CLEVELAND -- The Guardians will turn to right-hander Tanner Bibee on three days' rest in Saturday's ALCS showdown with the New York Yankees.

Bibee, 25, started Game 2 but lasted just 1 innings in a 6-3 loss that gave New York a 2-0 lead in the series. Bibee allowed five hits and three runs, two earned, while throwing just 39 pitches.

"He's been our best pitcher all year," Cleveland manager Stephen Vogt said. "I can't wait to get him back out there. He feels good. He feels ready."

Bibee went 12-8 with a 3.47 ERA during the regular season, his second in the majors. He started two games during Cleveland's ALDS win over Detroit, allowing two runs over 8 innings without earning a decision.

Saturday's Game 5 will mark his first appearance in the big leagues on three days' rest.

"It's not like I went out there and threw 100 pitches and about to go out there and do it again," Bibee said. "I threw 39 pitches. I feel good. I'm ready to go."

Bibee will face New York's Game 1 starter, left-hander Carlos Rodon. Rodon held the Guardians to one run over six innings, striking out nine, while earning the win at Yankee Stadium.

He's enjoyed a lot of success during his career at Progressive Field, going 6-4 with a 3.08 ERA over 13 appearances.

"I don't know [why]," Rodon said. "It's just one of those things where sometimes as players, you show up to certain places and you pitch well."

The Yankees lead the series 2-1 heading into Friday's night's Game 4.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Kyle Shanahan didn't originally intend for rookie wideout Ricky Pearsall to make his NFL debut Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs. But, after a week of practice, that's exactly what's going to happen.

The Niners plan to activate Pearsall from the non-football injury list to the active 53-man roster, Shanahan announced Friday. That means that just 50 days after he was shot in the right side of his chest, Pearsall is in line to play his first regular-season snaps against the Chiefs.

"Practicing all week, it's been great to see him out there," Shanahan said. "He's had a hell of a week and we're pumped to get him out there."

Fellow receiver Jauan Jennings was ruled out Friday with a hip injury, and running back Jordan Mason (left shoulder) and wideout Deebo Samuel (wrist) were cleared to play against the Chiefs after being limited in practice during the week.

Pearsall was shot in an alleged armed robbery attempt in the Union Square area of San Francisco on Aug. 31. According to the San Francisco Police Department, a 17-year-old-male from nearby Tracy, California, attempted to rob Pearsall, resulting in a struggle between the two. The shot exited Pearsall's back and missed vital organs, allowing for a speedy recovery that Niners general manager John Lynch has called "really, really miraculous."

Soon after the shooting, Pearsall made it clear to Lynch and Shanahan that he intended to return to the field sooner than later. The Niners placed him on the non-football injury list before the Sept. 9 opener against the New York Jets, which meant he had to miss at least four games.

San Francisco opted to hold Pearsall out for the first six games, but he was back on the field for the first time Monday when the team opened his 21-day practice window. Shanahan said previously that he expected a longer ramp-up for Pearsall, who also missed big chunks of training camp with hamstring and left shoulder issues, but the coach also said he didn't want to make any judgments until he saw Pearsall practice.

"I just wanted to see him [practice]," Shanahan said. "We hadn't seen him out there in a while going with the team. Wednesday, he looked great, Thursday, he was even better and today he was even more comfortable. It made the decision pretty easy."

The final hurdle before Pearsall could practice was regaining full range of motion in his right shoulder, something that happened just last week. Pearsall's energy was so evident in a lighter practice session Monday that when teammates and coaches made him break down the huddle, he was out of breath from the short two-minute drill they'd done because he was so excited to be back.

As the week went on, though, it became increasingly clear that Pearsall would have a chance to return against Kansas City.

Pearsall, the No. 31 pick in April's NFL draft, could be especially helpful against a Chiefs defense that is known for playing heavy press man coverage.

"He's doing a really good job, obviously being back and just bringing the juice, going really fast in and out of his cuts and creating some really good separation," quarterback Brock Purdy said. "When you've got a guy like Ricky that can win man-to-man matchups and then also open up some other guys too, that's always a good thing. So, I'm excited to see what he does."

How much Pearsall plays remains to be seen. In addition to his role in the offense, he has been working on catching punts during the week.

Jennings, meanwhile, was a surprise addition to the injury report Wednesday after hurting a hip in last week's win against the Seattle Seahawks. Shanahan said the injury wasn't known until after he spoke to media Oct. 11.

Through the first six games, Jennings leads the Niners in receiving yards (404) and has been in for 58.3% of San Francisco's offensive snaps. With Jennings out, the Niners will have Pearsall, Chris Conley, Ronnie Bell and Jacob Cowing as options behind starters Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk.

Shanahan said Pearsall will be used "wherever he's needed" and that he is "healthy and ready to go." Pearsall would have been activated even if Jennings were healthy, the coach added.

As for Jennings, Shanahan indicated the hip issue isn't expected to cost him much time. "I don't think it's long term," he said.

"I hope he'll be ready for next week. He was close this week."

Samuel was limited in practice Wednesday and Thursday with a wrist injury. He wore a blue no-contact jersey for both of those sessions but shed it Friday and has no injury designation for Sunday. Like Samuel, Mason was limited Wednesday and Thursday but full go Friday and has no injury designation.

Elsewhere on the injury report, the Niners will have their third kicker in as many games Sunday as kickers Matthew Wright (back, shoulder) and Jake Moody (right ankle) have been ruled out.

San Francisco signed kicker Anders Carlson to the practice squad this week and he'll be elevated to play against the Chiefs. Shanahan said Wright will land on injured reserve, which will open a roster spot.

With half an hour to go, it was Ulster who scored the first points of the second half when McCormick got over for his second try of the game, this time scoring from a tap and go from five metres out.

Ulster would spend 10 minutes of the second half a man down after Harry Sheridan was sent to the sin bin for a high tackle, but Ospreys could not make the most of their numerical advantage.

While they did score from a well-worked tap penalty as Tom Florence's floated pass put winger Giles over in the corner, the missed conversion ensured they lost the sin-bin period 7-5 after Stockdale grabbed his second try and Nathan Doak added the extras to finish off the scoring.

Ulster: Lowry; Kok, Carson, McCloskey, Stockdale; Morgan, Cooney; OSullivan, McCormick, OToole; OConnor (capt), Sheridan; Izuchukwu, Marcus Rea, McCann.

Replacements: McElroy, Reid, Wilson, Treadwell, Matty Rea, Doak, Humphreys, Postlethwaite.

Yellow card: Sheridan

Ospreys: Walsh; Kasende, Boshoff, Williams, Giles; Edwards, Hardy; G Thomas, Parry, Warren; Greatbanks, Jones; Lloyd, Tipuric, Morris (capt).

Replacements: Lewis, Phillips, Iowerth-Scott, R Thomas, Gemine, Morgan-Williams, Florence, Nagy.

Yellow card: Hardy

Northampton: Furbank (capt); Hendy, Freeman, Hutchinson, Sleightholme; F Smith, T James; Iyogun, R Smith, Davison, Thornbury, Munga, Scott-Young, Pearson, Pollock.

Replacements: C Langdon, Haffar, Millar Mills, Hunter-Hill, Kemeny, McParland, Litchfield, Ramm.

Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, Nayacalevu, Bedlow, Wills; R du Preez, Warr; McIntyre, Cowan-Dickie, Opoku-Fordjour, Van Rhyn, Andrews, T Curry, B Curry (capt), D du Preez.

Replacements: Caine, Onasanya, Harper, Bamber, Dugdale, Thomas, Curtis, L James.

Sin-bin: Wills (19).

Referee: Christophe Ridley

Scarlets: Ioan Nicholas; Tom Rogers, Johnny Williams, Eddie James, Blair Murray; Ioan Lloyd, Gareth Davies; Kemsley Mathias, Ryan Elias, Henry Thomas, Alex Craig, Sam Lousi, Max Douglas, Josh Macleod (capt), Taine Plumtree.

Replacements: Marnus van der Merwe, Alec Hepburn, Sam Wainwright, Jac Price, Dan Davis, Efan Jones, Sam Costelow, Macs Page.

Bulls: Henry Immelman; Sebastian de Klerk, Canan Moodie, Harold Vorster, Kurt-Lee Arendse; Boeta Chamberlain, Zak Burger; Jan-hendrik Wessels, Akker van der Merwe (capt), Wilco Louw, Ruan Vermaak, Cobus Wiese, Kuyenzeka Xaba, Reinhardt Ludwig, Cameron Hanekom.

Replacements: Johan Grobbelaar, Dylan Smith, Francois Klopper, JF van Heerden, Celimpilo Gumede, Embrose Papier, Chris Barend Smit, Stedman Gans

Red card: Grobbelaar (67)

Referee: Federico Vedovelli (FIR)

Assistant referees: Craig Evans & Nathan James (WRU)

TMO: Stefano Penne (FIR)

Something had to give between two struggling sides, with Exeter Chiefs coming into the game on the back of their worst Premiership start and the Falcons winless for 581 days, a run stretching back to March 2023.

Initially it looked like it was the hosts who would wilt with the Chiefs making a flying start, Feyi-Waboso finishing off a sweeping left to right move in the corner after just four minutes.

Far from letting their shoulders slump, Newcastle dug in and after Josh Hodge had missed a difficult conversion from the right touchline, they soon got their noses in front.

Exeter, forced backwards not by fast line breaks but by their own mistakes, ended up defending desperately as the Falcons probed close to the line.

Van der Walt finally found a way through on 18 minutes, with Grayson adding the extras to give them the lead.

Chiefs briefly regained the initiative with two penalties from Hodge to make it 11-7 in their favour but indiscipline saw them give up 13 penalties in the first hour of the game.

On the half hour mark Blamire's first try, a tap and drive with the hooker breaking through two tacklers five metres out, saw Falcons edge in front.

Exeter were their own worst enemies throughout.

Richard Capstick saw yellow for entering the maul from an off-side position just before half-time and although Exeter managed to shut out Newcastle while he was off, the effort seemed to tell as the Falcons came on strong in the second period.

Blamire bullied his way over for a second and Grayson added a drop goal from 30 metres to make it 24-11, the home fans started to believe.

Exeter made them sweat right to the end though, with Hodge finishing off a pitch length move and slotting a brilliant conversion tight against the left touchline.

But with six points the difference, a knock on as Exeter tried to start one final push from their own 22 brought the final whistle.

Erik ten Hag has admitted that the end of Sir Alex Ferguson's employment at Manchester United will "impact" the club, but insists the former manager will still be available to offer advice to players and staff.

United have decided to axe Ferguson's role as ambassador as part of wider cost-cutting measures. The 82-year-old has been earning around 2 million-a-year since stepping down as manager in 2013.

"Of course it has an impact on us, Sir Alex is Man United," Ten Hag told a news conference on Friday.

"He built Man United to where the club is now, it impacts us. But on the other side also we know and Sir Alex knows and he wants to see a winning Man United, I'm sure he's always available for every advice and we will need him definitely in the short term as we did in the last two and a half years I am here."

Ferguson enjoyed unprecedented success at Old Trafford, winning 13 Premier League titles and the Champions League twice in 27 years at the helm.

He remains the last United manager to win the title and since his departure more than 10 years ago, the club have slipped from the top of English football.

"At the moment we can't match the standards he [Ferguson] set but still we won trophies," said Ten Hag.

"Remember, six years before this club didn't win trophies so we are coming back, we are returning.

"But it is also obvious that we are not there but it is very important we need all the processes right and that we can construct a team that we can line up the best players to construct the best teams."

United face Brentford at Old Trafford on Saturday looking to end a run of five games without a win.

Ten Hag's team won the same fixture last season thanks to two late goals from Scott McTominay, who has since moved to Napoli. The midfielder has been winning fans with his performances in Italy and Ten Hag says the club would have never sanctioned his departure had it not been for the Profit and Sustainability Rules that encourage transferring academy graduates.

"I'm very happy for Scott," said Ten Hag.

"As I said when he left I didn't want this but that's the rules the club had to deal with the fair play rules and the rules are not great. The rules, I would even say are bad, but that's the situation that's created by the rules and forced us to make this decision."

If he didn't know before, Sir Jim Ratcliffe is finding out just how hard it is to be the man in charge of Manchester United.

Three months into his first full season at Old Trafford, results are poor, pressure is mounting on coach Erik ten Hag and now the British billionaire is having to deal with the fallout from the decision to cut off the greatest manager in the club's history, Sir Alex Ferguson.

International breaks are supposed to be about rest and recuperation for club sides, but this one has been bruising for Ratcliffe and his INEOS team, who purchased a minority stake of 1.25 billion from majority owners the Glazer family in February. The 71-year-old has had to justify ending Ferguson's role as a 2m-a-year ambassador as part of cost-cutting measures implemented across the board.

Former club captain Eric Cantona said the move showed "a lack of respect." One former player told ESPN that Ferguson's removal as an ambassador, as well as the departure of a number of long-serving staff members as part of a redundancy programme, makes it feel as if Ratcliffe has "ripped the soul out of the club."

The INEOS CEO has also faced accusations he's dodging the decision to sack Ten Hag. A seven-hour board meeting held in London last week ended with no further clarity on his position as manager.

It has only been a few months since United said the Dutchman was the best man for the job and extended his contract by a year, but ahead of the Premier League fixture against Brentford on Saturday, the storied club -- with 13 Premier League titles to its name -- is languishing 14th in the table. There is a feeling among some supporters that Ratcliffe and INEOS are botching many of their early tests, and that the golden future predicted when they arrived might be harder to achieve than first thought.

The question remains, will Ratcliffe's plan get United back on top, or is this another false dawn? -- Rob Dawson

Success and acceptance hard to find for new leadership

Sir Dave Brailsford is the man behind the theory of marginal gains, where finding the extra 1% can make the difference between competing and winning. This approach helped make Team GB's cyclists the dominant force in their sport for a decade, delivering multiple gold medals at successive Olympic Games, so in many ways, Brailsford, British cycling's former performance director, would seem to be the perfect fit for Manchester United.

INEOS is Sir Jim Ratcliffe's petrochemicals company that has invested in cycling, sailing, football and Formula 1, and the 60-year-old head of sport has been at the forefront of its running of United since acquiring a minority stake in February, but success, and acceptance, at Old Trafford is proving difficult to find.

"Brailsford held a meeting with the first-team squad shortly after INEOS took charge of football operations at the club," a source told ESPN. "He sat there in a cream shirt and pair of cream chinos, telling the players that he lived on the most exclusive street in Monte Carlo, but that he was coming to Manchester because he was going to help make United better.

"The players left the room rolling their eyes and shaking their heads. It was like they were supposed to be grateful that Dave had given up his idyllic lifestyle to save them all. All they've seen since is cost-cutting and people losing their jobs."

Three months later, the promise to "make United better" had a hollow ring to it as the first-team players threatened to pay for their own flight back to Manchester after the FA Cup final in London. The club was providing other means of transportation back from the capital, where United had beaten Manchester City to win the FA Cup. With the club holding firm, senior players pushed back and insisted they would source their own flight home.

When asked for comment, the club insists adequate transportation was booked for the Sunday morning -- with the team enjoying a party at the hotel the night of the final -- but some players chose to fly off on holiday direct from London instead.

"The players and senior staff thought it was unprofessional to travel back to Manchester on a bus, simply because it was the cheaper option, so they told the club they would pay for their own plane," a source told ESPN.

"The club backed down pretty quickly, but it was embarrassing for them. This is Manchester United, and the players were being treated like a League One team."

United have been in a state of flux for longer than anyone at the club cares to remember, but the latest mess -- "s--- show," as one recently departed staffer told ESPN -- can be traced back to the Glazer family announcing in November 2022 that it would seek outside investment and, potentially, a sale of the club it had purchased in 2005.

The so-called strategic review dragged on for months, with Ratcliffe's INEOS group and a rival bid led by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al Thani vying out to secure ownership of the club. Neither group was prepared to match the Glazers' 6 billion valuation, so Ratcliffe changed his approach, offering 1.25 billion for a 27.7% stake and control of United's football operations and ultimately claiming the prize -- or part of it.

On taking charge of the football side of United in February, Ratcliffe promised to lift United "back to the top of English, European and world football," at the same time asking for patience from supporters as he attempted to turn round football's equivalent of an oil tanker.

"Ratcliffe's first question to United's football staff was, 'How are you messing it up so badly, what's gone wrong here?'" a source told ESPN. "The problem for him now is that he could ask the same question, but INEOS now have to take their share of the blame."

Eight months after taking charge of the football operations at United, INEOS has made plenty of changes. It has hired a new CEO (Omar Berrada), a new sporting director (Dan Ashworth) and a technical director (Jason Wilcox), but the team is languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League and manager Ten Hag lurches from game to game fielding questions about his job security after every disappointing result or performance.

In an attempt to cut costs and streamline United's operation, Ratcliffe and INEOS have announced 250 job cuts, cancelled corporate credit cards and told staff that the plan is to reduce the workforce to the same size as Real Madrid.

"Ed Woodward wanted us to be like Barcelona, Richard Arnold thought we should adopt the model used by Formula 1 and now INEOS want us to be like Real Madrid," a United source told ESPN about former club CEOs. "Everyone tells us we're the biggest club in the world, so why should we constantly be trying to copy somebody else?"

For the players, sources have said that the experience of playing for Manchester United now seems like anything but representing one of the game's most illustrious teams. Two people told ESPN that Bruno Fernandes was prepared to leave this summer after growing tired of the club's repeated failure to deliver, but eventually stayed and signed a contract after, according to one source, "the club panicked and gave him a massive new deal."

Many of the players have been "underwhelmed" by the impact made by INEOS, while there has been anger within the dressing room at not simply the departure of several long-serving staff members as part of the job cuts, but also at the treatment of some of them.

"One member of the ground staff had been at the club for over 30 years," a source said. "He was let go by the club and was sweeping up on his own on his last day with tears rolling down his face. Nobody did anything for him, despite all the years he had given to the club." -- Mark Ogden

Man United continue to flip-flop over Ten Hag

The Manchester United squad left Wembley after May's FA Cup final win against Manchester City expecting to start preseason under a new manager. Some were expecting Gareth Southgate, England manager at the time, to be appointed before the squad flew out to the United States for the preseason tour in late July. But after 2 weeks of intense deliberation, Ratcliffe and his senior United executives decided to retain Ten Hag as manager despite concerns about his ability to do the job on and off the pitch.

"Erik is very blunt and direct," a source told ESPN. "He's fundamentally an honest guy, but he had to be told last season to soften his approach with the players. He was too critical too often, but sometimes it was down to his use of English.

"He speaks the language, but he doesn't have a great grasp of it or the nuances. For instance, he pissed off Casemiro last season for saying he was dropped for 'football reasons.' Erik meant 'tactical' reasons, but he ended up angering a multiple Champions League winner by suggesting he was criticising him as a footballer."

Ten Hag's handling of Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford also caused disharmony within the squad. While there was initial support among the majority of the players for the decision to discipline Sancho for a social media outburst after the winger was dropped from the first-team dressing room, sources say the treatment was soon regarded as heavy-handed and displayed a lack of flexibility on Ten Hag's part.

Sources have told ESPN that Rashford's loss of form and focus last season was not helped by Ten Hag regularly criticising the player in media interviews -- again partly exacerbated by his limited grasp of English.

Some players struggled to boost their confidence under Ten Hag's hardline approach, and sources have told ESPN that one senior player asked low-level members of staff to give him motivational talks before games to help his morale.

Although Ten Hag kept his job after the FA Cup win, he would only survive as part of a reshaped coaching team. Mitchell van der Gaag, Steve McClaren and Benni McCarthy, all appointed by Ten Hag on his arrival from Ajax in the summer of 2022, left the club, with several coaches hired in their place.

Ten Hag returned to the Netherlands to recruit Go Ahead Eagles coach Rene Hake, who he had worked alongside at FC Twente, while former United forward Ruud van Nistelrooy, whose senior coaching career was limited to a season in charge of PSV Eindhoven in 2022-23, returned to Old Trafford as assistant manager. Van Nistelrooy had no previous working relationship with Ten Hag, but his arrival in the summer saw him make an instant impact.

"Ruud looks like a manager, and he acts like one too," a source told ESPN. "He has one-on-one meetings with players and there is certainly an aura about him. Nobody will say it, but if he became manager at United, nobody would be surprised."

Van Nistelrooy, who scored 150 goals in 219 appearances for United from 2001 to 2006, is also hugely popular with the supporters. After the 3-3 Europa League draw away to Porto in October, Van Nistelrooy was the last person to leave the pitch after the nonplaying substitutes performed their postmatch warm-down, with the 48-year-old applauding fans who stayed behind to sing his name.

Ten Hag's preference of training in Manchester and flying out to a European venue in the late afternoon is not dissimilar to coaches at other teams, but sources have said players were "unhappy" at having to stay overnight in Porto after the game and return to Manchester on Friday afternoon.

"They just want to fly home, sleep in their own beds and then train in the afternoon," a source said. "But they landed [back in England] during rush hour, and then had to travel to Birmingham the following day for the game at Aston Villa."

United then played out a dismal 0-0 draw at Villa in front of Ratcliffe, Brailsford, Berrada, Ashworth and Wilcox, extending the team's winless sequence to five games. After the match, Ten Hag talked of United keeping a fourth clean sheet in five games, insisting that the more worrying statistic of just five goals in seven games would soon be improved when his team takes its chances.

It was a hard watch for Ratcliffe and his executive team. Despite Brailsford's early promise to make things better, everything seemed to have gotten worse. -- Ogden

United's stadium woes persist

There was a theory when the Glazers announced their "strategic review" in November 2022 that the motivation behind the decision was a realisation that facilities like their Old Trafford stadium and their Carrington training area were falling well behind, and that they didn't have the money to make improvements. Richard Arnold, the former CEO, said as much when he set up an impromptu meeting with disgruntled fans at a pub close to his house in June 2022.

"For the future, investing in a new stadium and a latest-and-greatest training ground, we've got to do something," he said. "We've got to get investors in. I need that to do what I want for the club. I've got to have more cash now because no club in the world has the money to build a new stadium. You either borrow it or invest it. The money has got to come from somewhere."

It's nearly nine months since the strategic review officially concluded and Ratcliffe completed his purchase of a minority stake, but the search for funds to rebuild Old Trafford is ongoing.

Sources have told ESPN that no decision has been made about whether to redevelop the current stadium or build a new one on the same land in Trafford. The task force set up by Ratcliffe -- which includes Lord Sebastian Coe and Gary Neville -- is expected to deliver its recommendation by the end of the year. The project could cost in excess of 2 billion, but it's still unclear where the money is going to come from.

"We must look at all possible funding options," COO Collette Roche told a fans' forum in July. "It's still early stages with no decisions made."

Sources have told ESPN that Ratcliffe's preference is to build a new 100,000-seat stadium in the footprint of Old Trafford to create a lasting legacy. However, there are concerns about how the history of United's home since 1910 would be maintained. There was an initial proposal made as recently as the summer that Old Trafford could be downsized and used as a home for the women's and youth teams, but discussions since have made it clear that the plan isn't cost-effective.

United insist they won't make any firm decisions about anything related to the stadium until supporters have been given a chance to voice their opinions, but the idea of creating a "Wembley of the North" in Manchester is proving easier said than done. -- Dawson

What's next for the women's team?

Ratcliffe has been clear that every decision since his arrival -- whether it be high-profile appointments or redundancies -- has been taken with the aim of improving performances on the pitch. But already the club has been forced to defend itself against accusations that Ratcliffe and INEOS are interested in only the men's side and not the women's team.

Sources have told ESPN that there was dismay throughout the club that INEOS did not send a representative to Wembley for the women's FA Cup final in May, a game United won to lift their first major trophy since the team was reformed in 2018. There was further criticism over the summer when the club decided to move female players out of their bespoke facility at Carrington to accommodate the men's team while the training ground undergoes a 50 million revamp.

Around the same time, club captain Katie Zelem and England international Mary Earps left on free transfers.

United have insisted they are "fully committed" to the women's team, Roche says, while manager Marc Skinner has had to act as peacemaker between disgruntled supporters and club bosses.

"They genuinely love women's football and have a real burning ambition for it to be in the forefront of their direction, that will only improve," Skinner said in September."I know when the facilities are finished, we will only benefit from it. I can promise you that."

United are still playing catch up with Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal, but they've started the WSL season positively with three wins from three games. -- Dawson

Can United challenge for the title by 2028?

Ratcliffe has been consistent in his message that things will take time to get better. He followed through with his aim of bringing on board the best executives by hiring Dan Ashworth from Newcastle as sporting director, Jason Wilcox from Southampton as technical director and Omar Berrada from Manchester City as CEO.

Much of the responsibility to untangle the mess that came before and get United back to the top of English football lies with them. Ashworth will have a huge influence over recruitment, an area in which the club has failed spectacularly in the 11 years since it last won the Premier League title. Ashworth was happy with last summer's transfer business, but there's an acceptance that one window is not enough to fix a squad that has drastically underperformed.

Publicly, United have been reluctant to put a timeframe on exactly when they might be in a position to challenge for the title. However, in a call with staff earlier this season, Berrada said the aim is to win it by 2028 -- the year in which the club will celebrate its 150th anniversary.

That gives Ratcliffe more than three seasons to fulfill his ambition of getting United back to where he believes they belong. It also shows how far United have fallen and the amount of work required to reverse a downward spiral that has been going on for more than a decade.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- New York Giants wide receiver Malik Nabers didn't remember the end of the play two weeks ago when he suffered a concussion against the Dallas Cowboys. The video, he said, showed him he was unconscious on the play.

The whole situation was "scary," according to the rookie wide receiver.

Nabers, who is set to return this weekend when the Giants host the Philadelphia Eagles, has missed the past two games with a concussion suffered Oct. 3 when his face hit the turf hard as he tried to corral a pass from quarterback Daniel Jones.

"It was scary when I couldn't remember what happened," Nabers said. "I can't remember the last play I was in, so yeah, it was kind of scary.

"Last thing I remember was [Jones] throwing me the ball. That was it."

Nabers said he experienced headaches and throbbing in his head after the injury. He didn't specify any other symptoms. It was his first known concussion.

The seventh pick in this year's draft was cleared from the concussion protocol Thursday, two weeks to the day after suffering the injury. He was limited in practice Friday because of a groin problem that he says dates to college. The Giants don't seem to think it will be a problem.

Coach Brian Daboll said the groin "tightened up" on Nabers during Thursday's practice. So the team simply took precaution. Nabers was not given an injury designation for Sunday and expects to be able to handle whatever workload the game plan dictates.

Running back Devin Singletary (groin) also will return to face the Eagles. Singletary has missed the past two games as well.

Meanwhile, defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence (hip) and outside linebacker Brian Burns (groin) are officially listed as questionable for Sunday. But both have insisted throughout the week that they will play.

Nabers' return comes after two weeks of being monitored closely, on and off the field. He took criticism during that time on social media for attending a Travis Scott concert with teammate Isaiah Simmons while still in the protocol.

Nabers said Friday that he informed the Giants before attending the concert. He declined to discuss the team's specific reaction.

"Yeah, I'm going to always be myself," he said. "I mean, that's the life that I chose to live. It's what comes with the job. But at the end of the day, I still got my own life. I still got my own personal life, so I'm going to continue to have my own personal life. I'm going to still continue to watch my back and I'm going to still continue to have my personal life."

Nabers is learning quickly that he's in the spotlight playing in New York. Everyone seems to have an opinion.

He mentioned X (formerly Twitter) and acknowledged not being able to fully avoid the outside commentary about attending the concert. Some of it gets sent to his phone by friends and family.

He tries not to be affected much by the criticism.

"I mean, that's their business. If they researched about what caused a concussion, what makes it worse, and on the internet if they say it's the lights, hearing [loud noises], then that's on them," Nabers said. "I didn't face anything with the lights. They asked me if I had problem with lights, I told them no. Having problems with the sound, I told them no. ... I've been playing loud music since I've known [about] the concussion in the car. I go out with the lights on. I played the game with lights. So I mean, I didn't have anything with my eyes. It wasn't making my head hurt. Sound wasn't making my head hurt. So I was fine."

Nabers said he was most worried about getting right and returning to the field.

He just had to be patient while missing two games and watching his team score only one touchdown in Sunday night's 17-7 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals.

"My health is really the most important thing," Nabers said. "So I really wasn't frustrated. It was just getting back out there when I feel right."

That time is now.

SOUTHPORT, Conn. -- The Diamond Sports Group's channels will soon be branded as FanDuel Sports Network.

The Diamond Sports Group, which is going through bankruptcy proceedings, and FanDuel made the announcement Friday. Diamond's channels had been Bally Sports since baseball's Opening Day in 2021. The name change will take place Oct. 21.

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

Diamond Sports has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the Southern District of Texas since it filed for protection in March 2023. The company said in a financial filing last year that it had debt of $8.67 billion.

The Bally Sports regional networks serve as the TV home to eight Major League Baseball teams, eight NFL teams and 13 NBA teams.

Starting next week, Diamond's 16 regional sports channels will all take the name FanDuel Sports Network.

FanDuel TV will have their offerings such as the "Up & Adams" show featuring host Kay Adams, other sports betting shows and other content like horse racing and Euroleague basketball can be shown the Diamond's regional sports networks.

David Preschlack, CEO of Diamond, said the partnership will elevate the fan experience and deepen "the incremental value we provide for our team, league and distribution partners."

For FanDuel, its president for sports, Mike Raffensperger, said it puts the company's name in front of the nation's largest group of regional sports networks.