Todays Sporting News – 26 September 2025

• Springbok prop Boan Venter will start Saturday’s Castle Lager Rugby Championship clash against the Pumas at Hollywoodbets Kings Park, with Marco van Staden being drafted onto the bench, following the withdrawal of Ox Nche from the team on Friday due to a niggle.
• Silver Ferns continued their dominance over the SPAR Proteas as they recorded their 38th win with a 70 – 58 in the history of the two teams. They take a 2-0 lead in a three-match series with one more game left.
• Okahandja Football Club’s sport director Lee Hangula has raised concern over the state of women’s football development in Namibia.
• Kigali, Rwanda — President Paul Kagame has urged the global sporting community to embrace fairness and inclusivity, criticizing what he described as outdated skepticism toward non-traditional hosts of major international competitions.
• Bangladesh crumble as Pakistan’s Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf take three wickets each in Super Fours match in Dubai.
• The George Washington tennis team returns to the court this weekend, taking part in the Navy Blue & Gold Invite in Annapolis.
• Alexandra Eala booked her spot in the quarter-finals of the 2025 Jingshan Tennis Open on Thursday (25 September).
• Carlos Alcaraz and Emma Raducanu will headline the Miami Invitational later this year — a one-day exhibition.
• The UNI women’s tennis team is back in action this weekend, September 26-28, at the Redbird Invite in Normal, Illinois.
• Japan will bid to host the 2035 Rugby World Cup, the head of the country’s rugby union said Thursday. Japan Rugby Football Union President Masato Tsuchida confirmed the plans to host the tournament for the first time since 2019.
• An extraordinary 2025 Rugby Championship is heading for a thrilling climax with just two points separating surprise leaders Australia from last-placed Argentina with two rounds remaining.
• Many Wallabies teams, regardless of their form, have arrived in New Zealand with a swagger only to be duly dispatched. Such contrasting personas have long typified the entrenched trans-Tasman rivalry.
• This year marks the 45th edition of the Ryder Cup, the golf competition between Team USA and Team Europe. The tournament tees off on Friday, Sept. 26 at the Black Course of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York.
• The Silver Ferns are hoping to make it three wins in a row at ILT Stadium Southland when they take on South Africa in the third Taini Jamison Trophy test. A 61-56 win against England last year in front of a sold out crowd made it two wins in succession.
• With the countdown to the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 underway, all eyes are on Australia as they prepare to defend their crown. Alyssa Healy’s team are due to open their campaign against Trans-Tasman rivals New Zealand on October 1 in Indore.
• Argentina head coach Felipe Contepomi has revealed his team to face the Springboks in the Round Five clash in Durban. There are three changes to the starting line-up that edged Australia 28-26 in Round Four.
• Move over Bullwinkle. Maple the Moose is here. FIFA announced Thursday that Maple, a red-clad moose, will be Canada’s official mascot for the 2026 World Cup.
• Returning All Blacks hooker Codie Taylor said it is in the players’ hands to bounce back from their record loss to Australia when the Bledisloe Cup is on the line against Australia in the Lipovitan-D Rugby Championship test in Auckland on Saturday.
• The Canadian U18 Women’s National Softball Team is on its way to Oklahoma City to compete at the U18 Women’s World Cup that begins this Saturday, September 27th at Devon Park.
• Tiger Woods will be a Ryder Cup captain someday. It’s inevitable. His accomplishments are too many, and his legacy is secure at golf’s most prestigious international team event.
• A week after answering an SOS call from coach Joe Schmidt, James O’Connor has been named to start in the No 10 Wallabies jersey as the Australians look to end the All Blacks’ unbeaten 51-test Eden Park record.
• A new stadium and pro soccer club are planned as part of a major redevelopment at a vacant Reno property.
• The Middlebury women’s soccer team fought to a hard-earned 0-0 draw against Amherst this past Saturday, Sept. 20.
• The Samford soccer team will travel to Spartanburg, S.C., to take on the Wofford Terriers Friday at 5 p.m. (CT).
• A late Tomo Allen 89th-minute goal wins it for the Stanford Cardinal as they take down the Oregon State Beavers, 3 – 2.
• European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza.
• In some of the highest-scoring action for the season, the Virginia Cavaliers took down the Wake Forest Demon Deacons 6 to 3.
• The Duke Blue Devils defeated the Syracuse Orange 2-0 in College Soccer action.
• ADELAIDE has lost fitness guru Darren Burgess to Italian soccer giants Juventus.
• Colorado College Hockey is excited to announce that 16 games will be broadcast live on television during the 2025-26 season.
• The OHL is saddened by news of the passing of Niagara IceDogs alumnus Mike Robinson.
• The USC football game versus Michigan on Oct. 11 in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is officially sold out.
• Former Florida football coach Urban Meyer weighed in on the future of Billy Napier, wondering if UF has enough money to buy him out.
• A former Olympic hopeful who alleges she was raped in July 2024 by one of her fellow sailing competitors has launched a lawsuit aimed at the governing bodies of the sport, seeking $9 million in damages. The woman, who was 21 at the time of the alleged sexual assault in Halifax, names Sail Canada, Sail Nova Scotia, and the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, as well as several individuals within those organizations, as defendants in her statement of claim filed at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Kingston.
• Bass Pro Shops, North America’s leading outdoor and conservation-focused company, has acquired legendary water sports brand Hobie. Bass Pro Shops also operates White River Marine Group, the world’s largest builder of fishing and recreational boats by volume, and will move Hobie production from Mexico to their manufacturing site in Lebanon, Missouri.
• Adaptive sailors have traveled west for the 2025 U.S. Para Sailing Championship on September 26-28 in Coronado, CA. US Sailing’s premier adaptive sailing event will host racing in the Hansa 303 for singlehanded with limited abilities and the Martin 16 for skippers with limited abilities and a safety companion with or without limited abilities.
• Fourteen teams will be at the 2025 U.S. Team Racing Championship on September 26-28 in Larchmont, NY. The 3v3 format using 420s has attracted a who’s-who of college and post-college talent.
• The U.S. Adult Sailing Championship will be at 6200 feet elevation in 2025 as ten teams compete on Jordanelle Reservoir in Park City, UT. With racing in J/22s on September 26-28, it’s the first time in the event’s 73-year history that it will be in a mountain state.
• The strong Mistral breeze on Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda dropped away nicely today and three good, highly competitive races were completed, bringing the 52 SUPER SERIES – Porto Cervo – Range Rover regatta back to schedule.
• The 2025 12 Metre North American Championship concluded September 21 on Narragansett Bay, bringing together a small yet iconic fleet of four boats whose elegance was matched by fierce competition.
• The 2025 Melges 24 World Championship, organized by Yacht Club Adriaco in collaboration with the International Melges 24 Class Association and with the support of the Italian Melges 24 Class, continues in something of a slow-motion rhythm.
• The excellence of the French solo racing pathway is increasingly attracting non-French skippers who want to come, learn, and train in a discipline that, for now, remains very French.
• Lubabalo Dobela will steer the Lions from flyhalf in their Vodacom URC opener against Cardiff on Saturday.
• Springbok loosehead prop Ox Nche has been ruled out of Saturday’s Rugby Championship match against Argentina at Kings Park.
• Springbok centre Jan Serfontein says he is eager to add value as the Vodacom Bulls chase their first URC title.
• The Lions hope to show some Springbok spirit in Saturday night’s Vodacom URC match against Cardiff at the Arms Park. Loose forward WJ Steenkamp says the Joburg-based outfit have taken heart from the Boks’ Rugby Championship fightback after their own heartbreak in the Currie Cup final.
• The Springboks need a performance against Argentina in Durban that matches the power and precision of their record-breaking triumph against the All Blacks.
• An extraordinary 2025 Rugby Championship is heading for an epic finish. Just two points separate the table-topping Australia from last-placed Argentina with two rounds remaining.
• Glasgow Warriors coach Franco Smith says he has “all the confidence in the world” in 20-year-old centre Kerr Yule ahead of their Vodacom URC opener against the Sharks.
• Captain Harry Wilson says the Wallabies are well prepared for Saturday’s high-stakes match against the All Blacks at Eden Park.
• Coach Felipe Contepomi has made three changes to Argentina’s pack for Saturday’s match against the Springboks in Durban, with a 6-2 split on the bench.
• CEO Edgar Rathbone wants the Vodacom Bulls “to put up a big performance” in the Champions Cup this season. While much of the focus has been on whether new coach Johan Ackermann can deliver long-awaited Vodacom URC silverware after three final defeats in four years, Rathbone stressed that Europe’s top club competition is just as important.
• Along with a repeat of last season’s semi-final match-ups, Tullow and Energia All-Ireland League newcomers Ennis, who are on the crest of a wave as the first Clare team to compete at this level, meet in what is a compelling opening round of fixtures.
• As the Energia All-Ireland League kicks off this weekend, the IRFU is reminding all players, coaches, referees, volunteers, and supporters that Respect is at the very heart of our game. Rugby’s values guide everything we do, and when the game is played in a respectful manner it allows rugby to positively contribute to our local communities.
• The Energia All-Ireland League returns this weekend for the start of a brand new season, and there are some blockbuster first-round fixtures to whet appetites for what is to come between now and April.
• As Wales’ professional sides prepare for a new campaign, they have to wonder whether the 2025-26 season will be their final one.
• Ellie Kildunne went from not having a rugby club to playing for England in four years. A World Cup win would confirm the sport’s new superstar.
• Sale Sharks kick-off the 2025-26 season of The Prem with a strong second-half display to beat Gloucester 27-10..
• Cardiff sign former Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny for the 2025-26 season.
• Hollie Davidson has been presented with the World Rugby Referee Award in partnership with Emirates at the Women’s Rugby Global Summit in London.
• England lock George Martin will miss the autumn Test series after being ruled out until at least January following shoulder surgery..
• Romain Grosjean will drive a Formula 1 car for the first time since his dramatic crash in the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix when he gets behind the wheel of a 2023-spec Haas during a test at Mugello on Friday.
• Oscar Piastri had a tough weekend in Baku, crashing in Qualifying, dropping to the very back of the pack after a botched race start, and then crashing again on the opening lap in Baku. Former Renault F1 driver Jolyon Palmer picks the bones out of the McLaren man’s uncharacteristically scrappy Grand Prix.
• Another layer has been added to the battle for the 2025 F1 Drivers’ Championship after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen slashed the points gap to McLaren pair Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri on a dramatic weekend in Azerbaijan.
• Two decades ago, Fernando Alonso made history by becoming F1’s then-youngest World Champion at just 24 years, one month and 27 days old – the Spaniard and his Renault squad beating Kimi Raikkonen and McLaren to both of 2005’s titles.
• 10-man Rangers lose their Europa opener to Genk.
• Russell Martin says he was impressed by some of his Rangers players despite them slipping to another defeat, this time to Genk in the Europa League.
• Russell Martin was again the subject of Rangers fans ire amid the Europa League defeat by Genk.
• Chichester City FC confirmed that Billy Vigar, 21, died on Thursday morning.
• Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor says she is “not surprised” a recent survey has found 78% of women had faced discrimination while working in football.
• Liverpool teenage forward Rio Ngumoha signs his first professional contract with the Premier League club.
• Liverpool defender Giovanni Leoni faces months on the sidelines after suffering a suspected anterior cruciate ligament injury on his debut.
• Liverpool shut down 145,000 ticket accounts over the past two years as part of a crackdown against touting.
• James Trafford sealed a dream return to Manchester City in the summer, but will the English goalkeeper now be questioning his decision after the arrival of Gianluigi Donnarumma?
• Unai Emery’s position at Aston Villa remains strong despite the club appointing a new president of football operations.
• The United States government say it will try to block any attempts to ban Israel from competing at the 2026 World Cup.
• Central midfielder Brooke Paterson spent five hours lying on a cold, damp pitch in Cumbernauld waiting for an ambulance.
• France defender William Saliba agrees a new five-year contract with Arsenal.
• Brendan Rodgers said fans need to have realism after Celtic’s 1-1 draw in Belgrade to open their Europa League campaign.
• A judge accepted a plea bargain request by former Juventus executives, including ex-chairman Andrea Agnelli, to settle a false accounting case relating to their time with the Italian club.
• Rampant England take down hosts India by 152 runs in their ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 warm-up clash in Bengaluru.
• Ex-Black Caps coach Gary Stead is back on NZ Cricket’s payroll and will be tasked with working with players and coaches in New Zealand.
• 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has starred against the Australian U19s, smashing a quicker than a run-a-ball 70.
• India have been struck an injury blow ahead of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, with fast bowler Arundhati Reddy wheelchaired off the field.
• While two games were washed out, England sealed a massive win against India, and New Zealand fell to India A on the opening day of the ICC Women’s World Cup.
• India A pulled off a memorable run chase against Australia A in the second unofficial Test in Lucknow, with KL Rahul and Sai Sudharsan guiding the side home in spectacular fashion. Chasing a daunting 412-run target, the hosts clinched victory by five wickets on Friday, leaving fans buzzing with excitement.
• As the cricketing world gears up for the highly anticipated Asia Cup 2025 final between India and Pakistan at the Dubai International Stadium, former speedster Shoaib Akhtar has shared his thoughts on how Pakistan can turn the tables on their arch-rivals.
• Jasprit Bumrah has sparked a major debate in Indian cricket after lashing out at former India cricketer Mohammad Kaif over comments made about his fitness and bowling approach during the Asia Cup 2025. The war of words unfolded on social media after Kaif suggested that Bumrah was intentionally avoiding death.
• West Indies have suffered a major blow ahead of their two-match Test series against India, with frontline fast bowler Shamar Joseph ruled out due to injury.
• Asia Cup 2025 has witnessed a momentous milestone with India and Pakistan meeting in the final for the first time in the tournament’s 41-year history. Pakistan’s thrilling 11-run victory over Bangladesh in the Super Four match at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday set up this historic encounter.
• The first ODI between Zimbabwe Women and United Arab Emirates Women is a landmark event, set to take place at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo on September 26, 2025. This historic match marks the beginning of the UAE’s journey in the ODI format after they were granted ODI status.
• Following their hard-fought Test series against England, the Indian selectors have made several changes to the squad for the upcoming home two-match red ball series against the West Indies starting on October 2.
• India will take on Sri Lanka in their final Super Four match of the Asia Cup 2025 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday, September 26. The match is a dead rubber, with India already sealing their place in the final after back-to-back wins.
• Bangladesh all-rounder Mahedi Hasan produced one of the highlights of the Asia Cup 2025 clash against Pakistan with a sensational caught-and-bowled effort to dismiss Mohammad Haris. The moment came during the 18th over of Pakistan’s innings, leaving fans and commentators stunned by the sheer sharpness of the catch.
• Pakistan’s young opener Saim Ayub endured yet another nightmare outing in the Asia Cup 2025, falling for his fourth duck of the tournament. Facing Bangladesh in a crucial Super 4 clash, Ayub was dismissed on the fourth ball of the second over by Mahedi Hasan.
• England and India A triumph in first ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 warm-up matches .
• Jessica Thompson and Chad le Clos kicked off the Bombela Concession Company SA National (25m) Championships in Pietermaritzburg with two titles each on Thursday, both collecting golds in the 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly.
• On this day in 2004, a Canadian runner by the name of Ed Whitlock became the first person over the age of 70 to complete a marathon in under three hours. He ran a time of 2:54:48 at the Toronto Marathon. In 2016, at the age of 85, he ran a marathon in under four hours.
• The NBL’s Adelaide 36ers have terminated the contract of NBA veteran Montrezl Harrell, who is serving a provisional ban after testing positive for a prohibited substance while playing in China.
• Hawthorn pulled off a gutsy comeback in the AFLW, overturning a 16-point deficit to beat Geelong by seven points at GMHBA Stadium.
• Chichester City forward and former Arsenal player Billy Vigar has died at the age of 21 after sustaining a brain injury during a league match last weekend.
• A hostile environment is expected when the Ryder Cup gets underway on American soil on Friday at the Bethpage Black Golf Course on Long Island in New York.
• The clash between the Test and club calendars will continue to compromise the South African franchises in the opening phase of the United Rugby Championship.
• Ashwin has signed with BBL side Sydney Thunder.
• Kumar Sangakkara will take up a coaching position with the Rajasthan Royals.
• Lisa Keightley is MI’s new WPL coach, replacing Charlotte Edwards.
• The Professional Cricketers’ Association has threatened a strike in response to the County teams refusing to shorten their season.
• European Ryder Cup captain Luke Donald is sending Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton out first against Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas. Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood, unbeaten in Rome, will face Collin Morikawa and Harris English in the third match. Trump will be the first sitting US president to attend the US-Europe clash in its almost 100-year history.
• John McGinn’s first-half strike earned Aston Villa their first win of the season with a 1-0 victory over Bologna in their Europa League opener at Villa Park. Former Celtic striker Oh Hyeon-gyu scored after missing an earlier penalty as Genk beat a 10-man Rangers 1-0 in their Europa League opener at Ibrox.
• William Saliba, the 24-year-old centre-back who has been a mainstay of Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal since the 2022-23 season, has agreed a new five-year contract with the team, despite Real Madrid interest
• Club-tangling rough, narrow fairways and a tough workout lie in wait for the USA and Europe in the 45th Ryder Cup.
• The 2025 MLB regular season wraps up this weekend.
• Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh becomes the seventh player to hit 60 home runs in a single season.
• Shane Williams and Tom Shanklin have picked out the Welsh team they believe will finish highest in the BKT URC this season – and they are in agreement! The Wales greats, who played together in two Grand Slams, will be covering the campaign as pundits for broadcasters Premier Sports.
• Trump approves TikTok deal through executive order, Vance says business valued at $14 billion: President Donald Trump signed an executive order yesterday approving a proposal that could keep TikTok alive in the US. The deal would involve creating a new joint-venture company that will oversee TikTok’s US business. China has yet to approve the terms. No representatives from ByteDance were present at the signing, and the company has not acknowledged that a transaction is taking place. There is no indication that the Chinese government has made changes to laws that would be necessary for a deal to take place.
• SpaceX Wants to Fly Its Gigantic Starship Directly Over Florida: SpaceX has proposed a flight path for its Starship rocket that would see it fly across Florida skies. The route would seriously disrupt air traffic and raise the risk of debris falling onto populated areas. Starship’s test flights have so far only taken the megarocket on suborbital trajectories. SpaceX is preparing the rocket to reach low Earth orbit and complete a full trip around the planet before returning for a landing attempt.
• World’s first ‘behavior transplant’ between species achieved: Researchers from Nagoya University transferred the courtship behavior from one species of fruit fly to another by manipulating a single gene to create new neural connections. While both species of fly belong to the same family, they have distinct neural circuits that drive very different mating behaviors. The achievement was the culmination of nearly a decade’s work by several members of the Japanese team. It is the first-ever example of humans manipulating a single gene to transfer foreign behavior to another species.
• The reason gene editing hasn’t transformed human health is that current gene editing technologies like CRISPR are very limited: Scientists at the Arc Institute have developed a new DNA editing technology that can seamlessly write massive changes into the right place in the human genome. Bridge RNAs in bacterial ‘jumping genes’ allowed the scientists to make safe and arbitrary changes to every nucleotide within (up to) a 1 million base pair sequence in human DNA. They can be used to correct disease-causing DNA repeats in Friedreich’s ataxia, Huntington’s, and other repeat expansion disorders.
• PostgreSQL 18 Released!: PostgreSQL has a new I/O subsystem that improves performance for workloads of all sizes. Other features include virtual generated columns, a database-friendly uuidv7() function, and easier integration with single-sign-on systems. The release makes major-version upgrades less disruptive. Details about the new features are available in the article.
• Introducing Perplexity Search API: The Perplexity Search API provides access to the same global-scale infrastructure that powers Perplexity’s public answer engine. It allows developers to tap into information across the internet with one simple yet powerful interface. Unlike other API offers, it provides rich structured responses that are ready for use in AI and traditional applications alike. Perplexity has released an SDK, an open-source evaluation framework, and a deep dive into how its research team designed, optimized, and evaluated the API.
• Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab – 18 Months of Strategic Job Hunting: Max Mynter signed as a research engineer with Mistral earlier this week. The road to getting there was not an accident – Mynter had strategically worked towards this outcome for an extended period. This account of his personal experiences shares a few things that worked out for him. Mynter’s main tactic was to try to get an information advantage and then act on this information to be prepared when it matters. The preparation can involve strategic high-effort projects or tactical quick-win initiatives.
• There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined: China has five times as many robots working in its factories as the US. Until last year, China installed more imported robots in its factories than domestically made ones – last year, nearly three-fifths of the robots installed in the country were made locally. While Chinese companies still lag behind foreign competitors in their ability to manufacture some key components, China has a large number of skilled electricians and specialized computer programmers who can install robots, as well as an artificial intelligence industry that is strongly focused on tracking and improving every aspect of factory equipment performance.
• Anthropic CPO Admits They Rarely Hire Fresh Grads as AI Takes Over Entry-Level Tasks: Anthropic won’t hire fresh graduates because they lack experience, but entry-level jobs that used to give them that experience are increasingly being automated.
• Google DeepMind unveils its first “thinking” robotics AI: Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotic project has announced a pair of new models that work together to create the first robots that ‘think’ before acting.
• Meta introduces Vibes feed for AI-generated content: Meta’s Vibes feature gives users the ability to create and share short-form AI-generated videos.
• Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta: Cloudflare’s Email Sending capability allows users to send transactional emails directly from Cloudflare Workers.
• Snappy: Snappy is a compression/decompression library widely used inside Google.
• OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs: OpenAI’s GDPval covers a very limited number of tasks people do in their real jobs, but the company claims that testing on the evaluation shows that GPT-5 is approaching the quality of work produced by industry experts.
• The skippers of all teams participating in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 spoke at a special Captains’ Day event which was held simultaneously in Bengaluru and Colombo, expressing their eagerness and confidence with just four days to go before the tournament starts.
• Summer signings Piers O’Conor and James Whitcombe will make their Edinburgh Rugby debuts in tomorrow afternoon’s BKT United Rugby Championship season opener against Zebre Parma at Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi (Saturday 27 September, kick-off 3.05pm BST / 4.05pm local) – live on Premier Sports.
• Vinnie Pasquantino homered and drove in three runs, Bobby Witt Jr. had four hits and the Kansas City Royals beat the Angels 9-4 on Thursday night.
• The Lakers kicked off their summer break by signing their star player to a contract extension in a flashy news conference featuring Balkan walk-up music and a photo gallery display of Luka Doncic’s best Lakers moments. The team returned Thursday by announcing their continued commitment to their coach.
• UCLA’s five-member search committee for its next football coach that was revealed Thursday features heavy hitters from various corners of the professional sports world, including two who helped engineer a quick turnaround with the NFL’s Washington Commanders.
• Springbok captain Siya Kolisi and assistant coach Mzwandile Stick billed their penultimate Castle Lager Rugby Championship match against the Pumas in Durban on Saturday as a “semi-final” and said they would treat the visitors with the “respect” they deserve going into the crucial encounter.
• With the Wallabies, Boks, All Blacks, and Argentina all still in the title race, Kolisi and Stick expected a blockbuster encounter, but they stressed that they were completely focused on what they wanted to achieve in the match.
• Team South Africa continued to show impressive form at the World Para Swimming Championships in Singapore on Friday.Nathan Hendricks just missed out on a medal in the S13 400m freestyle for visually impaired swimmers, finishing fourth in 4 minutes 15.28 seconds. Gold was claimed by Russian Egor Shchitkovskii in a time of 4:02.14. Christian Sadie once again went quicker than ever before, setting a new African record in the S7 50m freestyle. The 27-year-old finished in a time of 28.70 seconds to finish fifth in the final, with the gold once again going to Ukrainian Andrii Trusov in 27.98 seconds.

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY:

1942 — Jockey Club stewards revoke Eddie Arcaro’s license for one year after his display of “rough riding” aboard odds-on favorite Occupation in the Cowdin Stakes on Sept. 19, in which he attempted to injure a fellow rider during the race.

1981 — Kelvin Bryant of North Carolina rushes for 173 yards and scores four touchdowns in a 56-14 victory over Boston College, giving him 15 touchdowns over the last three games, an NCAA record.

1983 — Australia II wins America’s Cup yacht race to end the longest winning streak in sporting history. Australia II, skippered by John Bertrand, wins the title in the seventh and final race. Australia II crosses the finish line with a winning margin of 41 seconds over Liberty, which is skippered by Dennis Conner. The U.S. had successfully defended the cup over a period of 132 years, since the schooner America won it in a fleet race around England’s Isle of Wight in 1851.

1992 — Rocky Mountain’s Steve Thompson rushes for 405 yards and six touchdowns in a 42-36 overtime victory over Carroll College. The rushing total is the second highest in NAIA history.

1998 — Prairie View A&M ends its NCAA-record 80-game losing streak by stopping a 2-point conversion in the final minute for a 14-12 victory over Langston. The victory is the Panthers’ first since Oct. 28, 1989, when they defeated Mississippi Valley 21-12.

2000 — At the Sydney Olympics, the U.S. softball team completes a stunning comeback by edging Japan 2-1 in extra innings to win its second straight gold medal.

2004 — Peyton Manning of Indianapolis passes for 393 yards and five first-half touchdowns in a 45-31 win over Green Bay. Manning has the most TD throws in one half since Tommy Kramer in 1986, and the most yards in a quarter, 247, since Boomer Esiason in 1996.

2004 — San Francisco’s 34-0 loss at Seattle ends a 420-game streak of not being blanked for the 49ers, an NFL record.

2010 — Christine Sinclair has two goals and Marta adds a goal and two assists as the FC Gold Pride beat the Philadelphia Independence 4-0 to win the Women’s Professional Soccer championship.

2010 — Seattle’s Leon Washington returns two kickoffs — 101 and 99 yards — for touchdowns in the Seahawks’ 27-20 win over San Diego.

2015 — Aaron Green catches a tipped pass in the back of the end zone with 23 seconds left and No. 3 TCU outlasts Texas Tech 55-52 in the Big 12 opener for both teams. On fourth-and-goal from the 4, Trevor Boykin throws four touchdown passes and finishes with a career-high 509 yards for TCU.

2015 — Sebastian Giovinco breaks the MLS single-season points record, assisting on two goals in Toronto FC’s 3-2 victory over the Chicago Fire to push his total to 35.

2017 — Sylvia Fowles grabs a WNBA Finals-record 17 rebounds and scores 13 points to lead the Minnesota Lynx to a 70-68 victory over the Sparks in Game 2, evening the series at one game apiece.

2021 — United States regains the Ryder Cup beating Team Europe 19-9 at Whistling Straits, Haven, Wisc.

TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY:

1908 — Ed Reulbach of the Chicago Cubs became the only pitcher to throw two shutouts in a doubleheader, beating the Dodgers 5-0 and 3-0.

1926 — The St. Louis Browns beat the New York Yankees 6-1 and 6-2 in two hours and seven minutes. The first game took 55 minutes.

1952 — The New York Yankees clinched their fourth straight AL pennant with a 5-1, 11-inning win over the Philadelphia A’s.

1961 — Roger Maris tied Babe Ruth’s 34-year-old record with his 60th homer, off Baltimore’s Jack Fisher.

1981 — Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first player to pitch five no-hitters, hurling a 5-0 victory over the Dodgers at the Astrodome.

1983 — Bob Forsch of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched the second no-hitter of his career by defeating Montreal 3-0.

1993 — Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners became the eighth pitcher to strike out 300 batters in a season with 13 strikeouts in 10 innings of a 3-2, 12-inning loss to Oakland.

1998 — Curt Schilling became the fifth pitcher to strike out 300 batters in consecutive seasons when he fanned Kevin Orie in the seventh inning of Philadelphia’s 4-3 loss to Florida in the first game of a doubleheader.

2000 — The Atlanta Braves beat the New York Mets 7-1 to clinch the NL East and win their record ninth straight division title.

2007 — The New York Yankees clinched their 13th straight postseason appearance, beating Tampa Bay 12-4.

2007 — Michael Young reached 200 hits for the fifth consecutive season with a pair of RBI singles among his three hits and Texas pounded the Angels 16-2. Young joined Wade Boggs and Ichiro Suzuki as the only players since 1940 with five consecutive 200-hit seasons.

2008 — The Tampa Bay Rays won their first AL East championship when the Boston Red Sox lost to the New York Yankees. They became the first team other than Boston and New York to win the division since Baltimore did it in 1997.

2008 — Seattle outfielder Ichiro Suzuki matched Lou Gehrig’s record with his eighth season of at least 200 hits and 100 runs. Suzuki scored his 100th run of the season in the third inning against Oakland. Gehrig reached the marks in 1927-28, 1930-32, 1934 and 1936-37.

2018 — Jacob deGrom was dominant, throwing eight stellar innings and leaving with a major league-best 1.70 ERA as the New York Mets blanked the Atlanta Braves 3-0. DeGrom (10-9) made his final regular-season start, striking out 10 and allowing just two singles against the NL East champions.

2018 — Colorado Rockies right-hander German Marquez started with eight straight strikeouts to match a modern-era big league record, and the Colorado Rockies routed the Philadelphia Phillies 14-0. By striking out his first eight batters, he tied a post-1900 mark set by Houston’s Jim Deshaies on Sept. 23, 1986, and equaled by the New York Mets’ Jacob deGrom on Sept. 15, 2014.

2019 — The Minnesota Twins become the first team to hit 300 home runs in a season.

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