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No team that led a World Series 3-0 has ever lost it, and none lost more than a single game. Through Game 3, Milwaukee holds that lead over Tampa Bay.

Antonelli fell two points short of the title in Austin. Across the last five races, two points in total settle it, and only five straight rival wins can stop him.

Sixteen points was the eighth-place total in each of the last two league phases. Barcelona, fifth on six after losing in Paris, need 10 from five games, and a Dec. 8 meeting with Manchester City looms.

Tropicana Field's roof is fixed; Milwaukee's is a decision, up to four of them, and in October the league makes it. The forecast for Game 1 is 55 degrees and dry, which leans closed but settles nothing.

The Texans' real price for Marvin Harrison Jr. is not the 2027 second-round pick but a fifth-year option Over the Cap projects at $17,198,000 or $18,950,000, and his 2026 snaps decide which tier applies.

The stewards had no one to blame 'predominantly', and under F1's 2026 rules that means no penalty. The cost showed up elsewhere: eight points and a thinner lead over Red Bull.

The scorecard that disqualified Tony Romo from Q-School Pre-Qualifying moved him nowhere in the standings. Eight years ago, the same rule sent him through.

Free agents get roughly four weeks before a likely Dec. 2 lockout freezes the market. And a repeat of 2022's 99 days would leave 15 days before the earliest traditional Opening Day MLB has ever scheduled.

MLB's automatic extra-innings runner disappears the moment the regular season ends. The league's reasoning splits fans down the middle.

The league retired its breast-cancer-only look after the 2016 season. The reasons involve a player's denied tribute, an 8% merchandise math problem and a bet on screening over symbolism.

Every October the same theory returns: the first-round bye cools off baseball's best teams. Four years of results say the bye helps, just less than its reputation suggests.

The 2026 World Series opens Oct. 23 and could run to Halloween night. Five decades of playoff expansion explain why the Fall Classic keeps landing later on the calendar.

A serve that clips the net cord isn't a fault, it's a let, and the point gets replayed. Here's where the rule comes from, and why it nearly got scrapped.

Until 2022, a 6-6 final set meant a quick tiebreak at some majors and an open-ended marathon at others. Two record-setting matches, decades apart, are why that finally changed.

Wimbledon let a 2010 final set run to 70-68 over three days before it ever considered a tiebreak. The US Open avoided that fate by adopting one back in 1970.

Three straight years of NFL rule changes have led here: teams can now declare an onside kick at any point, any score. But the same kickoff format that allowed it also killed the classic surprise onside kick for good.

The Laws of the Game don't mandate goalkeeper gloves at all -- the real rule, which every World Cup keeper follows to the letter, is about jersey color.

The Seahawks' record $9.6 billion sale to the Khosla family didn't just need a check. It needed 24 of 32 NFL owners to sign off, and rules most fans never see.

Before a big meet, swimmers strip off nearly every hair on their bodies — a ritual with real drag-reduction science behind it and a surprisingly recent history.

Twelve strikes, not ten pins, is what a perfect game actually requires. The bonus system behind the number 300, and how rare it really is to hit it.