A packed Sunday across world sport, led by UFC 333 title defences in Abu Dhabi, a super-featherweight unification in Texas, the Brewers taking a 2-0 World Series lead, the Valkyries forcing a deciding WNBA Finals game, and Australia and New Zealand running up big Rugby League World Cup wins, while college football produced overtime and late drama on Saturday, the NBA and NHL delivered high-scoring nights, F1 headed to Austin with a title on the line, MotoGP’s Phillip Island farewell was washed out, and new world records fell in marathon race walking and gymnastics medals were decided in Rotterdam; several Sunday daytime games in the United States were still scheduled or in progress at the morning PT cutoff, so they are listed as scheduled, not finals.
- NFL, Week 7: The Steelers-Saints game in Paris, the NFL’s first game in France, was in progress on Sunday morning; the rest of Sunday’s slate, including 49ers-Falcons, Colts-Vikings, Dolphins-Jets, Buccaneers-Panthers, Bengals-Ravens, Giants-Texans, Broncos-Cardinals, Packers-Lions, Rams-Raiders and Chiefs-Seahawks, plus Monday’s Cowboys-Eagles, had no verified finals at the cutoff. Ravens QB Lamar Jackson was ruled out for a third straight game with an ankle injury, while Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield was set to return after a dislocated thumb.
- NCAAF, Week 8, Oct 24: No. 6 Indiana beat Michigan 13-6 in overtime, its first win at Michigan since 1967; No. 18 Texas beat No. 7 Ole Miss 34-27; South Carolina beat No. 11 Tennessee 27-24 on a last-second 48-yard field goal; LSU beat Auburn 38-17; Southern Miss beat Louisiana 35-31; Colorado State beat San Diego State 56-49.
- NBA, Oct 24: Phoenix beat Golden State 131-122 behind Devin Booker’s 43 points, as the Warriors fell to 0-3; Denver beat New Orleans 141-135 in overtime behind Jamal Murray’s 42 and Nikola Jokic’s 35-point triple-double; Cleveland beat Brooklyn 125-121. Sunday games Jazz-Lakers, Timberwolves-Raptors and Kings-Grizzlies were scheduled, not finals, at the cutoff. Mavericks forward Cooper Flagg was out indefinitely with a sprained left shoulder, and Magic forward Paolo Banchero was reported out 4-6 weeks with a high ankle sprain.
- WNBA Finals, Game 4, Oct 24: Golden State Valkyries beat Atlanta Dream 67-62 to tie the series 2-2, with Gabby Williams scoring 17; Game 5 is Monday, Oct 26, in San Francisco. Indiana Fever fired general manager Amber Cox on Oct 23, and A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell and Olivia Miles were named to the All-WNBA First Team.
- NCAAB / WNCAAB: No regular-season games were verified for Oct 25; Kansas vs. Duke was scheduled as a Sunday exhibition, and the women’s preseason AP Top 25 had South Carolina No. 1, UConn No. 2, USC No. 3 and Duke No. 4.
- NHL, Oct 24: Toronto beat Edmonton 7-2, with William Nylander scoring twice to reach 300 NHL goals; Washington beat Buffalo 4-3 in overtime; Columbus beat Vegas 2-1 in overtime; Utah beat Tampa Bay 5-4 in overtime, with Nikita Kucherov passing Steven Stamkos for Tampa Bay’s franchise points lead.
- MLB World Series, Game 2, Oct 24: Milwaukee Brewers beat Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 after trailing 4-0, taking a 2-0 series lead; Sal Frelick tied it in the sixth and rookie Cooper Pratt’s seventh-inning single gave Milwaukee the lead for good. Game 3 is Monday, Oct 26, at Tropicana Field.
- MLS, Oct 24: Columbus beat Toronto 4-2, Austin beat Sporting Kansas City 2-1, Orlando drew New York City FC 2-2 with a 99th-minute equaliser, Portland beat Charlotte 3-2, San Diego drew Seattle 2-2, Colorado beat Vancouver 1-0, Real Salt Lake beat St. Louis 3-0, FC Dallas beat San Jose 3-0, Houston drew Minnesota 0-0, Chicago beat Atlanta 3-2, FC Cincinnati beat D.C. United 2-0, and New England beat Philadelphia 2-1.
- EPL, Oct 24: Aston Villa beat Manchester City 2-1, ending City’s perfect start, with Nicolas Jackson scoring twice; Arsenal beat Everton 2-0; Tottenham beat Chelsea 2-0 at Stamford Bridge, with Cole Palmer sent off; Fulham beat Coventry 1-0 on Oscar Bobb’s 80th-minute winner. Sunday’s Liverpool-Brighton and Crystal Palace-Newcastle games were in progress at the morning cutoff.
- World Cup, youth football: At the FIFA U-15 World Cup in Baku, India U-15 beat Cameroon 2-1 and drew Grenada 3-3; at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Morocco, Ghana beat Canada 2-0 to reach the Round of 16, Japan beat Venezuela 2-0, and France beat Zambia 1-0. No senior men’s FIFA World Cup match was verified for Oct 24-25.
- Global football leagues: Inter Milan beat Fiorentina 2-1 in Serie A with stoppage-time goals from Marcus Thuram and Piotr Zielinski. Sunday’s Barcelona-Real Madrid Clasico and other major European fixtures were scheduled or in progress, with no verified finals at the cutoff.
- Women’s soccer: Angel City beat Bay FC 2-0 and Denver Summit beat Racing Louisville 6-1 in the NWSL; Chelsea Women beat Crystal Palace Women 3-1 and Brighton beat West Ham 3-0 in the WSL.
- ICC / cricket: India beat New Zealand by 4 wickets in Christchurch on Oct 24, chasing 180 to lead their T20I series 2-0; in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Africa Sub Regional Qualifier C in Abuja on Oct 25, Mozambique beat Zambia by 3 wickets and Gambia beat Lesotho by 3 runs. The Pakistan-England ODI in Lahore was in progress at the cutoff, with England posting 241 all out.
- Rugby Union: Australia A beat USA XV 61-12 in Nashville, while USA Women beat Italy 54-24; in the WXV Global Series, Canada beat England 31-22, New Zealand beat France 31-12, Wales beat Japan 17-0, and Ireland beat South Africa 40-27. In the URC, Leinster beat Munster 24-18, Stormers beat Scarlets 52-40, and Bulls beat Ulster 34-26.
- Rugby League World Cup: Australia beat Fiji 36-22 in Brisbane to reach the semi-finals, with Tom Trbojevic scoring three tries; New Zealand beat Cook Islands 82-16 in Christchurch, with Jamayne Isaako scoring a record 38 points; New Zealand’s Kiwi Ferns beat France 92-0; Fiji Bulikula beat Papua New Guinea Orchids 40-4; England beat France 82-0, Samoa beat Papua New Guinea 64-6, and Tonga beat Lebanon 36-0.
- F1: Kimi Antonelli starts the United States Grand Prix in Austin on pole, ahead of Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar, with the race scheduled for 4 p.m. ET and Antonelli able to clinch the title with a win plus results going his way; no race winner was verified at the morning cutoff. In F1 Academy in Austin, Britain’s Alisha Palmowski secured the 2026 championship with three races remaining.
- IndyCar: No race on Oct 24-25; Alex Palou invited Fernando Alonso as a possible guest entry for IndyCar’s Barcelona race in July 2027, following the announcement of a 10-year Barcelona deal.
- MotoGP: All Sunday races at the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island were cancelled due to heavy rain and poor visibility preventing medical-helicopter operation, ending Phillip Island’s run as Australian GP host before the move to Adelaide in 2027; Saturday’s Sprint, won by Marc Marquez, stands as the final MotoGP race there. Gresini’s Fermin Aldeguer will miss the Malaysian GP with a fractured hand.
- NASCAR: The Cup YellaWood 500 at Talladega was scheduled for Sunday afternoon, with Chase Briscoe and Austin Hill on the front row; in the Xfinity / O’Reilly Auto Parts Series at Talladega on Oct 24, Sammy Smith won, and five Chase drivers were eliminated from championship contention.
- Boxing, professional: O’Shaquie Foster beat Emanuel Navarrete by unanimous decision in San Antonio on Oct 24, dropping him twice in round 12, to unify the WBC, WBO and IBF super-featherweight titles; Dalton Smith retained the WBC light-welterweight title by split decision over Alberto Puello in Sheffield.
- Boxing, amateur: At the World Boxing U19 Championships in Budva, USA’s Ruby Lopez and Lauryn Elmore won quarter-finals on Oct 24 to secure medals; their Oct 25 semi-finals had no verified results at the cutoff.
- MMA, UFC 333, Abu Dhabi, Oct 24: Alexander Volkanovski beat Movsar Evloev by second-round TKO to defend the featherweight title and hand Evloev his first pro loss; Petr Yan beat Merab Dvalishvili by unanimous decision to defend the bantamweight title. Islam Makhachev will not defend the welterweight title at UFC 336 in January, with Carlos Prates vs. Michael Morales instead fighting for the interim title. No Bellator event or result was verified for Oct 24-25, and ONE Championship’s next card is ONE Friday Fights 176 on Oct 30 in Bangkok.
- Tennis, ATP / WTA, Oct 25: World No. 1 Elena Rybakina beat Leylah Fernandez 6-2, 6-2 to retain the Ningbo Open title; Katerina Siniakova beat Ashlyn Krueger 6-1, 6-0 to win the Japan Open in Osaka; Daniil Medvedev beat Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-7(6), 6-1, 6-3 to defend the Almaty Open title. The Brussels European Open final between Jan-Lennard Struff and Tallon Griekspoor was scheduled, with no verified winner at the cutoff, and no Grand Slam was in progress.
- Golf: Japan’s Yuri Yoshida won her first LPGA title at the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea by one shot at 17-under 271, ahead of Haeran Ryu and Hye-Jin Choi at 16-under; the PGA Tour’s Butterfield Bermuda Championship final round was suspended for Sunday due to winds gusting over 40 mph, with Seamus Power and Austin Smotherman sharing the 54-hole lead at 16-under and no winner verified.
- Track and Field, Oct 25: Masatora Kawano set the inaugural men’s marathon race-walk world record in 2:55:14 and Australia’s Rebecca Henderson set the women’s record in 3:14:52 at Takahata, Japan.
- Swimming: At the Dutch Short-Course Qualifiers in Rotterdam, Sean Niewold set a Dutch record of 46.36 in the men’s 100m freestyle, Tessa Giele won the women’s 100m IM in a meet-record 59.01, and Noah Verreth won the men’s 50m backstroke in a meet-record 23.29. New Zealand named an 11-strong team for the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Beijing, Dec 1-6.
- Cycling: Lucinda Brand won the women’s elite Superprestige Overijse cyclocross opener in 48:19, ahead of Aniek van Alphen and Inge van der Heijden; the men’s winner was not verified at the cutoff. No Tour de France race was running, with the 2027 route unveiled on Oct 22.
- Volleyball: Uganda’s Claire Najjuko and Purity Nalua Nekesa won all three opening women’s matches at the CAVB Zone V Beach Volleyball Championship Entebbe Tour; the men’s final pairing was listed but no winner was verified. No FIVB Beach Pro Tour final or major indoor-league headline was verified for Oct 24-25.
- Gymnastics, Artistic World Championships, Rotterdam, Oct 25: Artur Davtyan of Armenia won men’s vault gold, his second world vault title, ahead of Britain’s Jake Jarman by 0.20, with Norway’s Sebastian Sponevik taking bronze; on Oct 24, Skye Blakely won vault and uneven-bars bronze, Claire Pease won vault silver, and Frederick Richard won men’s floor gold. Final beam, floor, parallel bars and high bar medal orders for Oct 25 were not fully verified at the cutoff. No verified rhythmic or trampoline gymnastics news was found for Oct 24-25.
- Combat Sports, Judo / Taekwondo / Karate: France topped the final individual medal table as the European Veterans Judo Championships closed in Portimao on Oct 24; Somalia’s Sumaya Ali won junior women’s 55kg silver at the Pan American Club Taekwondo Championship in Daytona Beach. No verified elite karate result was found for Oct 25.
- Esports, Oct 25: At League of Legends Worlds 2026 in Allen, Texas, Swiss Stage Round 3 featured Hanwha Life vs. Invictus Gaming, G2 vs. Top Esports, Movistar KOI vs. Dplus KIA and Gen.G vs. LYON, with the two 2-0 best-of-three winners qualifying for the quarter-finals; in CS2 at PGL Masters Bucharest, Team Spirit beat TYLOO 2-0, FUT Esports beat Team Liquid 2-0, Team Vitality beat The MongolZ 2-0, and BetBoom beat Nemiga 2-0, with later matches still scheduled or in progress at the cutoff.
