KARACHI: The Pakistan golf team departed for Colombo on Saturday to compete in the 134th Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship 2025.

Comprising golfers Saad Habib Malik and Nouman Ilyas, the national team will compete in the championship set to take place at the historic Royal Colombo Golf Club, a 140-year-old course and the second-oldest Royal Golf Club outside the United Kingdom.

The men’s championship will begin with two qualifying rounds on September 23 and 24.

The top 32 players will then progress to the match play stage, scheduled to begin on September 25 and culminate in a 36-hole final of the Amateur Championship 2025 on September 28.

Sri Lanka will defend the General Zia Ul Haq Trophy against Pakistan, while the Parlakamedi Trophy will be contested among other national federations.

Pakistan’s Saad Habib Malik, fresh from his US tour and victory at the 64th National Golf Championship, is in top form, while Nouman Ilyas finished fourth at the same competition.

With its blend of historic tradition, international participation, and spirited rivalries, the 134th Sri Lanka Amateur Golf Championship promises six days of compelling golf. Supported by the CEAT Europe range, the championships celebrate the values of focus, control, and excellence that define both the sport and the sponsor.

Welcome to The Playbook for Week 3, which kicked off Thursday with the Dolphins at the Bills.

This column features score projections, over/unders, win probabilities, and, of course, easily digestible fantasy advice for seasonlong leagues and DFS. This guide should help you with all sorts of decision-making, including sit/start decisions, last-minute waiver adds and lineup choices.

Additionally, we have folded the Shadow Reports, previously a separate column, into the game-by-game breakdowns here. Using our play-by-play data, we’re able to identify defensive schemes and where each wide receiver and cornerback lines up on each play. By tracking these WR/CB matchups, including potential shadow situations, we can offer the best projections, rankings, sit/start advice and waiver wire suggestions each week.

All of this advice is centered on 12-team PPR leagues with relatively standard scoring and lineup settings (1 QB, 2 RB, 3 WR, 1 flex, 1 K, 1 D/ST), although I’ll often mention “shallow” or “deep” leagues for some starters. The charts show all players who have been projected for at least 6.0 fantasy points this week, as well as all D/STs. “Matchup” is automatically determined using a proprietary metric that factors in raw and volume-adjusted fantasy points allowed to each position by the opposing defense this season.

(Editor’s note: Projections and rankings will align almost perfectly, but sometimes when a projection is close, a player might be ranked slightly higher or lower because of other factors, including upside or risk. This column is subject to updates during the weekend, although at the very minimum, rankings will be updated on the site and projections will always be updated inside the game leading up to kickoff.)

ATL-CAR | GB-CLE | HOU-JAX | CIN-MIN | PIT-NE | LAR-PHI | NYJ-TB
IND-TEN | LV-WAS | DEN-LAC | NO-SEA | DAL-CHI | ARI-SF | KC-NYG | DET-BAL

Projected score: Packers 24, Browns 15

Lineup locks: Josh Jacobs, Tucker Kraft

Fantasy scoop: Quinshon Judkins made his pro debut in Week 2 and played more than expected. The second-round rookie soaked up 10 carries and three targets on 19 snaps. Game script allowed Jerome Ford to lead the Cleveland backfield in snaps (35) for the second week in a row, but he was limited to six carries to go along with his six targets. Dylan Sampson crashed back to earth after a strong Week 1, totaling four carries and three targets on 17 snaps. Judkins played well (71 yards), and his role only figures to increase, although Ford appears to be a real threat for passing down work, with Sampson also likely to chip in here or there. Judkins might work his way into the RB2 mix at some point soon, but he’s safest as a fringe flex this week against a Packers defense that has held opposing backs to 2.4 yards per carry (second lowest) so far this season.

Over/under: 38.7 (Lowest)
Win probability: Packers 81% (2nd highest)

Projected score: Colts 24, Titans 19

Lineup locks: Jonathan Taylor, Tony Pollard, Calvin Ridley, Tyler Warren

Shadow Report: Michael Pittman Jr. is a candidate to draw shadow coverage from L’Jarius Sneed. Sneed shadowed Courtland Sutton when he was on the field in Week 1, then full-time shadowed Davante Adams on his perimeter routes in Week 2. Both Sutton (granted, Sneed was limited in that game) and Adams put together strong stat lines, but a healthy Sneed is one of the game’s top cover corners, so this matchup is not to be completely disregarded. Pittman doesn’t draw shadows as often as some No. 1 receivers, although Pat Surtain II did travel with him at times in Week 2, which helps explain his 4-40-0 receiving line. Pittman is already a fringe flex option, so he’s safest left on your bench in Week 3.

Over/under: 42.6 (12th highest)
Win probability: Colts 69% (6th highest)

Projected Score: Vikings 21, Bengals 20

Failed Democrat presidential candidate and former Vice President Kamala Harris admitted to having reservations over transgender athletes competing in women’s sports in her new book.

In the book “107 Days,” Harris wrote that she “agrees” with the concerns of parents and athletes who oppose letting males compete with females.

“I agree with the concerns expressed by parents and players that we have to take into account biological factors such as muscle mass and unfair student athletic advantage when we determine who plays on which teams, especially in contact sports,” Harris wrote, per Politico. “With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children.”

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Harris never addressed the topic directly during her campaign, as the issue went on to be one of the more influential factors in the election.

Harris wrote she wouldn’t turn against transgender people, and argued President Donald Trump “was painting a bull’s-eye on their backs and putting them in peril.”

“This is a community with which I have a deep connection,” she wrote. “There was no way I was going to go against my very nature and turn on transgender people.” 

Trump’s campaign ad with the slogan “Kamala is for they/them, Donald Trump is for you,” was hailed as the most effective message of the 2024 election. It highlighted the Democrats’ position of enabling biological males in women’s sports.

Harris admitted in her book that her campaign should have “given even more attention to how we might mitigate Trump’s attacks,” regarding that message.

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The most notable instance of Harris addressing her record on transgender issues came during her interview with Bret Baier on Fox News in October. When Baier pressed Harris on her past support of tax-payer-funded gender transition surgeries for prisoners, Harris shied away from taking a stance and called it a “remote issue.” 

Still, the topic of trans athletes in women’s sports may have haunted Harris on election day, according to data. 

A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America (CWA) legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls’ and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms,” as important to them. And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”

Since the election, many key Democrats have distanced themselves from outwardly supporting trans athletes in women’s sports. 

Meanwhile, a report by the New York Times suggests that former President Joe Biden himself did not agree with trans athletes participating in women’s and girls’ sports.

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“According to a number of former Biden-administration officials, there remained a simmering debate inside the administration about whether those Title IX protections should extend to sports,” the Times reported, saying that “one side…maintained that there was no legal difference between letting trans students use bathrooms that align with their gender identity and letting trans student athletes play on sports teams that align with their gender identity.”

However, Biden was “on the other side…who believed that the competitive, zero-sum nature of sports made them different from bathrooms — that some transgender athletes would enjoy unfair physical advantages over women.

“Most important, one of the officials holding this view was Biden himself,” the Times wrote.

The Times received a quote from a former Biden administration official who said Biden was “particularly focused on the competition issue.”

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