Chelsea from Palmeiras last summer.
He has made two starts across all competitions this season.
Of his 172 minutes this season, 125 came in EFL Cup wins over Luton Town and Leeds United.
Chelsea lost to Liverpool on penalties in the Carabao Cup fourth round.
Alonso made five substitutions against Liverpool but did not bring Estevao on.
Alonso said Chelsea’s substitutions against Liverpool were shaped in part by the game’s intensity and Malo Gusto’s cramps.
Pedro Neto has started seven of Chelsea’s eight Premier League matches this season.
Neto scored both goals in Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Everton this month.
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Manchester City goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli saved two penalties to help the club beat Brighton and reach the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. Manager Enzo Maresca said Rulli remains Gianluigi Donnarumma’s backup and that Donnarumma will start City’s next Premier League match.
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City and Brighton drew 2-2 in normal time before City won the penalty shootout.
Rulli saved Brighton penalties from Yasin Ayari and Lewis Dunk.
Rulli also made a second-half save to deny Georginio Rutter.
Maresca said Rulli understands his role as Donnarumma’s understudy.
Maresca said Donnarumma would start against Brighton in the Premier League this weekend.
City made nine changes to the team that lost to Aston Villa.
City will play Bradford in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.
Maresca said Donnarumma had made some mistakes but was given three days off to recover.
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Fleetwood Town will host either Everton or Newcastle United in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals. The League Two team reached the last eight for the first time after beating Arsenal on penalties; the quarter-finals are scheduled for the week beginning 14 December.
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Fleetwood Town will play Everton or Newcastle United at Highbury.
Everton host Newcastle in the final fourth-round match on Thursday.
Fleetwood are the lowest-ranked team remaining in the competition.
Manchester City will host Bradford City in another quarter-final.
Liverpool will host Bournemouth.
Crystal Palace will play Sunderland at Selhurst Park.
The quarter-finals are scheduled for the week beginning 14 December.
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Alessia Russo scored all three goals as Arsenal beat Benfica 3-0 in the Women's Champions League. The hat-trick made Russo England's all-time leading goalscorer in the competition.
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Arsenal defeated Benfica 3-0.
Alessia Russo scored a hat-trick.
Russo became England's all-time leading goalscorer in the Women's Champions League.
The match was a Women's Champions League game.
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A Boston University study estimated that 74.5% of former NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease linked to repeated head impacts. Experts cautioned that the estimate may not reflect all former players or current athletes, and said more research is needed to understand CTE and identify early signs.
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Researchers examined brain donations from 387 former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023.
Ninety-four percent of the donated brains showed some form of CTE.
The researchers estimated that players with cognitive symptoms were five times more likely to donate their brains than other players.
After adjusting for that selection bias, the researchers estimated that 74.5% of former NFL players who died during the period had CTE.
The study appeared in JAMA Network Open and builds on estimates published in The British Medical Journal in August.
Experts said the estimate may be too high and does not show how many players had symptoms of CTE.
A researcher said the results should not be treated as representative of living athletes, including current NFL players.
The NFL said it has introduced strategies to reduce concussions and head impacts, as well as more protective equipment.
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Chelsea beat Roma 2-0 in the Women’s Champions League, continuing their unbeaten start to the season. The article provides no further match details, and says the full match report is available only to UK users.
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Chelsea defeated Roma 2-0.
The match was in the Women’s Champions League.
Chelsea remain unbeaten at the start of the season.
The article is about women’s football.
The full match report is available only to UK users.
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Manchester United striker Benjamin Sesko is expected to miss games until at least January because of a shin impact injury. He has not played since being substituted against Brighton on 16 September, and his absence leaves manager Michael Carrick without his only orthodox centre-forward.
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Sesko is 23 and represents Slovenia internationally.
The injury is described by sources as an impact injury, not shin splints.
Sesko missed pre-season and the final three Premier League matches last season because of shin problems.
Since joining Manchester United from RB Leipzig in August 2025 for £73.7m, he has made 38 appearances, scoring 14 goals and providing one assist.
He scored 11 Premier League goals last season, sharing United’s top-scorer spot with Bryan Mbeumo.
Sesko has scored twice this season, against Everton and Sabah FK.
His absence is expected to include Premier League games against Liverpool and Arsenal and at least three Champions League matches.
Manchester United are 16th in the league and have not won in any competition since 10 September, according to the article.
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Ernie Johnson will step away from hosting “Inside the NBA” at the end of the current season, ending a 37-year run. He said he wants to spend more time with his wife and grandchildren after undergoing bypass surgery 14 months ago.
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Johnson announced his decision on social media on Wednesday.
Johnson, 70, joined “Inside the NBA” in 1990.
He has worked with analysts Kenny Smith, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal.
Barkley has also said he will leave the show at the end of this season.
Johnson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2003 and missed presenting duties during the 2018 MLB playoffs because of blood clots in his legs.
“Inside the NBA” has won 19 Sports Emmy Awards.
The show moved from Turner networks to ABC and ESPN in 2025.
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England have made six changes for Friday’s match against the USA in New Jersey, but Ellie Kildunne is again named among the replacements. Full-back Emma Sing keeps her starting place after Kildunne was left out of the side that lost 31–22 to Canada last Saturday.
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Kildunne was dropped for England’s 31–22 defeat by Canada.
Head coach John Mitchell said after the Canada match that Kildunne needed to show greater consistency.
Emma Sing retains the starting full-back spot against the USA.
Four changes are in England’s backline: Tatyana Heard, Claudia Moloney-MacDonald, Flo Robinson and Holly Aitchison will make their first starts of the tour.
Forwards Mackenzie Carson and Maud Muir replace Hannah Botterman and Sarah Bern in the starting side.
Mitchell said England are rotating positions to refresh the group, create opportunities and build squad depth.
Kildunne has 67 England caps and was named World Rugby’s player of the year in 2024.
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Welsh singer Jamie Miller says his life has changed since “Babydoll” reached number one on the UK singles chart last week. The viral TikTok hit followed a two-year break from music, and Miller is now planning a world tour that will include shows in Wales.
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Miller, 29, grew up in Pontprennau, Cardiff.
“Babydoll” made Miller the first Welsh artist to top the UK singles chart in 15 years.
He is the first solo male Welsh artist to top the chart in 41 years.
The song gained attention on TikTok after actress Jennifer Love Hewitt posted videos featuring it.
Miller took two years off music after a difficult period in his personal life.
Miller and actor Antonio Cipriano performed “Babydoll” on Strictly Come Dancing.
Miller reached the final of The Voice UK in 2017.
He is planning a world tour and intends to perform in Wales.
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A study estimates that about 75% of former NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts. Researchers cautioned that signs of CTE in the brain do not necessarily lead to dementia or noticeable symptoms.
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Researchers analyzed records for 2,362 deceased former NFL players, who spent an average of five years in the league.
About 400 players had donated their brains for examination; 93.5% of those samples showed evidence of CTE.
The study aimed to estimate CTE prevalence among all former NFL players who died during the 2008–2023 period, not only those whose brains were donated.
Fewer than 1% of samples from community-based brain banks contain evidence of CTE, according to the study authors.
Researchers estimated that about 27% of the former NFL players in the analysis had dementia.
CTE-related changes can affect brain tissue and involve tau protein, but they do not necessarily cause cognitive decline or noticeable symptoms.
Possible CTE symptoms include depression, memory problems, severe mood changes and other behavioral difficulties.
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Marnus Labuschagne was out for a duck in Cape Town, setting an Australian record by going 48 consecutive Test innings without a century. As Australia moved to 330-4 against South Africa, fifties from Matt Renshaw, Cameron Green and Josh Inglis helped put the team ahead by one run and raised questions about Australia’s batting lineup without Steve Smith.
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South Africa made 329 in the third Test in Cape Town, with Tristan Stubbs scoring 95 and Mitchell Starc taking six wickets for 72 runs.
Australia reached 330-4 and led by one run at the end of day two.
Labuschagne scored no runs from five deliveries and has not made a Test century since 2023.
His 48 consecutive Test innings without a century set a record for an Australian top-order batter.
Steve Smith missed the decisive Test with a neck injury.
Matt Renshaw scored 74 after making a career-best 190 in Durban.
Cameron Green scored 65, while Josh Inglis was unbeaten on 85.
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Fleetwood Town, a League Two club, eliminated Premier League champions Arsenal from the Carabao Cup after drawing and winning a penalty shootout. The result brought crowds and extra business to the club and town, where supporters celebrated the upset.
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Fleetwood and Arsenal played on Tuesday night in Fleetwood, on England’s north-west coast.
Fleetwood’s ground is called Highbury, named after the adjoining Highbury Avenue.
Fleetwood play in red shirts with white sleeves, a style associated with Arsenal’s classic kit.
Fleetwood staff said the club had hired floodlights for the match and packed them away the following morning.
The match drew local supporters and visitors, and Fleetwood’s shop sold souvenir programmes and half-and-half scarves.
Fleetwood staff said local bars and pubs stayed open late after the win.
Fleetwood’s nicknames include the Cod Army, the Fishermen, the Cods and the Trawlermen, reflecting the town’s fishing industry.
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Sergio Perez has signed a multi-year extension with Cadillac that keeps him with the Formula One team until 2029. He joined Cadillac ahead of its debut season and says he is committed to its development, despite the team and both drivers still seeking their first points in 2026.
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Perez is 36 and is set to make his 300th Grand Prix start at the Mexico City race this weekend.
He made his Formula One debut in 2011 and has won six grands prix.
Perez won five races with Red Bull from 2021 to 2024 and one with Racing Point in 2020.
He finished third in the 2022 drivers’ championship and second in 2023, behind teammate Max Verstappen.
Red Bull dropped Perez at the end of the 2024 season, despite two years remaining on his contract.
Perez joined Cadillac before the team’s first Formula One season and races alongside Valtteri Bottas.
Perez is at the bottom of the 2026 standings; his best results so far are three 14th-place finishes, and neither Cadillac driver has scored a point.
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Kylian Mbappe faced backlash in China after a video appeared to show him joking about a meme that placed his face on Mao Zedong. The controversy reportedly affected commercial deals and prompted Chinese state television to cancel La Liga broadcasts, while Mbappe’s Chinese social media accounts faced restrictions.
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A video filmed in April circulated online on Monday and showed Mbappe describing a meme of his face as a Chinese dictator.
Mbappe did not name Mao Zedong in the video, but the article says the remark was understood in China as referring to him.
The video was shared by French football podcast The Bridge and has since been taken down.
Mbappe apologized, but criticism continued on Chinese social media.
His accounts on Weibo and Xiaohongshu were restricted from gaining new followers.
The article reports that the backlash cost Mbappe several commercial deals.
Chinese state television scrapped La Liga broadcasts following the controversy.
The article says jokes about Mao, who ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976, remain socially taboo in China.
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