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OK State approves 4-year deal for AD Weiberg
The Oklahoma State Board of Regents has approved a new, four-year contract for athletic director Chad Weiberg, the school announced Friday, ending monthslong speculation over his future in charge of the Cowboys’ athletic department.
Weiberg, a graduate of Oklahoma State, has held his role since 2021 when he took over for longtime athletic director Mike Holder. News of his extension comes one month after Weiberg and the university made the decision to fire legendary Cowboys head coach Mike Gundy on Sept. 23.
Uncertainty over Gundy’s job security entering the 2025 football season had at one point appeared linked to Weiberg’s own future with Oklahoma State. Prior to Friday, the fifth-year athletic director had been working without a contract since late June. Weiberg also underwent open-heart surgery in August to repair a valve issue.
With questions swirling over his status, Weiberg led the process to fire Gundy three games into the regular season last month and was later placed in charge of leading the search for the school’s next football coach. Hours after Gundy’s exit on Sept. 23, sources told ESPN that Weiberg was expected to sign a multiyear contract extension that would include a raise on his annual salary of $750,000. The deal was formally approved Friday morning during a meeting of the university’s board of regents in Warner, Oklahoma.
“Chad is providing strong, steady leadership during one of the most transformative periods in college athletics history,” Oklahoma State president Jim Hess said in a statement. “He has the ability to navigate complex challenges and keep our student-athletes and programs at the forefront.”
The formalization of Weiberg’s contract wraps a lengthy saga within Oklahoma State’s athletic department and brings stability as the school continues its search to replace Gundy, the winningest football coach in program history. Speaking on the process during an in-house interview released on Oct. 16, Weiberg stated that Oklahoma State’s goal is to “be in a position to move,” on a hire by the close of the regular season on Nov. 29.
“Partly because of the runway we have on this search, we’re able to cast a fairly wide net, however we want to look at that,” Weiberg said. “We have a lot of interest in the job. I felt like we would going into it and that certainly has been confirmed. It’s a good job and it’s being perceived as a good job.”
Led by interim head coach Doug Meacham, the Cowboys have been outscored 174-74 in four consecutive losses since Gundy’s departure. Oklahoma State (1-6) visits No. 14 Texas Tech on Saturday (4 p.m. ET, ESPNU) searching for its first win since Week 1.
Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca has revealed he warned striker Marc Guiu over his poor performances in training earlier this month.
The 19-year-old had a season-long loan move to Sunderland cancelled after just three appearances at the end of the summer transfer window as the Blues sought to reshuffle their squad in the wake of Liam Delap’s hamstring injury.
However, Guiu did not play for a month until a late cameo against Liverpool prior to this month’s international break.
The Spanish forward then scored his first goal of the season in Chelsea’s 5-1 Champions League thrashing of Ajax on Wednesday.
And ahead of Saturday’s visit of Sunderland to Stamford Bridge, Maresca said: “We had a chat with Marc two weeks ago. I told him the way he was training, I didn’t like and he needs to change.
“He changed and he gets a chance. It is like that. He was not training well, in all the ways.”
Asked why that was the case, Maresca continued: “I don’t know. That’s why young [players], they are sometimes, they are in one way, the other way, so you need to go slowly, slowly with them.
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“Since we chat, he is top, fantastic, working very good, absolutely yes, he is ready to start.
“Marc is a typical number nine, physically strong, a box player. He can improve and do many things better and we are working with him every day trying to help him and as I said already many times, he is going to play games with us.”
Guiu has previously spoken about the difficulty in joining Sunderland only to suddenly return to London.
“It was all a bit chaotic, but in the end, I’m a person who faces everything with the utmost positivity, and that’s how I faced it, now enjoying every moment, because a footballer’s career is short,” he told Spanish outlet RTVE earlier this month.
Speculation persists that Guiu could return to the Stadium of Light in January, although Sunderland manager Regis Le Bris appeared to play down that prospect on Friday when telling reporters: “At the minute we have good strikers and we don’t need anything.”
Asked about the possibility of Guiu leaving in January, Maresca said: “We are in October. I don’t know, also because in football things can change very quick for everyone — for players, for managers, for everyone –so it is very difficult to say.”
Saturday’s game will come too soon for Delap but he returned to full training this week and Maresca suggested there is a possibility the £30million summer signing from Ipswich Town could feature in next Wednesday’s EFL Cup tie at Wolves.
The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers opened the 2025 MLB season in Japan on March 18.
Now, 220 days later, they meet the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.
Will the Dodgers be the first team to repeat as champs since the New York Yankees at the turn of the century? Or will the underdog Blue Jays win their first title since 1993?
It all starts Friday night. We’ll have the action covered right here, from pregame lineups to live analysis during the game to takeaways after the final pitch.
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1. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH
2. Mookie Betts (R) SS
3. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
4. Will Smith (R) C
5. Teoscar Hernandez (R) RF
6. Max Muncy (L) 3B
7. Enrique Hernandez (R) LF
8. Tommy Edman (S) 2B
9. Andy Pages (R) CF
Blue Jays
1. George Springer (R) DH
2. Davis Schneider (R) LF
3. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (R) 1B
4. Bo Bichette (R) 2B
5. Alejandro Kirk (R) C
6. Daulton Varsho (L) CF
7. Ernie Clement (R) 3B
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Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell defends choice to keep Carson Wentz in blowout loss for prolonged period
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The Los Angeles Chargers dominated the Minnesota Vikings on Thursday night. The 37-10 defeat dropped the Vikings’ record to 3-4.
But much of the postgame chatter focused on coach Kevin O’Connell’s decision not to pull quarterback Carson Wentz from the blowout.
Wentz was dealing with some discomfort in his non-throwing shoulder. He was sacked five times on Thursday, which appeared to further aggravate the shoulder he was already nursing. The shoulder issue, coupled with the scoreboard, raised concerns about keeping the veteran quarterback on the field longer than many perceived as necessary.
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Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell interacts with Carson Wentz (11) on the sideline during the first half of a game against the Los Angeles Chargers at SoFi Stadium on Oct. 23, 2025, in Inglewood, California. (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)
Wentz was noticeably grimacing throughout the majority of the game.
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After the game, O’Connell explained his decision to stick with Wentz for most of the game.
“We kept on checking in [with Wentz],” the coach told reporters. “Maybe getting Max [Brosmer] ready to go. Tyler [vice president of player health and performance, Tyler Williams] was coming to me a lot tonight, but every time he seemed to update me on that. Carson was sore going into it. He took obviously quite a few hits—but he was able to—I asked him multiple times where he was at and he said he was good and wanted to keep going.”
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Carson Wentz (11) drops back to pass against the Los Angeles Chargers during the second half at SoFi Stadium on Oct. 23, 2025, in Inglewood, California. (Gary A. Vasquez/Imagn Images)
“It did seem like he was in pain there a couple times.”
J.J. McCarthy was inactive Thursday. The second-year quarterback started the first two games of the season but has been sidelined since then with an ankle injury.
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell during the second half at SoFi Stadium on Oct. 23, 2025, in Inglewood, California. (Gary A. Vasquez/Imagn Images)
O’Connell did note that McCarthy would return to the starting lineup against the Detroit Lions in Week 9 if he is fully recovered, the NFL Network reported.
Game cameras showed Wentz slamming his helmet on the Vikings’ sideline out of apparent frustration. Wentz later made it clear that the injury ultimately did not hamper his throwing ability.
“I don’t think so,” Wentz said. “I don’t think throwing wise. That’s honestly why I felt confident to go. I felt I could do my job. I thought I could throw the ball. Thankfully, you don’t need your left shoulder all that much to throw the football. So mechanically, throwing wise, I felt like I could do everything I needed to do.”
Reserve quarterback Max Brosmer briefly entered Thursday’s contest, completing three of his four pass attempts in the fourth quarter.
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O’Connell acknowledged that he had considered inserting the rookie signal-caller earlier in the game.
“Yeah we did,” O’Connell said. “Carson’s a veteran player. He understands, kind of, some of our circumstances tonight. I think it’s very difficult to ask a rookie to go in there for his first performance and have to be kind of weathering it a little bit for the group.
“I did think about that at different times in the game but at the same time, the confidence we have in Max and the upside we see in Max is real. You also don’t want to send him out there and force a level of figure-it-outness that’s probably beyond a guy playing for the first time.”
The Vikings have now dropped back-to-back games.
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