In what could be the 41-year-old quarterback’s final season, the Pittsburgh Steelers signal caller has been a model of consistency. He hasn’t been injured and has remained upright for a team that is atop the AFC North.

For a team like the Steelers, that is exactly what they were looking for. Unfortunately for Rodgers and the Steelers, that run came to an end in Week 11.

The future Hall of Fame quarterback suffered a wrist injury during the team’s win over the Cincinnati Bengals – putting a damper on the blowout win.

With the Baltimore Ravens lurking in the shadows, the Steelers can’t afford to slip up – or see a key player leave the starting lineup.

Tests will ultimately tell the tale of Rodgers’ injury and his eventual return, but it could be a sleepless few nights in the Steel City leading to Week 11.

Here’s the latest on how much time Rodgers could miss.

How long is Aaron Rodgers out?

Rodgers’ timeline for a return is unclear.

NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported on Nov. 17 that Rodgers is ‘pushing to play’ against the Bears in Week 12. Rapoport also said Rodgers has about a 50% chance to play, with tests on Nov. 17 determining whether he can grip a football and if he could injure himself further should he make his next start.

The belief is that the quarterback suffered ‘a slight break” his left wrist, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Rodgers will undergo further testing on Nov. 17, which will determine the full extent of the injuries and lay out a potential timeline for his return.

While the potential fracture paints a grim picture, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported that the issue is not believed to be a long-term thing.

Head coach Mike Tomlin didn’t have much clarity on Rodgers after the game.

‘He’ll be evaluated in the morning,’ Tomlin told reporters. ‘I’ll give you guys more information there.’

Mason Rudolph came in to replace the injured quarterback at the start of the second half. It’s unclear if he would continue to start if Rodgers is sidelined going forward.

Aaron Rodgers injury update

Rodgers suffered a left wrist injury against the Bengals and didn’t return. The Steelers initially called it a left hand injury.

Rudolph was seen warming up prior to the second half in Week 11 and replaced Rodgers on the Steelers’ first drive in the third quarter.

When asked about Rodgers’ ability to return to the contest, Tomlin said, ‘We’re hopeful but we better get Mason Rudolph ready to go.’

Steelers QB depth chart

Aaron Rodgers
Mason Rudolph
Will Howard

While the Steelers don’t want to be without Rodgers, they do have an experienced backup in Rudolph.

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green had to be escorted away by a referee after getting into an animated discussion with a courtside fan during Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans.

‘He just kept calling me a woman,’ Green told reporters after the game, later saying the fan was calling him ‘a woman’s name.’

‘It was a good joke at first, but you can’t keep calling me a woman. I got four kids, one on the way. You can’t keep calling me a woman.’

The Pelicans fan, whom ESPN identifield as Sam Green of New Orleans, said he was hecklling the Warriors star by chanting ‘Angel Reese,’ because he had been getting rebounds off his own missed shots earlier in the game.

The incident occurred in the second quarter of the Nov. 16 game with the Warriors leading the Pelicans 53-47.

The fan said he started taunting Green after a Golden State possession in which he missed five straight shots and rebounded the first four.

Reese, a star forward for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky, is a tenacious offensive rebounder who earlier this year filed to trademark the term ‘mebounds’ – which usually refers to players rebounding their own missed shots.

After the discussion continued for a few seconds, referee Courtney Kirkland stepped between Green and the fan, and ushered Green back toward the court.

‘As long as it doesn’t escalate, it’s fine to go over and have a discussion,’ Warriors coach Steve Kerr told reporters after the game. ‘I had no problem with it. It would have been nice if security had gotten there a little bit earlier … it’s hard to comment on it because I don’t know what was said.’

Green finished with eight points and 10 rebounds as the Warriors won the game 124-106.

There is a new face for American curling after a bid at history came up short more than three months before the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics officially start.

A team led by 24-year-old Danny Casper beat a team featuring John Shuster, who had represented the United States in the past five Winter Olympics, in the U.S. Olympic Trials final in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Sunday, Nov. 16. Casper’s team moves on as the U.S. representative for men’s curling at next month’s Olympic Qualifying Event.

Shuster, 43, was attempting to become the first curler to participate in six Olympic Games as part of a 20-year run for U.S. curling. He won a gold medal for the United States at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics and a bronze medal during his first Olympic appearance at the 2006 Games in Turin, Italy, after curling was reintroduced to the Olympics in Nagano in 1998.

Shuster’s bid appeared on track after going a perfect 6-0 in round-robin play at the U.S. Olympic Trials, and his team handed Team Casper its only two losses before the best-of-three final. But Casper’s team won the opener, 7-6, before Shuster’s team responded with its own 7-6 win. Casper’s team, which also features Luc Violette, Aidan Oldenburg, Ben Richardson and Rich Ruohonen, then took Sunday’s decisive third match, 7-5.

The result was immediately dubbed a ‘changing of the guard’ for U.S. curling on the match broadcast.

Casper and company still have work to do to qualify for the 2026 Olympics. Ranked No. 8 in the world, they must finish in the top two at the Olympic Qualifying Event in Kelowna, Canada (Dec. 5-18) to secure a berth in February’s Games.

If Casper can pull off another upset, his Olympic journey would be a memorable one. The Briarcliff Manor, New York native missed a portion of the 2024-2025 curling season after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome, an autoimmune disease that has caused Casper to struggle to walk and use his hands at times during competition, according to his U.S. National Team biography.

Bueckers said coach Geno Auriemma is ‘a lot nicer to me now that I’m not a player.’
Bueckers joined the UConn practice squad when she was back to receive her championship ring.
Bueckers looks forward to playing for Wings coach Jose Fernandez and hopes to help build a winner.

When Paige Bueckers returned to Storrs, Connecticut, of the first time seven months after leading the UConn Huskies to the program’s 12th national title, she noticed a change in head coach Geno Auriemma.

‘He’s a lot nicer to me now that I’m not a player there,’ Bueckers told USA TODAY Sports ahead of the release of her CarMax commercial on Monday. ‘We picked up right where we left off for sure.’

Being back in Storrs felt ‘really weird,’ Bueckers admitted. She left UConn as a three-time first-team All-American and returned as the 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year after being drafted No. 1 overall by the Dallas Wings. After a nearly a full calendar year of basketball, Bueckers said she’s finally had the opportunity to catch her breath and process her achievements and what’s ahead.

‘On my birthday (on Oc. 20), I reflected on the year 23 itself and how much of a journey it was,’ said Bueckers. ‘I stayed the most present and it ended up being one of the most fun, joyful, just peaceful years of my life. Just embracing everything that kind of came my way.’

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It’s the same mindset Bueckers has carried to Dallas in her transition from the top-ranked Huskies to the struggling Wings, who finished at the bottom of the WNBA standings last season with a 10-34 record. Bueckers, who was named second-team All-WNBA, is no stranger to adversity and knows anything worth having comes with ‘bumps, bruises, wins and losses.’

‘To come off of a national championship, where you’re on top of the world, and then come to the Dallas Wings organization and not have immediate success in terms of the end result of a winning and losing season,’ Bueckers said. ‘I believe everything in my life happens for a reason and there’s a purpose. And even through the injuries, through all the adversity in my life, I’ve always looked back and been extremely grateful for it.’

Paige Bueckers returns to UConn, joins practice team

While in town for UConn’s championship ring ceremony in late October, Bueckers joined the practice squad to compete against her former teammates. When Bueckers stepped on the Huskies practice court again, she quickly noticed Auriemma’s change in demeanor.

‘I was a practice player, so it was fun to kind of beat up on (Auriemma) and the team on the other side of things and not have to worry about him yelling at me,’ she said with a laugh. ‘Just to be on the other side … you really feel no pressure. You’re out there just hooping having fun, and the other team is getting yelled at, so you’re not really worried about anything. You can just go be free.’

Lots of trash talking was involved, even toward her teammates: ‘I even had to yell at my practice squad teammates, because they were not locked in. So everybody can get it. Nobody’s safe.’

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The Huskies (4-0) are ranked No. 1 in USA TODAY Sports women’s basketball coaches poll as they look to repeat as champions without Bueckers, which Auriemma compared to ‘losing three players.’ Bueckers expects UConn junior guard KK Arnold to step up this season and take more ownership of the team.

‘(Arnold) learned from Nika (Mühl), she learned from me, she learned from Kaitlyn Chen, just in that point guard role position,’ she said. ‘And now it’s really her team. She’s an upperclassman. So she’ll continue to find different ways to lead in her unique way, to continue to find a way to use her voice and be that voice and that presence for the team. I’m really excited to watch.’

Although Auriemma believes he’s low on Bueckers’ totem pole — Auriemma said she didn’t respond to his birthday text message until ’20 hours later’ — the 24-year-old phenom said visiting her former team felt like coming home to visit family, ‘I felt like no time had passed.’

Auriemma ‘huge fan’ of Wings head coach

Bueckers hopes to form a similar type of relationship with Jose Fernandez, who was hired as the Wings head coach in October after leading the South Florida women’s basketball for 25 seasons. Bueckers said she’s ‘connected with (Fernandez) a couple times’ since his hiring and is ‘getting to learn more about who he is.’

One thing she knows, Auriemma ‘is a huge fan of him.’

‘(Fernandez) has been extremely successful in his entire college career. I played against him a few times,’ said Bueckers. ‘I like the way he thinks basketball and the way he is really lived it his whole entire life. And that’s how I am. I live, breathe basketball, so continue to work with him, get to know him more, him getting to know me and the team more. I’m really excited.’

Bueckers said she doesn’t set individual goals: ‘I’m just trying to win the day, trying to compete, trying to get better, trying to lead, trying to gain everybody’s respect, and ultimately just trying to do everything it takes to build a winning culture.’

Bueckers added that she wants to come back stronger, which became clear as early as the WNBA preseason when ‘a Jackie Young shoulder check straight to the chest’ left her breathless in a humbling welcome to the WNBA moment.

‘I want to live in the paint a little bit more, get to the rim a little bit more (and) get to the free throw line more,’ said Bueckers, who averaged 19.2 points per game in her rookie campaign. ‘Just get my legs back, get my strength back, muscle and muscle endurance so that I can last through an entire long season.’

Paige Bueckers partners with CarMax

Buckers said her move to Dallas pushed her to ‘become an adult in real time.’ Which that comes adult decisions, like picking out the right car. Bueckers signed a three-year partnership with CarMax and is set to star in a campaign, titled, ‘Wanna By Your Way?’ In the ad, she dons a Cowboy hat while in search of the perfect vehicle to accommodate her new Western lifestyle.

Bueckers remembers watching CarMax commercials when she was a little girl.

‘I’ve been a huge fan of (CarMax) commercials and how they set women up for success and give ’em the platform to be on national television to be seen,’ Bueckers said. ‘To have little girls see that we have representation and we are in these commercials … just as the men in the NBA are, it’s really huge.’

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One of the college basketball players implicated in a sports betting investigation the NCAA revealed in September has confirmed his involvement.

In an interview on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ on Monday, Nov. 17, former University of New Orleans shooting guard Cedquavious Hunter admitted, ‘I did point-shave’ as part of a scheme orchestrated by an unnamed bettor out of Las Vegas.

‘I was money hungry,’ Hunter told reporter Will Reeve. ‘Fast cash.’

Hunter, a 3-point specialist who played at UNO during the 2024-25 season, said he and others implicated in the scheme would intentionally miss some shots to affect the point spread.

‘95% (of the time) we got the job done,’ he said.

The NCAA in September identified 13 former players from six schools it was investigating in a wide-ranging sports betting investigation. Then earlier this month, the association’s committee on infractions banned six players for life for ‘betting-related game manipulation and/or student-athletes providing information to known bettors.’

Hunter was one of those six players ruled permanently ineligible, along with UNO teammates Dyquavian Short and Jamond Vincent.

According to the report, text messages recovered from Short’s phone included an exchange with Hunter in which they discussed receiving $5,000 for their participation.

‘I told them (NCAA investigators) I didn’t know anything but the whole time, I knew everything. But I was trying to lie because I thought I would get my way out of it,’ he told GMA.

Hunter averaged 8.2 points and 22.3 minutes per game in his only season at New Orleans. He took 4.8 3-point shots per game, converting on 38.6% of them.

As for his motivation for getting involved and what he would do with the money, Hunter needed a moment to compose himself before answering.

‘I just had a child, so the school wasn’t paying me money, so I was trying to get money to actually take care of my child.’

Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy became the fifth of the first six U.S. Olympians named to suffer an injury when he was hit in the face by a puck on Saturday, Nov. 15.

McAvoy left the game midway through the second period after being struck by Montreal Canadiens defenseman Noah Dobson’s shot. He didn’t return to the game at Montreal’s Bell Centre.

The defenseman was bleeding and needed help getting off the ice.

Coach Marco Sturm said on Monday, Nov. 17, that McAvoy was still being evaluated.

‘He’s with the doctors right now,’ Sturm said. ‘There’s no timeline. Obviously, he’s going to be out tonight, and we’ll see how it goes today.’

Charlie McAvoy injury update

McAvoy was able to fly home with the team and is being evaluated by doctors. He won’t play Monday night.

Asked if surgery was a possibility, Sturm said, ‘It is. Again … we’ll have to wait and see.’

U.S. Olympians injury updates

McAvoy, who was unable to finish the 4 Nations Face-Off because of an injury suffered in Montreal, was one of the first six players named to Team USA.

Four others have missed time.

Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk had offseason hernia surgery. He’s expected to return to on-ice activities in less than two weeks.
Ottawa Senators forward Brady Tkachuk is recovering from October thumb surgery. He was on the ice on Friday and his original timeline has him out until at least Thanksgiving. Coach Travis Green said he could be back in two weeks.
Vancouver Canucks defenseman Quinn Hughes sat out Friday’s game with an undisclosed injury. He was hurt on Tuesday but returned to that game. He was back in the lineup on Sunday and had four assists.
Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews suffered a lower-body injury on Tuesday, Nov. 12 when checked by Boston’s Nikita Zadorov. He’s expected to miss a week and was placed on the injured list, retroactive to Nov. 12.

Vegas’ Jack Eichel was the other player named earlier this year. The deadline for submitting rosters is Dec. 31.

New Jersey Devils forward Jack Hughes, who’s in the mix to make the team, had surgery on his finger after an accident at a team dinner on Thursday. He’s out for eight weeks.

A fight between Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua no longer is in negotiations.

It’s real, as in going to happen, according to a news release issued by Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), co-founded by Paul. MVP is partnering with Netflix, which will livestream the fight on Dec. 19 at Kaseya Center in Miami.

The fight will be a sanctioned, professional heavyweight bout contested over eight, three-minute rounds with 10-ounce gloves, according to the news released MVP issued Monday, Nov. 17.

Without even stepping into the ring, Paul may have won another fight – against critics who have mocked him for the caliber of his opponents. Those opponents include a YouTuber, a retired NBA player, four MMA fighters and the 58-year-old version of Mike Tyson.

Joshua, a two-time world heavyweight champion, clearly will present Paul with his toughest test yet.

Anthony Joshua vs Jake Paul odds

Odds according to bet365 as of Nov. 17, 10:49 a.m. ET:

Jake Paul 11/2
Anthony Joshua 1/10

Anthony Joshua record, weight, size

Boxing commissions could balk at sanctioning the fight because Joshua has considerably more experience and has fought far superior boxers. To wit:

Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) has been in 13 title fights and has fought Oleksandr Usyk, the current undisputed heavyweight champion. (He lost both bouts by decision.) Joshua won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In addition to a wide edge with experience and quality of opponents, Joshua would also have a size advantage.

Joshua is 6-6 and has weighed in at 250 pounds or more for his last five bouts.

Jake Paul record, weight, size

Meanwhile, Paul (12-1, 7 KOs) has been in 13 fights, total.

Paul has touted the significance of a victory over former world champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., even though Chavez had not held a world title since 2012. He partnered with USA Boxing before the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Paul is 6-1 and typically fights as a cruiserweight, which has a 200-pound maximum for the weigh-in. The only time Paul fought as a heavyweight was against Tyson. Paul weighed in at 227 pounds before a victory by unanimous decision over Tyson, who weighed in at 228 1/2 pounds.

(This story was updated with new information.)