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By Hank Dalton , RF Sports Radio MLB voice Rangers fans, the quiet weekend in baseball is a good time to do the math Chris Young already did. The payroll is not going up, the needs list is long, and the cleanest way to fix it might involve trading someone you like. The facts Per MLB.com's Kennedi Landry, Young told reporters he expects the 2027 payroll to be "very similar" to 2026, when it sat around $193 million. After arbitration raises, that leaves the Rangers about $20 million to spend. Corey Seager, Jacob deGrom and Nathan Eovaldi are each due between $20 million and $37 million in 2027, and all three have no-trade protection; deGrom invoked his at the trade deadline. Young was careful: "I don't think we are in a spot where we have to move anybody." But he also said, "Oftentimes, [you] trade one player to make yourself stronger in two different spots, and that's what we're looking to do." His priorities have not changed: a reb...

By Coach Terrence Booker , RF Sports Radio DFW high school voice DFW, the brackets are certified and the playoffs start Thursday. Saturday was district certification day across Texas, and now the first-round schedule is filling in. The opener is a heavyweight: Hebron at Allen on Thursday night. The facts Per HS Football Nation's bi-district breakdown, bi-district games run Nov. 12-14. Allen hosts Hebron at 7 p.m. Thursday in Class 6A Division I; the last time they met in a bi-district game, in November 2021, Allen won 59-30. Elsewhere in Region I of 6A Division I, Prosper visits Lewisville at Max Goldsmith Stadium, Plano East travels to Euless Trinity at Pennington Field, Coppell meets South Grand Prairie in Grapevine, Byron Nelson visits Arlington Martin, and Keller meets Arlington at Keller ISD Stadium. In Region II, Duncanville, last season's 6A Division I runner-up after a 10-7 loss to North Shore, opens against Waco Midway at Baylor's McLane Stadium. Rockwall ...

By Brooke Calloway , RF Sports Radio SMU voice SMU Nation, the Mustangs had Saturday off after Friday's 51-28 win over Virginia Tech, and the rest of the ACC picture got a little more interesting while they watched. Miami lost. Wake Forest rolled. And the biggest home game of the season is now six days away. The facts Per the Associated Press via ESPN, No. 4 Notre Dame beat No. 1 Miami 31-24 in South Bend on Saturday night. Miami fell to 8-1 in its first game without injured receiver Malachi Toney. Because it was a non-conference game, Miami's 4-1 ACC record did not change. Per Wake Forest Athletics, the Demon Deacons beat Merrimack 77-0 at home, the most points in the program's modern era and their first shutout since 2015, with touchdowns on a 79-yard punt return by Kam Shanks and a 98-yard interception return by Josh Patterson. SMU is 7-2 overall and 5-2 in the ACC after scoring on its first eight possessions against Virginia Tech. Kevin Jennings threw for 350 y...

By Jordan Pierce , RF Sports Radio NBA voice NBA fans, Saturday was a seven-game slate with a little bit of everything: an overtime 41 from Stephen Curry, another efficient Victor Wembanyama night, a Mexico City win for Denver, and the defending champion Knicks reminding Cleveland who swept whom last spring. The facts Per the Associated Press via ESPN, Curry scored 41 points with six rebounds and six assists, converting a three-point play with 1:38 left in overtime, as Golden State beat Orlando 126-119 for its seventh straight win. The Warriors are 7-3 after an 0-3 start, and rookie Yaxel Lendeborg added 23. Franz Wagner had 30 points and 11 assists for the Magic. Wembanyama scored 29 points in 24 minutes on 9-of-13 shooting as San Antonio routed Portland 125-103 to move to 8-2. In Cleveland, Jalen Brunson scored 31, including 18 straight in the second quarter, and Karl-Anthony Towns had 29 in a 109-97 Knicks win; Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 37 for the Cavs. Shai Gil...

By Nolan Frost , RF Sports Radio Stars voice Stars Nation, Miro Heiskanen sat again on Saturday night, and Thomas Harley made sure nobody spent the night worrying about it. Harley had a goal and two assists, all on the power play, and Dallas held on for a 4-3 win over the San Jose Sharks at American Airlines Center. The facts Per NHL.com, San Jose went up 1-0 on Michael Misa's goal at 7:22 of the first. Roope Hintz tied it on a 4-on-3 power play at 9:16, cleaning up a rebound after Wyatt Johnston tipped a Harley shot. Jamie Benn made it 2-1 at 15:17 for the 999th point of his career, and Jason Robertson scored on the power play at 16:51 off a cross-ice feed from Mikko Rantanen. Ivar Stenberg cut it to 3-2 early in the second, Harley one-timed a power-play goal at 14:30 for a 4-2 lead, and Will Smith scored on a 5-on-3 at 17:02. Nobody scored in the third. Jake Oettinger made 20 saves. Rantanen and Johnston had two assists each, and Rantanen extended his point streak to fiv...

By Cam Sutton , RF Sports Radio Colorado voice Buffs Nation, last week's overtime win over Kansas State felt like a turning point. Saturday night in Tempe felt like a step back. Colorado fell behind 17-0 at halftime and lost 20-10 to Arizona State at Mountain America Stadium. The facts Per CU Athletics and the Associated Press, Colorado was held scoreless in the first half, with four punts and two failed fourth-down attempts, one of them a 24-yard sack of Isaac Wilson on fourth-and-6 from the ASU 34. The Buffs' biggest play, a 74-yard touchdown pass from Wilson to Ernest Campbell, was wiped out by an ineligible-man-downfield penalty. Per the AP, Colorado managed 103 first-half yards, 62 of them in the final 45 seconds. Arizona State got a 31-yard Carson Smith field goal, a fourth-and-goal trick play in which running back Cardae Mack took a direct snap and lobbed a 1-yard touchdown to quarterback Jake Fette, and a 34-yard Fette touchdown pass to Reed Harris. Fette becam...