Jannik Sinner is officially back on top.

The Italian tennis star reclaimed the No. 1 ATP ranking with a 7-6 (5), 6-3 win over Carlos Alcaraz in the Monte-Carlo Masters final on Sunday. It is the fourth time the top ranking has exchanged hands between Sinner and Alcaraz over the past two years, with no other player coming close to breaking up the duopoly.

Sinner has now won four straight ATP 1000 Masters tournaments, joining Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. This one was likely a bit more special for Sinner, occurring on the clay surface upon which he’s struggled.

"Getting back to No 1 means a lot to me,” Sinner said after the match, via Sky Sports. “At the same time, the ranking is secondary. I'm very happy to win at least one big trophy on this surface. I haven't done it before, so it means a lot to me."

With the win, Sinner improves his head-to-head record versus Alcaraz to seven wins in their 17 matches. He has won two consecutive matches over his rival — including a 7-6 (4), 7-5 victory in last year’s ATP Finals — and three of their past five meetings going back to Wimbledon.

Sinner now sits at 13,350 points in the rankings, while Alcaraz is close behind him at 13,240. The next-closest is No. 3 Alexander Zverev with 5,595.

Sinner re-taking No. 1 also means he will take the lead in career weeks there in his rivalry with Alcaraz. The pair entered this week with 66 career weeks each at No. 1, but Sinner is now set to take a healthy lead there.

Jannik Sinner becoming No. 1 again was inevitable after the Sunshine Double

When Jannik Sinner was suspended for three months last year over a positive doping test — which WADA accepted as being caused by a bizarre contamination involving a massage and over-the-counter spray — it didn’t stop him from competing in any Grand Slams. However, it did prevent him from playing four different ATP 1000 tournaments, and that has loomed over the rankings ever since.

In 2025, Sinner got zero rankings points from the Indian Wells Open, the Miami Open, the Monte-Carlo Masters and the Madrid Open. This year, he has 3,000 from those tournaments, with Madrid still to play.

He’s also made history in the process, becoming the first man in history to win the Sunshine Double of Indian Wells and Miami without dropping a set.

Alcaraz, meanwhile, had 1,410 points to defend from those tournaments, though he also skipped Madrid last year. So as soon as Sinner got 2,000 points from the Sunshine Double, it was hard to see him not doing well enough to take No. 1.

Alcaraz was well aware of that, admitting “I’m going to lose No. 1 of the world. I don’t know if it’s going to be in this tournament or the next one” earlier in the Monte Carlo tournament. The road doesn’t get much better for him for the rest of clay season, as he has another 3,330 points to defend at Barcelona, Rome and the French Open while Sinner has only 1,950.

It will get interesting again once the rankings reach the points from Wimbledon, which Sinner won last year and therefore has to defend, but for now it’s advantage Sinner.

Mitch McKee is still undefeated, and just notched his biggest win yet.

The former University of Minnesota wrestler defeated former Bellator champion Sergio Pettis by unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) to improve his career record to 11-0. Five years after his first professional fight, McKee just beat the man at the top of the PFL bantamweight rankings.

McKee did it with persistence on the ground, landing three out of four takedowns and 10:26 of control time, per the PFL’s numbers. Pettis got him in some danger at times, but was never given a window to do real damage.

McKee landed 114 significant strikes to Pettis’ 20.

McKee graded himself on a tough rubric after the fight:

I think it was a B-plus, maybe. I feel like I had such good positions that I coulda went for the finish, but against a guy that’s tricky like him, I just felt like I was doing a little too much of keeping the position instead of looking for more damage … I’m just really hard on myself.

Full PFL Chicago results

Main Card

Bantamweight: Mitch McKee def. Sergio Pettis via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Bantamweight: Renat Khavalov def. Raufeon Stots via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Catchweight: Viviane Araujo def. Shanna Young via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-27)

Featherweight: Gabriel Braga def. Cheyden Leialoha via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Prelims

Women’s flyweight: Jena Bishop vs. Borena Tsertsvadze via submission at 2:21 of R1

Welterweight: Omar El Dafrawy def. James Vake via KO at 1:12 of R1

Women’s flyweight: Paulina Wisniewska def. Kana Watanabe via TKO at 3:15 of R2

Heavyweight: Alexandr Romanov def. Rodrigo Nascimento via submission at 3:20 of R2

Catchweight: Biaggio Ali Walsh def. Dash Harris via TKO at 4:45 of R1

Welterweight: Valanti Atsas def. Nate Jennerman via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)

Josh Hokit entered the contender tier of UFC heavyweights on Saturday, in the most demented possible way.

Facing former challenger Curtis Blaydes, Hokit took a win by unanimous decision win (29-28, 29-28, 29-28) after three rounds of some of the most jaw-dropping action in UFC heavyweight history. Both men were gasping for air by the end of the first round, but maintained their torrid pace until the final bell.

Hokit was the instigator for most of the fight. He was on the verge of stealing a first-round win with a litany of strikes — and middle fingers — to the surprised Blaydes, but the veteran regrouped and took control enough to take the round on all three scorecards.

But Hokit just kept coming, and progressively turned Blaydes’ face into hamburger. Unofficially, it was the most significant strikes ever thrown in a three-round heavyweight fight, by nearly 40 strikes.

It was a completely out of nowhere war of exhaustion between two men who usually skew toward the wrestling end of the MMA spectrum. Hokit was fueled by hunger for a reputation-setting win and to back up a titanic amount trash talk, while Blaydes seemingly stayed up out of either spite or pride.

Hokit over Blaydes was an upset. The fight going the distance was the bigger upset.

His statue’s bat wasn’t the only thing Ichiro Suzuki had broken on Friday.

With a single in the fifth inning of game against the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani extended his on-base streak to 44 games. That breaks a record previously held by the Seattle Mariners legend for the longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born player.

He got there on one of his three bobblehead nights with the Dodgers this season, after four last year.

The streak is also the longest active streak in MLB, and more than halfway to the all-time record of 84 games set by Ted Williams in 1949. He is 14 away from the Dodgers record held by Duke Snider, with 58.

Ohtani’s streak dates back to Aug. 23, 2025, when he went 0-for-4 against the San Diego Padres, he has reached base ever game since then, while winning a second straight World Series title in between.

Funnily enough, he’s reached base in every game this season and is still on pace to post his worst OPS since 2022, the only year since 2020 he hasn’t won an MVP award.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ohtani also entered Friday as the MLB leader in ERA among qualified pitchers, having not allowed an earned run in 12 innings across two starters. He will lose that title Saturday when he loses qualified eligibility, but can regain it in his next start next week.

It probably bears repeating: the player with the longest on-base streak in the majors is also the best pitcher in the majors by ERA. It is a sentence that should be impossible, and yet it’s just another day as the 2026 season begins for the defending champion Dodgers.

It’s unanimous. The two best players in college basketball were Duke’s Cam Boozer on the men’s side and UConn’s Sarah Strong on the women’s side.

The pair wrapped up consensus National Player of the Year honors on Friday with the Wooden Award, adding to trophy cases that already included the Naismith and AP Awards. Obviously, they were both on every All-American list as well.

Booker is the eighth member of the Blue Devils program to win the award, while Strong is the seventh Husky. No men's program has more Wooden Awards than Duke. No women's program has more than UConn.

Boozer also makes it back-to-back Duke freshmen to win the award alongside Cooper Flagg.

Sarah Stier via Getty Images

As much as Boozer and Strong stood out this season, March Madness wound up being a disappointment. Duke crashed out of the Elite Eight in mortifying fashion with a collapse against the UConn men’s team, while UConn lost its undefeated season in a battle of the elites again South Carolina in the Final Four.

That’s likely how Boozer’s college career will end. He is one of many star freshmen expected to enter the 2026 NBA Draft, with Yahoo Sports’ Kevin O’Connor projected him to be selected second overall behind BYU’s AJ Dybantsa.

Strong, meanwhile, is set to return to UConn for her junior season, with expectations higher than ever.

The introduction of ABS challenges to MLB have created various firsts throughout the 2026 season. The first challenge? José Caballero. The first successful challenge? Francisco Alvarez. The first walk-off challenge? The Baltimore Orioles.

On Friday, we got the first challenge to get taken back then succeed anyway.

That arrived in a game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs, with Pirates second baseman Nick Gonzales facing Cubs reliever Caleb Thielbar in the seventh inning. With an 0-2 count, Thielbar went with an outside fastball for a called strike three.

Gonzales responded by raising his hand to his helmet as if to challenge the strike call, then walked away, accepting the strikeout. However, home plate umpire Roberto Ortiz accepted the challenge and refused to let Gonzales take it back.

The strike was then overturned, with replay determining the pitch was outside the zone by 1.3 inches.

Much of the friction with the ABS challenge system so far has been players being found to have challenged calls too late, so it’s fun to see the opposite problem develop.

Michael Reaves via Getty Images

Gonzales went on to work an eight-pitch at-bat, eventually flying out to left field for the second out of the inning. No more runs were scored for the remainder of the game, giving Pittsburgh a 2-0 win.

The victory improves the Pirates’ record to 8-5, keeping pace in a competitive NL Central, while the last-place Cubs fell to 6-7.