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The Athletics, not the Oakland Athletics, or the Sacramento Athletics, just the Athletics, are playing the 2025 regular season at a minor league facility: Sutter Health Park. And the 2026 season, and the 2027 season.
That timeframe assumes, of course, that they get their brand-new stadium in Las Vegas completed in time for the 2028 regular season. Which, given the recent history of the organization, is no guarantee.
In the meantime, playing in a minor league ballpark carries any number of challenges. A smaller stadium capacity, making games feel less like the big leagues.
Raiders head coach Pete Carroll said this week that the team was working on signing quarterback Geno Smith to a contract extension and it turns out that the two sides were close to the finish line.
Ian Rapoport of NFL Media reports that Smith has agreed to a two-year extension with his new team. Smith had one year left on the contract that the Raiders inherited from the Seahawks when they traded for Smith last month.
No financial terms of the new pact have been reported. Smith was scheduled to make $31 million between salary and bonuses this year.
McLaren’s driver Oscar Piastri won the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix. (Xia Yifang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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After taking the weekend off, F1 returns with its third race of the 2025 season, the Japanese Grand Prix, this Sunday. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took home first place at the Chinese Grand Prix, but his teamate Lando Norris continues to lead in the world championship — yes, even over Max Verstappen.
This weekend’s race takes place on the Suzuka Circuit and features 53 laps around the 5.
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Kansas State men’s basketball assistant coach Ulric Maligi is joining Sean Miller’s staff at Texas, EMAWOnline can confirm. Maligi’s role, while unclear, is expected to be similar to his K-State role.
Maligi joined Jerome Tang‘s staff in 2022 after two seasons on Chris Beard’s staff with the Longhorns. He also coached under Beard at Texas Tech from 2019-21.
Maligi has worked with K-State’s defense since joining Tang’s staff. The Wildcats allowed 69.6 points per game this season, and teams shot 31.
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The New England Patriots reportedly had a better offer on the table for quarterback Joe Milton III, but according to NFL insider Jordan Schultz, the team sent him to where he wanted to be out of respect for him.
That place was with the Dallas Cowboys.
On Thursday, the Patriots shipped Milton and a seventh-round draft pick to the Cowboys in exchange for a fifth-round pick. It was a move that left some Patriots fans stunned.
Granted, fans always knew there was a chance that New England would trade Milton in the offseason, but there were expectations that the team would get more in return.
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Things got completely out of hand at Raleigh’s Leonovo Center on Wednesday when the two top teams in the NHL’s Metropolitan Division — the Washington Capitals and Carolina Hurricanes — squared off in what could prove to be a match-up in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
For fans of the rough stuff, there was plenty of it in the Canes’ 5-1 win, but the moment that got everyone talking was Hurricanes D-man Jalen Chatfield and the Judo-like takedown he employed during a fight with Washington’s Connor McMichael.
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