Michigan's last three opponents are 21-6, and each is playing for the playoff
The College Football Playoff selection committee's second ranking, released November 10, has UCLA 4th, Oregon 16th and Ohio State 20th, Michigan's last three opponents, who are a combined 21-6. Michigan, 5-4 and unranked, needs one win for bowl eligibility. By DraftKings' moneylines with the margin removed, it has about a 22% chance at Oregon and 18% at Ohio State.
San Jose's kill was allowing the chances before it allowed the goals
The 49ers ran Las Vegas out of its plan before they took the ball away
The 49ers trade a sixth-round pick for Keenan Allen
Celebrini's line won the chances, but Toffoli was on for both regulation goals
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Pohlkamp reaches San Jose, and the board does not move
Pohlkamp's first NHL games are the week's real change on the Sharks prospect board; Stenberg's three goals are the louder one, and nobody moves.
Twelve of the 51 still have an NWSL match to play, and Hutton is not one
Of the 51 players on the U.S. preliminary list for the Concacaf W Championship, 12 play for the four clubs left in the NWSL semifinals (Washington v Utah on November 14, Gotham v Kansas City on November 15, the final on November 21), seven play in England or France, and 32 play for NWSL clubs whose seasons ended on November 1 or in the quarterfinals of November 6 to 8. Claire Hutton, who started the October 13 draw with Spain, missed Bay FC's matches on October 18 and October 24, came on in the 61st minute of its last one on November 1, and has no league match left. Jaelin Howell, who replaced her against Spain, and Rose Lavelle, both listed questionable by the league on November 7, started Gotham's quarterfinal and play Kansas City at Icahn Stadium on Sunday. The United States play El Salvador on November 27 in Mansfield, Texas.
Five takeaways in one half, and the 49ers never sacked Kirk Cousins
San Francisco beat Las Vegas 38-17 at Levi's Stadium on Sunday and is 7-1. The 49ers scored touchdowns on their first three possessions, did not punt, and ran 43 times for 190 yards. Las Vegas turned the ball over on five of its six second-half possessions: Jaden Dugger's 35-yard interception return on the first play of the half, two forced fumbles, and interceptions by Renardo Green and Malik Mustapha. The official game book credits San Francisco with no sacks and six quarterback hits, two of them on the plays Green and Mustapha intercepted. Nick Bosa played 39 of 50 defensive snaps in his first game since Sept. 20, and DeForest Buckner played 34. Jordan Watkins caught all four of his targets for 86 yards and his first NFL touchdown. Christian McCaffrey's 12-yard catch set the Super Bowl-era record for touchdown catches by a running back and was Brock Purdy's 100th touchdown pass. Gracen Halton broke his ankle and is out for the season, Shanahan said; Green (back) and Deommodore Lenoir (foot) did not return.
Gracen Halton needs ankle surgery, and both outside corners are day-to-day
Kyle Shanahan said Monday that Gracen Halton dislocated and fractured his ankle, will have surgery this week and will go on injured reserve. Renardo Green (back) and Deommodore Lenoir (foot) are day-to-day before Sunday's game at Dallas. C.J. West's practice window opens Wednesday, Deebo Samuel could practice Wednesday, and Mike Evans is not expected to.
Lendeborg's minus 33 is mostly a number about Curry's minutes without him
Basketball-Reference lists Yaxel Lendeborg at -33.1 On-Off through ten games, next to a PER of 20.2 and a true shooting percentage of .630. The number is two team results subtracted: Golden State is about 3 points per 100 possessions worse than its opponents in his 323 minutes and 20 to 30 better in the 162 minutes he sits. A replay of ESPN's play-by-play puts the on-court figure at -2.5 and the gap at 22. Curry was on the floor for 120 of the 162 off minutes, and those 120 minutes are plus 60. Curry's presence beside Lendeborg does not move the rookie's own on-court number; Draymond Green's presence moves it 19 points down and Georges Niang's 16 points up. The off column is about 320 possessions, and a bootstrap over the replayed stints puts its 90 percent range at plus 2 to plus 38 per 100.
Richard's thumb opens a starting job, and Niang keeps winning from the bench
Golden State beat Phoenix, Miami and Orlando from November 2 to November 7 by a combined 30 points. Georges Niang came off the bench in all three, played just under 70 minutes and was plus 49, tied with Stephen Curry for the team's best. The starting five of Curry, Draymond Green, Yaxel Lendeborg, Brandin Podziemski and Will Richard was outscored by 25 in 13.5 minutes across Richard's two starts. Richard has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb and is out against New Orleans on Monday, November 9, with no timetable; Gui Santos is listed as probable.
Twelve throws on third-and-short, three sacks: what Jim Harding inherits
By CollegeFootballData's play-by-play across Michigan's nine 2026 games, Michigan converted 17 of 27 third downs with 3 yards or fewer to go when it ran and 5 of 12 when it threw, with three sacks on those throws, all against Indiana. Tommy Carr has been sacked on about 1 dropback in 9, against 1 in 19 for Bryce Underwood, and its first- and second-down runs have lost ground more often. Jim Harding, the offensive line coach, is now interim coordinator and will lead a collaborative play-calling group at Oregon, which has at least two sacks in each of its last six games.
49ers
All 49ers →The 49ers ran Las Vegas out of its plan before they took the ball away
San Francisco beat Las Vegas 38-17 on Sunday and is 7-1. The five second-half takeaways will be remembered, but the game was settled earlier. The 49ers' first three drives went 37 plays and 242 yards, took 19 minutes and 23 seconds and ended in touchdowns, and San Francisco ran 25 times for 125 yards before halftime. Las Vegas had the ball for 71 seconds in the first 13 minutes. Trailing by 11 at the half, the Raiders ran six times and threw 24 times after it, and Klint Kubiak said that being in position to throw on every down produces interceptions. The pass rush did not cause the turnovers: Cousins was hit twice on eight first-half throws and four times on 24 second-half throws. Two takeaways were punched out of receivers' hands, and one came off a fumbled exchange. The second half also showed a cost. San Francisco threw an interception, was stopped on fourth-and-1 at its own 40, and allowed 222 kickoff-return yards, and Las Vegas started three drives in 49ers territory. The game moved San Francisco's season turnover margin from minus-3 to plus-1. Las Vegas has now allowed 30 or more points six weeks running, so Dallas on Sunday is the first test of whether the formula holds.
The 49ers trade a sixth-round pick for Keenan Allen
San Francisco acquired wide receiver Keenan Allen from Indianapolis on Tuesday, deadline day, for a 2027 sixth-round pick, the league transaction wire shows. It is the second trade between the clubs in three weeks, after DeForest Buckner on Oct. 27. Allen, 34, played at Cal and is a six-time Pro Bowler with 1,095 career catches, eighth all time. He had 40 catches for 351 yards and one touchdown in eight games for the Colts, their team lead. The club placed Gracen Halton on injured reserve with a fractured ankle the same afternoon, and its roster page showed 52 on the active roster before Allen was added. Allen joins a receiver room missing Mike Evans and Deebo Samuel Sr. last Sunday. He caught four passes for 26 yards against Dallas in Week 9, and the 49ers play at Dallas on Sunday.
Five takeaways in one half, and the 49ers never sacked Kirk Cousins
San Francisco beat Las Vegas 38-17 at Levi's Stadium on Sunday and is 7-1. The 49ers scored touchdowns on their first three possessions, did not punt, and ran 43 times for 190 yards. Las Vegas turned the ball over on five of its six second-half possessions: Jaden Dugger's 35-yard interception return on the first play of the half, two forced fumbles, and interceptions by Renardo Green and Malik Mustapha. The official game book credits San Francisco with no sacks and six quarterback hits, two of them on the plays Green and Mustapha intercepted. Nick Bosa played 39 of 50 defensive snaps in his first game since Sept. 20, and DeForest Buckner played 34. Jordan Watkins caught all four of his targets for 86 yards and his first NFL touchdown. Christian McCaffrey's 12-yard catch set the Super Bowl-era record for touchdown catches by a running back and was Brock Purdy's 100th touchdown pass. Gracen Halton broke his ankle and is out for the season, Shanahan said; Green (back) and Deommodore Lenoir (foot) did not return.
Sharks
All Sharks →San Jose's kill was allowing the chances before it allowed the goals
San Jose's penalty kill fell from 84.9 to 76.4 percent in four games. MoneyPuck's four-on-five numbers show the chances were already among the league's worst before the goals came, and the last four games made them worse.
Celebrini's line won the chances, but Toffoli was on for both regulation goals
San Jose beat the New York Islanders 3-2 in an eight-round shootout at SAP Center on Monday and ended a five-game losing streak. Tyler Toffoli was on the ice for both regulation goals in 10:57. The Misa, Celebrini and Smith line won its five-on-five chances and scored nothing, and Ilya Sorokin stopped all three shots on a two-minute four-on-three.
Pohlkamp reaches San Jose, and the board does not move
Pohlkamp's first NHL games are the week's real change on the Sharks prospect board; Stenberg's three goals are the louder one, and nobody moves.
Giants
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The Giants cut 17 players to reach 40. Now Henry Lalane needs a spot by Nov. 17
The Giants removed 17 players from their 40-man roster between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2 and now hold exactly 40. They must add any prospect they want to shield from the Rule 5 draft by Nov. 17, three days before the Nov. 20 tender deadline, with Henry Lalane first in line and three pitchers holding spots they are not expected to use before late 2027 at the earliest.
Brian Sabean said he was not an idiot. Jeff Kent repeated it in Orlando
On Wednesday, November 13, 1996, Brian Sabean, newly named general manager of a Giants club that had finished last at 68-94, traded Matt Williams to Cleveland for Jeff Kent, Jose Vizcaino and Julian Tavarez. Two days later he called an informal news conference and said, per the San Francisco Chronicle, \"Well, I'm not an idiot.\" Kent drove in at least 101 runs in each of his six seasons in San Francisco, won the 2000 MVP and was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee on December 7, 2025. At his introductory news conference the next day he said he would not be in the Hall without the trade and repeated Sabean's line. Sabean, the longest-serving general manager in franchise history, is on the Contemporary Baseball Era ballot the committee takes up on December 6, 2026.
Three Giants made the Hall of Fame ballot. Each voter gets three votes.
Three of the eight names on the Hall of Fame's Contemporary Baseball Era ballot, announced November 2, ran the Giants: Dusty Baker, Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean. Each of the sixteen voters may name at most three candidates and election takes twelve, so electing all three Giants on December 6 would use 36 of the room's 48 votes.
Warriors
All Warriors →Lendeborg's minus 33 is mostly a number about Curry's minutes without him
Basketball-Reference lists Yaxel Lendeborg at -33.1 On-Off through ten games, next to a PER of 20.2 and a true shooting percentage of .630. The number is two team results subtracted: Golden State is about 3 points per 100 possessions worse than its opponents in his 323 minutes and 20 to 30 better in the 162 minutes he sits. A replay of ESPN's play-by-play puts the on-court figure at -2.5 and the gap at 22. Curry was on the floor for 120 of the 162 off minutes, and those 120 minutes are plus 60. Curry's presence beside Lendeborg does not move the rookie's own on-court number; Draymond Green's presence moves it 19 points down and Georges Niang's 16 points up. The off column is about 320 possessions, and a bootstrap over the replayed stints puts its 90 percent range at plus 2 to plus 38 per 100.
Richard's thumb opens a starting job, and Niang keeps winning from the bench
Golden State beat Phoenix, Miami and Orlando from November 2 to November 7 by a combined 30 points. Georges Niang came off the bench in all three, played just under 70 minutes and was plus 49, tied with Stephen Curry for the team's best. The starting five of Curry, Draymond Green, Yaxel Lendeborg, Brandin Podziemski and Will Richard was outscored by 25 in 13.5 minutes across Richard's two starts. Richard has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb and is out against New Orleans on Monday, November 9, with no timetable; Gui Santos is listed as probable.
Curry set a record for 40-point games after 35. It took 36 minutes.
Stephen Curry scored 41 points in Golden State's 126-119 overtime win over the Orlando Magic at Chase Center on Saturday, November 7, his 16th regular-season 40-point game since his 35th birthday, one more than LeBron James and four more than Michael Jordan, ESPN reported. Curry played a season-high 36 minutes, sat the first 72 seconds of overtime, and scored 12 points in the final 2:21 of regulation. The Warriors have won seven straight after an 0-3 start and host New Orleans on Monday.
NCAA Hoops
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The NCAA Lost On Friday And Filed For Nashville On Saturday
One day after Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney certified a nationwide class and enjoined the NCAA in Denver, the association filed a motion with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation asking that eight eligibility cases across five districts be centralized before Chief Judge William L. Campbell Jr. in the Middle District of Tennessee. The Panel scheduled argument for September 24 in Chicago. The brief describes the Colorado class as putative and says no decision has issued, which had stopped being true the day before it was filed.
Dan Hurley Counted 80. The NCAA Told A Court It Might Be Tens Of Thousands.
In its August 10 emergency motion to the Tenth Circuit, the NCAA argued that class members returning for a fifth season will displace younger athletes, and put the available Division I roster spots at 4,808 in women's sports and 988 in men's. The same 24-page brief describes the class as tens of thousands on one page and as thousands on another. Dan Hurley, making the identical argument at UConn on August 7, counted 80. Twice a federal judge has gone looking for evidence attached to the displacement claim and reported finding none.
The Fifth Year Only Moves You If You Were Already In The Portal In April
A nationwide class of athletes who ran out of eligibility in the spring is now eligible for a fifth season by order of a federal court in Denver. Whether any of them can join a school other than the one they just left is a separate question, raised in an emergency motion to enforce filed August 4, fully briefed on August 10, and undecided as of August 15. Seth Trimble reached Louisville because he had entered the transfer portal in the spring, before any of this existed.
Michigan FB
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Michigan's last three opponents are 21-6, and each is playing for the playoff
The College Football Playoff selection committee's second ranking, released November 10, has UCLA 4th, Oregon 16th and Ohio State 20th, Michigan's last three opponents, who are a combined 21-6. Michigan, 5-4 and unranked, needs one win for bowl eligibility. By DraftKings' moneylines with the margin removed, it has about a 22% chance at Oregon and 18% at Ohio State.
Twelve throws on third-and-short, three sacks: what Jim Harding inherits
By CollegeFootballData's play-by-play across Michigan's nine 2026 games, Michigan converted 17 of 27 third downs with 3 yards or fewer to go when it ran and 5 of 12 when it threw, with three sacks on those throws, all against Indiana. Tommy Carr has been sacked on about 1 dropback in 9, against 1 in 19 for Bryce Underwood, and its first- and second-down runs have lost ground more often. Jim Harding, the offensive line coach, is now interim coordinator and will lead a collaborative play-calling group at Oregon, which has at least two sacks in each of its last six games.
Michigan held Michigan State without a touchdown and lost by nine
Michigan State beat Michigan 15-6 at Michigan Stadium on November 7 on five Liam Boyd field goals. Twelve of the 15 points came on drives that started at the Michigan State 38 or better, set up by two Michigan punts from deep after sacks and by two turnovers. Michigan gained 192 yards, was sacked five times, went 2 of 10 on third down and did not score until 1:35 remained.
Michigan BB
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Michigan won the glass in Boston and lost the free-throw line by twelve
UConn beat Michigan 85-77 at TD Garden on November 6. Michigan out-rebounded UConn 35-33, held it to nine offensive rebounds and scored four more points from the field, 59 to 55. UConn made 30 of 36 free throws and Michigan made 18 of 23. Elliot Cadeau fouled out with 2:16 left and Moustapha Thiam had four fouls in 15 minutes. Kenny Noland, the guard Mike Boynton named as cover for Cadeau's foul trouble, played six minutes. Michigan plays Marquette on Wednesday, November 11.
Oakland got 21 offensive rebounds off Michigan. UConn got 22 in April and lost.
Michigan plays fourth-ranked UConn at TD Garden on Friday, November 6, seven months after beating the Huskies 69-63 for the national championship. Oakland took 21 of the 47 rebounds available on its misses in Michigan's 84-68 opener, 44.7 percent. UConn took 22 of 49 in the title game, 44.9 percent. Michigan's opponents got 28.2 percent across all 40 games last season. Coach Mike Boynton Jr. said Moustapha Thiam would help after missing the opener with an illness, and that his guards have to rebound better.
Gayle's return cost Liburd the start. Noland kept his minutes
Roddy Gayle Jr. started Michigan's 83-66 exhibition loss to 10th-ranked Houston on October 25, his first game since being cleared for a fifth season, and played a team-high 30 minutes; Ricky Liburd, who started the first two exhibitions, played 14 off the bench. Kenny Noland played 19 and finished the exhibitions with 58 minutes to Liburd's 40 before Michigan opens against Oakland at Crisler on Monday, November 2, and plays UConn on Friday, November 6.
USMNT
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Gio Reyna is out for Haiti, and his replacement has scored in three straight
U.S. Soccer withdrew Gio Reyna from the 25-man roster for the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal against Haiti on November 7, 2026, with an injury, and added Stoke City midfielder Jack McGlynn, 23, who has 13 caps. Reyna started all four of the fall friendlies and played 259 of the 360 minutes; four different players replaced him, and two of them, Mathis Albert and Sebastian Berhalter, are on the Haiti roster. McGlynn has played 797 of Stoke's 1,350 Championship minutes this season, all 360 of the last four matches, and scored in each of the last three. The United States plays Haiti on November 14 in Miami and November 17 in Cincinnati.
George Campbell's groin put Mark McKenzie on the Haiti roster five hours before he scored
U.S. Soccer added Toulouse defender Mark McKenzie to the 25-man roster for the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal against Haiti on November 6, replacing George Campbell, who was withdrawn with a groin injury. McKenzie, 27, has 30 caps and had not been in a camp since the World Cup. Later that day he scored in the 56th minute of Toulouse's 3-1 win over Strasbourg, his first league goal of the season, and has played all 900 of Toulouse's league minutes. Gio Reyna, also on the roster, scored for Strasbourg and came off in the 70th minute with an injury. The United States plays Haiti on November 14 in Miami and November 17 in Cincinnati.
Pepi and Balogun were not 100 percent. Pochettino brought the one with no start
Mauricio Pochettino named 25 players on November 4 for the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal against Haiti, November 14 in Miami and November 17 in Cincinnati. He said he did not want to bring both Ricardo Pepi and Folarin Balogun because neither is 100 percent, and he brought Balogun, who has 116 of 810 league minutes and no start. In four league matches since the fall window, Balogun played 102 of 360 minutes and Pepi 30 of 360. Julian Hall played 535 of 540. Mathis Albert (20 of 720) and Malik Tillman (242 of 720) are on the list; Mark McKenzie (810 of 810), Yunus Musah (671 of 900) and Aidan Morris (1,080 of 1,170) are not. Haiti is the designated home team in Miami, so a U.S. goal there is an away goal. Wilson Isidor returned for Sunderland with 33 minutes at Coventry on October 31.
USWNT
All USWNT →Twelve of the 51 still have an NWSL match to play, and Hutton is not one
Of the 51 players on the U.S. preliminary list for the Concacaf W Championship, 12 play for the four clubs left in the NWSL semifinals (Washington v Utah on November 14, Gotham v Kansas City on November 15, the final on November 21), seven play in England or France, and 32 play for NWSL clubs whose seasons ended on November 1 or in the quarterfinals of November 6 to 8. Claire Hutton, who started the October 13 draw with Spain, missed Bay FC's matches on October 18 and October 24, came on in the 61st minute of its last one on November 1, and has no league match left. Jaelin Howell, who replaced her against Spain, and Rose Lavelle, both listed questionable by the league on November 7, started Gotham's quarterfinal and play Kansas City at Icahn Stadium on Sunday. The United States play El Salvador on November 27 in Mansfield, Texas.
Angel City signed Maddie DiMaria before any of her 12 World Cup goals
Angel City announced on November 5 that 17-year-old forward Maddie DiMaria has signed through 2030. ESPN confirmed she signed before the NWSL's October 8 roster freeze, which puts the contract ahead of all 12 of her goals at the U-17 Women's World Cup. She is available for Saturday's quarterfinal at Kansas City, and she is not on the 51-player U.S. list for the Concacaf W Championship.
Hayes's 51 made room for 11 from outside this year and none for four from January
Concacaf published the 51-player U.S. preliminary roster for the 2026 W Championship on November 2, and every replacement for the final 23 must come from it. Sam Meza, Lo'eau LaBonta, Sally Menti and Izzy Rodriguez, all from Emma Hayes's January camp, none on the league's injury report and all playing for Seattle or Kansas City on November 1, are not on it, while eleven players named on none of this year's five U.S. rosters are.