Freddy Peralta pitches six scoreless innings in 3-1 win
José Ramírez error opens door to three-run fourth
ALCS heads to Cleveland at 1-1 for Thursday’s Game 3
Freddy Peralta pitched six innings of four-hit ball, Liam Hicks lined a two-run single after a fielding error by José Ramírez and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 3-1 on Tuesday night to level the American League Championship Series at 1-1.
Game 3 of the best-of-seven series is Thursday night in Cleveland.
The US were on the verge of losing two straight at home, but second-half goals from Ashley Sanchez and Mallory Swanson salvaged a draw
It was nearly time for the panic button. Maybe not to press it, but to acknowledge that it’s within reach. A listless, shorthanded US women’s national team were struggling against Spain, down 2-0, and facing the ignominy of two straight losses at home after being badly exposed in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat in Washington DC.
Then two players who had just returned to the team after long absences turned the tide. Ashley Sanchez and Mallory Swanson, after international goal droughts of 1,648 days and 801 days respectively, each scored in the second half to earn a 2-2 draw with the reigning World Cup champions.
Recruiting report prepared for Raiders’ 2024 search
Lawyers say assessment contains racial stereotypes
Flores sued NFL over discriminatory hiring in 2022
A recently unsealed recruiting report on Brian Flores contains multiple examples of “racial stereotypes” and amounts to unlawful retaliation for the coach’s discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, according to his lawyers.
The Korn Ferry report, made public on Tuesday and obtained by the Associated Press, lists six strengths and seven weaknesses that Flores’ attorneys say demonstrate the league’s continued reliance on racial stereotypes in hiring and its retaliation against the coach for his lawsuit alleging racial discrimination.
Sanchez was charged over Indianapolis confrontation
Former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports analyst Mark Sanchez has reached an agreement in principle with the truck driver who stabbed him during an altercation last October, according to the Athletic.
Sanchez was stabbed and pepper sprayed by Perry Tole, who was 69 at the time, during the incident in Indianapolis, where the former New York Jets star was due to cover an NFL game between the Colts and Las Vegas Raiders. Prosecutors said Tole used pepper spray and a knife to defend himself after Sanchez attempted to enter his truck during an argument over a parking spot.
Le défenseur rimouskois William Dubé connaît tout un départ avec les Saguenéens de Chicoutimi. Sa récolte d’un but et de trois passes, ainsi qu’un différentiel de +4 en deux matchs, lui ont valu une place dans la dernière Équipe de la semaine de la LHJMQ.
Cet honneur s’ajoute à son invitation, reçue dans les derniers jours, à participer au Match des meilleurs espoirs de la LHJMQ en vue du prochain repêchage de la LNH. La rencontre aura lieu le 28 octobre prochain au Centre Slush Puppie, à Gatineau.
Échangé aux Saguenéens par les Eagles du Cap-Breton, Dubé dispute actuellement sa première saison complète dans la LHJMQ.
Choix de troisième ronde en 2025, il totalise actuellement 10 points (3 buts et 7 passes) en neuf rencontres avec Chicoutimi, ce qui lui vaut le troisième rang des meilleurs marqueurs de son équipe.
Son coéquipier en attaque, Mathis Dufour, a reçu le titre de joueur par excellence de la semaine. Au sein de l’Équipe de la semaine, ils accompagnent les ailiers James Scantlebury, des Remparts de Québec, et Philippe Veilleux, des Foreurs de Val-d’Or, le défenseur des Remparts Alexandre Taillefer et le gardien des Saguenéens Raphaël Précourt.
Malgré une nette domination, le RC Lens a été surpris à domicile par le Sporting Portugal mardi à Bollaert, lors de la deuxième journée de Ligue des champions. Trop inefficaces, les Sang et or ont été punis par Luis Suarez, puis Issa Doumbia. De son côté, Lille a explosé en vol sur la pelouse du champion d'Angleterre Arsenal.
La Rimouskoise Céline Guillemart a terminé 24e aux Championnats du monde vétéran d’escrime à l’épée individuelle dans la catégorie 40-49 ans, ce mardi 13 octobre. La compétition se tient à Tbilissim en Géorgie.
Lors des combats de classement, l’athlète du Club Les Pirates de l’Est a remporté quatre victoires et subi la défaite à deux reprises.
Elle a gagné son premier duel éliminatoire contre une Japonaise et à perdu lors des 32es de finale contre une Russe qui a remporté la compétition.
« J’ai travaillé fort, mon jeu progresse c’est l’important, maintenant j’apprends l’expérience internationale et tout ce que cela comporte. Merci à mes coéquipières pour le support toute la journée, à mon super coach Kenny Guimond qui n’a pas dormi de la nuit pour être présent à mes côtés via messages, à ma famille pour les petits messages et à tous mes partenaires d’entraînement Pirates qui m’ont aidé à me préparer et m’améliorer. Vous êtes ma deuxième famille et je suis très reconnaissante », a exprimé l’athlète rimouskoise sur sa page Facebook après avoir complété la compétition en individuel.
Céline Guillemart en compagnie d’autres membres de l’équipe canadienne. (Photo courtoisie)
Ce mercredi 14 octobre, Céline Guillemart prendra part à l’épreuve par équipe avec ses coéquipières canadiennes.
L’an dernier aux Championnats du monde des vétérans, qui se tenaient à Manama, au Bahreïn, Céline Guillemart avait remporté ses trois matchs de qualification et deux autres en éliminatoires avant de s’incliner en huitième de finale chez les 40-49 ans, ce qui lui avait permis de terminer au 14ᵉ rang sur 52 participantes.
L’équipe U15 masculine du Club de soccer Fury de Rimouski est championne provinciale après un parcours parfait lors de la Coupe interrégionale du Soccer Québec qui se tenait à Sherbrooke du 10 au 12 octobre. Les filles U15 sont, quant à elles, revenues avec la médaille de bronze.
Les Rimouskois, dirigés par Maxime Fournier et William Minville, ont remporté la finale par la marque de 2-0 contre le CS St-Laurent. Marcello Cano Ortiz et Ambroise Jolicoeur sont les marqueurs dans la victoire.
Lors de la ronde préliminaire, le Fury a battu le CS Valleyfield 4-2 avant de gagner 1-0 en tirs de barrage contre le Club Revolution des Laurentides en demi-finale.
Du côté féminin, la formation rimouskoise a dominé la finale de bronze 3-0 grâce à un tour du chapeau d’Amy Montmagny contre le CS Titans de Bois-des-Filion. Le Fury s’était incliné par la marque de 2-1 en tirs de barrage contre l’Association de soccer Varennes Saint-Amable.
Soixante équipes ont pris part à la Coupe interrégionale 2026 dans les catégories U14, U15, U16, U17, U19, U21 et senior, tant du côté féminin que masculin.
A drone strike on 10 October put more than half of the large fuel tanks out of action at an oil-loading terminal in Russia’s Rostov-on-Don, Russian news Telegram channel Astra found. The terminal loads fuel onto river and sea tankers for export, and it burned for two days while a local channel wrote that reeds might be on fire. Neither Kyiv nor Moscow has officially acknowledged the hit. It came hours after US President Donald Trump announced a diesel deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Russia has spent the autumn hammering Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter. Ukraine’s long-range drones keep hitting the refineries, depots, and terminals that fuel Russia’s army and earn it export revenue. Every burned tank turns that revenue into repair bills, while Moscow is already subsidizing its own fuel pumps. A refinery-only truce of the kind the White House described a day after the strike would shield the Russian plants that feed terminals like this one.
Seven of 12 tanks out of action
Astra’s analysts concluded from eyewitness footage that at least seven of the terminal’s 12 large tanks had been knocked out. Ukrainian monitoring channel Supernova+ counted seven burned-out tanks and one more scorched by the fire.
The fire was still burning in the early hours of 12 October. Local channel Rostov Glavny posted video of the burning tank farm, passing on rumors that reeds were on fire and noting the city’s second day under smoke, The Moscow Times reported. Footage filmed in the daytime on 12 October showed no more open flames, only gray smoke, according to Astra.
Satellite image of the oil-loading terminal of the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, during the fire, 10 October 2026. Satellite image: Radio Liberty
A terminal that loads fuel for export
The site is the oil-loading terminal of the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Products Plant, formerly known as Yug Rusi, in Rostov-on-Don’s Zheleznodorozhny District. It receives, stores, and transships fuel onto river and sea tankers, including for export, Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ said.
The terminal also supplies fuel to the Russian army and earns Moscow hard currency, ZN reported. The Moscow Times put its loading capacity at 3.5 million tons a year and its tank farm at about 60,000 cubic meters, roughly 16 million gallons.
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The refinery itself stands in the town of Novoshakhtinsk near the border with Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast. The terminal sits on the Don River with access to the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian military outlet Militarnyi noted. Ukraine hit the refinery in June, and Ukraine’s General Staff reported striking the Yug Rusi terminal on 9 July, placing it in Bataysk.
A night of drones over the region
Exilenova+ posted images of the burning terminal in the early hours of 10 October. It presented them as the site after Trump’s phone call with Putin. The channel later shared NASA satellite fire data showing the blaze.
Rostov Oblast Governor Yuri Slyusar claimed the attack injured six people. Slyusar further stated air defenses downed more than 100 drones over the region. Radio Liberty’s Russian Service noted that neither side had officially confirmed the hit on the terminal.
Aerial view of the oil-loading terminal of the Novoshakhtinsk refinery in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, with the tanks Astra assessed as hit marked in red and orange, 12 October 2026. Map: Astra
Hours after the US-Russia diesel deal
The strike came hours after Trump announced on 9 October that Russia had agreed to supply diesel to US and global markets. The US Treasury then cleared the trade with a sanctions license.
On 11 October, Trump declared an “energy ceasefire” between Russia and Ukraine. Under it, he expects Ukraine to stop striking Russian refineries, a White House official told Axios.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that evening that Ukraine’s armed forces had received all relevant orders. Neither Ukrainian monitoring channels nor Russian officials have reported a new strike on a Russian oil facility since. On 13 October, Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready to guarantee an energy ceasefire if Russia took matching steps.
La Formule 1 a annoncé son grand retour en Afrique mardi, avec la conclusion d'un accord avec le Rwanda pour l'organisation d'un Grand Prix "au début des années 2030".
Ukrainian drones have helped push Russia into its worst fuel crisis since the Soviet Union fell, The Washington Post (WaPo) reported on 11 October.
Diesel is where this war reaches American drivers. US President Donald Trump blames rising diesel prices mostly on Russia’s war in Ukraine, while experts blame mainly the US war with Iran. Some of his allies now accuse Kyiv of trying to sway the US midterms.
Drones go for the first stage of refining
The Washington Post looked at dozens of strikes between 1 April and 31 August. Three refinery experts then examined satellite images of 54 strikes with visible damage. In over half, the damage seems to be to the desalting and distillation units, known by the Russian acronym ELOU-AVT. These units clean the crude of water and salt, then split it into separate compounds, the first steps toward gasoline and diesel. More than a third appear to have hit secondary units, which turn those compounds into jet fuel, gasoline, and liquefied petroleum gas.
From April through August, drones struck two-thirds or more of the 36 big Russian refineries that S&P Global Energy tracks, a strike every third day. Some took as many as five hits. On 16 June, drones set the Moscow refinery’s distillation towers on fire. That strike and a second one days later kept the plant offline into September, WaPo reported, citing data firm Kpler. Ukraine targeted the refinery again on 20 September.
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“We don’t need to hit the entire plant,” a Ukrainian drone battalion commander with the call sign Tango told The Washington Post. Ukraine knows where to strike so that a refinery stops and stays down, he said. His unit, Ukraine’s 1st Separate Center of Unmanned Systems, runs long-range strikes deep inside Russia.
Sanctions slow the repairs
The EU banned exports of oil-refining equipment to Russia the day after the 2022 invasion, and the US followed days later. WaPo reported that the bans cover the distillation and secondary processing units Ukraine keeps hitting. The bans make spare parts hard to get, Alexander Kolyandr of Eurasia Group told the paper, and the strikes come faster than repairs.
Since last year, Ukraine has doubled the size of each wave, decoys included, a person involved in the strike campaign told WaPo. The decoys are unarmed and draw Russian fire, wasting air-defense ammunition, WaPo explained. Without them, the person said, Ukraine would simply lose expensive systems. András Rácz of the German Council on Foreign Relations told WaPo that even if only 2–3% of drones get through, the damage is significant.
The winger is 28, and younger teammates are rising into the high-pressure spots he has usually occupied
Usually, the second weekend of October sees Christian Pulisic flanked by compatriots as the Star-Spangled Banner plays. Last year, he was involved in US friendlies against Ecuador and Australia. But this year, with Fifa having folded the October window into September, Pulisic didn’t have the chance. On Sunday, his pre-match music was O Generosa, the Serie A anthem, which he observed with a soft smile.
Mark Twain’s first visit to Italy left him describing the country as “a vast museum of magnificence and misery”, and it’s a fitting summary of Pulisic’s three-plus years with Milan. The magnificence: 43 goals and 25 assists in 138 appearances. The misery: just one trophy since he arrived in July 2023, a 2025 Supercoppa Italia held in Saudi Arabia.
Les Lillois s’apprêtent à défier l’un des poids lourds de la Ligue des champions. Ils feront face à Arsenal mardi, finaliste sortant et référence de la Premier League. Mais entre l’envergure de l’adversaire et un projet de jeu encore en rodage, le Losc semble loin d’avoir les armes pour créer l’exploit.
Lille se déplace à Arsenal pour la deuxième journée de Ligue des champions. Olivier Giroud va retrouver son ancien club, chez qui il a passé cinq saisons et demie.
Josh Allen accounted for 331 total yards and two touchdowns, Tyler Bass made a 45-yard field goal with 1:55 left in overtime shortly after Greg Rousseau blocked the Rams’ own attempt, and the Buffalo Bills outlasted Los Angeles for a 37-34 victory on Monday night.
Allen passed for 210 yards and rushed for 121 more for the Bills (4-1), who rallied to win a frantic game befitting the teams with the NFL’s last two MVPs at quarterback. Allen won an overtime game for the first time in his career – he had previously been 0-7 – by besting Matthew Stafford, who passed for 383 yards and three touchdowns.
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