The Chiefs are back in a familiar spot as Super Bowl favorites Kendall Baker and Jeff TracyOctober 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM 3 Yahoo Sports AM is our daily newsletter that keeps you up to date on all things sports. Sign up here to get it every weekday morning.
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Kendall Baker and Jeff TracyOctober 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🚨 Headlines
⚾️ Giants hire Vitello: The Giants have hired Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello to replace Bob Melvin as their new manager — a massive roll of the dice on someone who hasn't spent a single second of his accomplished coaching life in pro ball.
⚽️ Chicago, Portland advance: The Chicago Fire (over Orlando City) and Portland Timbers (over Real Salt Lake) won their Wild Card games to advance to Round One of the MLS playoffs.
📺 "Inside the NBA" returns: The beloved NBA studio show made its long-awaited ESPN debut on Wednesday ahead of the first full night of league action. Same crew, same set, same theme song, new network.
🏀 Izzo calls out NCAA: Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo called out the NCAA for allowing former G Leaguer London Johnson to play college hoops. "To me, it's ridiculous," he said after the guard with three years of pro experience committed to Louisville. "It's embarrassing."
⛳️ PGA cancels The Sentry: The PGA Tour has canceled its season-opening event in Maui due to an ongoing drought and water restrictions.
🏈 NFL power rankings: A familiar favorite
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The Chiefs are back in a familiar spot, sitting atop our latest power rankings after a blowout win over the Raiders. But that's not all: With their offense firing on all cylinders* behind an MVP-caliber start from Patrick Mahomes, they're also now favorites to win the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl odds: Kansas City (+500 at BetMGM) leads the way ahead of the Lions (+650), Bills (+700), Packers (+800) and defending champion Eagles (+1000). Just outside the top five are the Colts (+1200), who lead the league with a 6-1 record and +92 scoring differential.
*New-look Chiefs: Last season, the Chiefs won just three of their 20 games (regular season and playoffs) by 13+ points. This season? They already have four wins by 13+ points through seven games.
🏀 In photos: The NBA's first full slate
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Dallas — Victor Wembanyama erupted for 40 points (15-21 FG) and 15 rebounds in the Spurs' 125-92 blowout win over the Mavericks as No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg (10 points, 10 rebounds) struggled in his debut.
Good read: Get ready, NBA: Wemby's time is now (Kelly Iko, Yahoo Sports)
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Boston — The 76ers beat the Celtics, 117-116, behind 34 points from rookie VJ Edgecombe. That's the most points scored in an NBA debut since 1974 and the third-most ever.
Who holds the record? Wilt Chamberlain scored 43 points in his 1959 debut.
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New York — OG Anunoby (24 points, 14 rebounds) and Jalen Brunson (23 points) led the way as the Knicks beat the Cavaliers, 119-111, in their first game under head coach Mike Brown.
Good read: The vision that sold Mike Brown's hire comes to life in Game 1 (Dan Devine, Yahoo Sports)
More NBA: Full scoreboard
🏈 Jimbo Fisher wants back in
Jimbo Fisher watches Texas A&M players warm up before a game in 2023. (Tim Warner/Getty Images)
Yesterday, we profiled Texas A&M head coach Mike Elko. Today, we catch up with the man he replaced, Jimbo Fisher, who is hungry for another head coaching job.
From Yahoo Sports' Ross Dellenger:
Tucked inside a private room at one of his favorite eateries, the Red Elephant Pizza and Grill, Jimbo Fisher is talking a mile a minute about play calls from yesteryear. He remembers every detail. The season, the game, the down-and-distance, the formation, the play terminology, the result.
"We had trips left," he says, gnashing on a quesadilla and washing it down with a mug of soda before launching into more 'ball. "They were in two-high safety."
Fisher and his wife, Courtney, have agreed to meet with a reporter to talk about his desire to return to coaching. It quickly turned into a two-hour clinic on football from a man known as one of the game's greatest offensive savants.
Fisher speaks quick enough — 250 words a minute — that if you don't pay attention, you'll miss something important.
Like, for instance, the fact that, even at 60 years old and the benefactor of the biggest buyout in college sports history, "this ole boy," as he might say in his country twang, wants to coach again.
"I never got into coaching for money," he says. "Well, I'm not going to get out of it because I've got money."
Fisher congratulates QB Carson Beck after Miami's win over Florida State on Oct. 4. (Jason Clark/Getty Images)
As it turns out, Fisher doesn't own much more — perhaps he owns less, actually — than he did before Texas A&M agreed to pay him nearly $77 million not to coach. About $26 million of that was paid within four months of his firing in the spring of 2024. He gets $7 million annually for the next seven years. It is not reduced by any future compensation he earns.
He's bought no grand mansion in the Caribbean islands, no chateau in the south of France or villa on the Amalfi Coast.
In fact, Fisher resides in the same Tallahassee home in which he moved into when he accepted the job on Bobby Bowden's staff at Florida State in 2006. What's he done with the money? Well, he did trade his Texas ranch for one in south Georgia. And he has tripped twice to Africa for Safari hunts.
But these days, more than anything perhaps, he's watching film — both for his gig as an analyst on ACC Network and for his future. He's studying the game's ever-evolving trends, organizing a future staff, creating a recruiting and evaluation plan.
He's preparing as if he'll soon return to major college coaching. And in what could be a record year for coaching changes — eight FBS changes and $114 million in buyout money spent already — the path may exist for a return to the big chair.
Keep reading.
⚾️ Roberts climbs the ladder
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Dave Roberts enters the World Series with 65 career postseason wins as a manager — the fourth-most all-time and just three shy of passing Bobby Cox (67) for third.
Who else is ahead of him? Only Joe Torre (84) and Tony La Russa (71) remain out of reach this season.
📺 Watchlist: Thursday, Oct. 23
The last time these teams met was Game 7 of last season's NBA Finals. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)🏀 Thunder at Pacers | 7:30pm ET, ESPN
Indianapolis hosts a rematch of last year's NBA Finals. But while the defending champions look poised to threaten for another title, the Pacers will be without their best player all season as Tyrese Haliburton recovers from his ruptured Achilles.
🏀 Nuggets at Warriors | 10pm, ESPN
15 players in NBA history have won multiple MVP awards. Two of them are playing in this game: Steph Curry and Nikola Jokić.
🏈 Vikings at Chargers | 8:15pm, Prime
The Vikings, coming off a loss, have alternated wins and losses all season; the Chargers, who started 3-0, have lost three of their last four. Will those trends continue and lead to a Minnesota victory? Or will Los Angeles begin righting the ship with a win?
More to watch:
⚽️ Friendly: USWNT vs. Portugal (7pm, TNT) … Philly's Subaru Park hosts the first of three friendlies for the Americans over the next week.
🏒 NHL: Hurricanes at Avalanche (9pm, ESPN+) … First in the Central vs. second in the Metropolitan.
🏒 College Hockey: No. 2 Western Michigan at No. 3 Michigan (7pm, BTN) … The Great Lakes State has the top three teams in the country, with No. 1 Michigan State joining the Wolverines and defending champion Broncos.
Today's full slate.
🏀 NBA trivia
(Elias Stein)
Question: Can you name all 12 NBA players above based on their signature move?
Answer at the bottom.
🏈 Bye-maggedon
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A season-high six NFL teams are on bye this week, leaving fans with the smallest slate of the year and leaving fantasy managers scrambling to fill their lineups.
Teams on bye: It's not just quantity, but quality, as four of the six bye-week teams have winning records: Lions (5-2), Rams (5-2), Seahawks (5-2), Jaguars (4-3), Cardinals (2-5), Raiders (2-5).
Yahoo Fantasy: How to navigate bye-maggedon (Scott Pianowski)
Trivia answer: Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Shaquille O'Neal (top row); Steph Curry, LeBron James, Time Duncan (2nd row); Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson (3rd row); Julius Erving, Allen Iverson, Dirk Nowitzki (bottom row)
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