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LAS VEGAS – Triston Casas will play for Tigres del Licey of the Dominican Winter League this offseason. The 26-year-old first baseman also played for Licey during the 2022-23 offseason.
“I don’t have a definitive date,” said president of baseball operations Craig Breslow. “Still needs to ramp up in terms of game speed and intensity. But he is feeling good, so we’re optimistic he’s gonna be able to compete in Winter League games.”

Casas has not played in a major league game since rupturing his left patellar tendon more than 18 months ago on May 2, 2025.

Two mixed martial arts stars got into it, but not where they were supposed to.
PFL lightweight champion Usman Nurmagomedov attacked former UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili while Dvalishvili was doing an interview in a hotel lobby in Abu Dhabi, as shown in video footage posted on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Dvalishvili and Nurmagomedov’s brother Umar are scheduled to compete in separate fights in RAF Abu Dhabi on Saturday, Nov. 14.

Sep 18, 2026; Arlington, Texas, USA; Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease (84) throws to the plate against the Texas Rangers during the first inning at Globe Life Field. Mandatory Credit: Raymond Carlin III-Imagn Images | Source: Lastwordonsports.com – Augustus Oswald, Site Editor
Dylan Cease‘s Cy Young dreams have come up short with the Toronto Blue Jays after signing in Toronto this past offseason. The 2026 season was full of strong performances. Cease advanced as a finalist, joined by New York Yankees star Cam Schlittler and the Cleveland Guardians Parker Messick.

Paycor Stadium hasn’t seen a game like this coming weekend’s Cincinnati Bengals-Pittsburgh Steelers AFC North showdown in quite some time.
Pretty much every NFL game is “big” and important to some degree, but over the last three years, “big” in Cincinnati has taken the shape of the Bengals dropping their most-anticipated contests. Or they’re fighting to climb back into the AFC playoff picture after a slow start.
On Sunday, Nov.

Three Jacksonville Jaguars players took time between football games to tour the USS Carney, a destroyer based at Naval Station Mayport.
Tight ends Brenton Strange and Nate Boerkircher and Safety Rayuan Lane III, who serves in the Marine Corps Reserves, made a visit Tuesday – a day before Veterans Day.
“Lots of happy sailors walked away with selfies and autographs,” a post on the Facebook page of Naval Station Mayport read. “What a treat leading up to Veterans Day!”
The USS Carney is a guided-missile destroyer that was involved in 2023-2024 in combat-intensive U.S.

PROVO, UT – NOVEMBER 6: Bruce Branch III #3 of the Brigham Young Cougars drives against Cahmai Crosby #2 of the Omaha Mavericks during the second half of their game at the Marriott Center on November 6, 2026 in Provo, Utah. (Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images) | Getty Images
#23 BYU goes for its fourth straight win to open the season when Montana State comes to the Marriott Center Thursday night. The Bobcats were picked to win the Big Sky in both the coaches and media preseason polls, so this should be a step up from Omaha and Queens. The game tips off at 7pm MT on ESPN+.

Chicago Bulls rookie Caleb Wilson left Wednesday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs with a right hand injury and didn’t return.
The nature of his injury wasn’t initially clear, but the Bulls didn’t take long to rule him out. Wilson sustained the injury in the third quarter and went to the locker room. The Bulls then ruled him out before the start of the fourth quarter.
Wilson has a history of hand injuries. Separate injuries to each hand cut his All-America freshman season at North Carolina short. A broken bone in his left hand forced him to miss six games midseason.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Amare Hereford’s 23 points helped Milwaukee defeat Indiana State 82-73 on Wednesday.
Hereford added seven rebounds and six assists for the Panthers (2-2). Danilo Jovanovich added 13 points while shooting 6 of 13 from the field to go with six rebounds. Nate Malosa shot 4 of 5 from the field and 3 of 4 from the free-throw line to finish with 11 points.
Maguire Mitchell led the Sycamores (1-2) in scoring, finishing with 19 points. Karmani Gregory added 15 points and six assists for Indiana State. Jackson Cooper finished with 14 points and six assists.

Bright lights will shine down on MetLife Stadium on Thursday when the New York Giants host the Washington Commanders in a crucial showdown between NFC East rivals.
The Giants enter this latest meeting with their all-too-familiar foes fresh off a workmanlike 19-11 road victory over the beleaguered Philadelphia Eagles. Quarterbacks Jameis Winston and J.J. McCarthy combined under center to lead New York (5-2-1) to its second consecutive win.
As for their opponent, this is the most important game of the season for the Commanders.

BLOOMINGTON — Barring a setback, Indiana football quarterback Josh Hoover looks like he will be available to start against USC.
Hoover, who suffered an upper body injury against Ohio State, wasn’t listed on the initial availability report for the week that the Big Ten released on Wednesday night.
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti declined to name a starter for this weekend’s game against the Trojans, but Hoover will be in uniform as long as he remains off the report.