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The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the New Orleans Saints 16-10 on Sunday, Oct. 25, at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, the NFL's first regular-season game in France, AP reports. Attendance was 78,488.

Aaron Rodgers, 42, threw a touchdown pass to tight end Darnell Washington, the 540th of his career, moving him past Peyton Manning into third in NFL history, and Chris Boswell kicked three field goals. Linebacker Payton Wilson intercepted Tyler Shough in the red zone after, he said, practicing that play more than 20 times; he had picked off Rodgers on a similar play in practice that week.

Rodgers called the French anthem "gorgeous" but said it was sometimes hard to find the play clock among all the numbers on the scoreboard. The week was tense: AP notes rioting and looting during protests over school funding and living costs a week earlier, and players stayed close to the hotel during more protests on Saturday.

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli, 20, won the United States Grand Prix in Austin on Sunday, Oct. 25, from pole position, his ninth win of the season, Reuters reports via Al Jazeera. He finished 13.078 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, with Red Bull's Max Verstappen third.

Mercedes kept Antonelli on a one-stop strategy while others stopped twice. With five races left, his lead over teammate George Russell grew to 123 points: Russell must win the next race in Mexico City to stay in contention, otherwise the championship goes to Antonelli, in only his second F1 season. Verstappen, champion from 2021 to 2024, is mathematically out of the title race.

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff called it "the race of a champion who isn't the champion yet."

The Milwaukee Brewers won the World Series on Wednesday night, Oct. 28, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in Game 5 at Tropicana Field to take the series four games to one. Neither franchise had won a title before.

According to CBS Sports, presumptive NL Cy Young winner Jacob Misiorowski made his best start of the postseason and three relievers held Tampa Bay to one run the rest of the way. Rookie Cooper Pratt drove in two runs and, with hits in six straight at-bats going back to Game 4, set a World Series record for a rookie. CBS says the Brewers went 11-2 in the postseason after beating the two-time defending champion Dodgers in the NLCS.

The Rays had avoided a sweep the night before. NPR (via AP) reports that Pratt's 12th-inning home run put Milwaukee ahead in Game 4, but Tampa Bay rallied in the bottom half, with pinch-hitter Ben Williamson's chopper over first base winning it 4-3. The Rays were the fourth team in World Series history to avoid elimination with an extra-inning comeback.

Harry Kane won the men's Ballon d'Or on Monday, Oct. 26, at the London Palladium, the first Englishman to win it since Michael Owen in 2001, AP reports. Kane, 33, scored 73 goals for club and country last season, led Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga and German Cup double, and scored six times at the World Cup, where England finished third. Kylian Mbappe, Lamine Yamal, Rodri and Lionel Messi followed in the voting.

"My journey wasn't straightforward," Kane said in a message to young players. "I had to fight my way to be the very best."

Spain's Alexia Putellas won the women's award for a record-equaling third time, after winning in 2021 and 2022 and then tearing her ACL. She now plays for London City Lionesses. The ceremony was held in London for the first time to mark 70 years since the first winner, England's Stanley Matthews, in 1956.

Thousands of Milwaukee Brewers fans traveled to St. Petersburg, Florida, for the World Series games at Tropicana Field, the Associated Press reports. Before Game 4 on Tuesday, Oct. 27, a large group gathered in a parking lot more than four hours before first pitch, and by an hour before the game there appeared to be more Brewers fans than Rays fans in the stands.

According to ticket marketplace TickPick, cited by AP, 41.3% of all Game 4 purchases came from Wisconsin, against 30.5% from Florida; the cheapest ticket was $900. Back home, American Family Field in Milwaukee sold out a watch party for 31,000 fans.

Brewers outfielder Garrett Mitchell said the "Let's go Brewers" chants started during batting practice. The fans had to wait one more night: the Rays won Game 4 in 12 innings before Milwaukee clinched in Game 5.

UCF beat No. 2 BYU 39-31 in two overtimes in Orlando on Saturday, Oct. 24, the Knights' first win over a top-5 team in school history, AP reports. Backup quarterback Keyone Jenkins, in his fifth start since Alonza Barnett III was hurt, threw a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Grayson Brousseau in the second overtime and finished with 293 yards and three touchdown passes. BYU's last fourth-down pass from the UCF 4-yard line fell incomplete.

The end of regulation was chaotic: a sack was overturned on replay to an incomplete pass, BYU was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, Jenkins was stopped on a fourth-and-goal sneak at the 1, and UCF couldn't convert a game-winning kick. "That's the weirdest end of a game I have ever seen," coach Scott Frost said.

A week earlier BYU had beaten then-No. 2 Notre Dame to reach its highest AP ranking since its 1984 national title season. The Cougars fell to 6-1.

Oklahoma City guard Jalen Williams was taken off the court on a stretcher with 1:14 left in the Thunder's 108-101 win over the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday, Oct. 25, after being hurt while fouled on a drive, AP reports. The game stopped for about five minutes; Williams gave the crowd two thumbs up as he was wheeled off, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander fought back tears in a postgame interview.

On Monday, general manager Sam Presti said Williams needs surgery for a broken left fibula and a dislocated left ankle, with no timetable until after surgery; AP notes he could miss the rest of the season. Forward Cason Wallace, hurt in the same game, needs surgery for a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

Williams, an All-Star and All-NBA player, was a key part of the Thunder's 2025 title team, which entered this season as a co-favorite with the Spurs.

Germany's Blanka Dörfel, 24, finished second in her marathon debut at the Frankfurt Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 25, in 2:20:46, the second-fastest time ever by a German woman, Athletics Illustrated reports. She ran without a watch and didn't see her time until she entered the Festhalle. "The wet course was a challenge," she said. Ethiopia's Zeineba Yimer won in 2:19:45.

In the men's race, Ethiopia's Jirata Dinki, 24, running only his third marathon and with a previous best of 2:08:18, pulled away in the last two kilometres to win in 2:05:26. Germany's Amanal Petros, the European champion, was second in 2:05:46, the first German man on the Frankfurt podium in more than 25 years. "I had not reckoned with him," Petros said.

A record 19,720 runners from 128 countries entered. It was the last race for race director Jo Schindler after 25 years.

Ty Jerome scored 31 points and made all 14 of his free throws as the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Sacramento Kings 123-112 on Sunday, Oct. 25, to open the season 3-0, AP reports via TSN. He came in off a 45-point game in the season opener and, per AP, leads the NBA in scoring. Last season injuries limited him to 15 games for Memphis.

Rookie Cameron Boozer added 16 points and 11 rebounds, and Cedric Coward had 15 points and 11 rebounds. The Kings' Zach LaVine scored 37.

Real Madrid beat Barcelona 2-1 at Camp Nou on Sunday, Oct. 25, with Kylian Mbappe scoring both goals, Bernama reports from Anadolu. Madrid led just before halftime when Gerard Martin's attempted clearance hit Mbappe and went in; Barcelona captain Raphinha equalized in the 61st minute. In the 87th minute, substitute Eduardo Camavinga carried the ball upfield and squared it for Mbappe to finish into an empty net.

Barcelona had been trying to set a record for consecutive wins at the start of a Spanish top-flight season, but stopped at nine, tying the mark Real Madrid set in 1968-69. Barcelona stayed top of the table.

The result put Real Madrid one ahead in the all-time Clasico record, which had been level at 106 wins each with 52 draws.