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Welcome to Wrestling Inc.’s live coverage for WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event on December 13, 2025, coming to you live from the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. at a special start time of 8 PM ET!
After spending just over 25 years in the wrestling business, John Cena will be competing in his final ever wrestling match as he collides with GUNTHER in what will mark their inaugural in-ring meeting. GUNTHER scored victories against “NXT” star Je’Von Evans, Carmelo Hayes, Solo Sikoa, and LA Knight in the First Round, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals respectively in The Last Time Is Now Tournament to secure his spot in tonight’s match and the right to call himself Cena’s final opponent.
Speaking of Evans, he will be competing in a match of his own tonight as he joins forces with reigning TNA X-Division Champion Leon Slater to take on current World Tag Team Champions Dragon Lee and AJ Styles. While Evans has competed in a handful of matches on “WWE Raw” and “WWE SmackDown”, this will mark the first time that Slater has competed in a match on the main roster.
As herself and Lyra Valkyria continue to chase after the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, Bayley will be returning to singles competition as she squares off with “NXT” star Sol Ruca. While this will mark Bayley’s first match since she and the aforementioned Valkyria came up short to Asuka and Kairi Sane on the November 3 episode of “Raw”, Ruca will surely be looking to prove herself after she was unable to win the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge at Deadline to secure a shot at Jacy Jayne’s NXT Women’s Championship at “NXT” New Year’s Evil.
Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes will be competing in his first match since taking part in the 2025 Men’s WarGames Match at WWE Survivor Series: WarGames on November 29 as he goes head-to-head with reigning NXT Champion Oba Femi in a Champion vs. Champion Match. Not only did Femi dethrone Ricky Saints as NXT Champion at “NXT” Deadline, but he also earned the right to face Rhodes in tonight’s match as per the stipulation of the December 6 contest.
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Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza wins the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in college football
NEW YORK (AP) — Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza wins the Heisman Trophy as the most outstanding player in college football.
Fernando Mendoza is 2025 Heisman winner. 4 moments that defined season
Fernando Mendoza has been on an incredible journey from his home in Miami to the Calgorithm to No. 1 Indiana. And now the Heismendoza campaign (unofficial, as he and his school haven’t officially promoted his candidacy) has kept the Heisman Trophy in the hands of a South Florida native for the second straight year.
Mendoza won college football’s top honor over Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia, Ohio State’s Julian Sayin and Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love. Earlier in the week, the Indiana quarterback claimed the AP Player of the Year award. He’ll lead the 13-0 Hoosiers to just their second Rose Bowl ever in January as the top-seeded team in the College Football Playoff.
Firsts have been a running theme throughout Mendoza’s incredible season. The 22-year-old who starred at Christopher Columbus High School is the first Heisman winner of Cuban descent and just the third with Latino or Hispanic heritage. He is the first Indiana player to win it, as well, as part of the program’s first outright Big Ten championship team since 1945. The night before, Mendoza became IU’s first Davey O’Brien winner as the nation’s top quarterback, as well as its second Maxwell Award winner for player of the year.
Mendoza led FBS with 33 touchdown passes and, adding in his six rushing scores, was responsible for 39 for the season, second only to USF’s Byrum Brown. The redshirt junior threw for 2,980 yards on a .715 completion percentage with just six interceptions, and his 181.4 passer efficiency rating was second only to Sayin. He made his mark early on, throwing for four touchdowns in his second game after transferring from California and following that up with five TDs in back-to-back games. His 2-minute drive and unbelievable touchdown to beat Penn State in November broke the voice of Fox’s Gus Johnson in one of the biggest moments of the 2025 college football season.
Mendoza now gets to celebrate with his family. He can keep the party going in his own quarterback room, as little brother Alberto Mendoza is his backup at Indiana. He can live it up with his father, also named Fernando Mendoza, who played alongside Miami Hurricanes coach Mario Cristobal in high school. And he can enjoy the moment with his mom, Elsa Mendoza, whom he has frequently called his inspiration and guiding light as she lives with multiple sclerosis.
Who won Heisman Trophy?
Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza won the 2025 Heisman Trophy. XXXXXXXX came in second.
Fernando Mendoza’s top plays, ranked
- Touchdown pass to Omar Cooper in the final minute at Penn State (Nov. 8)
- 33-yard bomb on third down to put away Ohio State in Big Ten championship (Dec. 6)
- Game-winning touchdown to Elijah Sarratt at Oregon (Oct. 11)
- Second straight five-touchdown game vs. Illinois (Sept. 20)
Heisman voting results
- Fernando Mendoza (Indiana QB): xxx
- Diego Pavia (Vanderbilt QB): xxx
- Julian Sayin (Ohio State QB): xxx
- Jeremiyah Love (Notre Dame RB): xxx
Fernando Mendoza highlights
The Hoosiers were at risk of losing their first game of the season Nov. 8 at Penn State. Trailing by four with 1:51 left, Mendoza opened Indiana’s drive by getting sacked at his own 13-yard line. He went to work from there, going 4 of 6 for 80 yards to get to the 7-yard line. The defense turned it on to force incompletions on the next two plays, and then rushed him up on the middle on third down with 36 second left. While falling away, Mendoza threw a dart in the back of the end zone, where Omar Cooper somehow brought it in with one toe scraping the grass in play for a go-ahead touchdown that led Fox announcer Gus Johnson to declare: “Give that man the Heisman!”
In a defensive struggle for the Big Ten championship, Mendoza had thrown a nice back-shoulder bullet to Elijah Sarratt early in the second half to give Indiana a 13-10 lead. That score held when Ohio State missed what would have been a game-tying field goal with less than 3 minutes to go. On third down after two straight rushes to force the Buckeyes into using their timeouts, Mendoza let loose a gorgeous moonball to Charlie Becker for 33 yards, putting the ball past midfield and all but icing the game, the No. 1 playoff seed and the Heisman Trophy.
How many Heismans has Indiana won?
Until Mendoza, Indiana has never had a Heisman winner. The closest was running back Anthony Thompson, who was the runner-up to Houston quarterback Andre Ware in 1989.
How many Cuban players have won the Heisman?
Mendoza becomes the first player of Cuban descent to win the Heisman Trophy. He is the third player of Latino or Hispanic descent to earn the award: Stanford’s Jim Plunkett (1970) was of Mexican-American heritage, and the grandfather of Alabama’s Bryce Young (2021) was born in Mexico.
Heisman winners list
Here are the past 10 winners of the Heisman Trophy:
- 2025: Fernando Mendoza (Indiana QB)
- 2024: Travis Hunter (Colorado WR/CB)
- 2023: Jayden Daniels (LSU QB)
- 2022: Caleb Williams (USC QB)
- 2021: Bryce Young (Alabama QB)
- 2020: DeVonta Smith (Alabama WR)
- 2019: Joe Burrow (LSU QB)
- 2018: Kyler Murray (Oklahoma QB)
- 2017: Baker Mayfield (Oklahoma QB)
- 2016: Lamar Jackson (Louisville QB)
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Fernando Mendoza wins 2025 Heisman Trophy. Highlights from his season
The 2025 Heisman Trophy winner announced on ESPN Saturday
Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza is your 2025 Heisman Trophy winner. The ceremony had four finalists, including Ohio State quarterback Julian Sayin, but in the end, it was Mendoza who shone in some of the biggest moments, including in a 13-10 win over the Buckeyes in the Big Ten Championship game last Saturday.
Mendoza becomes the 79th Heisman winner and the first from Indiana. He also ends the streak of Big Ten players missing out on the award, the last being Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith back at the end of the 2006 season.
This season, Mendoza 226-of-316 passes (71.5%) for 2,980 yards and 33 touchdowns. He will next be in action on January 1 in the Rose Bowl with No. 1 seed Indiana taking on the winner of No. 8 seed Oklahoma and No. 9 seed Alabama.
Congratulations to the 2025 Heisman Trophy winner, @IndianaFootball quarterback Fernando Mendoza!#Heisman | #MoreThanATrophypic.twitter.com/DMqXA16ode
— The Heisman Trophy (@HeismanTrophy) December 14, 2025
Congrats to Mendoza, and now let’s get behind Sayin and his chances of winning the bronze statue next season as a redshirt sophomore. He should be one of the favorites heading into next season.
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How Mammoth rookie Daniil But got the ‘best nickname’ ever
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Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News
There are two types of nicknames in hockey: the lazy ones, which almost everyone has, and the ones that are too creative not to like.
The lazy ones involve adding a “y” or an “s” at the end of the person’s last name — and sometimes even both. For example:
- Nick Schmaltz becomes “Schmaltzy;”
- Clayton Keller is “Kells;”
- Ian Cole is “Colesy.”
There’s also the “er” suffix. Lawson Crouse, for example, often goes by “Crouser.”
But the best ones have more meaning than that.
Matt Rempe, who plays for the New York Rangers and stands at 6-foot-8, is known as “The Rempire State Building.” It’s perfect.
Wayne Gretzky was known as “The Great One,” but his little brother, Brent, who played 13 games in the NHL, had the better nickname of the two: “The Other One.”
And just recently, Minnesota Wild goaltender Jesper Wallstedt has been dubbed “The Wall of St. Paul,” with reference to his last name, his position and the city he now calls home.
There are dozens of others that could make this list, but perhaps none are better than Utah Mammoth rookie Daniil But, who has received the nickname “Cheeks.”
“Cheeks is all-time,” said Mammoth defenseman Maveric Lamoureux. “That’s probably the best nickname I’ve heard in my life.”
But credited the idea to Nate Schmidt, who’s also the brains behind Liam “Spicy Tuna” O’Brien’s moniker (the “Spicy” part came later in his career, but “Tuna” came from Schmidt). The two played for the Washington Capitals together more than a decade ago and the name has stuck ever since.
Schmidt’s response to the “Cheeks” concept?
“No comment,” he said while covering his face with his hoodie in a futile attempt to mask his laughter.
Anyone who has learned a second language as an adult can tell you that puns are one of the most difficult things to pick up on. That’s the case for But, whose English is steadily improving, but still far from perfect.
“I don’t know what it means, but (teammate Mikhail Sergachev) told me it’s the best name he’s ever heard,” But said.
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Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
In case you missed it
Golden State Warriors jersey history – No. 33 – Chris Wright (2011-12)
The Golden State Warriors have had over 600 players don the more than 60 jersey numbers used by their players over the more than 75 years of existence the team has enjoyed in its rich and storied history.
Founded in 1946 during the Basketball Association of America (BAA — a precursor league of the NBA) era, the team has called home the cities of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oakland, and even San Diego.
To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Warriors Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. For this article, we begin with the 14th of 15 players who wore the No. 33 jersey for the Warriors.
That player would be Golden State forward alum Chris Wright. After ending his college career at Dayton, Wright went unselected in the 2011 NBA Draft, playing in other leagues until until he signed with the Dubs in 2011.
His stay with the team lasted until he signed with the Toronto Raptors in 2012.
During his time suiting up for the Warriors, Wright wore only jersey No. 33 and put up 2.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Warriors Wire: Warriors jersey history – No. 33 – Chris Wright (2011-12)
Fernando Mendoza secures Heisman Trophy, the first in Indiana’s history
The Indiana Hoosiers had never had a flippin’ Heisman Trophy winner. Until now.
On Saturday night, Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza became the program’s first winner of college football’s most prestigious individual honor. As he lifted the trophy and etched his name into the history books, Mendoza grinned.
It was the smile of someone who believed he could help Indiana do something it had never done before — all alongside his brother (and backup), Alberto. It was also the smile of a player who knew he needed to grow and develop as a quarterback by leaving Cal for Indiana. He did just that … and so much more.
In his first and only season as the Hoosiers’ starting quarterback, Mendoza has thrown an FBS-best 33 touchdowns, and he’s rushed for six more. Under his tutelage, the Indiana offense has broken program records for both touchdowns and points. He is one of the most accurate passers in the country, and he’s had a knack for making the big play when his team needs it most. Mendoza’s game-winning touchdown throw to Omar Cooper Jr. against Penn State is the one that got labeled a Heisman moment, but it was far from the only clutch play made by Mendoza when Indiana’s perfect season was on the line. And he always delivered.
The Hoosiers are the No. 1 overall seed in this year’s College Football Playoff and one of the sport’s true national title contenders. This comes on the heels of Indiana’s first Big Ten championship since 1967 and the first 12-0 regular season in program history.
Not bad for a quarterback who was ranked No. 134 among quarterbacks in the Class of 2022. Mendoza was initially committed to Yale before flipping to Cal. He redshirted as a freshman and continually developed year over year to become one of the best quarterbacks in the country. It’s quite possible he’ll be the first quarterback taken in next April’s NFL Draft as well.
And he was my choice to win the Heisman Trophy as well. I voted for Mendoza as my top choice, followed by Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love at No. 2 and Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez at No. 3.
It was a difficult vote, as it always is. The Heisman race felt very wide-open deep into November, which is unusual. And it certainly ended in a very different place than it started, back in August when Arch Manning was the betting favorite to win the award and just about every SEC starting quarterback found himself among the top preseason contenders.
When I vote for the Heisman Trophy, I don’t only look at individual production or a team’s overall win-loss record. I consider the story of the season. I like to imagine, say five years from now, thinking back on this year’s season and what I’ll remember most. I like to factor that into my Heisman vote, because I do think (most years) that the winner should be tied to the story of the season.
What I’ll remember about the 2025 season is Indiana’s pursuit of perfection. I’ll think about Curt Cignetti and his program cementing itself as serious contender, far from a warm-and-fuzzy story or a flash in the pan like many thought they were a year ago. And I’ll certainly think about Fernando Mendoza, the quarterback of the flippin’ Indiana Hoosiers and the program’s deserved first Heisman Trophy winner.
2025 Heisman Trophy: Indiana QB Fernando Mendoza becomes the school’s first Heisman winner
Fernando Mendoza is Indiana’s first Heisman Trophy winner.
The junior quarterback beat Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia, Notre Dame RB Jeremiyah Love and Ohio State QB Julian Sayin to win the 2025 Heisman on Saturday night. Mendoza won the award as Indiana went undefeated in the regular season, took down Ohio State in the Big Ten title game and is the No. 1 seed for the College Football Playoff.
“Standing here tonight, holding this bad boy, representing Indiana University still doesn’t feel real,” Mendoza said after winning the award. “If you told me as a kid in Miami, that I’d be here on stage holding this prestigious trophy, I probably would have laughed, cried like I’m doing now or both. Because this moment, it’s an honor, it’s bigger than me. It’s a product of a family, team, community and a whole lot of people who believed in me long before anybody knew my name.”
The Cal transfer is 226-of-316 passing for 2,980 yards and 33 touchdowns with just six interceptions. Mendoza has thrown the most touchdown passes of any player in college football and ranks second in total touchdowns behind South Florida’s Byrum Brown. Mendoza has the second-best pass efficiency rating in the country (181.4) behind Sayin at 181.4 and he is also one of just 10 quarterbacks who have completed over 70% of their passes this season.
Mendoza is the fourth straight Heisman winner who transferred schools during his college career and the second in that span to win the Heisman in his first year at his school. His win also breaks an odd drought for the Big Ten and a Heisman pattern that dated back to the award’s inception in 1935.
In addition to being Indiana’s first Heisman winner over 127 seasons of football dating back to 1899, he’s the first Big Ten player to win the Heisman since Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith. And Mendoza is the first quarterback to win the Heisman in a year that ends with a “5.” Over the past nine decades — starting with Jay Berwanger’s inaugural Heisman win in 1935 — a running back has always won the award in a “5” year. In 2015, Alabama RB Derrick Henry won the Heisman. Twenty years ago, USC RB Reggie Bush took home the award.
Before coming to Indiana, Mendoza played two seasons at Cal and was one of the more efficient passers in the country in 2024 even if the Bears went just 6-7. Across 11 games, he completed 69% of his passes and threw for over 3,000 yards.
As Mendoza was doing that more than halfway across the country, Indiana was in the midst of its best season ever under coach Curt Cignetti. The Hoosiers went 11-1 in the regular season under coach Curt Cignetti before losing to Notre Dame in the first round of the College Football Playoff. It was the first time Indiana had ever won more than nine games in a single season and just the third time ever that the Hoosiers finished the season in the top 10 of the AP Top 25.
And Indiana is even better in 2025.
With younger brother Alberto already on the Indiana roster, Mendoza transferred from Cal after the season when Kurtis Rourke, Indiana’s stellar QB in 2024, was out of eligibility. After a slow start to the season — Mendoza completed 18-of-31 passes for 193 yards and no touchdowns in a 13-point win over Old Dominion — he started putting up cartoonish stat lines while sitting out a lot of fourth-quarter football.
Against FCS Indiana State in Week 3, Mendoza threw five touchdowns and had just one incompletion. The next week against Illinois, Mendoza again had more TD passes than incompletions as he was 21-of-23 passing for 267 yards and five scores.
Overall, Mendoza had four games in 2025 where he had as many or more touchdowns than he had incompletions. He also had just three games here he completed less than 63% of his passes and didn’t have a single game with multiple interceptions.
Before the Big Ten title game win over Ohio State, Mendoza’s signature moment came on the road at Penn State. After Indiana forced a Penn State punt with 1:51 to go and trailing 24-20, Mendoza led the Hoosiers on a 10-play 80-yard drive that ended on an incredible throw to Omar Cooper Jr. as he made an even better catch.
The TD kept Indiana’s undefeated season alive as the Hoosiers won 27-24. From there, they beat Wisconsin and Purdue by a combined score of 87-10 before their slugfest 13-10 win over the Buckeyes a week ago.
Connor Bedard’s injury leaves a big void for the Blackhawks. Who will fill the star center’s skates?
CHICAGO — Connor Bedard’s stellar start to the season is on hold. But for how long is the question.
The Chicago Blackhawks center will miss at least Saturday’s game against the Detroit Red Wings at the United Center after suffering a right shoulder injury a night earlier. He was injured in the final second of the Hawks’ 3-2 road loss to the St. Louis Blues on Friday night.
Bedard was positioned in the right faceoff circle with Blues center Brayden Schenn with 0.8 seconds remaining in the third period. Schenn plowed through Bedard to prevent a quick shot, and Bedard’s arm twisted in the process.
Bedard skated to the locker room wincing in pain with his concerned teammates looking on. Hawks coach Jeff Blashill quickly ruled out Bedard for Saturday’s game, and the center will be reevaluated Monday.
Blashill had no timeline update on Bedard as of Saturday morning, so the Hawks — and their fans — will have to wait anxiously to see how serious the injury to the star center is. Blashill also addressed the play, saying he saw no ill intent from Schenn and calling the injury a “freak accident.”
“Brayden Schenn’s a really good hockey player, he’s not trying to do damage to him there,” Blashill said Saturday. “Connor gets injured before any push happens.”
Bedard, a hopeful for Canada’s Olympic roster, is off to the best start of his career, registering 44 points on 19 goals and 25 assists in 31 games. The star center trails only Eddie Olczyk (65 goals, 180 points) for the most goals and points in franchise history before age 21. Bedard has 64 goals and 172 points and doesn’t turn 21 until July 17.
Forward Nick Lardis was recalled from the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs and could make his NHL debut Saturday night. The 20-year-old left winger has never shied away from shooting the puck.
A Hawks third-round pick in 2023, Lardis has 13 goals and 13 assists in 26 games with Rockford this season. He hasn’t lost a step from his time with the OHL’s Branford Bulldogs, with whom he had 117 points (71 goals, 46 assists) in 65 games in 2024-25.
The NHL is a different beast from the AHL, but pro hockey is also a large step from the juniors, and Lardis has had no trouble adjusting. It’s not the ideal call-up for the winger, but he has a chance to make his NHL stay permanent.
“He’s a guy who’s scored a lot of goals throughout his young career going back to junior and he’s had a pretty good start to his American league,” Blashill said. “We felt like (Lardis) gives us another potential offensive guy that can come in and provide some scoring punch.
“You never know how guys are going to come in and play. I don’t want him to dip his toes into the water, I want him to jump right in. Hopefully he can come and give us a good minutes.”
Blashill will make Frank Nazar his top-line center in the absence of Bedard. The forward out of Michigan hasn’t scored since Oct. 28, but has been effective in setting up his wingers for scoring chances.
Without Bedard, someone will have to fill the void and be the offensive anchor for the Hawks. It would be perfect timing for Nazar to snap out of his drought in the next couple of games.
“(Frank) becomes the No. 1 center (and) that comes with some responsibility,” Blashill said. “He’s proven he can do it, (so) he’s got to go out and play at that high level that he’s showing at different times this year and a year ago.”
Ryan Greene will move back to the center position, Blashill said. Forward Dominic Toninato, who was recalled from Rockford on Tuesday, will see ice time as well.