AI-assisted summary
• ‘Saturday Night Live’ star Colin Jost will host a daily show during the Ryder Cup called ‘Breakfast at Bethpage.’
• The show is produced by Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions and will stream live on Peacock and YouTube.
• ‘Breakfast at Bethpage’ aims to appeal to both golf fans and a general audience with a variety of celebrity guests.
• The broadcast will be live for two hours each morning of the three-day event from Bethpage Black.

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — ‘College GameDay’ meets ‘ManningCast’ live from the first tee at the 2025 Ryder Cup to create ‘T-Mobile Breakfast at Bethpage,’ a two-hour show streaming on the Ryder Cup YouTube channel and Peacock hosted by ‘Saturday Night Live’ comedian – and avid golfer – Colin Jost. 

A “big sports fan” in general, Jost is back in the sports spotlight after serving as the NBC’s celebrity correspondent at the 2024 Summer Olympics covering surfing. 

“The same way going to the Olympics in Tahiti – it’s like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Jost said the day before the competition and his show started.

“I feel like we have enough trust between us,” Jost said of Peyton. “He’s got such a great team at Omaha.” 

Jost said he hopes ‘Breakfast at Bethpage’ appeals to golf fans while also being “beginner-friendly.” 

The show has guests lined up for the three days across all sectors of culture – most unrelated to golf. 

“We’re trying to appeal to everyone,” Jost said. 

Nate Bargatze, Bobby Flay, Druski, Robert Pattinson, Niall Horan, Michael Phelps and Christopher McDonald are expected to make appearances. Jost’s “SNL” teammate Marcello Hernandez, Hannah Berner and Roger Steele are serving as correspondents. 

Jost wants to feed off energy at Bethpage from the fans, whether they’re in the grandstand behind the set or roaming around the course and finding their way to his correspondents’ microphones. He fully expects to attract a crowd screaming at him or doing weird gestures in the background. That’s the business of being live for two hours (the show will stream from 6-8 a.m. ET on Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET on Sunday). 

“SNL is live, but you’re rarely interacting with the audience unless something’s going really wrong,” Jost said. “So I would love to use that energy.” 

Putting on his golf analyst hat, Jost predicted the Americans will do better than anticipated during the team formats over the first two days and the Europeans will fare better than expected in the singles matches on Sunday. His player to watch is USA’s Cameron Young, a New York native.

“I’m optimistic that it’s going to be a dramatic finish,” Jost said. 

T-Mobile is the presenting sponsor of “Breakfast at Bethpage” and is Omaha Productions’ “first-ever end-to-end 5G-connected broadcast.”

AI-assisted summary
• Colorado’s upcoming game against BYU is a critical test for coach Deion Sanders in his third season.
• A loss to BYU would damage Colorado’s chances for a Big 12 title and bowl game eligibility.
• Colorado’s defense, which ranks 121st nationally against the run, will face a challenge from BYU running back LJ Martin.
• Kaidon Salter is now the undisputed starting quarterback after leading the team to a win against Wyoming.

The quarterback controversy at Colorado is finally over now apparently, bringing an admitted sense of “relief” to the Buffaloes after sorting through three players at that position in the first three games.

But now comes a telling test for Deion Sanders in his third season as Colorado’s coach. And it’s probably the biggest one yet for him since he lost several top players to the NFL from last year’s team, including Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter and his quarterback son Shedeur.

The Buffaloes host undeated No. 24 Brigham Young on Saturday night Sept. 27.

After starting the season with a 2-2 record, are the Buffs a soft and mistake-prone team, like they seemed to be during losses against Georgia Tech and Houston? Or are they a dynamic force to be reckoned with, led by a take-charge quarterback?

The latter is what they appeared to be in a 37-20 win last week against Wyoming. But Wyoming isn’t nearly as good as BYU.

“We gotta win these type of games,” Sanders said at a news conference Tuesday in Boulder. “We gotta be dominant in these type of games. But one thing that we want to do: We want to give our best effort. We don’t want to walk away from the game saying, ‘Dang, we could have played better’ We don’t want to do that like in Houston. We played like garbage, man.”

Why this is a critical game for Deion Sanders

If the Buffs drop another Big 12 Conference game Saturday night, they will fall to 0-2 in league play heading into a road game the next week against undefeated No. 25 TCU.

A loss would severely damage their chances to play for the Big 12 title and even become eligible for a postseason bowl game. A win does the opposite, keeping those dreams within realistic grasp.

The game is a rematch of the Alamo Bowl last December, when BYU won easily, 36-14. But both teams have made big changes since then, most notably at quarterback.

At Colorado, Liberty transfer Kaidon Salter engineered the win against Wyoming, throwing three touchdown passes and running for another.  He’s the undisputed top QB now, not Ryan Staub, who started the Houston game, or Julian Lewis, the freshman who recently turned 18.

“Yes, I do sense a relief,” Buffaloes defensive lineman Amari McNeill said Tuesday about the resolution at quarterback. “We all got that figured out and… We can do our own job and just worry about dominating.”

But what if Salter has a bad game? That’s another reason this game is a big one for Sanders. He doesn’t want to go back to rotating quarterbacks.

Will Colorado’s ‘mini-NFL program’ show its muscle?

It helps Sanders that Colorado’s quarterbacks have receiving targets who have filled in well for Hunter, the departed receiver/cornerback. The big one is 6-5 Sincere Brown, who has touchdown receptions of 71 and 68 yards. He compares himself to Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss.

“A lot of people like to call me Moss Jr.,” Brown said.

Sanders said he wants Brown to “shine like a Christmas tree” and get more involved.

But Colorado misses Hunter’s playmaking on defense. The Buffs rank 121^st nationally in rushing defense, having given up an average of 194.5 yards on the ground.

Now comes BYU running back LJ Martin, who ran for 93 yards and two touchdowns against Colorado in the Alamo Bowl. This year, he ranks ninth nationally with 114 rushing yards per game.

Brown, who transferred to Colorado from Campbell, said Colorado is like a “mini-NFL program” with its Pro Football Hall of Famers on staff, including Sanders, running backs coach Marshall Faulk and pass-rush coach Warren Sapp.

How that pro pedigree translates into college coaching success is still an open question, to be answered to some degree with a big physical test Saturday at 10:15 p.m. ET on ESPN.

“Every week is a proving ground,” Deion Sanders said.

Perhaps none more so this year than Saturday.

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PHOENIX — Clayton Kershaw, his shirt off, cap on his head, beer dripping off his body and champagne stinging his eyes, stood in front of his locker in the celebratory Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse, wanting to soak in every last moment.

Let his younger teammates wear protective goggles and T-shirts.

Not Kershaw.

Not on this day, the 14th time he has celebrated the NL West Division championship.

“I want to feel the burn,’’ Kershaw said. “I don’t want goggles. I don’t want a shirt. I hardly want pants.’’

The pants stayed on.

Nothing else did.

Kershaw, remembering 2013 when the Dodgers celebrated their division title at Chase Field in Phoenix by jumping into the pool beyond the center-field fence, didn’t have any desire for an encore. He stayed put, along with the rest of his teammates, after drawing the ire of the Arizona Diamondbacks, along with U.S. Senator John McCain, who called them “a bunch of overpaid, immature, arrogant, spoiled brats.’’

“I remember that, it was a lot of fun,’’ Kershaw said. “I think we rubbed too many people the wrong way on that one. Getting to celebrate in here, is just fine.’’

Call ‘em want you want now, but the Dodgers are NL West champions for the 12th time in the last 13 years, vying to win their third World Series title in the past six years and send Kershaw out a champion.

“This is what I’m going to miss,’’ Kershaw said. “Pitching, and all of that stuff is great, but doing this with this group of guys, all working on the same collective goal, this is what you miss. The camaraderie, the bonding, and everybody going through something hard and coming out the other side, that’s really special.

“You don’t get that anywhere else. There’s no other jobs for 37-year-olds on teams to get to do that, you know? That’s what I’m going to miss. I had a great run.’’

The Dodgers’ division title celebration was rather tame Thursday, with the exception of several younger players diving head-first on the beer-drenched plastic wrap on the floor. The party started the moment the game ended at 3:14 p.m., and for the most part ended just 38 minutes later with the plastic covering lifted up, no longer protecting their lockers.

“There’s nothing better than celebrating with your teammates at the end of the year,’’ Kershaw said. “It never gets old. That’s why we play the game. It’s been a weird year. Obviously, we got a lot more to accomplish, but we’re going to enjoy the moment and have a ton of fun.’’

This was a team that was supposed to ruin baseball with its $400 million payroll, with predictions that they could break the modern-day record with 117 victories, especially after their 8-0 start. The reality was that they had to overcome a litany of injuries, 27 blown saves, underperforming individual seasons, and wound up with only 90 victories with three remaining games.

“Nothing matters anymore,’’ said Kershaw, the three-time Cy Young winner with a date in Cooperstown awaiting. “We won. We’re in the postseason. We won our division like we’re supposed to do.

“So, it doesn’t really matter what happened to this point. We did it. And we move on.’’

The Dodgers will tell you that they’d love to win the World Series for Kershaw, knowing what he means to the organization, the legacy he leaves behind, and his relentlessness in trying to bring World Series titles to Los Angeles.

Now, it’s their turn to do something for him, while also trying to savor every moment with him.

“I’m going to take pictures with him all of the time,’’ Dodgers starter Blake Snell said. “He’s going to get annoyed at me. I’ll be asking as many questions as I can without annoying him.

“But he’s the best. It couldn’t happen to a better guy. So hopefully, we can end this the right way with a World Series and send him out that way.’’

Kershaw will make the final regular-season start of his career Sunday against the Seattle Mariners, and then it’s off to the bullpen. He’ll be on the postseason roster, but will be used out of the pen, particularly in the first two rounds where only three starters are needed.

Kershaw doesn’t mind, and told the Dodgers whatever role he’s needed in, he’ll be there.

But for now, well, that’s one clubhouse party down. And a few more to go, with perhaps one last parade to cap it all off.

“It’s great, Clayton has earned it,’’ Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “He’s celebrated many times over. He’s the face of the franchise. He really is. Shohei (Ohtani) is going to get his time, but you look at what Clayton’s done for 18 years, how he goes about things, how he’s so unselfish, it just kind of raises the level of expectation for all of us, including myself.

“And what better way to finish his career than winning another championship.’’

So, did Kershaw address the team in his final division title celebration, or at least raise a glass of champagne in a toast?

“No,’’ Roberts said. “We’ll save that one for after the World Series.’’

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• Five-time Pro Bowler’s recent fumbles happening at a rate that’s never before occurred in his 10-year career.
• Henry has been openly transparent and accountable in the aftermath of his turnovers.
• The Ravens face the Chiefs in a battle of 1-2 teams Sunday, and Henry usually plays well against K.C.

It was striking to see such an intimidating man, one who’s terrorized brutes the likes of NFL defenders for the better part of a decade, so disconsolate.

But that would describe 6-2, 252-pound Baltimore Ravens superstar running back Derrick Henry on Monday night, his third fumble in three games contributing to his team’s second loss. Both of his lost fumbles have corresponded to the defeats of a 1-2 team awash in Super Bowl expectations in 2025.

Wearing a gray sweatshirt at the team’s training facility Wednesday, Henry, his hood framing his face, didn’t seem to be shouldering the entire weight of the world two days later. Yet he remained heavily burdened by his untimely mistakes – his fumbles in those losses to the Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions both occurring in the fourth quarter.

“I’m still pissed off. I’m still mad at myself,” Henry told reporters. “(I)t’s a problem I have to get fixed, so I’m working on it. I’m working as hard as I can to get this issue resolved, and it’s tough right now.

“It’s just been consecutive weeks, back-to-back-to back, which is crazy. That’s why you all saw me distraught. I was just like, ‘I can’t believe this happened for a third time.’ But, I’ve just got to go back to work and push forward even though it’s hard. Nobody can fix it but yourself, so I’ve got to accept it like a man. Everything that comes with it, I accept, because it’s my responsibility to take care of the ball for this organization.” 

Henry, 31, a five-time Pro Bowler and two-time rushing king is in his 10th NFL season and second with the Ravens. He’s gone entire years without fumbling. He lost just one in 2024, when he led the AFC with 1,921 rushing yards. Prior to Monday, he’d never lost multiple fourth-quarter fumbles in the same campaign.

This almost certainly isn’t a chronic issue, yet Henry is attacking it with Biblical ferocity.

“Maybe it’s just something God wanted to put me through, and maybe he’s testing my faith right now,” he said. “I just have to keep believing and keep working. I told my family the other day, ‘Those tables turn, and this hasn’t turned my way, but when they do, I’ll be ready.’

“I feel like I’m letting my teammates down, which I don’t want to do. Everybody knows it’s not happening on purpose, but it’s a problem that I have to get fixed, and I’m going to go out there and work every day to make sure that the problem is resolved.”

The Ravens don’t have much time to wait.

Already in the midst of a short week, they’re traveling to Kansas City to face the Chiefs, who are grappling with their own disappointing 1-2 start. But K.C. is also 5-1 against Baltimore since the teams’ respective quarterbacks and multiple MVP winners, Patrick Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, became starters.

“(I)t is a huge game. We’re 1-2. We don’t want to be 1-2, and the same thing for them,” said Henry.

“(W)e’ve got to be focused and do what we need to do to be ready for Sunday.”

Henry certainly seems to be and has been especially effective over the years against the Chiefs, against whom he’s averaged nearly 100 rushing yards and scored nine touchdowns in seven career meetings.

But he deserves credit for more than that.

Early Tuesday morning, then again Wednesday, he provided insightful, thoughtful answers to his struggles while exposing his vulnerability. He also made himself available – not once, but twice – to face the music when he could have given clipped, boilerplate responses or hidden from reporters entirely as many embattled players over the years have chosen to do.

Maybe that’s why, aside from Henry’s own concern, no one else in the Ravens’ flock seems to be sharing it.

“He is very, very accountable. When somebody cares so much about what they’re doing, and they’re so accomplished – so talented and so good, works so hard – as a coach, you just can’t worry about that,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday.

“I’m not worried about Derrick Henry at all.”

It’s also worth noting that his fumble against Buffalo completely changed the arc of a game that Baltimore lost 41-40 after blowing a 15-point fourth-quarter lead. But his giveaway against Detroit occurred with 8:26 to go and only cost the Ravens a field goal. They had plenty of time to overcome the gaffe – even if it might be a while before Henry escapes his newfound meme status after slipping and crashing onto Baltimore’s bench after slamming his helmet in frustration following his miscue.

“(Y)ou’re going to always put the blame on yourself,” Jackson said Wednesday.

“We still could have executed and made something happen. We can’t fault him for that. Players mess up.”

And let’s not forget to credit defensive end Aidan Hutchinson for masterfully forcing the fumble, Henry never seeing the Lions star retracing his way into the play before punching the ball loose.

Moving forward? Seems like a fairly safe bet that Henry goes back to spilling defenders with his patented stiff-arm as opposed to spilling the ball yet again – particularly considering how he’s feeling.

“It’s embarrassing for me to be talking about this, because I am having this issue,” he said. “But you have to hold the ball high and tight to keep it away from the defense, keep it away from the defender so you keep the ball.

“But just know I’m working. I’m working, and it’s rough right now, but it’s going to come back around. I promise you.” 

Sounds like a man poised to come up big, literally and figuratively.

Colorado coach Deion Sanders questioned the recent firing of Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, noting how the game of college has changed and it takes more than good coaching to win.

Gundy took his team to 18 straight bowl games but fell on harder times the past two seasons after reaching the Big 12 Conference championship game as recently as December 2023. His team this year was 1-2 before his firing was announced Tuesday, Sept. 23. His record at Oklahoma State was 170-90.

“You do that to Mike Gundy, man?” Sanders said Thursday on the Colorado Football Coaches Show. “To Mike Gundy?”

Sanders said he got to know Gundy at Big 12 coaches’ meetings and said he sat at the head of the table because of his seniority and success. Sanders called him the “Grand Poobah.” Gundy, 58, was the second-longest tenured head coach in major college football after 21 seasons in Stillwater.

“You can’t expect the man to win out like he’s been winning when the game has changed and it takes finances now to win,” Sanders said. “It just don’t take good coaching now. It takes good coaching and finances.”

Deion Sanders says Mike Gundy is a hero to him

Sanders, 58, had a special message for Gundy on the show:

“Coach, I love you,” Sanders said. “I appreciate you. I respect you. You are a hero to me, and I love everything about you.”

That includes Gundy’s hair. Gundy was known for his mullet, leading the show’s host, Mark Johnson, to mention a rumor that other coaches would grow a mullet in solidarity with Gundy after his firing. Sanders, by contrast, is hair-challenged. Sanders said in the Black community a mullet is called a “shag.”

“I wish to God that rumor was true; that mean I’d be growing hair like yours,” Sanders said.

Gundy is owed $15 million from Oklahoma State to buy out his contract.

“I would love to just pick his brain and learn from him because he’s a winner,” Sanders said.

Sanders’ team is 2-2 this year and plays BYU on Saturday night at home. Last year, Colorado beat Oklahoma State in Boulder, 52-0.

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The Phoenix Mercury evened their WNBA semifinal series against the Minnesota Lynx with an 89-83 road victory on Tuesday, guaranteeing the series will go to a Game 4.

Both Games 3 and 4 will be played at PHX Arena, and with Game 4 scheduled for Sunday, the Jonas Brothers have been forced to adjust and reschedule a date on their latest tour.

The band of brothers was originally scheduled to perform at PHX Arena the evening of Sunday, Sept. 28, as part of The JONAS20 Hometown Tour.

The Jonas Brothers will now instead perform on Monday, Sept. 29.

Any tickets purchased for the original concert date will still be valid for the new date. If fans are unable to attend the concert on the new date, they will have the opportunity to request a refund, but it must be made by 7:30 p.m. Monday, according to the Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network. 

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