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WWE’s SmackDown is on the move again. The show will return to USA Network in October 2024 in a five-year agreement with NBCUniversal, according to Deadline. 
SmackDown has aired Fridays on Fox since 2019. For the previous four years, USA televised the show on Thursdays, then Tuesdays.
Additionally, WWE will produce four primetime specials per year for NBC’s broadcast network. The specials will air on NBC beginning in the 2024-25 TV season. 

WWE ‘Smackdown’ previously aired on USA from 2016 to 2019.

Colorado coach Deion Sanders has the Buffaloes off to a 3–0 start to the season, a national ranking of No. 19 in the AP poll and on another nationally televised game against No. 10 Oregon in Eugene on Saturday afternoon.
Sanders’s brand as a college football coach has never been stronger, and he plans to take full advantage of his personal brand as his team ascends and continues to be the talk of the sport.

The Lakers’ 2022–23 season couldn’t have tipped off in a worse way. The star-studded squad started a horrific 3–13 last year with little-to-no hope of getting into the playoffs and team owner Jeanie Buss said fans went as far as to send her death threats. 
“I was like, ‘I’m not gonna survive this,’” Buss told The Athletic. “This is gonna be really rough. I was getting death threats.”
But thanks to some major moves at the trade deadline, Los Angeles completely turned its season around and made the postseason as a No. 7 seed. 
“And then the team . . .

We need more sports TV like this.
I don’t tend to enjoy watching First Take, but if I’m promised more moments like Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo talking about his plans to get high and bet $10,000 on Colorado while Marcus Spears looks on awe-struck, well, I might need to start tuning in.
Something possessed Mad Dog to share his Saturday plans with all of America, and went into a lot more detail than “having some chips, dip, and a few beers.”

This is tremendous television.

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Deshaun Watson’s terrible play is going to cost his coach his job.
The slow start of Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has some fans questioning when the team can move on from the struggling QB. Despite having the most guaranteed money at signing of any player in NFL history, he’s 24th in passing yards, 31st in completion percentage, 30th in yards per attempt, 30th in quarterback rating, and 30th in QBR plus he’s taken the fifth-most sacks in the NFL this season.

The football world is waiting to find out whether Joe Burrow will play Monday night against the Rams, but some of us can’t wait that long. Bets need to be placed!
Regardless of whether Burrow plays, expect an intriguing matchup because the Rams have early breakout star Puka Nacua and a rejuvenated Matthew Stafford. But that’s just one of our top five games of Week 3.
The Falcons will put their undefeated record on the line against a talented Lions squad that’s coming off a heartbreaking overtime loss to the Seahawks.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton drops an epic helmet for the Japanese Grand Prix
When Formula 1 removed the “one helmet” rule in 2020, a rule which required drivers to keep the same helmet for the entire season, it sparked a wave of creativity in the sport. Drivers began to roll out themed helmets for races, helmets for charity, and more.
Lewis Hamilton might have raised the stakes ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, delivering a look that is seemingly out of this world.

Places like Ohio State and Notre Dame rarely hire head football coaches from within. Conservatively, those are two of the 10 best jobs in the sport, and as such they customarily draw some of the most established head coaches in the country as applicants. Between 1946 and 2018, Ohio State had one internal promotion and Notre Dame had two.
Yet when the Buckeyes and Fighting Irish play Saturday in South Bend, the men leading both teams out of the tunnel got those plum positions after serving as coordinators at the schools.

If he gets his way, Cowboys edge rusher Micah Parsons could soon have a Travis Hunter-like role for Dallas.
Parsons revealed Wednesday that he’s taken scout team reps at tight end and has been lobbying head coach Mike McCarthy for a spot on offense. In the college ranks, Colorado’s Travis Hunter was already pulling double duty for the Buffalos until suffering an injury last Saturday night.
Hunter had been starting – and excelling – at both corner and wide receiver. For his part, Parsons just wants a couple of plays here and there.

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Why Fred Warner is like Starfield’s most terrifying villain
I must confess, I have been playing a lot of Starfield the past few weeks.
The video game, the latest release from Bethesda Studios, is their most ambitious yet. The company behind such games as Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has created a vast world to explore in their first foray into space. Starfield boasts over 1,000 planets for players to explore, and reportedly “countless” moons and space stations to visit.