Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets start scuffle after Inter Miami's Leagues Cup final loss Safid Deen, USA TODAY September 1, 2025 at 6:04 AM Luis Suarez appeared to spit on an opposing team's staff member, while Sergio Busquets punched an opposing player in a postgame scuffle, following Inter Miami's 30...

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Luis Suarez appeared to spit on an opposing team's staff member, while Sergio Busquets punched an opposing player in a postgame scuffle, following Inter Miami's 3-0 loss to the Seattle Sounders in the 2025 Leagues Cup final on Sunday, Aug. 31.

Suarez, 38, aggressively put his left arm around the back of the neck of 20-year-old Seattle Sounders player Obed Vargas after the final whistle was blown.

Seattle defender Yéimar Gomez Andrade, 33, helped disengage Suarez from Vargas, who began celebrating the Leagues Cup victory with 21-year-old teammate Cody Baker in front of him before Busquets, 37, landed a punch on Vargas's chin.

Vargas flopped onto the pitch as Baker engaged in a heated exchange with Busquets after the punch.

Inter Miami's Maxi Falcon, 28, attempted to pull Baker away from Busquets, ending in Falcon putting Baker in a headlock, while Yéimar attempted to pull his teammate away.

Inter Miami defenders Marcelo Weigandt (25 years old) and Tomás Avilés (21 years old) — who did not play in the final — also appeared to physically engage with Seattle defender Jackson Ragen, 26, during the scuffle.

The brief, but ugly sequence following the match ended with Suarez appearing to bump and spit on a Seattle staff member. USA TODAY Sports reached out to Seattle and Leagues Cup officials to identify the person, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

"Unfortunately, that is going to take some of the attention away from what was a great Sounder performance," longtime Seattle coach Brian Schmetzer said of the incident during his press conference after the match.

"So, I can take that as a compliment, that their players were frustrated, and frustrations led to some things that shouldn't happen on the field, but that shouldn't be the story. I'm going to shut that down."

Tensions were tempered as both clubs remained on the pitch for the postgame trophy celebration.

Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano said he was far from the incident during his postgame interview.

"Clearly, none of us like to see this kind of behavior at the end of the game. Also, when there's a reaction, it could be that there was provocation. But I'm not going to comment because I don't know what happened," Mascherano said after the loss.

Schmetzer was complimentary of Inter Miami after the match, saying he had a quiet moment with star Lionel Messi on the pitch.

"I said 'Lo siento' (I'm sorry), and we talked, and we tried to push it aside," Schmetzer said of his interaction with Messi.

July 16: Minnesota United's Kelvin Yeboah (right) and Los Angeles FC's Sergi Palencia (14) compete for the ball during the first half at Allianz Field. LAFC won the game, 1-0.

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Schmetzer also said Inter Miami co-owner Sir David Beckham waited in the tunnel after the match to shake the hands of the Seattle players. They also shared a conversation before the match.

"That is class through and through," Schmetzer said of Beckham.

Schmetzer also praised Mascherano and Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas after his conversations with them before the final.

"Those are people that have been at the highest levels of our sport giving our team compliments, and that's the story," Schmetzer said. "That's the story."

Osaze De Rosario (26'), Álex Roldán (84') and Seattle native Paul Rothrock (89') scored for the Sounders in the victory over Messi and Inter Miami.

Both clubs will meet again during an MLS regular-season match at Inter Miami on Sept. 16.

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No. 10 Miami boots late field goal to edge No. 6 Notre Dame Field Level MediaSeptember 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM Aug 31, 2025; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Hurricanes place kicker Carter Davis (39) kicks the game winning field goal against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Hard Rock Stadium.

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Aug 31, 2025; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Hurricanes place kicker Carter Davis (39) kicks the game winning field goal against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-Imagn Images (Sam Navarro-Imagn Images)

Carter Davis kicked a 47-yard field goal with 1:04 remaining, Carson Beck passed for two touchdowns in his Miami debut and the No. 10 Hurricanes never trailed while recording a 27-24 victory over No. 6 Notre Dame on Sunday night in the season opener for both teams at Miami Gardens, Fla.

CJ Daniels made an acrobatic touchdown grab and Malachi Toney had six receptions for 82 yards and one score for the Hurricanes. CharMar Brown tacked on a rushing score and Rueben Bain had a key interception for Miami.

Redshirt freshman CJ Carr was 19-of-30 passing for 221 yards, two touchdowns and one interception and also rushed for a score in his first career start for Notre Dame. Micah Gilbert and Jordan Faison had scoring receptions for the Fighting Irish.

Star running back Jeremiyah Love had just 33 yards on 10 carries for Notre Dame, which lost to Ohio State in last season's national championship game.

Beck, who transferred from Georgia, completed 12 in a row at one point and finished 20 of 31 for 205 yards.

After the Fighting Irish scored 10 straight points to tie it at 24, Miami moved 46 yards on 10 plays and Davis showed good length with his boot through the uprights to put the Hurricanes ahead.

Miami's pass rush then kicked into a higher gear by forcing an intentional grounding -- that resulted in a 10-second runoff -- and notching a sack to finish off the victory.

The Fighting Irish made it a one-score game when Noah Burnette booted a 39-yard field goal with 5:32 remaining to cut their deficit to 24-17.

Notre Dame forced a three-and-out to quickly get the ball back. On the first play, Miami had a breakdown in coverage and Eli Raridon (five catches, 97 yards) was wide open at midfield and raced to the 10-yard line to complete a 65-yard play.

Two plays later, Carr scored on a 7-yard quarterback draw to tie the score with 3:21 to play.

Miami led 14-7 at halftime before opening the third quarter with a stellar 12-play, 75-yard drive that took seven minutes, 37 seconds. Brown finished the excursion with a 5-yard run to give the Hurricanes a 14-point advantage.

The Fighting Irish moved within seven on the first play of the final quarter when Carr tossed a 1-yard scoring pass in the right flat to Faison.

Notre Dame got the ball back less than three minutes later but Miami's Keionte Scott tipped a pass thrown toward the sideline and two other players -- one from each team -- deflected the ball before Bain collected it and returned it 15 yards to the Fighting Irish 28.

The takeaway set up a 38-yard field goal by Davis as the Hurricanes took a 24-14 lead with 9:42 remaining.

Miami scored with 12 seconds left in the first half on Beck's 20-yard pass to Daniels, who leaped and caught the ball with his right hand to give the Hurricanes a 14-7 lead.

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1 / 5Notre Dame Miami FootballNotre Dame quarterback CJ Carr (13) throws during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Miami, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — There were a couple things going through Marcus Freeman's head when he saw CJ Carr scampering around to extend the play then finding receiver Micah Gilbert in the end zone for the quarterback's first collegiate touchdown.

"Throw it away! Throw it away! Throw it away!" Freeman, Notre Dame's head coach, recalled repeating in his head after the game. "I couldn't see exactly what was going on. I watched him spin out. And usually when you're feeling pressure it's like, 'Throw the ball the away! Don't throw the ball across our body! He kept his eyes down field and made a play.

"We don't draw them up like that. But those are plays that CJ Carr can make."

Carr had an uneven performance in No. 6 Notre Dame's 27-24 loss to No. 10 Miami on Sunday night, but that touchdown pass — which tied it at 7 in the second quarter — was an example of the playmaking ability that won the freshman quarterback the starting job. And that gave Freeman confidence in Carr's ability to respond strongly to Sunday's loss, and potentially lead Notre Dame back to the national title game.

Carr hadn't thrown a collegiate pass before Sunday — he appeared in one game last year, mop-up duty in a 66-7 rout at Purdue — but nearly helped the Fighting Irish rally from a 14-point deficit against the Hurricanes. The 20-year-old finished 19 of 30 for 221 yards with two touchdown passes and an interception, along with a rushing score with 3:21 left that tied the game.

"His ceiling is so high," Freeman said. "He's going to have to take this loss and not let it eat at him too much. He's a gamer. He performs when the lights are on. He prepares his tail off. He's going to do great things. It's just the start for him."

Freeman said part of the offensive gameplan was to create easy decisions and throws to help Carr establish a rhythm, heavily leaning on the run-pass option. Freeman added that Carr was making the right reads on the RPOs early, but as the game went on, the young quarterback needed to hand the ball to dynamic running back Jeremiyah Love to help establish the run game.

Love, who many believe will be the centerpiece to Notre Dame's offense, finished with 10 carries for 33 yards and caught four passes for 26 yards, but there were times in the game that he was barely involved in the offense. The Fighting Irish were outgained on the ground 119-93.

"I need to continue to get a better feel for what our offense needs at the moment," Carr said. "A lot of the time, it's going to be Jeremiyah Love. On the pick, I should have just given him the ball. It cost us."

Carr this year replaces former Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard, who led the Irish to 13 straight wins last season before falling 34-23 to Ohio State in the CFP national championship game. Leonard was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in April.

He's from a family with a rich football pedigree — his father, Jason, was a quarterback at Michigan — and he knows how to respond to a loss.

"Tonight wasn't good enough out of me specifically," Carr said. "We've got to get better. My dad always said the only way to get rid of a loss is with a win."

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Hamilton and Ferrari need some Monza magic at the 'Temple of Speed' after disastrous Dutch GP JAMES ELLINGWORTH September 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM 1 / 4Netherlands F1 GP Auto RacingFerrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain walks away after a crash during the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, Nethe...

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1 / 4Netherlands F1 GP Auto RacingFerrari driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain walks away after a crash during the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, Netherlands, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Monza is where the magic happens for Ferrari. And the Italian Grand Prix couldn't come at a better time.

Formula 1's annual pilgrimage to the "Temple of Speed" this week brings a chance for Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc to rebound from race-ending crashes at the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday. It was only Ferrari's second Grand Prix this year without scoring points and Hamilton also picked up a grid penalty for Monza.

The only Italian on the grid, Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli, wants to "put in the trash" a practice crash at Monza last year, and make up for ending Leclerc's race on Sunday. Success has been rare for Italian drivers at Monza, though.

Lewis Hamilton's 'unique experience'

There isn't much that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton hasn't done in F1, but racing for Ferrari at Monza will be something "unique."

It's Hamilton's 19th race at the high-speed Italian track, but his first in red.

He's spoken of wanting to enjoy his racing again after a difficult start with Ferrari, and insisted Sunday he'd made progress despite sliding into the barriers at the Dutch Grand Prix, "so to come away with that is definitely painful."

Worse was to come later that day as Hamilton was handed a five-place grid penalty for the Italian Grand Prix for failing to slow down enough for yellow flags before Sunday's race at Zandvoort.

Hamilton had a taste of racing in red in Italy at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola in May, and dedicated his result — fourth place — to the Ferrari fans. He still hasn't been able to get onto the podium in a Grand Prix race for Ferrari.

"The support this team has around the world from the Tifosi is unmatched and so I'm sure it'll be a unique experience," Hamilton said last week.

A history of excellence

Even some of Ferrari's most troubled F1 seasons have been redefined by success at Monza, like in 1988 when Gerhard Berger took an emotional first win for the team since the death of founder Enzo Ferrari.

Leclerc won there in his first Ferrari season in 2019 and again last year.

"I think our first experiences are going to be very different because Lewis has lived so many incredible moments already," Leclerc said Thursday.

"I'm pretty sure that he will still be shocked by how special this week feels, but he's gone through a lot more than I had done back then. I just came from Sauber to win in Monza with Ferrari, which was unbelievable. So it was all at once and it was quite crazy."

Antonelli's bad memories

It's been 20 years since an Italian driver was on the Monza podium.

Kimi Antonelli arrived in F1 with plenty of hype as the youngster succeeding Hamilton at Mercedes. Crashing 10 minutes into his first F1 practice session for Mercedes at Monza last year was a tough introduction.

"I have amazing memories, but also really, really bad ones," Antonelli said last week. "It's going to be important to just have a clean weekend, clean sessions and just put in the trash what happened. I think it's going to be a really special weekend."

Putting Antonelli in the car a year ago was a gamble and "maybe a mistake", Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff admitted Friday, but argued it would have been a major confidence-builder without the crash.

Antonelli has two points finishes in his last nine races after a strong start to 2025. He was competitive on pace at the Dutch Grand Prix but it all went wrong when he tried to overtake Leclerc and instead tipped the Ferrari driver into the barrier. Mercedes has yet to formally confirm Antonelli or teammate George Russell for 2026.

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The following is the transcript of an interview with Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and KFF editor-at-large for public health, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Aug. 31, 2025.

ED O'KEEFE: We're joined now by Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News Medical Contributor and the Editor at Large for Public Health at KFF Health News. Doctor, so great to see you. Thanks for coming to Washington for this important conversation. Because it's been a pretty chaotic week at the CDC, to say the least. We've seen the ouster of the head of the agency, who'd only been confirmed by the Senate this summer, she's now mounting a legal challenge to that. Other top officials also departed. They're still reeling from a shooting at the headquarters in Atlanta a few weeks ago. Why are these departures so important to take note of? And how do they affect you, me, and everybody else, in terms of health and medicine?DR. CÉLINE GOUNDER: I think it's really important to understand that this is not just palace intrigue. This really does affect all of us. So not just the director, but the people in charge of respiratory infections, vaccine safety, the Chief Medical Officer, the person who was in charge of public health data also resigned earlier this week. So these are really key positions. Not to mention that a lot of the directors of the different centers, because it's centers plural, have also been forced out over the last several months. So you're really dealing with a leadership vacuum at the CDC. So, this is not business as usual. And so, specifically, how does this affect you and me, folks watching at home? So, first of all, vaccine policy. Vaccine policy is now being made by political fiat and communicated through social media, rather than a transparent, open, scientific review process. And so, we're seeing the reversal of previous recommendations, which will also confuse whether insurance will cover certain vaccines for certain people, and it's already sowing tremendous confusion at pharmacies, as well as doctor's offices.ED O'KEEFE: So, there is a series of meetings coming up regarding the future of vaccines and how they're going to be available, who gets them. Tell us about that and the concerns that some of these, now-former CDC officials had about what might happen at those meetings?DR. GOUNDER: Yeah. So these meetings are scheduled for mid-September. Some of the things on the agenda include the newborn Hepatitis B dose. We typically give it to newborns because that's to prevent transmission from the mother to the baby. So, that's one of the most common ways Hepatitis B is transmitted.ED O'KEEFE: One of the first shots a baby gets.DR. GOUNDER: One of the first shots it gets, for good reason. Also protection for infants, for RSV, one of the most common causes of hospitalization among infants. Number three, the COVID shots. And we expect to see a tightening of availability, eligibility of COVID shots, especially for healthy kids and adults. And then, finally, the combined measles, mumps, rubella varicella vaccine, and revisiting long-standing childhood vaccine recommendations would really be unprecedented, here.ED O'KEEFE: So, it's basically every shot you get from like 0 to 18 is now up for debate, and then the COVID shot, of course, which is an important one for many people on a regular, rolling basis?DR. GOUNDER:Yeah, some really basic things that we have counted on for a very long time. Some of the core concerns with the process involve cherry-picking of data, scientific reviews being altered or pulled, and unvetted studies being rushed into the process, into policy-making. And this is really an inversion of radical transparency.ED O'KEEFE: Yeah. There was a- there's an example in recent days, because there- is we're starting- fall is coming, COVID picks up. We've already seen one example of a school in Kansas City that was forced to shut down temporarily due to COVID, and there have been spikes in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, especially. What do people at home as the fall approaches and COVID starts to spike?DR. GOUNDER: Well, I think, first of all, vaccinations are for many different purposes. So it's to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. But, for a lot of people, you may not be able to call in sick from work very easily, like for us, it's really hard to take time off even if you really are sick. You might want to keep your kids in school, and so the best way to keep yourself at work or your kids in school is for them to get vaccinated so you and they are not getting sick.ED O'KEEFE: Let's- and we should point out, by the way, that school closed, set to open again on Tuesday, but the fact that they had to close at all, right, as the school year is beginning, is a sign, potentially, of things to come when people don't get their shots. Let's bottom line this. I'm a 42-year-old guy with asthma. Am I going to have issues getting my COVID shot?DR. GOUNDER: You will not, because- even though you're under 65. So the recommendations- or the FDA approval is for people 65 and older, they are all good. They can get their Covid shot. Under 65 if you have at least one risk factor for severe Covid, you can also get your Covid shot. So you can, absolutely. That's not an issue for you, Ed.ED O'KEEFE: But it's- you know, kids under 18, a perfectly healthy spouse, aging parents?--DR. GOUNDER: -- Yes, so aging parents over 65 they're eligible. But say you're between 6 months and 64 years of age and you do not have a risk factor for severe COVID. That is the group where we really have a lot of uncertainty. Now, I should point out, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID. So your healthy wife, let's say she were pregnant, which I don't think she is, but if she were, she would be eligible for a COVID shot.ED O'KEEFE: All right. Dr. Céline Gounder, we love having you to help us understand all this. We appreciate you coming down, good to see you. And we will be right back.

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Taylor Townsend fails to covert 8 match points, falls to Barbora Krejcikova at the US Open BRIAN MAHONEYSeptember 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM 1 / 3US Open TennisTaylor Townsend, of the United States, returns a shot against Barbora Krejcikova, of the Czech Republic, during the fourth round of the U.S.

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1 / 3US Open TennisTaylor Townsend, of the United States, returns a shot against Barbora Krejcikova, of the Czech Republic, during the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Townsend couldn't covert eight match points in a second set that ended with a 25-minute tiebreaker and was eliminated from the U.S. Open on Sunday with a 1-6, 7-6 (13), 6-3 loss to Barbora Krejcikova.

With fans chanting "Let's go Taylor! Let's go Taylor!" for a player who became a fan favorite during the tournament after her confrontation with Jelena Ostapenko following her second-round victory, Townsend was repeatedly a point away from what would have been her first Grand Slam quarterfinal.

But Krejcikova, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, erased seven match points in the tiebreaker, broke Townsend's serve twice in the third set and advanced to face No. 4 seed Jessica Pegula on Tuesday.

Townsend hugged Krejcikova at the net, then sat in her sideline chair and began crying before leaving the court to a standing ovation as she dabbed her eyes with a towel.

In her first 31st Grand Slam appearance, Townsend has never been closer to reaching the last eight. She lost to eventual champion Bianca Andreescu in 2019 in her only other fourth-round appearance.

Townsend remains in the women's doubles tournament as the No. 1-seeded team with Katerina Siniakova — who won a career Grand Slam in doubles with Krejcikova during their partnership.

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"Right now they just want to enjoy being engaged," the source adds

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are enjoying their newly engaged glow.

"Taylor and Travis have been in celebration mode ever since the engagement," a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. "They are not in the wedding planning phase yet."

Nearly two years after making their romance public, the Grammy winner and the NFL star, both 35, announced their engagement news in a joint Instagram post on Aug. 26.

"Right now they just want to enjoy being engaged and they are going to take their time with it," the source adds. "It has been a relief not having to keep it a secret anymore, and they are glad it is out in the open."

"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨," the pair wrote in their announcement, ending the caption with a dynamite emoji, seemingly a reference to their "TNT" nickname.

The couple also shared a carousel of photos from the moment the Kansas City Chiefs tight end popped the question in his backyard — surrounded by a stunning floral arrangement — two weeks before revealing the engagement.

"They were going out to dinner and she was ready to go and he said, 'Let's go out in the garden on the patio and have a glass of wine before we go,'" Kelce's dad Ed said on Australian radio's The Jimmy & Nath Show with Emma. "I think she knew something was up because as they walked out there, she could see, suddenly, there were a lot more flowers out there."

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Ed added: "These are two young people madly in love with each other, and I think this is great."

The source close to the couple previously told PEOPLE that "both families are overjoyed. There were toasts, happy tears and everyone is thrilled for them."

Kelce's mother Donna has been holding onto keepsakes from the milestone moment.

"Donna is already saving little things from this time like photos, notes and flowers," the source told PEOPLE. "She is very sentimental about it. She wants to remember every detail, so she has been holding onto mementos from their first days as an engaged couple."

The engagement news came just weeks after Swift appeared on the New Heights podcast — which Kelce hosts with his brother Jason — to announce that her new album, The Life of a Showgirl, will drop on Oct. 3.

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Jeremy Lin is ready to let the final buzzer sound on a remarkable 15-year basketball career that captured headlines across the globe and for a few weeks in 2012 made New York City the epicenter of the basketball universe.

The NBA icon announced his retirement in an Instagram post Saturday, writing that although he knew the end would come, it was the "hardest decision I've ever made."

"It's been the honor of a lifetime to compete against the fiercest competitors under the brightest lights and to challenge what the world thought was possible for someone who looks like me," Lin, 37, wrote. "I've lived out my wildest childhood dreams to play in front of fans all around the world. I will forever be the kid who felt fully alive every time I touched a basketball."

Lin's career caught fire when he led the New York Knicks to a seven-game winning streak in 2012, his first year as a point guard in the team's starting lineup. "Linsanity" overtook the Big Apple as his performance propelled the Knicks to the 2012 playoffs and turned him into an international phenomenon.

In the wake of his breakout stardom, Lin, then 23, appeared on the covers of Sports Illustrated (for two consecutive weeks) and Time magazine, which named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

"He's dispelled the idea that Asian-American guards somehow couldn't hack it in the NBA — and that being a world-class athlete on the court is somehow at odds with being an excellent student off the court," Time wrote of his success.

Lin defied stereotypes as the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to make it to the NBA. By the time he graduated from Harvard University in 2010, the Taiwanese American athlete had become the first player in Ivy League history to record at least 1,450 points throughout his college career.

After graduation, Lin was passed over for the NBA draft in 2010 before signing with his hometown Golden State Warriors as a free agent. After being cut by both the Warriors and the Houston Rockets in 2011, Lin signed with the Knicks at the end of the year.

For the first few weeks of 2012, Lin spent most of his games warming the bench. It wasn't until February that he was given a chance on the court to turn around an abysmal season for the team.

At the height of his "Linsanity" run, he stoked even more audience fervor when he hit a winning 3-pointer against the Toronto Raptors with less than a second left on the clock. Lin also became the first NBA player to score at least 20 points and dole out seven assists in each of his first five starts.

Lin continued his NBA career with stints on the Rockets, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Raptors, among others. While with the Raptors in 2019, he became the first Asian American player to win an NBA championship.

He later took his basketball career across the Pacific to China's Beijing Ducks and Guangzhou Loong Lions, as well as Taiwan's Kaohsiung Steelers and New Taipei Kings, where he ended his career this year as MVP of the Taiwan Professional Basketball League.

"So many people have sacrificed and poured into my journey, more than I could ever repay. Thank you all for believing in me, for walking with me, for celebrating my highs and picking me up in my lows," Lin wrote in his retirement post. "This is a ride I never wanted to end but I know it's time. I will forever miss playing basketball in front of you all but our time will go beyond just playing. Here's to what's ahead."

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Matt DixonAugust 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM

President Donald Trump says he wants to do away with mail-in ballots. Those inside his own fiercely loyal political party aren't so sure that's a good idea.

Earlier this month, Trump continued his long-running criticism of voting by mail, falsely claiming that the United States is the only country that allows such a method and calling the practice "corrupt."

"Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting," Trump — quoting advice he said he received from Russian President Vladimir Putin — said in a recent interview with Fox News. "It's impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections."

In social media posts this month, including one late Saturday, Trump indicated that he could act unilaterally and abolish mail-in balloting through an executive order ahead of the 2026 midterms. It's a method of voting that accounted for 30% of all votes cast during the 2024 general election, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an independent and bipartisan government group.

Voter turnout by mail exceeded 30% in at least 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to the most recent data available. Trump won half of those states, most of which have Republican governors or secretaries of state overseeing elections. Others, like Arizona and Michigan, have Democrats overseeing elections but are major electoral battlegrounds.

"My view on vote-by-mail is that I think it should be permissible," Michigan state House Majority Leader Bryan Posthumus, a Republican who endorsed Trump last year, said in an interview with NBC News. "But I also believe that currently, the way it exists, specifically in Michigan, it is the highest risk for fraud."

Posthumus' perspective was echoed by nearly a dozen other GOP officials across the country who sympathized with Trump's grievances and agreed that changes to mail-in balloting are necessary. But they question whether Trump could — or should — legally enact a ban. Some also worry a ban could create issues for members of the military who vote overseas and for Republican candidates in states where voting by mail is popular.

"As Trump often does, sometimes he overstates his case," said Paul Dame, chair of the Vermont Republican Party. "I don't think anyone supports a complete elimination. That would disenfranchise men and women overseas. I'm sure that's not his intention."

An executive order? 'I don't know.'

Though Vermont heavily supported Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris last year, more voters there backed Trump in 2024 than in his previous two White House bids, and the state is one of just eight states that automatically sends a mail ballot to all qualified voters. That's where Dame says improvements could be made in his state and others heavily reliant on mail-in ballots.

"A ballot goes out to every address, not every person," he said. "There may or may not be a person who lives at that address. We need to have a clean list."

In Michigan, Posthumus has proposed amending the state constitution to require proof of citizenship to register to vote and a photo ID to cast a ballot.

"We shouldn't just go off and get rid of voting by mail," Posthumus said. "We need to buckle down and secure the weakness and vulnerability in it. … I've always been a proponent that it should be easy to vote and hard to cheat. As long as our vote-by-mail systems are secure, then the access to the ballot box that it allows for is a good thing."

Jim Runestad, a Michigan state senator who also serves as the state's GOP chair, said he hadn't "drilled down into" Trump's posts on voting by mail but believes the president's push, broadly, is "legitimate."

"You have a lot more potential for fraud when you're not voting on Election Day, in person," he added. "That's the safest way to do it."

But if Trump were to sign an executive order banning mail-in voting, plenty of political and legal issues would remain. The Constitution gives the right to each state to determine the "times, places, and manner" of House and Senate elections.

"Whether he can do this by executive order, I don't know," Runestad said. "What the potential legal hurdles are to that, I don't know. But I know that by far the safest voting is in person, with ID."

The president and Congress can pass laws that would override those state-level election laws, but that would be a heavy political lift for Trump and his allies, particularly in the Senate, where Democrats can block legislation.

"Senate Democrats will make sure that any and every measure that would make it even more difficult for Americans to vote will be dead on arrival in the Senate," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement responding to Trump's threat to do away with mail-in voting.

'What are you going to do about our military?'

In South Dakota, another state with a high vote-by-mail turnout, GOP Chair Jim Eschenbaum also expressed concern that a ban could unfairly disenfranchise military personnel.

"We can't get rid of vote by mail because we've got military serving, and if anybody deserves a vote in our elections, it's the people that are willing to die for us," Eschenbaum said. "So we can't ban it, but I think it should be limited in the respect that it is somewhat ripe for fraud."

Eschenbaum said he believes the White House "certainly" can dictate election policy for federal elections, but "I would express my concerns to President Trump and ask him, 'What are you gonna do about our military?'"

The White House did not respond to a request to comment for this article. Trump, in a social media post late Saturday, expressed support for exempting the military from any ban.

"Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote," Trump wrote. "NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!"

William Feely, an RNC committeeman from Nebraska, was more open to backing Trump's call for a ban.

"While Nebraska boasts high participation in mail-in ballots, this does not render us immune to vulnerabilities [that] can be exploited," Feely wrote in an email. "Under President Trump's leadership, the RNC is dedicated to building upon our successful election integrity efforts from the 2024 election cycle. We stand ready to support any and all changes to our nation's election laws as directed by the President and Congress."

Over the years, Trump has beat the drum against mail-in voting, but there is little evidence that the practice is plagued with fraud, and there are safeguards that already exist to protect against misuse.

"Before they are counted, election officials vigorously verify the validity of every mail ballot submission, as explained below," the Bipartisan Policy Center says. "Mail ballots suspected of fraudulent activity are set aside for further investigation and, when appropriate, are referred to law enforcement for prosecution."

A database maintained by the conservative Heritage Foundation that tracks election fraud cases includes 217 total criminal convictions for election-related fraud between 2020 and 2025. Those figures include all types of violations, not just those related to mail-in ballots.

Despite little hard evidence that rampant voter fraud exists in any form of voting, the idea of "election integrity" has remained the biggest selling point for Trump as he has pushed for sweeping legal reforms and continues to baselessly claim fraud is what cost him the 2020 presidential election.

"WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections," Trump posted on Truth Social on Aug. 18, following his meeting with Putin.

He issued a follow-up post this week: "Republicans: BAN MAIL-IN VOTING!!!"

Trump maintains that voting by mail is used by Democrats to cheat during elections and "steal" races from Republicans, even as Republicans in some states have benefited greatly from the process.

In Ohio, where Trump has won by comfortable margins three times and where the GOP has dominated elections for statewide office for two decades, Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose has presided over a system that produces few cases of fraud.

After Trump's post about a vote-by-mail ban last week, LaRose spokesperson Ben Kindel said the secretary of state, who won re-election with Trump's endorsement, was "willing to discuss opportunities for improvement.

Kindel also underscored who has the power to institute a ban.

"Changes to Ohio's voting process require a vote of the General Assembly, so I'm sure we'll be talking with them as well," Kindel said.

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