Here's everything managers should be looking around the league at ahead of the fantasy playoffs.

Charles Oliveira is more than ready to throw down in the middle of the Octagon with Max Holloway.

With Aaron Rodgers expected to decide his NFL future sometime this month, the free-agent quarterback is giving Pittsburgh Steelers fans reason for optimism about a possible return.

She was a two-time state champion in high school coming out of the Syracuse area. She then was a four-time NCAA champion at UConn. Shes won three WNBA titles, three World Cup gold medals, three Olympic gold medals, even two EuroLeague titles.And now, add an Unrivaled title to the mix a league that she co-founded.Breanna Stewart has won it all.Stewart and Mist are the queens of Unrivaled for 2026, topping Phantom 80-74 in the championship game Wednesday night to cap the leagues second season. Stewart scored 32 points, setting the tone by scoring Mists first 12 points of the second half and her team which went 0-2 against Phantom in the regular season wouldnt trail again.What I'll remember the most about this Mist team is we might not be the loudest, but we're going to work the hardest, said Stewart, who was picked as MVP of the final and whose team will split a $600,000 winners' pool.It ended somewhat controversially: an offensive foul on Stewart was overturned to a block on review, giving her a free throw to win the title. Stewart swished the shot, and confetti fell from the roof in celebration.Just focused on doing it for my team, Stewart said.Kelsey Plum carried Phantom with 40 points on 14-for-21 shooting, along with six rebounds and five assists.It was a brilliant effort but Stewart and Mist had just a bit too much. Arike Ogunbowale had 19 and Allisha Gray scored 12 for Mist, while Kiki Iriafen scored 13 and Tiffany Hayes had 12 for Phantom.There was complete faith in this group, Mist coach Zach O'Brien said. I'm just glad we got it done.Stewart and Napheesa Collier are credited as the co-founders of the league, one that if nothing else has filled a void on calendar for the womens pro game.I think that there was a space that wasnt kind of being used as far as what professional womens basketball players were doing, Stewart said. We used to have a seven-month blackout period where you didnt know what these professional basketball players were doing. And now you know.The question is what comes next.The WNBA and its players do not have a labor agreement for next season, one that is slated at this point to start in about two months. The WNBA has told the players union that it needs to get a deal in place by this coming Tuesday to start the season on time.And for now, theres no indication thatll happen. That means the Mist-Phantom final could be the last professional womens game in the U.S. for a while.Unrivaled a 3-on-3, full-court game played on a 72-foot floor, shorter than an NBA or college court sells itself on being fast-paced, with an 18-second shot clock, 7-minute quarters and plenty of open space for players to create.The title game didnt disappoint in that regard.They were the top two seeds entering the playoffs Phantom 1, Mist 2 and Wednesday was back and forth. It was 24-24 after one quarter, 43-43 at the half, neither team having led by more than seven at any point.Mist led 68-62 going to the fourth, an untimed final quarter where 11 points get added to the leading score as the end-of-game target.To win the title: first team to 79 wins. Mist scored the first six points of the final quarter, going up by 12. Plum answered with five straight points, pushing her total to 35 for the night and getting Phantom within 74-67.But Mist held the lead the rest of the way, and Stewart as she has so many times had a title to savor.It was our goal from Day One to be here, to be on this podium, O'Brien said.___AP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball

She was a two-time state champion in high school coming out of the Syracuse area. She then was a four-time NCAA champion at UConn. Shes won three WNBA titles, three World Cup gold medals, three Olympic gold medals, even two EuroLeague titles.And now, add an Unrivaled title to the mix a league that she co-founded.Breanna Stewart has won it all.Stewart and Mist are the queens of Unrivaled for 2026, topping Phantom 80-74 in the championship game Wednesday night to cap the leagues second season. Stewart scored 32 points, setting the tone by scoring Mists first 12 points of the second half and her team which went 0-2 against Phantom in the regular season wouldnt trail again.What I'll remember the most about this Mist team is we might not be the loudest, but we're going to work the hardest, said Stewart, who was picked as MVP of the final and whose team will split a $600,000 winners' pool.It ended somewhat controversially: an offensive foul on Stewart was overturned to a block on review, giving her a free throw to win the title. Stewart swished the shot, and confetti fell from the roof in celebration.Just focused on doing it for my team, Stewart said.Kelsey Plum carried Phantom with 40 points on 14-for-21 shooting, along with six rebounds and five assists.It was a brilliant effort but Stewart and Mist had just a bit too much. Arike Ogunbowale had 19 and Allisha Gray scored 12 for Mist, while Kiki Iriafen scored 13 and Tiffany Hayes had 12 for Phantom.There was complete faith in this group, Mist coach Zach O'Brien said. I'm just glad we got it done.Stewart and Napheesa Collier are credited as the co-founders of the league, one that if nothing else has filled a void on calendar for the womens pro game.I think that there was a space that wasnt kind of being used as far as what professional womens basketball players were doing, Stewart said. We used to have a seven-month blackout period where you didnt know what these professional basketball players were doing. And now you know.The question is what comes next.The WNBA and its players do not have a labor agreement for next season, one that is slated at this point to start in about two months. The WNBA has told the players union that it needs to get a deal in place by this coming Tuesday to start the season on time.And for now, theres no indication thatll happen. That means the Mist-Phantom final could be the last professional womens game in the U.S. for a while.Unrivaled a 3-on-3, full-court game played on a 72-foot floor, shorter than an NBA or college court sells itself on being fast-paced, with an 18-second shot clock, 7-minute quarters and plenty of open space for players to create.The title game didnt disappoint in that regard.They were the top two seeds entering the playoffs Phantom 1, Mist 2 and Wednesday was back and forth. It was 24-24 after one quarter, 43-43 at the half, neither team having led by more than seven at any point.Mist led 68-62 going to the fourth, an untimed final quarter where 11 points get added to the leading score as the end-of-game target.To win the title: first team to 79 wins. Mist scored the first six points of the final quarter, going up by 12. Plum answered with five straight points, pushing her total to 35 for the night and getting Phantom within 74-67.But Mist held the lead the rest of the way, and Stewart as she has so many times had a title to savor.It was our goal from Day One to be here, to be on this podium, O'Brien said.___AP WNBA: https://apnews.com/hub/wnba-basketball

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