Cristiano Ronaldo announced on Thursday that he intends to retire from international football. The 41-year-old has played 234 times for Portugal and scored 146 goals, records for international appearances and goals.
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Ronaldo shared his announcement in a video posted to Instagram.
He said he was handing back Portugal’s number seven shirt after wearing it for 23 years.
Ronaldo has made 234 appearances for Portugal and scored 146 goals.
He holds the records for most international appearances and most international goals.
Ronaldo fell out with Portugal coach Jorge Jesus last month after the coach did not use him in a Nations League match.
Ronaldo left Portugal’s team camp after that match.
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Harry Kane has extended his contract with Bayern Munich through June 2029. He joined the club from Tottenham Hotspur in 2023 and says he is happy to stay in Munich with his family.
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Kane is England’s captain and plays as a striker.
He has scored 156 goals in 161 appearances for Bayern across all competitions.
The article says Kane helped Bayern win two Bundesliga titles, the German Cup and two German Super Cups.
Kane won the Ballon d’Or last week, becoming the first Englishman to receive the award since Michael Owen in 2001.
Bayern CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen described the extension as a commitment to the club.
Bayern did not disclose the financial terms of the extension.
The article says Kane has finished as the Bundesliga’s top scorer in each of his seasons at Bayern.
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The article says U.S. sports owners contributed more than $100 million to political campaigns during the election cycle, largely backing Republicans, and argues that Democratic gains could affect sports policy. It focuses on disputes over prediction-market betting, state regulation, and the sports industry’s political influence.
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Front Office Sports reported that professional sports owners contributed more than $100 million during the election cycle.
The article says Democrats won both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s elections.
It reports that at least 10 sports owners supported Michigan Republican Mike Rogers, who lost to Abdul El-Sayed.
The article says Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones contributed $1 million to a Trump-aligned super PAC and $250,000 to a committee supporting Ken Paxton; James Talarico defeated Paxton in Texas.
The article reports that Miriam Adelson contributed at least $67 million to Republican committees.
The NFL asked the U.S. Supreme Court to treat prediction markets as gambling subject to state regulation, according to the article.
The article says the NFL’s owners spent $20 million supporting Republicans, while the Trump administration’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued at least nine states over regulation of prediction markets.
Nebraska voters rejected online sports betting by 54% to 46%, according to the article.
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Wales head coach Steve Tandy named a powerful centre pairing of Max Llewellyn and Eddie James for Saturday’s Nations Championship match against Japan. Sam Costelow starts at fly-half, and the lineup has seven changes from Wales’ 43-0 loss to South Africa in July.
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Llewellyn will wear the number 12 shirt, while James will start at outside centre.
The centres are among Wales’ biggest midfield pairings: Llewellyn is 1.96 metres tall and weighs 107 kilograms; James is 1.90 metres and weighs 103 kilograms.
Dafydd Jenkins returns after recovering from a knee injury and will partner Ben Carter in the second row.
Wales have made seven personnel changes from the side that lost to South Africa in July.
Nine of Wales’ 15 starters play club rugby in England.
Wales beat Fiji and then lost to Argentina and South Africa in the opening part of their Nations Championship campaign.
After Japan, Wales will host New Zealand and Australia before travelling to Twickenham for the tournament’s final-weekend play-off games.
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Lens lost 9-1 at home to Como in the Champions League on November 4, suffering the heaviest defeat by a French club in European competition, according to the report. The loss was Lens’s third straight defeat in Europe.
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Como beat Lens 9-1 at Lens’s Bollaert Stadium.
Lens had previously lost 3-0 to Club Brugge and 2-0 to Sporting CP.
Real Madrid beat AEK Athens 3-2 with a stoppage-time goal from Federico Valverde.
Fenerbahçe beat Liverpool 3-2.
Manchester City beat Leipzig 3-2.
Rennes drew 0-0 with Olympiacos and remained unbeaten in the Europa League.
Lyon announced Paulo Fonseca’s departure and named Jorge Maciel as interim replacement.
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Victor Wembanyama scored a career-high 52 points and grabbed 24 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks 112-111. His late free throw decided the game, extending San Antonio’s winning streak to six games.
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Wembanyama made the winning free throw with 24.2 seconds left.
He also blocked eight shots and made all 15 of his free throws.
The Spurs led by 19 early in the third quarter, but Dallas took a 103-100 lead with 5:38 remaining.
Dallas tied the score at 111 on Naji Marshall’s three-pointer with 1:41 left.
Kyrie Irving led Dallas with 29 points; Marshall added 22.
Dylan Harper scored 21 points for San Antonio, Stephon Castle had 17 and De’Aaron Fox scored 10.
PJ Washington had 21 points and 10 rebounds, and Cooper Flagg recorded 19 points and 10 rebounds.
The Mavericks have lost two games in a row.
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England captain Harry Kane has signed a new contract with Bayern Munich that runs until 2029. The 33-year-old striker joined the club from Tottenham in 2023 and scored 73 goals in 65 matches during the 2025–26 season.
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Kane’s new Bayern Munich contract runs until 2029.
The 33-year-old England captain was in the final year of his previous four-year deal.
Kane joined Bayern Munich from Tottenham in 2023 for a reported £86 million.
He scored 73 goals in 65 matches in the 2025–26 season.
Kane won the Ballon d’Or last month, according to the article.
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Alan Jones, the 1980 Formula 1 world champion and the first driver to win the title with Williams, has died aged 80. He won 12 grands prix during his F1 career and continued competing in other forms of motorsport until 2002.
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Jones died on 5 November following a short illness, according to a statement from his wife, Amanda Butler-Davis.
He won the F1 drivers’ championship in 1980, ahead of Nelson Piquet.
Jones was the first of Williams’ seven world champions.
He competed in 116 F1 races from 1975 to 1986.
He won five races in his 1980 championship season.
Jones was the second Australian to win the F1 championship, after Jack Brabham.
His final F1 race victory came in Las Vegas in 1981.
After retiring from F1, he competed in touring car and endurance races and became a television motorsports pundit in Australia.
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Fenerbahce came from behind twice to beat Liverpool 3-2, with Vedat Muriqi scoring the winner in the 79th minute. Como beat Lens 9-1, matching the Champions League record for the biggest winning margin, while Real Madrid defeated AEK Athens 3-2 with a stoppage-time goal.
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Fenerbahce interim coach Dirk Kuyt earned his first Champions League win with the club after two matches in charge.
Trey Nyoni opened the scoring for Liverpool in the 25th minute.
Mason Greenwood equalized for Fenerbahce four minutes later with a free kick.
Alexander Isak put Liverpool ahead again in the 69th minute, but Archie Brown equalized four minutes later.
Vedat Muriqi scored Fenerbahce’s winning goal in the 79th minute.
Como’s 9-1 win over Lens matched the Champions League record for the largest winning margin.
Como became the first team since 1971 to score nine away goals in the European Cup.
Real Madrid beat AEK Athens 3-2 after Federico Valverde scored in stoppage time.
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A Brazilian under-20 state championship semifinal between Uberlandia and Mamore ended after a brawl led to 53 red cards, a reported record. Uberlandia later forfeited the second leg, allowing Mamore to advance to the final.
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The first-leg semifinal took place in Minas Gerais on Sunday.
Referee Fernando Patrick Drosghic Modesto said the trouble began after Uberlandia officials entered the field following a player’s dismissal.
Play stopped for 40 minutes and resumed before Mamore scored in stoppage time to lead 3-1.
The referee reported that a brawl made it impossible to show the cards and complete the match-ending procedure, so he ended the match.
A total of 43 players, eight coaching staff members, and two Uberlandia board members were sent off.
The referee said a police report was filed over threats, and Mamore’s team vandalized its dressing room after the match.
Uberlandia forfeited the second leg, saying Mamore did not have enough eligible players to field a team; Mamore advanced to the final.
The previous Guinness record was 36 red cards in an Argentine fifth-division match in 2011.
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The Premier League board is expected to recommend a punishment in Manchester City’s financial-rules case, but a three-person independent commission will decide any sanction. City deny wrongdoing and have appealed the commission’s finding; the timing of a sanctions hearing and the league’s recommendation are not known.
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The article says an independent commission found Manchester City guilty of breaching financial rules in September.
The Premier League board’s submission and City’s response will be considered by the commission.
Possible sanctions include a fine, a points deduction, expulsion from the league or the removal of past titles.
The board includes the league chair, chief executive and three independent non-executive directors, with no club representatives.
Alison Brittain became the Premier League’s first female chair almost four years ago and received unanimous club backing for a second three-year term in 2025.
Richard Masters has been the Premier League’s chief executive since 2019.
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Referees issued 53 red cards to players and staff after a brawl during an under-20 football semi-final in Brazil. Witnesses captured the fight in the second half of the match between Mamoré and Uberlândia.
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Referees issued 53 red cards.
The cards went to players and staff.
The incident took place during an under-20 football match in Brazil.
The match was a semi-final between Mamoré and Uberlândia.
The brawl happened in the second half.
Witnesses captured footage of the scenes.
The article describes the number of red cards as a world record.
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Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell said he is making progress after suffering a severe neck injury. CBS News reported that he issued an encouraging statement on Wednesday.
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Jack Campbell is a linebacker for the Detroit Lions.
Campbell suffered a severe neck injury.
Campbell said he is making progress in a statement issued Wednesday.
CBS News reported on Campbell's recovery.
Mark Strassman reported on the story for CBS News.
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A Brazilian under-20 match between Uberlandia and Mamore was abandoned after a brawl, with the referee issuing 51 red cards. Uberlandia later conceded the semi-final’s second leg, allowing Mamore to advance to the final.
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The match was the first leg of a Minas Gerais Under-20 Championship semi-final.
The referee sent off 43 players and eight coaching staff members.
Three players had already been sent off before the brawl began.
The referee’s report said the confrontation followed Mamore player Davi taunting the opposing bench after Mamore went 3-1 ahead.
Police were called after damage was reported at Parque do Sabia Stadium, including broken doors and windows and damaged shower facilities.
The match was paused for about 40 minutes before referee Fernando Patrick Drosghic abandoned it.
The article identifies 36 red cards in a 2011 Argentine fifth-division match as the previous record.
Uberlandia said it conceded the second leg because Mamore had only seven players available and described the decision as a gesture of fair play.
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Fenerbahce beat Liverpool 3-2 in Istanbul, handing Liverpool their first Champions League defeat of the campaign. Liverpool twice took the lead, but conceded three goals from set-pieces and could not protect their advantage.
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Trey Nyoni scored Liverpool’s opening goal, and Mason Greenwood equalised four minutes later with a free-kick that deflected off Jeremy Jacquet.
Alexander Isak put Liverpool ahead again in the 69th minute.
Archie Brown equalised for Fenerbahce after Cody Gakpo’s header sent the ball past Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson.
Vedat Muriqi scored Fenerbahce’s winning goal six minutes after Brown’s equaliser.
All three Fenerbahce goals came from set-pieces.
Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola called the goals Liverpool conceded “cheap” and “messy.”
The defeat followed Liverpool’s loss to Arsenal on Sunday; the team had won five games in a row before those two defeats.
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Real Madrid beat AEK Athens 3-2 after Federico Valverde scored in the 92nd minute, preserving Madrid’s perfect Champions League record. Liverpool’s winning start ended with a 3-2 loss to Fenerbahce, who scored the winner in the 89th minute.
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AEK Athens took the lead through Aboubakary Koita in the first half.
Jude Bellingham equalized with a back-heel goal and became the youngest player to reach 60 Champions League appearances, at 23 years and 128 days.
Stavros Pilios put AEK ahead 2-1 in the 75th minute.
Kylian Mbappé equalized for Madrid three minutes later.
Valverde scored Madrid’s winner from long range in the 92nd minute.
Mbappé extended his scoring run in the Champions League to six consecutive matches and had 16 goals in 15 appearances this season.
Trey Nyoni and Alexander Isak scored for Liverpool, while Mason Greenwood and Archie Brown equalized for Fenerbahce.
Vedat Muriqi scored Fenerbahce’s winner in the 89th minute.
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Manchester City beat RB Leipzig 3-2 in the UEFA Champions League group phase. Erling Haaland scored the winning goal after City were pegged back twice.
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Manchester City defeated RB Leipzig by a score of 3-2.
Erling Haaland scored the winning goal.
City were pegged back twice during the match.
The match was played on match day four of the Champions League group phase.
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Arsenal beat Slavia Prague 2-1 in the Champions League. Noni Madueke and Victor Gyökeres scored for Arsenal, who held on after Slavia mounted a late fightback.
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Arsenal defeated Slavia Prague 2-1.
Noni Madueke scored for Arsenal.
Victor Gyökeres scored for Arsenal.
The match was part of the UEFA Champions League.
Arsenal earned their third win in four Champions League matches.
Slavia Prague scored during a late push to get back into the game.
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LIV Golf is expected to wind down after BC Partners Credit decided not to finance a proposed new version of the league. The decision followed the withdrawal of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and came as LIV faced a deadline to secure enough player support to continue in 2027.
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BC Partners Credit had considered providing up to $300 million for a proposed league called LIV 2.0.
The Public Investment Fund withdrew its backing in April and later provided a loan to fund LIV’s restructuring process.
LIV filed for bankruptcy protection in September.
People working on LIV 2.0 had secured commitments from co-investors and had about 30 players signed up, including major winners, according to BBC Sport.
Sources said the group could not meet the timelines or secure the agreements needed to proceed.
The expectation is that the Public Investment Fund will tell a court on Thursday that the LIV 2.0 proposal is not viable.
Lee Westwood said he had not received a LIV 2.0 proposal he found agreeable.
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The Ravens are nearing a trade to acquire quarterback Jacoby Brissett from the Cardinals, according to a person who spoke to the Associated Press. Baltimore needs help after injuries sidelined Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley; undrafted rookie Joe Fagnano is set to start against Jacksonville on Thursday.
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The trade had not been completed when the AP reported it.
Brissett started eight games for Arizona this season before Gardner Minshew replaced him and he was moved to third string.
Jackson needs surgery on his right thumb and is out indefinitely.
Huntley reportedly will miss the rest of the season with a toe injury.
Fagnano is scheduled to start for Baltimore against Jacksonville.
Brissett has completed 63.3% of his passes this season for 1,719 yards, 10 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
Brissett, 33, has a 23-50 record as a starter over 11 NFL seasons.
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