New York Yankees Acquire Amed Rosario from Washington Nationals

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Amed Rosario is heading to the Big Apple.

The New York Yankees have acquired the 29-year-old Dominican professional baseball utility player from the Washington Nationals in exchange for two minor leaguers, giving the club a versatile right-handed hitter it had coveted before Thursday’s trade deadline.

Amed Rosario A former top prospect with the New York Mets, Rosario is batting .270 with five home runs and a .736 OPS this season. But he’s hitting .299 with an .816 OPS against left-handed pitchers this season and the Yankees are expected to use him primarily against lefties.

Defensively, he gives manager Aaron Boone a multipurpose player.

Rosario has started 20 games at third base and 13 at second base this season and has also made starts at each outfield position and at shortstop during his nine-year career.

The move comes a day after the Yankees completed a trade with the Colorado Rockies for veteran third baseman Ryan McMahon.

Unlike McMahon, who is under contract for the next two seasons for $32 million, Rosario will become a free agent after this season.

The Yankees will pay Rosario the balance of the one-year, $2 million deal he signed with Washington in January.

“When I heard where I was going, I kind of didn’t believe it,” Rosario said in Minnesota after the Nationals’ game vs. the Twins on Saturday. “I mean, at some point I kind of knew I was going to get traded, but I didn’t know it was going to be today.”

The Yankees nearly signed Rosario before last season, but he chose to sign a one-year, $1.5 million deal with the Tampa Bay Rays instead. He was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in late July and finished the season with the Cincinnati Reds after being claimed off waivers.

“He’s actually been a guy who we’ve tried to kind of get the last couple of years to varying degrees,” Boone said. “Provides some defensive versatility, speed and really gets lefties, so I think it kind of makes our bench and the balance of our roster a little more workable.”

This is the third straight year Rosario has been moved close to the trade deadline.

The Yankees will be his sixth team since the end of the 2023 season.

“I feel great, because whenever teams are in playoff contention they always acquire me towards the end,” Rosario said. “I just feel really good about that.”

Rosario cost the Yankees right-hander Clayton Beeter, a 26-year-old right-hander in Triple-A who has made five major league relief appearances, and Browm Martinez, an 18-year-old outfielder in the Dominican Summer League.

The Yankees acquired Beeter, a second-round pick in 2020, from the Dodgers for Joey Gallo in 2022. He made his major league debut last season and gave up six runs in 3⅔ innings across two relief appearances this season.

Martinez is batting .404 with a 1.139 OPS in 18 games this season, his second in the Dominican Summer League. He signed with the Yankees for $130,000 last year.

Xander Zayas Claims Vacant WBO Junior Middleweight with Decision Win Over Jorge Garcia Perez

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Xander Zayas has earned his place in boxing history…

The 22-year-old Puerto Rican professional boxer has become the youngest current world champion after capturing the vacant WBO junior middleweight title with a dominant decision win over Jorge Garcia Perez at the Theater at Madison Square Garden.

Xander ZayasFighting at the Garden for the eighth time in his career, Zayas (22-0, 13 KOs) was in control from the opening bell, using elusive footwork and counterpunching to quell Garcia Perez’s awkward but powerful offense.

As Zayas picked up on his opponent’s timing, he maintained distance — even when Garcia Perez, standing in a corner after absorbing a combination, tried to bring in Zayas.

When Garcia Perez closed the distance, Zayas tied him up.

All three judges awarded the fight to Zayas (116-112, 118-110, 119-109). Garcia Perez, a 28-year-old from Mexico, saw his eight-fight winning streak end.

In the final 30 seconds of Round 6, Zayas punctuated an exchange with a right hand that sent Garcia Perez (33-4, 26 KOs) stumbling into the ropes. Garcia Perez regained his footing, but Zayas continued to pick him apart.

Garcia Perez appeared to be fading, but he had a strong eighth round, throwing more combinations. But in the ninth, Zayas avoided damage and answered with combinations. He was in control the rest of the way, landing at a high percentage and making Garcia Perez miss.

According to CompuBox, Zayas landed 50 more jabs and 19 more power punches than Garcia Perez despite throwing 81 fewer punches. Garcia Perez connected on 22% of his total punches and 24% of his power punches, while Zayas connected on 38% of his total punches and 45% of his power punches. Zayas also held a 59-31 edge in body shots landed.

“It’s amazing. It’s amazing to represent Puerto Rico at the highest level and to just put the pride of my island where it belongs — at the top,” said Zayas, who is the most recent fighter from Puerto Rico to win the junior middleweight world championship.

Zayas, who is No. 8 in the ESPN junior middleweight rankings, is 22 years, 324 days old. The next-youngest champ is welterweight Brian Norman Jr. at 24 years, 245 days.

Alex de Minaur Defeats Corentin Moutet to Reach DC Open Final

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Alex de Minaur is back in the finals in the U.S. capital…

The 26-year-old Spanish-Uruguayan Australian tennis player, the No. 7 seed, advanced to his second DC Open final by beating Corentin Moutet 6-4, 6-3.

Alex de Minaurde Minaur will now face No. 12 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who defeated No. 4 Ben Shelton 6-2, 7-5 in the other semifinal.

The semifinal win was de Minaur’s 20th victory on a hard court in 2025, the most on the ATP Tour.

No 13 in the world rankings, de Minaur moved into his 19th career final; he’s 9-9 so far.

One of the runner-up finishes came against Alexander Zverev at Washington in 2018.

Leylah Fernandez Defeats Elena Rybakina to Reach DC Open Final

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Leylah Fernandez will be playing for her first WTA title of the season…

The 22-year-old half-Ecuadorian Canadian professional tennis play, the runner-up at the 2021 US Open, hit 12 aces and picked up her second victory of the week at the DC Open against a top-20 opponent by beating 2022 Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (3) across 3 hours, 16 minutes in the semifinals on Saturday.

Leylah Fernandez,Fernandez will face Anna Kalinskaya, who is seeking the first of her career when they meet each other in the final of the hard-court DC Open.

Kalinskaya needed less than half as much time to eliminate Emma Raducanu 6-4, 6-3 with the help of 14 backhand winners in the other women’s semifinal.

It was Raducanu who defeated Fernandez for the championship at Flushing Meadows four years ago.

Both finalists are unseeded. Canada’s Fernandez is ranked 36th; Russia’s Kalinskaya, 26, is ranked 48th.

Fernandez, who got past top-seeded Jessica Pegula earlier in the week, owns three titles. Sunday’s matchup will be her seventh career final.

New York Mets Acquire Gregory Soto from Baltimore Orioles

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Gregory Soto is headed to New York.

The New York Mets have acquired 30-year-old Dominican professional baseball pitcher, a left-handed reliever, from the Baltimore Orioles  in exchange for two minor leaguers in what could be the first of multiple moves by New York to bolster its bullpen before the trade deadline Thursday.

Gregory SotoThe trade, which sent Class A right-hander Wellington Aracena and Double-A right-hander Cameron Foster to Baltimore, gives the Mets a hard-throwing left-hander to complement the club’s only lefty on the roster, Brooks Raley, who returned from Tommy John surgery last week.

Soto, who is 30 and was an MLB All-Star with the Detroit Tigers in 2021 and 2022, has posted a 3.96 ERA with a 27.5% strikeout rate in 45 appearances this season.

The Mets will be his fourth team since the 2022 season.

On Monday, Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns plainly signaled that upgrading the bullpen for the stretch run is his top priority.

The need is clear. Injuries and overuse have depleted a relief corps that led the majors in bullpen ERA through May 31. Since June 1, the group has posted 4.52 ERA, good for 23rd in the majors.

Aracena, 20, is 1-1 with a 2.38 ERA in 17 games for St. Lucie. The Orioles said he is one of two pitchers in the minors this season to have thrown at least 60 innings without surrendering a home run.

Foster, 26, is 5-2 with two saves and a 2.97 ERA while pitching at the Double-A and Triple-A levels.

Mariah Carey Teams Up with Shenseea & Kehlani for New Single “Sugar Sweet”

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It’s a sugary sweet moment for Mariah Carey.

The 56-year-old half-Venezuelan American Grammy-winning songstress has joined voices with Shenseea and Kehlani to release her latest single “Sugar Sweet.”

Mariah Carey

It’s the second single released ahead of Carey’s 16th studio album Here For It All, which will be released on September 26 via gamma.

In June, she shared the lead single “Type Dangerous,” as well as an accompanying remix EP featuring collaborations with Busta Rhymes, Method Man and Red Man; Big Sean; DJ Snake and Luísa Sonza.

“Type Dangerous,” which samples Eric B. & Rakim‘s 1986 track “Eric B. Is President,” became her 50th Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching No. 95.

It also entered the top 10 of R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay.

At the start of this month, the elusive chanteuse revealed she had finished Here For It All during a sit-down interview with Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden at the new Apple Music Studios in Los Angeles during a special live broadcast to celebrate the streaming platform’s 10th anniversary.

Mimi said she was “very excited” about “Sugar Sweet” because “it’s very summery. I like the beat as well.” She also revealed that Here For It All will feature 11 or 12 songs, including “some Mariah ballads.”

Here For It All will arrive seven years after her last studio album, Caution. The 10-track project featured collaborations with Ty Dolla $ign, Slick Rick and Blood Orange and Gunna.

It reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and earned MC her eighth No. 1 project on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

Octavio Pisano Returning to NBC’s “Law & Order SVU” for Season 27 Premiere Episode

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Octavio Pisano isn’t leave the force just year.

The 39-year-old Mexican American actor will return for the season opening episode of NBC’s Law & Order SVU.

Octavio Pisano, In May, it was revealed that Pisano and Juliana Aidén Martinez would not be returning to SVU as series regulars in the 27th season.

Martinez joined the cast last season as Detective Kate Silva, while Pisano was added in Season 23 as undercover detective Joe Velasco.

It was unclear whether the decision was made for creative or financial reasons — or both. There was a pattern of budget reductions across multiple NBC shows, impacting cast, episodes and other areas ahead of NBC’s upfronts in May.

NBC has yet to reveal its fall premiere dates.

Pisano’s previous credits include Coyote and the indie film Ms. Purple.

Earlier this month, Deadline broke the news that Martinez closed a deal to join CBS’ FBI for its upcoming eighth season. It hails from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. No details about Martinez’s character have been provided.

Arsenal Signs Cristhian Mosquera from Valencia

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Cristhian Mosquera is switching sides.

Arsenal has confirmed the signing of the 21-year-old Spanish professional footballer from Valencia for an initial fee of €15 million (£13m).

Cristhian Mosquera,Sources have told ESPN that Mosquera has signed a five-year deal to June 2030 with the option for a further 12 months.

ESPN has also been told the fee could rise to something in the region of €20m if all performance-related add-ons are met.

Mosquera becomes Arsenal’s fifth summer signing after Martín Zubimendi, Noni Madueke, Christian Nørgaard and Kepa Arrizabalaga with their total outlay in the region of £140m.

Mosquera flew out to Singapore to join up with the Arsenal squad on tour in Asia after negotiations led by sporting director Andrea Berta, with manager Mikel Arteta also involved in discussions.

He made 90 appearances for Valencia and sources have told ESPN that Mosquera is viewed internally as one of the brightest young defensive talents in Europe, primarily as a right-sided player but with an ability to play anywhere across the back line.

Isabela Merced to Star Opposite Noah Jupe in the Thriller “Psyche”

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Isabela Merced is embracing the human psyche…

The 24-year-old Peruvian-American actress and singer will star opposite Noah Jupe in the new thriller Psyche from director Agustina San Martin.

Isabela MercedSan Martín will direct the film from a screenplay by Katy Cavanagh-Jupe and San Martín.

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Greek islands, the film follows a young backpacker drawn into the murky world of illegal archeological digs where he unwittingly unearths treasure beyond his wildest dreams.

Psyche is an original film developed by Double Garage Films, the newly launched company from Noah and Chris Jupe and Katy Cavanagh-Jupe.

The Jupes serve as producers alongside Phin Glynn for Infinity Hill.

Principal photography will commence in Malta this fall.

Emmy-winner Cristóbal Tapia De Veer (White Lotus, Babygirl, Smile) is on board to write an original score.

Merced has had herself a big year starting with her breakout role on the second season of the Emmy-nominated HBO drama The Last of Us. 

She also recently appeared as Hawk Girl in DC Studios’ Superman. 

Last year, she appeared in the latest film in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus.

“Love Island USA” Winner Amaya Espinal Signs with Gersh & Untitled Entertainment

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Amaya Espinal is hoping to extend her 15 minutes of fame beyond the island.

The 25-year-old Dominican-American nurse from New York, the winner of Love Island USA, has signed with Gersh and Untitled Entertainment for representation in all areas.

Amaya Espinal,Amaya is coming off of winning Season 7 of the Peacock dating series alongside partner Bryan Arenales.

Known by her nickname as “Amaya Papaya,” the reigning Love Island queen became a fan favorite due to her authenticity and positivity.

The Islander entered the Fiji villa on Day 5 as a bombshell and quickly found herself in a love triangle between Ace Greene and Chelley Bissainthe.

During her time in the villa, some of the Islanders misunderstood Amaya’s effusiveness and genuineness in her attempts to find a connection. It was in the “Stand on Business” challenge when it finally clocked with viewers that Amaya was in the villa for the right reasons. This was also the moment when Bryan stepped up to defend Amaya and give insight into her loving and warm persona as a fellow Latino.

The challenge was a turning point for Amaya, and when she turned to Bryan to explore their connection, it ultimately led them to discover love and win the $100,000 prize.

Love Island USA has become a cultural phenomenon with Season 7 ranking as the #1 streaming reality title for five consecutive weeks. Over 40% of season 7’s audience are new viewers, and it has also seen Peacock’s biggest mobile audience ever for an entertainment series, with over 30% of usage occurring on mobile devices.

Amaya has amassed over 7.5 million followers across Instagram and TikTok, all while being in the Love Island USA villa and one of the few Islanders who didn’t have anyone handle her social media platforms while on the show.

Amaya’s next appearance will be at the Love Island USA Season 7 reunion, set to premiere on Monday, August 25 at 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT on Peacock.