General Sports 24-Hour Briefing
×Last updated: October 18, 2026, 8:10 PM ET
Golf
Eugenio Chacarra wins in India bbc.co.uk by two strokes at the DP World India Championship, moving to the top of the Race to Dubai.
Rugby Union
Harlequins shrugged off bbc.co.uk their poor Premiership form with a 57-19 Challenge Cup win over Vannes. In the Champions Cup, Munster held on bbc.co.uk to beat Racing 92 33-25 in a tribute game to Foley, while Pau claimed bbc.co.uk a bonus-point 41-17 win over Leicester with late tries. Bath fell bbc.co.uk 32-14 at home to Montpellier, who scored 22 second-half points without reply. Scarlets thrashed bbc.co.uk Newcastle 47-14, though fly-half Sam Costelow's injury is a concern for Wales coach Steve Tandy.
College Football
Saturday produced a run of upsets. Auburn stunned espn.com No. 1 Georgia after Stockton's fumble, ending a 195-game streak, with quarterback Byrum Brown's running game driving the win. Miami survived espn.com two Hail Mary attempts to beat Florida State in double overtime. BYU stunned espn.com No. 2 Notre Dame 28-24, and the Big 12 admitted espn.com officials wrongly ended that game with a second still on the clock. Oregon rallied espn.com past its former team after Dylan Raiola returned from the bench, while Ohio State survived espn.com Indiana on a fourth-down misstep and Indiana ended espn.com its 22-game losing run to the Buckeyes. Texas coach Steve Sarkisian will evaluate everything espn.com after the Longhorns lost to Florida, and Ohio State QB Julian Sayin will miss espn.com several weeks with a shoulder injury. Coastal Carolina's throwback uniforms topped espn.com the week's looks, and Auburn coach Jon Sumrall celebrated espn.com the upset in a cowboy hat. Playoff implications are being weighed espn.com after a week that saw five top-seven teams lose.
Boxing
Daniel Dubois retained espn.com his WBO title with a second-round TKO of Fabio Wardley, beating him for the second time in five months. The result has raised bbc.co.uk questions about what comes next in the heavyweight division.
Basketball
The Valkyries edged espn.com the Dream 68-64 in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals, with Gabby Williams coming up clutch. The Valkyries' edge espn.com gives them a 1-0 series lead.
Other Sport
Britain's Sonay Kartal missed out bbc.co.uk on the biggest title of her career, fading in the Wuhan Open final. Rhys McClenaghan, the Olympic champion, failed to reach bbc.co.uk the pommel horse final at the Worlds. Emma Finucane says she will bbc.co.uk "come back fighting" for gold after narrowly missing out. New Zealand's women were pushed bbc.co.uk by Fiji at the Rugby League World Cup. The U.S. women's gymnastics team lost espn.com Rivera to an ankle injury ahead of the worlds.
Safety Incidents
A member of the Air Force died espn.com from injuries sustained in a fall before the Navy-UTSA game, after falling during a pregame rappel in the Alamodome rafters espn.com.
South Africa v Australia
Rain disrupted bbc.co.uk day one of the second Test in Gqeberha, with South Africa on 20-2 at the close.
Coming Up
Texas will evaluate espn.com its season after the Florida loss, and Ohio State will be without espn.com Julian Sayin for several weeks.