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English Premier League returns from international break

Following the international break, the English Premier League resumes with a weekend of must-see action in the eighth week of the season.

On Saturday, Arsenal, who currently sit at the top of the standings, will face 14th-place Fulham. Mikel Arteta’s team has been one of the strongest in the league, scoring the second-most goals while conceding the fewest, with only three goals allowed. Fulham is eager to recover from two consecutive losses before the international break — first to Aston Villa, and then to Bournemouth, who made a comeback in the game.

On Sunday, Liverpool, currently sitting in second place in the standings, will host Manchester United. This match is the second of the day, following the game between Tottenham Hotspur and Aston Villa. Liverpool is eager to get back to winning ways after suffering back-to-back losses in the Premier League, first against Crystal Palace and then against Chelsea.

Here is the full slate of games as the English Premier League returns.

English Premier League Schedule

Saturday, Oct. 18

Nottingham Forest vs. Chelsea at 7:30 a.m. ET on USA Network and Universo
Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Newcastle United at 10 a.m. ET on USA Network and Universo
Burnley vs. Leeds United at 10 a.m. ET on Peacock
Crystal Palace vs. AFC Bournemouth at 10 a.m. ET on Peacock
Sunderland vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers at 10 a.m. ET on Peacock
Manchester City vs. Everton at 10 a.m. ET on Peacock
Arsenal vs. Fulham 12:30 p.m. ET on NBC

Sunday, Oct. 19

Tottenham Hotspur vs. Aston Villa at 9 a.m. ET on USA Network
Liverpool vs. Manchester United at 11:30 a.m. ET on USA Network

Monday, Oct. 20

West Ham United vs. Brentford at 3 p.m. ET on USA Network

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Andrea Bocelli gives Trump impromptu Oval Office performance during White House visit”

Andrea Bocelli paid President Donald Trump a visit at the White House on Oct. 17.

Trump’s special assistant, Margo Martin, shared a video of the moment on X, formerly known as Twitter.

While the Italian tenor appeared to give an impromptu performance in the Oval Office, Trump stood behind the Resolute Desk as Bocelli stood in front, wearing a black suit and tie with sunglasses on.

‘Listen to this,’ Trump said as ‘Time to Say Goodbye’ started playing in the Oval Office.

Bocelli began singing along with the track before he took a moment to laugh. He then continued to sing until the video concluded.

Another video posted by Martin shows Trump and Bocelli talking at the president’s desk and listening to a recording of a Bocelli song.

Trump told reporters Bocelli would be performing at the White House on Dec. 5, two days before the Kennedy Center Honors, according to Deadline. 

Bocelli’s representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Bocelli’s visit to the White House came just before the President of the United States welcomed the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the high-stakes summit. 

It is unclear if Bocelli’s visit and Zelenskyy’s are connected.

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Who is Judge Chuang, the Obama appointee assigned to John Bolton’s case?

The federal judge assigned to oversee the criminal case against former Trump national security advisor John Bolton is an Obama-era appointee who made headlines during both Trump administrations for halting or pausing some of his most sweeping executive orders. 

U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, a 2014 appointee to the federal bench in Greenbelt, Maryland, is far from the only judge whose rulings have been viewed by Trump allies as unfavorable to the administration. Dozens of judges have issued temporary orders and injunctions during Trump’s second term aimed at pausing or blocking certain directives while courts consider their merits.

But Chuang is noteworthy for being the judge who in 2017 issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s revised ‘travel ban’ from taking force. The March 2017 executive order suspended travel for 90 days from six majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — and paused the entry of asylum seekers for 120 days.

Chuang ruled that Trump’s order was likely motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment, describing it as a revised ‘realization’ of Trump’s ‘long-envisioned Muslim ban,’ which he had floated repeatedly during his first presidential bid.

‘Simply because a decisionmaker made the statements during a campaign does not wipe them from the ‘reasonable memory’ of a ‘reasonable observer,” he said in the injunction, which was quickly appealed to the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. 

Shortly after Trump took office in January, Chuang again drew the administration’s ire when he blocked Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from continuing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. In a 70-page ruling, he said the actions likely violated the U.S. Constitution ‘in multiple ways.’

The preliminary injunction was the first to attempt to constrain DOGE, which at the time had already cut 98% of USAID staffers. The 4th Circuit also set aside Chuang’s ruling on appeal several weeks later, clearing the way for DOGE to continue its efforts to gut USAID. 

Chuang has also presided over lesser-known cases, including temporarily suspending in-person requirements for women who were seeking the morning-after pill during the COVID-19 pandemic. That decision was later reversed by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision.

Trump’s executive actions and orders have sparked 220 lawsuits since January, according to a litigation tracker from Lawfare Media. 

Many of the early actions were blocked by federal judges, including Chuang, through emergency orders or temporary injunctions pending review.

(Court watchers and legal experts attribute this imbalance to congressional inaction, which has prompted an increase in executive orders by the last four presidents and, in turn, more judicial review.)

Like other federal judges who have held up Trump’s agenda, if only temporarily, in his second term, Chuang’s orders have been castigated by the president’s allies and some Republicans in Congress.

Earlier this year, Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., introduced a House resolution seeking to impeach Chuang and five other federal judges who had challenged Trump administration actions. (The attempt prompted a stern warning from the New York City Bar Association, which cited ‘grave concerns’ about the effort.)

Bolton appeared Friday in federal court in Greenbelt, Md., where he pleaded not guilty to 18 counts.

Bolton’s indictment makes him the third Trump foe to have been indicted in federal court in as many weeks, following the high-profile indictments brought against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. But his case has not touched off the same concerns or allegations of political retribution as the others.

The investigation into Bolton’s handling of classified materials moved forward in part during the Biden administration, and career prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office signed off on the charges — a contrast to the cases against Comey and James, which were brought by Trump’s former attorney Lindsey Halligan.

A magistrate judge ordered Bolton released on the condition that he remain in the continental United States and surrender his passport, which he did. His next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 21.

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A ‘physical, bloody’ game in store for Notre Dame-Southern California clash

The 2025 edition of Notre Dame vs. USC will be a physical and intense matchup.
Both teams are in desperate need of a significant win to keep their College Football Playoff hopes alive.
A loss could end up being the difference in Notre Dame and USC missing out on a shot at the national championship.

The conditions inside Notre Dame Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 18 will be rather interesting. The turf is expected to be wet with showers and thunderstorms forecasted in South Bend, Indiana. 

Also on the field? Blood. 

It runs deep in the Notre Dame-Southern California rivalry. Two of college football’s premier brands, disdain for each other is rooted in the fanbase separated by 1,800 miles. One could argue they’re each other’s greatest foe, enough to make the blood boil.

That same blood could be evidence of who emerges victorious in the 2025 battle for the Jeweled Shillelagh.

“This game is going to be about velocity,” said Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman. “Often, you say we got to get bloody, like it’s got to be that type of mindset. 

“It’s got to be a physical, bloody game.”

Someone prepare the clean-up crew, because it’s going to get real messy for a game that has more than a prized trophy on the line.

It’s hard to definitively say in today’s game there are College Football Playoff elimination games – especially in non-conference games – but you can’t get any closer to one between the No. 15 Fighting Irish and No. 21 Trojans. 

Last season’s national runner-up did itself no favors with an 0-2 start to the season. Meanwhile, Lincoln Riley has been desperately trying to get his reputation as an elite coach back, and it can’t be done when you lose those big games.

Game No. 7 for each team could ultimately decide the rest of the season before Halloween – and being on the wrong end of that is far from the expectations at the two private universities.

In short: expect carnage for a game between teams desperately needing a win.

“It’ll be a good battle,” Riley said. “Two really good football teams going at it, like it should be.”

What’s on the line for Notre Dame

Notre Dame has responded to narrow losses to No. 2 Miami and No. 4 Texas A&M in appropriate fashion, rattling off four consecutive victories by an average margin of 29.8 points.

However, the opponents – Purdue, Arkansas, North Carolina State and Boise State – aren’t the type of wins to generate needed capital with the College Football Playoff committee. A look at the Fighting Irish’s opponents in the second half schedule and Southern California might be the only opportunity.

The Trojans are currently the only ranked team left on Notre Dame’s schedule. Navy, if it stays undefeated, could be when they meet on Nov. 8, but beating the Trojans will impress far more than a win over the Midshipmen.

A loss Saturday by Notre Dame will mean it will has lost its three marquee matchups of the season. Even if they handle business the rest of the way, would a 9-3 Fighting Irish team with no signature win really convince the playoff committee they’re worthy?

What’s on the line for USC

Riley’s struggle to maintain national relevance was well documented coming into a make-or-break season for USC. The flashy, high-scoring offense added some strength to start the season on fire.

But much like Notre Dame, the early wins by the Trojans weren’t the caliber of opponents to convince people of their worth. They needed Riley to win the big games.

In the first opportunity of the season, USC fell just short to Illinois. The doubt crept in once again. 

However, the Trojans showed promise in what was a dominant defeat of Michigan in Week 7. USC controlled the game, outmuscled the Wolverines and proved just maybe, those flashy Trojans are just as tough as they are quick.

While it brought back optimism in Los Angeles, the job is far from complete. Riley needs to finish the back half of this crucial two-game stretch just as good. 

Leave South Bend with a win for the first time since 2011 and USC positions itself for a run to end the campaign. A second loss of the season doesn’t exactly end the season, but it makes little room for error – especially with trips to Nebraska and No. 9 Oregon in November. 

Saturday’s meeting could end up being the last time USC and Notre Dame meet on a football field for some time. Their contract runs out after this season and discussions about extending the series are still ongoing If it is the last time, the game will be one of the most consequential matchups in some time – and one that can absolutely produce the violent, bloody conditions Freeman expects.

Speed and flash will clash with shard-nosed brutality. By the time the clock hits zero, Notre Dame Stadium may look like a crime scene, leaving evidence of a ruthless, epic battle.

By the time the evidence is collected, Notre Dame and USC hope it is the suspect – not the victim – that provided the fatal blow to the other’s playoff hopes.

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Johnson shutters House again in bid to keep shutdown heat on Schumer

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has once again instructed House lawmakers to remain in their home districts next week, keeping attention — and heat — in Washington on Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for over a month.

A clerk in the House of Representatives announced on Friday that Johnson is designating Oct. 20 through Oct. 23 as a ‘district work period,’ meaning no votes or House hearings are expected to be held for that time.

It’s part of the pressure strategy Johnson has implemented against Democrats amid the ongoing government shutdown, which is barreling into a fourth week with the GOP’s federal funding plan stalled in the Senate.

The House GOP passed its federal funding plan on Sept. 19, a seven-week extension of fiscal year (FY) 2025 government spending levels, called a continuing resolution (CR). 

It was aimed at giving congressional negotiators more time to strike a longer-term deal on FY 2026 spending.

But Democrats, infuriated by being sidelined in the talks, are threatening to reject any deal that does not include an extension of COVID-19 pandemic-era Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire at the end of December.

Democrats reason that millions of Americans are expected to see their healthcare premiums skyrocket even before the subsidies themselves expire at the end of this year, and with no plan in place.

Republican leaders have signaled openness to having those discussions at a later date — albeit not without reforming the system — but are holding firm to their demand that the CR be passed without any partisan policy riders attached.

Johnson told reporters earlier on Friday that he would give House members 48 hours’ notice before they had to return for any votes, something he’s stated both publicly and privately for weeks.

But while his House GOP conference is holding largely united behind him, there are several Republicans growing uncomfortable with the lengthy recess period.

Both Reps. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., expressed concern about the extended time at home during a private call among House Republicans earlier this month.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., has been more public with his pushback. He told MSNBC live on television Wednesday, ‘It is absolutely unacceptable to me and I think only serves further distrust.’

And Rep. Dave Valadao, while not explicitly pushing back on Johnson’s decision, told Fox News Digital that he was ‘kind of torn on that’ before blaming Senate Democrats for putting the GOP in this situation.

Meanwhile, Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., the lone House Democrat who was in the chamber when the district work period was declared, criticized Johnson for keeping the chamber out of session.

‘Congress has been absent here in the House for almost a month when there are critical conversations that need to be happening about reopening the government, lowering the cost of healthcare for millions of Americans, and also moving forward on critical issues,’ Olszewski said.

In a sign of a likely lengthy shutdown, the Senate is preparing to hold a standalone vote next week on paying government workers who are forced to work during the shutdown, including active-duty military members.

Asked by reporters if the House would come back to vote on the measure if it passed the Senate, Johnson said Friday, ‘If we have a viable path, yes, but I suspect the Democrats are going to bat it down again.’

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Trump says ‘tremendous bad blood’ between Zelenskyy, Putin delaying peace deal despite Middle East momentum

President Donald Trump said Friday that ‘tremendous bad blood’ between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin is delaying a peace deal in Ukraine despite the administration’s recent victory with calming tensions in Gaza.

‘They have tremendous bad blood. It’s really is what is holding up I think a settlement. I think we are going to get it done and we have to make it long-lasting, as I said in the Middle East, everlasting,’ Trump said Friday as he hosted Zelenskyy at the White House.

‘The Middle East is a much more complicated situation. You know, we had 59 countries involved, and every one of them agreed. And it’s, you know, it’s sort of amazing. Most people didn’t think that was doable. This is going to be something I really believe that’s going to get done. I had a very good talk yesterday with President Putin. I think he wants to get it done,’ Trump added.

Zelenskyy, sitting alongside Trump, said, ‘President Trump has a big chance now to finish this war.’

‘President Trump has really showed for the world that he can manage a ceasefire in the Middle East. And that’s why I hope that he will do this. And we will also have such big success. For Ukraine, it’s a big chance, and I hope that President Trump can manage it,’ Zelenskyy said.

Trump also said at one point during the meeting, ‘We need Tomahawks, and we need a lot of other things that we’ve been sending over the last four years to Ukraine.’

Trump and Zelenskyy’s meeting, which was announced earlier this week, unfolded a day after Trump held a phone call with Putin. 

Zelenskyy has made clear his chief aim is to secure better defenses for Ukraine amid Russia’s constant aerial bombardments of civilian targets like cities, energy infrastructure and hospitals, and his big-ticket item is the American Tomahawk missile. 

With the capability of hitting beyond even Moscow, the sophisticated high-precision long-range cruise missile could increase Ukraine’s ability to strike further into Russia and better target not only its military complex, but its oil industry, which has largely funded Putin’s war chest.  

Following his call with Putin on Thursday, Trump said ‘great progress’ was made, but he did not provide any specifics on how progress was achieved, though the pair agreed to once again meet in person, this time in Hungary. 

Though Trump said the pair discussed U.S.-Russia trade, he did not say whether U.S. aid to Ukraine was discussed, which appeared to be the impetus for the call earlier this week when he told reporters he ‘might have to speak’ with Putin regarding whether he wanted U.S. Tomahawks near his borders, in what appeared to be an implied threat.  

But neither Tomahawks nor defensive aid were mentioned in the president’s account of the talks.  

Though, according to Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, the issue was discussed and opposed by Putin.  

‘Vladimir Putin reiterated his thesis that Tomahawks won’t change the situation on the battlefield, but they will cause significant damage to relations between our countries. Not to mention the prospects for a peaceful settlement,’ he told reporters following the call, according to Reuters. 

Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X on Thursday that, ‘Nothing has changed for Russia – it is still terrorizing life in Ukraine.’

‘Therefore, every air defense system for Ukraine matters – it saves lives. Every decision that can strengthen us brings the end of the war closer,’ he added.

Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House Friday was his third this year. In his first visit in February, Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Zelenskyy sparred during their meeting.

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Thune slams Schumer’s ‘kingmaker’ politics, refuses to ‘kiss the ring’ in shutdown talks

As the government shutdown nears its fourth week, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has no intention of giving in to what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wants.

On a surface level, Schumer and Senate Democrats want a guaranteed deal on expiring Obamacare subsidies, and Thune has signaled that he is open to giving them an opportunity to negotiate on that only after the government reopens.

But what he won’t do is strike a deal in secret with Schumer, something he told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that was all too often the case when the top Senate Democrat ran the upper chamber.  

‘You know, I’ve been around here when everything’s decided by four people in Schumer’s office,’ Thune said. ‘That’s not a way to run the government.’

‘It’s not the business model that Chuck Schumer is accustomed to, and he likes to be the kingmaker and have everybody come and kiss the ring,’ he continued. ‘And I just think that’s not my style.’

Thune described his leadership style as a bottom-up approach ‘where senators get to be senators.’ That has proven true so far, in his handling of the shutdown.

He’s encouraged rank-and-file Republicans to have talks with Senate Democrats in the hopes of constructing an off-ramp from the shutdown, rather than handing down a my-way-or-the-highway edict.

And from those conversations, an offer to Senate Democrats has materialized on the expiring subsidies that would give them a vote, but only if the government reopens. And that offer comes with several caveats that Thune couldn’t guarantee an outcome on. 

‘I signaled to the Democrats that, because they’ve said, ‘Well, we want a guaranteed vote by a certain date.’ OK, I think we can make that happen,’ Thune said. ‘But they also want a guarantee they’re going to win, you know, and I can’t guarantee that. And honestly, even if I could, there’s no guarantee anything gets through the House.’

Still, with an offer for a vote on the table, Schumer and his caucus have not budged from their position. They again blocked Republicans’ attempt to reopen the government for a tenth time on Thursday, and in doing so, guaranteed that the shutdown goes into next week as lawmakers leave town for a long weekend.

A potential complication, too, is Republicans’ desire to make reforms to Obamacare subsidies, enhanced during the COVID-19 pandemic but set to expire at the end of this year. In Democrats’ counter to the House-passed continuing resolution (CR), they demanded a permanent extension of the program as-is, which was a non-starter for congressional Republicans.

The Congressional Budget Office found in a report last month that permanently extending the subsidies would cost roughly $350 billion over the next decade.

Thune didn’t dive into specifics of certain reforms he and others in the Senate GOP would like to see, but he noted that reining in the cost of the program was a starting point.

‘There’s no incentive to control costs,’ Thune said. ‘And when the insurance companies are getting direct subsidies from the federal government to enroll as many people as possible, they’re going to enroll as many people as possible, even if those people don’t know they’re enrolled.’

Meanwhile, Schumer has called on President Donald Trump to get directly involved in negotiations after a meeting with the president and Republican leaders at the White House late last month was not enough to prevent the shutdown from happening.

Thune said, ‘I think that happens,’ when asked if Trump would get involved, but he noted that first, the government has to reopen.

‘That’s basically what the White House has been saying,’ he said. ‘The president does like to be, you know, obviously, he is a guy who has experience and wants to solve problems and has experience making deals, and I think he’s probably more than willing to sit down with them, but he’s not going to let them extort him.’ 

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Is Puka Nacua playing this week?

Rams leading wide receiver Puka Nacua has been ruled out for Week 7 due to an ankle injury, according to news reports.
Nacua sustained the injury during the Week 6 win over the Baltimore Ravens.

The Los Angeles Rams are going worldwide in Week 7.

The 4-2 Rams face off against the 4-2 Jacksonville Jaguars in Wembley Stadium in London early Sunday morning. Both teams are looking to keep pace in their respective division races; Los Angeles is in a 4-2 logjam in the NFC West with Seattle and San Francisco while Jacksonville can’t fall too far behind AFC South leader Indianapolis.

One of the Rams’ best players won’t be suiting up, though.

Los Angeles ruled out leading wide receiver Puka Nacua for Sunday’s game against Jacksonville, per multiple reports.

Nacua suffered an ankle injury in the first half of the Rams’ Week 6 win over the Baltimore Ravens. Nacua jumped for a pass from quarterback Matthew Stafford and landed hard on the ground. He remained on the field grabbing at his leg after the play and he exited the field and headed to the locker room.

He was ruled questionable to return to the game but eventually re-entered the lineup in the second half. He had a season-low two catches for 28 yards in that contest.

Coach Sean McVay said after the game he was unsure if Nacua would be good to go against Jacksonville this week. Turns out he is not.

Los Angeles returns from London for their bye in Week 8. The team has not moved Nacua to injured reserve (IR) so he may be back in the lineup for Week 9 at home against New Orleans.

Rams WR depth chart

Davante Adams
Puka Nacua (injured)
Jordan Whittington
Xavier Smith
Konata Mumpfield
Tutu Atwell
Tru Edwards (practice squad)
Brennan Presley (practice squad)

With Nacua out, Adams may take on a larger role in the offense as he did against Baltimore. Same goes for Mumpfield. The rookie seventh-round wide receiver saw season-high snaps on offense against the Ravens in Nacua’s place.

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Formula 1, Apple announce new media rights deal

Formula 1 has entered into a new five-year media rights deal with Apple that will bring all F1 races to Apple TV for viewers in the United States beginning in 2026, it was announced on Friday, Oct. 17.

Apple will pay $140 million annually for F1 rights – an increase from $90 million they received from ESPN since 2018, according to reports. ESPN will continue broadcasting F1 races in the U.S. until the end of this year.

The announcement comes before this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, held in Austin, Texas – the second of three American races on the F1 calendar, along with the Miami Grand Prix in May and Las Vegas Grand Prix in November.

‘When you compare it to other sports in the U.S., certainly the biggest sports – which I think F1 is, and should be in the U.S. – the growth opportunity is huge. It’s exponentially huge. You can exponentially grow the sport,’ Apple’s senior vice president of Services Eddy Cue said during a media call Thursday before the announcement.

F1 president and CEO Stefano Domenicali added: ‘It’s a perfect match to be hopefully, as soon as possible, socially relevant in a way that everyone can wake up and think about Formula 1 as you’re thinking about NFL or NBA or MLS.

‘Maybe you might think of that as crazy. But that’s really what should be our target. People thinking about our sport – not only as a sport, but also as something that is more than that. And that’s really what we would like to do together with our friends at Apple.’

The partnership sets the stage for F1’s continued growth in the U.S., and follows Apple’s global success of ‘F1 The Movie’ – which became the highest-grossing original feature in 2025 and the highest-grossing sports movie of all time, surpassing $629 million at the global box office.

F1’s U.S. fanbase reached 52 million, the company said in an August press release.

‘One point that we considered together was the amplification platform that Apple will offer our customers,’ Domenicali said. ‘Our customers are getting younger, and younger, and that’s something that’s special. The younger generation uses their phones and PCs more than my generation. It’s why we believed it was the right thing to do.

‘One of the reasons why we wanted to work together is because we know what Apple can do, and we know the power of connected people is through them.’

Apple TV – which costs $12.99 per month – will show F1 practices, qualifying sessions, Sprint races and Grand Prix races to subscribers. Select races and all practice sessions will also be available for free in the Apple TV app throughout the F1 season.

F1 TV Premium, the company’s premier content offering, will continue to be available in the U.S. with an Apple TV subscription.

Apple also plans to incorporate F1 into other applications like Apple News, Apple Maps, Apple Music, Apple Fitness+ and Apple Sports.

‘We think that by partnering with Apple, we are best placed to really look to the future and to have an offering that will talk to the broadest possible audience in all of the different ways that they consume,’ F1’s chief media rights and broadcasting officer Ian Holmes said.

F1 joins Apple’s sports portfolio, which includes MLB’s Friday Night Baseball since 2022, and MLS Season Pass since 2023.

F1 races averaged 1.4 million viewers in 2025 on ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC – which paced ahead of the 1.21 million record average set in 2022, ESPN said in a September press release.

‘We’re incredibly proud of what we and Formula 1 accomplished together in the United States and look forward to a strong finish in this final season,’ ESPN said in a statement. ‘We wish F1 well in the future.’

Domenicali thanked ESPN for being instrumental in F1’s growth in the U.S.

‘They were very instrumental for our growth in the U.S.,’ Domenicali said. ‘They invested on us when no one was really ready to invest in us many, many years ago. But now is the time to look forward, and to take another route that is the future.’

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Pressure points: Alabama, Tennessee, LSU face Week 8 challenges

Several SEC teams, including LSU and Georgia, face pivotal Week 8 games that could define their playoff chances.
USC coach Lincoln Riley is under pressure to prove his team can compete with top programs as they face Notre Dame.
BYU’s undefeated record and freshman quarterback Bear Bachmeier face their toughest test yet in a rivalry game against Utah.

The similarities are hard to ignore.

Three weeks removed from a win against then-unbeaten Georgia, Alabama was 5-1 and ranked No. 7 in the US LBM Coaches Poll and Tennessee was 5-1 and ranked No. 11 when the two met on the third Saturday of last October.

Fast-forward a calendar year. Three weeks after beating the Bulldogs 24-21, the red-hot No. 6 Crimson Tide host the No. 11 Volunteers looking to avoid a similar fate to last season.

Tennessee’s 24-17 win in Neyland Stadium was a sign of struggles to come for Alabama, which nosedived out of College Football Playoff contention and lost more than three games for the first time since 2017. While the Tide ruined their own chances with cringeworthy losses to Vanderbilt and Oklahoma, the defeat in Knoxville ended up being the separating factor that earned the Volunteers an at-large playoff bid at Alabama’s expense.

A five-game winning streak since dropping the opener to Florida State has reestablished the Tide as a legitimate national championship contender and potentially the best team in the SEC. This stretch of play since early September has also rocketed quarterback Ty Simpson into the Heisman Trophy debate and solidified second-year coach Kalen DeBoer’s job security after his stressful debut.

There’s a sense that this season is different for Alabama. Part of this optimism stems from three wins in a row against ranked teams, starting with the Bulldogs. Another factor is the improved play on offense.

But all that momentum would evaporate with a third loss in four years to the one-loss Volunteers, who lead the nation in scoring (48.2) with at least 34 points in every game and rank fourth in yards per game (527.8). There’s no question that Tennessee has slid under the radar after spending most of the offseason dealing with the fallout from quarterback Nico Iamaleava’s abrupt departure for UCLA after spring drills.

The Tide and Volunteers lead the USA TODAY Sports preview of the team, game, coach and quarterback facing the most pressure in Week 8 of the regular season:

Team: No. 10 LSU

LSU is either a great team, a very good team, a good team, an average team or an outright disappointment — and sometimes all of the above in the same game.

The Tigers are an enigma, basically, with no wins against Power Four opponents with a winning record and an offense that ranks 104th nationally in points per game against Bowl Subdivision teams. Yet LSU heads into the second half at 5-1 and as one of several SEC teams positioned for a playoff run.

It’s still hard to take the Tigers seriously. They dropped the one matchup against a legitimate team, No. 5 Mississippi. The win against Clemson in the opener means nothing with the Tigers slumping. Of the team’s 18 offensive touchdowns, eight came in a paycheck game against Southeastern Louisiana.

Saturday’s trip to No. 18 Vanderbilt ranks among the biggest games of the Brian Kelly era. A win provides some validation and could be a springboard into subsequent pairings with No. 4 Texas A&M, Alabama and No. 13 Oklahoma.

A loss would be devastating: Given what’s to come, Vanderbilt’s first win in this series since 1990 would put the Tigers’ playoff odds on life support and raise some legitimate questions about the state of Kelly’s program.

Game: No. 5 Mississippi at No. 7 Georgia

This one is bigger for Georgia given the earlier loss to Alabama, though the Bulldogs could lose on Saturday and still wouldn’t be denied a playoff berth should they go on to beat No. 17 Texas and No. 12 Georgia Tech.

Georgia’s hit-or-miss offense went awry in a 20-10 win against Auburn, averaging a season-low 4.3 yards per play and running for just 79 yards on 2.6 yards per carry. This same group won a shootout against the Volunteers in September, however.

Wins against LSU and Tulane have left the unbeaten Rebels in great shape. What we don’t know is how they’ll handle this road environment after playing just Kentucky away from home during the first half.

This is a barometer game for Lane Kiffin and the Rebels. A win would make it official: Ole Miss is a deadly serious national title contender for the first time since the early 1960s.

But a loss could make the ensuing trip to Oklahoma a must-win game, especially if LSU drops off the map down the stretch and Tulane fails to at least play for the American championship.

Coach: Lincoln Riley, Southern California

Beating Michigan jumped USC to No. 21 in Coaches Poll and highlighted some newfound toughness against one of the most physical teams in the Big Ten. The Wolverines had just 109 yards on the ground and were held without a rushing touchdown for just the second time in conference play since the start of the 2022 season.

If the defense is for real — the unit has been much better outside of a meltdown in the loss to Illinois — the Trojans are dark-horse Big Ten contender. Offensively, USC leads the FBS with 8.3 yards per play, ranks second with 552.3 yards per game and third in scoring at 45.5 points per game.

No. 15 Notre Dame will be the best team USC has faced to date. The Fighting Irish dropped single-possession games to No. 2 Miami and Texas A&M but have since ripped through Purdue, Arkansas, Boise State and North Carolina State.

As with Kelly and LSU, you can make the argument for this ranking among the biggest games of the Lincoln Riley era. A win would validate the Trojans’ perceived growth following a disappointing Big Ten debut in 2024, but a loss would reignite concerns that Riley’s program is not constructed to compete with the best teams in the Power Four.

Quarterback: Bear Bachmeier, Brigham Young

After helping No. 14 BYU gut out a double-overtime win against Arizona despite tossing a pair of interceptions, Bachmeier gets his first taste of the Holy War against No. 22 Utah.

The freshman won an intense offseason quarterback competition after former starter Jake Retzlaff transferred to Tulane. He’s played well, by and large, with 1,220 passing yards, another 295 rushing yards on 4.2 yards per carry and 15 combined touchdowns, seven on the ground.

But his numbers — and the Cougars’ unbeaten record — have largely been accumulated against average-to-worse competition. Arizona is the only opponent with a winning record BYU has faced to date; the only other opponent with a non-losing record is East Carolina.

Are the Cougars for real? Is Bachmeier? The questions lingering around the Cougars’ second 6-0 start and the play of their freshman passer will find their answers in Saturday night’s intense rivalry matchup.

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