ManningCast returning for 2025 NFL season: Full schedule, matchups

ManningCast returning for 2025 NFL season: Full schedule, matchups

ESPN and Omaha Productions' "Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli" returns once again for the 2025 NFL season. Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterbackPeyton Manningand his two-time Super Bowl MVP brother Eli are back for a fifth season of their telecast, commonly known as the "ManningCast." Omaha Productions announced the full schedule of "ManningCast" games for 2025 today, starting in Week 1 with theChicago Bearshosting theMinnesota Vikings. Getting ahead early:Five NFL teams that could surge to hot starts in early 2025 season schedule Encore season:Philadelphia Eagles RB Saquon Barkley can't rush for 2,000 yards again. No way. Right? Peyton and Eli are both experts in playoff football from their careers with a combined 22 playoff wins, including four Super Bowl victories. They'll bring that knowledge to the postseason as well with a wild-card round broadcast this year. Ten of the 12 shows have set matchups. They start things off with Vikings-Bears and will see a total of eight teams that made the playoffs last season, including the reigning AFC championKansas City Chiefsand the team that beat them in Super Bowl 59, thePhiladelphia Eagles. Nike 'Rivalries' uniforms:Ranking NFL's newest uniforms from best to worst The "ManningCast" has a six-week stretch of weekly shows culminating in Week 13's game between Eli's former team - theNew York Giants- and the team he beat twice in the Super Bowl: theNew England Patriots. All 12 "ManningCast" episodes will air on ESPN2 and be available on the ESPN App as well as NFL+. Here's a look at the full schedule. All broadcasts on ESPN2 and the ESPN App. Week 1 (Sept. 8):Minnesota VikingsatChicago Bears Week 3 (Sept. 22):Detroit LionsatBaltimore Ravens Week 5 (Oct. 6):Kansas City ChiefsatJacksonville Jaguars Week 8 (Oct. 27):Washington Commandersat Kansas City Chiefs Week 9 (Nov. 3):Arizona CardinalsatDallas Cowboys Week 10 (Nov. 10):Philadelphia EaglesatGreen Bay Packers Week 11 (Nov. 17): Dallas Cowboys atLas Vegas Raiders Week 12 (Nov. 24):Carolina PanthersatSan Francisco 49ers Week 13 (Dec. 1):New York Giantsat New England Patriots Week 15 (Dec. 15):Miami DolphinsatPittsburgh Steelers Week 18 (Jan. 3): TBD vs. TBD Wild-card playoffs (Jan. 12): TBD vs. TBD Omaha Productions and ESPN did not name anyone specifically who will be appearing on "ManningCast" shows this season. They did tease "new guests – and perhaps some familiar faces"in a release today. This is the full list of guests from the 11 episodes of the show in 2024: Adam Sandler Chiefs defensive tackleChris Jones Bill Belichick Miles Teller Matt Ryan Paul Rudd Arch Manning Will Arnett Rex Ryan Cleveland BrownsquarterbackJoe Flacco Ed Reed Scott Hanson Lawrence Taylor LL Cool J Bill Cowher Jason Sudeikis Maria Taylor J.J. Watt Jim Gaffigan Patriots coach Mike Vrabel Luke Wilson Owen Wilson John Legend Chris Collinsworth Jared Allen This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:ManningCast schedule, matchups for 2025 NFL season

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September 02, 2025

ManningCast returning for 2025 NFL season: Full schedule, matchups

ManningCast returning for 2025 NFL season: Full schedule, matchups ESPN and Omaha Productions' "Monday Night Football with Peyton a...

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US Open: Jessica Pegula moves on to semifinals for second straight year after knocking off Barbora Krejčíková

US Open: Jessica Pegula moves on to semifinals for second straight year after knocking off Barbora Krejčíková

Jessica Pegula advanced to the U.S. Open semifinals for the second straight year after dispatching Barbora Krejčíková in straight sets,6-3, 6-3, on Tuesday. Through five matches in Flushing, the 31-year-old Pegula, who is seeking her first Grand Slam tournament title, has yet to drop a set. [Join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] Pegula stormed out to a 3-0 lead in the opening set, putting Krejčíková into catchup mode. The former French Open and Wimbledon champion did cut Pegula's advantage to 4-3, but the American pulled away to win the final two games. Title chase is 🔛Last year's runner-up Pegula takes down Krejcikova in straights!pic.twitter.com/OZMdKqsyL7 — US Open Tennis (@usopen)September 2, 2025 In the second set, Krejčíková's serving issues continued and Pegula took advantage. Krejčíková's overall first serve win percentage was43% in the matchand she was 31% in second serve win percentage. "I think I've been playing some really good tennis, I've just been playing very solid," Pegula said after the match. "I've been having very good starts, so I really wanted to do that today, especially against someone like her who's very dangerous." Pegula, a three-time winner on tour this year, will face either No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka or Markéta Vondroušová in the semifinals on Thursday. Sabalenka and Vondroušová will play their quarterfinal match on Tuesday evening.

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September 02, 2025

US Open: Jessica Pegula moves on to semifinals for second straight year after knocking off Barbora Krejčíková

US Open: Jessica Pegula moves on to semifinals for second straight year after knocking off Barbora Krejčíková Jessica Pegula advanced to the...

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Giants depth chart: Rookie Jaxson Dart beats out Jameis Winston for backup quarterback job

Giants depth chart: Rookie Jaxson Dart beats out Jameis Winston for backup quarterback job

The future is closer than it looks for the New York Giants. Despite having to contend with veteran Jameis Winston, Jaxson Dart earned the No. 2 spot on the team's quarterback depth chart ahead of Week 1. That means it will be Dart — and not Winston — who is active Sunday. If starter Russell Wilson gets hurt or falters, the Giants will turn to Dart to run things. Winston, meanwhile, will likely be inactive and won't be able to enter the contest unless both Wilson and Dart get injured. It's a surprising outcome considering Winston's experience. With the team's quarterback situation unsettled ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft, the Giants signed both Wilson and Winston to shore up depth at the position. [It's not too late — join or create a Yahoo Fantasy Football league for the 2025 NFL season] Wilson was always listed as the team's starter, but it was expected Winston would serve as his backup. Things changed in the draft, however, as the Giants snagged Dart with the No. 25 overall pick. With Dart in tow, he and Winston were expected to battle it out for the backup job. Winston had the experience. The former No. 1 overall pick has thrown for 154 touchdowns in his career and has one Pro Bowl appearance under his belt. Because of that, the team initially listed Winston above Dart on its preseason depth chart. But a strong preseason by Dart forced the team's hand. In three games, Dart completed 32-of-47 passes, tossing three touchdowns and no interceptions. He showed off some rushing prowess too, gaining 52 yards and scoring a rushing touchdown. That was enough to convince the Giants that Dart was good enough to be Wilson's backup early on. Wilson saw his numbers decline with the Pittsburgh Steelers last season, tossing 16 touchdowns over 11 games. The 36-year-old could recapture some early-career magic with the Giants, but it's more likely the team will move off Wilson before the end of the 2025 NFL season. Dart likely would have been the beneficiary of that decision even if he started the 2025 season No. 3 on the quarterback depth chart. Still, Tuesday's development should be viewed as a positive sign for Giants fans. The team's first-round quarterback acquitted himself well in the preseason, and earned enough trust that the coaches put him in a position to step in if Wilson gets hurt. Perhaps that's a low bar to clear considering Dart's lofty draft status, but Winston — for all his faults — is a more than capable backup quarterback. The fact that the Giants felt good enough about putting Dart in the No. 2 spot immediately is encouraging, and probably a sign that he's not far off from starting games for the team the instant Wilson struggles.

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September 02, 2025

Giants depth chart: Rookie Jaxson Dart beats out Jameis Winston for backup quarterback job

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During a quiet summer election, one clerk practices to make future elections smoother

During a quiet summer election, one clerk practices to make future elections smoother

On one of her two purple phones, Livonia City Clerk Lori Miller has a sticker that proudly proclaims "I [purple heart emoji] Boring Elections." And on Aug. 5 that's just what she got. Elections in her city and across the state were uneventful, a welcome gift to clerks who are bracing for a busy 2026. Miller used the primary in Livonia, a Detroit suburb in Wayne County, as an opportunity to test out some upgrades ahead of a competitive city council race in November and next year's elections for the U.S. House and Senate, state legislative seats, governor, and other statewide offices. "We're trying a lot of things," Miller toldVotebeatas she helped to close out absent voter counting boards at the end of the night. "I didn't want to do them last year, with so many other things happening, and I want to be ready for next year." Miller is relatively new to the job — her first general election as clerk was last year's presidential contest. She said she's focused on improving processes and ensuring elections run smoothly. That includes steps likeconsolidating precincts, which is allowed under a state law that reflects voters' increased interest in absentee and early voting, and reorganizing the way absentee ballots are stored, allowing counting boards to finish sooner. And, for the most part, it worked. The precinct consolidation did confuse some voters who'd voted for years at a different polling location or precinct number. The city posted signs outside each polling place, but some voters still wondered if they were at the right place. "We've voted at the same place for 30 years," Natalie Shields, a Livonia voter, told Votebeat after casting her ballot at a new precinct housed at Riley Upper Elementary School. "Now we have a new number, a new place — it's just frustrating to try to figure this all out." Despite these short-term impacts, Miller said there were plenty of reasons for the change: It will save money in the long term by allowing her to maintain fewer machines and bring on fewer workers for smaller elections. It can be difficult to find people prepared to work shifts that easily stretch past 14 hours. It's also given her leverage to push for higher pay for election workers to make the job more appealing. That proposal is still moving through the city's budget process. The city sent out cards to voters with their new precincts and voting locations, and posted signs that said which old precincts became which new ones. Even so, poll workers said, nearly every voter they spoke to questioned if they were at the right place. Some were sent to other locations, but most were able to cast their ballots as expected. Whatever confusion resulted didn't appear to diminish turnout. The city of 95,000 has just under 75,000 registered voters, and 27,571 of them cast ballots in Aug. 5's election — or about 37%. That's high for an August election, bolstered by a huge slate of 17 candidates running for city council and a contentious bond proposal to fund new city buildings. By comparison, in Detroit — where voters were picking out candidates for the first open mayoral race in more than a decade — fewer than 17% of registered voters cast ballots in Aug. 5's election. More than 9,000 Livonia voters turned out to vote in person, leading to a steady stream of voters at nearly every polling place all day. The rest of the city's voters cast their ballots either early or absentee. About a third of the city's registered voters received mailed absentee ballots. That was one reason she felt confident consolidating precincts: Most voters now take advantage of expanded early voting and the right to no-excuse absentee voting, both enshrined in the state's constitution through voter referendums in2018and2022. "People like those options," Miller said. "My job is to make sure they're able to use them." But that's not her only job, especially on Election Day. She spent the day shuttling between polling places, troubleshooting minor problems that arose and ensuring that voter assist terminals — designed for voters with disabilities but open for anyone to use — were set up properly. Once the polls closed, she changed out of her red "Livonia City Clerk's Office" shirt into a navy blue blouse and went live on Facebook, YouTube, and local TV, a Livonia tradition, to quickly share results with the public. Back at City Hall, the counting of absentee ballots went on all day. Starting as early as 7 a.m., four teams of half a dozen people or more counted continually at tables on the top floor. With more than 17,000 ballots coming in early, Miller's team needed a better system to sort and process them. Enter a new idea, borrowed from fellow clerks in neighboring downriver communities (who in turn borrowed it from a clerk in tiny Houghton County in the Upper Peninsula): Sort ballots by the date they're received, not by precinct. It allowed them to better count each day's results, leading to smoother final tallies and much faster paperwork. So on Aug. 5, in a conference room decorated with posters that depicted city officials as movie stars — City Emergency Preparedness Director Brian Kahn featured in a "Wrath of Kahn" mockup, for instance — the city's four absentee voter counting boards gave it go. "We learned a lot here tonight," Miller said, standing beneath her face superimposed on a poster for the 2014 football film "Draft Day," instead, reading "Election Day." "We'll do it all again next time." This storywas produced byVotebeatand reviewed and distributed byStacker.

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September 02, 2025

During a quiet summer election, one clerk practices to make future elections smoother

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Here’s where things stand in the New York City mayor’s race

Here's where things stand in the New York City mayor's race

Labor Day marks the traditional start of the sprint to Election Day. This fall's marquee event: the contest to become New York City's next mayor. Zohran Mamdani is vying to finish the job after his shocking victory in June's Democratic primary. Mayor Eric Adams and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo are running as independents, trying to rescue their political careers from a torrent of scandals. And Republican Curtis Sliwa adds an unpredictable element to the mix. The winner on Nov. 4 will lead America's largest city, but the results will resonate across politics. A victory by Mamdani, the 33-year-old state assemblyman and democratic socialist, would signal a sharp break within the Democratic Party from leaders who have refused to endorse him even after his primary win. Casting a shadow over the race is President Donald Trump, a Queens native and owner of several namesake properties in Manhattan. Trump has referred to Mamdani as a "communist" and said he would need to "take over" the city if Mamdani wins. Cuomo has used the threat to boost his campaign, saying only he knows how to battle with Trump, who has suggested the former governor should stay in the race despite his loss in June. Here's what to know about the race heading into the fall: Despite having the backing of much of the city's Democratic establishment, Mamdani has yet to secure the support of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The pair recently met for a second time in Jeffries' Brooklyn district, this time alongside clergy leaders and Rep. Yvette Clarke, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus who also represents parts of Brooklyn. As Jeffries holds out, Mamdani is facing added scrutiny over his connection to the Democratic Socialists of America. Cuomo is trying to tie Mamdani to the DSA's most controversial proposals – including abolishing misdemeanors, disarming police officers, abolishing prisons and decriminalizing sex work. It's a tricky balance: The New York City chapter of the party has endorsed him and Mamdani has made it clear he is proud to identify as a member of DSA. But he also ran as a Democrat focused on affordability and has disavowed his previous calls to defund the police. He is putting some space between his campaign and the national arm of the DSA. "If you cannot find a policy on my website, that is not a policy that I am running on," Mamdani told reporters last week. The national organization is helping him with distance too. "While we are proud that Zohran works closely with NYC-DSA, we also understand his platform for mayor is not identical to the DSA National platform," DSA co-chair, Ashik Siddique, said in a statement. Cuomo, who is trying to revive his campaign through a mix of rebranded social media videos, pithy posts and frequent press conferences, is leaning into the public-safety focus of his primary campaign. Mamdani and Cuomo's public safety proposals are vastly different. Cuomo is proposing to hire an additional 5,000 police officers while Mamdani has said he wants to change the way in which officers respond to certain emergency calls, particularly calls involving the homeless or mentally ill. Despite a decline in shootings and murders, Cuomo has remained focused on the city's crime rate and the NYPD's officer shortage. Standing near a memorial where a 69-year-old woman was killed by a stray bullet, he renewed his call to bring the NYPD's headcount – which is already the largest in the nation – to the same levels as the administration of former Mayor David Dinkins. Or at least that's what it looks like for now. The incumbent is staying in the race despite a constant stream of corruption allegations surrounding his inner circle, a lack of public funds to help his campaign and abysmal polling showing that a majority of New Yorkers disapprove of his performance. Adams, who has been endorsed by a handful of law enforcement unions got another boost of support after Teamsters Local 831 – which represents the city's sanitation workers – endorsed his campaign. One of the more bizarre episodes in the campaign so far unfolded after one of Adams' former senior staff members handed a bag of potato chips stuffed with cash to a reporter following a campaign event in Harlem. Winnie Greco, who previously worked as Adams' liaison to the Chinese community and has been under investigation by federal authorities for months, handed the sour cream and onion potato chips bag to Katie Honan of THE CITY, a digital news outlet that has extensively covered Adams' corruption scandals. After realizing the chips were not just an awkward snack offer, Honan tried to return the money to Greco, who insisted that she keep it. Honan declined, explaining she could not receive gifts. The incident was referred to the city's Department of Investigation. "We don't give money to reporters. I don't know anything about what took place there," Adams said after the incident. Greco, who has since been suspended from her volunteer position in the campaign, denied the cash was a bribe to the reporter. Greco's lawyer told CNN it was meant to be a kind gesture. Hours later, Adams' former senior adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin was indicted on state charges of corruption and bribery, accused in a wide-ranging scheme involving cash, television shows and moneyed donors opposed to a street redesign project in Brooklyn. Manhattan prosecutors allege Lewis-Martin who Adams has referred to as "his sister" traded influence and favors from her powerful perch at City Hall in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash bribes and even a cameo on the small screen. Lewis-Martin pleaded not guilty along with eight co-defendants charged in the scheme. While Adams was not accused of any wrongdoing, the ongoing corruption scandals affecting his inner circle persist, reinforcing the perception that Adams cannot get away from the accusations that have hobbled his administration. It also gave his opponents fodder. Mamdani, whose viral videos helped him catapult to national notoriety, posted a clip of himself eating from a bag of chips. For more CNN news and newsletters create an account atCNN.com

byKonstantin Pynzar

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September 02, 2025

Here’s where things stand in the New York City mayor’s race

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