The Grand Prix Commission has confirmed a new MotoGP weekend schedule for 2027. A 15-minute Sprint qualifying session on Friday sets the Tissot Sprint grid, Grand Prix qualifying moves to Saturday, and the ten-minute Warm Up is replaced by ten minutes of pitlane opening for sighting laps.
Five weeks into the 2026 NFL season, San Francisco and Minnesota are 5-0, Kansas City is 4-0, and Miami, Tennessee and the Los Angeles Chargers are 0-5. Every club in the AFC North and the NFC North has a winning record or better, and the Giants and Commanders hold the season's only tie.
Connor McDavid leads NHL scoring with 13 points in five games, with Edmonton teammate Evan Bouchard, a defenceman, one point behind on six goals. The official table also shows how much games played and shooting percentages distort an October scoring list.
Alex Ovechkin scored the 930th goal of his career on Oct. 11, his first of the final NHL season he announced on Oct. 5. He needs 20 goals for 950, 11 points for 1,700, 22 games for 1,600 and 10 goals to pass Wayne Gretzky's combined total of 1,016.
The United States won the 2026 Presidents Cup 17-13 at Medinah after trailing by three points going into the singles, taking nine of the 12 matches and halving the last. Jacob Bridgeman's three-foot par putt on the 18th green reached the 15 1/2 points the Americans needed.
The WNBA's own game pages list no venue for Finals Games 3, 4 and 6 in Atlanta, and State Farm Arena's calendar is booked on all three dates: a concert on Oct. 22 and Hawks home games on Oct. 24 and 29. The Dream have not announced where they will play, and their 2027 move downtown does not cover this series.
Igor Shesterkin will miss the rest of the season with a lower-body injury, and Dylan Garand, who cleared waivers 11 days earlier, made 19 saves in his first start as the Rangers' No. 1 goalie in a 6-2 win over Vancouver. The club has released no detail beyond a lower-body injury, and Joonas Korpisalo is also out four weeks.
Zizou Bergs, ranked 39th, beat second seed Carlos Alcaraz 7-5, 7-6(4) at the Rolex Shanghai Masters on Monday, and the tournament's report says the defeat means Alexander Zverev will finish 2026 as the ATP Year-End No. 1. Eight players reached the fourth round on Monday, and four quarter-final places are decided on Tuesday.
An independent Commission found Manchester City in breach of the Premier League's financial rules over nine seasons and upheld most of the co-operation charges. City appealed on 2 October, and the sanction will be decided in a separate hearing that has no published date.
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