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Georgia football’s first two home games for the2026 seasonand its SEC opener now have kickoff times and TV assignments set.

The Bulldogs' season opener on Sept. 5 against FCS Tennessee State in Sanford Stadium will start at 3 p.m. and be shown on SEC Network+ streaming, according to an announcement on Wednesday May 27.

Georgia’s week two game also at home against Western Kentucky on Sept. 12 will kick at 12:45 p.m. and air on the SEC Network.

The SEC opener on Sept. 19 at Arkansas is set for a noon ET kickoff and will be shown on ABC. It will mark the first SEC game for new Razorbacks coach Ryan Silverfield and Georgia's first game at Arkansas since 2020.

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No other kickoff times have been announced yet for Georgia's 2026 season. It's the 11th season for coach Kirby Smart.

More kickoff times were announced for the 2025 season in the second week of June and other games were announced with a range of possible times.

Georgia is coming off a second straight SEC championship and two straight seasons that ended with losses in the College Football Playoff quarterfinals.

This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald:Kickoff times, TV set for opening three Georgia football games in 2026

Edge rusher Micah Parsons is not likely to participate in training camp when the Packers start daily preseason workouts, head coach Matt LaFleur said after the team's Wednesday OTA practice.

Parsons is five months into his recovery from a torn ACL and sparked debate about his rapid progress in a social media post of his workouts in sand.

Green Bay lost Parsons at Denver on December 14 in a non-contact injury. He broke through pass protection on the right side of the Broncos' line and fell to the turf as his left knee buckled two steps shy of sacking Denver's Bo Nix.

Parsons, who has 65 career sacks in five NFL campaigns, turned 27 on Tuesday as the Packers began organized team activities. Parsons and running back Josh Jacobs, who was taken into custody because of an alleged domestic violence incident but released without being formally charged, were the only two veterans not present for the Packers.

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LaFleur said tight end Tucker Kraft, also returning from an ACL tear, is ahead of Parsons' pace due to the timing of his injury in early November.

He could be back before or during training camp.

Right tackle Zach Tom, who suffered a torn patella tendon in the Dec. 14 loss to the Broncos, likely won't return to on-field workouts until training camp.

--Field Level Media

Warning: this post contains spoilers for the season 1 finale ofMarshals.

NEED TO KNOW

• Arielle Kebbel and Logan Marshall-Green reveal where fans will find their characters in Marshals season 2 after the dramatic season 1 finale

• In the finale, Belle (Kebbel) and Cal (Marshall-Green) were shot at in a dramatic cliffhanger scene

• The season 1 finale of Marshals is now streaming on Paramount+

TheMarshalsseason 1 finale left the fate of every character somewhat up in the air, but none more than Belle and Cal.

Belle (Arielle Kebbel) and Cal (Logan Marshall-Green) were ambushed in the May 24 episode andshot at by gunmenwho werelater revealed to be hired by Tom Wheeler(Chris Mulkey). The episode ended without confirming either of their characters' fates following the surprise attack.

Andrea's (Ash Santos) fate was also left unclear after she took a job in Washington, D.C., while Kayce (Luke Grimes) unknowingly sent his son, Tate (BreckenMerrill), off with an enemy.

Now, both Kebbel and Marshall-Green are confirming that their characters will return forseason 2.

"I can confirm he is alive, but not necessarily unscathed," Marshall-Green, 49, toldThe Hollywood Reporterof Cal. As for Belle, Kebbel, 41, told the outlet, "I am a part of season two, yes."

Season 2 has already begun production in Utah, and things will be just as intense when things pick back up.

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"We start filming with a pickup of that moment," Kebbel revealed. "My head is so deep into season two already."

Marshall-Green said that "everybody’s going through it by the end" of season 1, as he gave another tease for season 2.

"I can tell you that we’re all going through things — without giving anything away," he said.

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Santos, who plays Andrea, similarly teased that things level up in season 2. "I think we'll start to see a side of Andrea that's almost opposite to how we met her in season 1. That's what's been really interesting to me," Santos told PEOPLE.

"From what I know so far in season 2, so much is being cooked up that we'll just have to see," she said. "There's so much that I just did not expect at all. I was like, 'Holy s---, that's good.'"

Marshalsseason 1 is now streaming on Paramount+.

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Mike Vrabel spoke about his wife Jen during a Patriots press conference on Wednesday, May 27

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• Vrabel said he loves his wife and their sons while speaking to reporters about balancing football and family amid his photo scandal with Dianna Russini

• Vrabel said he and the Patriots are "focused on" preparing for the upcoming NFL season

Mike Vrabelis expressing his love for wife Jennifer and their kids amid his ongoing scandal with reporterDianna Russini.

One month after the New England Patriots head coach, 50, stepped away from the team to seek counseling, Vrabel addressed the media and made rare comments about his personal life on Wednesday, May 27.

When asked by reporters how he's feeling currently about "the balance of family and football" as he prepares for the upcoming NFL season, Vrabelsaid, "Really good."

"I appreciate — my family is great. I love Jen, I love the boys, I love, you know, my personal friends and you know, this spring is focused on really the coaching staff, the players," Vrabel continued, before changing the subject to locker room communication and spring training goals.

When asked if he foresees needing to step away from the team again this season, Vrabel said he can only "focus on today" and added, "I mean, anything can happen."

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Vrabel and Russini's photo scandal began when photospublished by Page Sixon April 7 showed the Patriots coach and former NFL reporter holding hands, hugging and lounging poolsideat the boutique Ambiente Sedona resort.

The pair initially denied that the photos indicated anything more than a professional relationship, but days later, Russini resigned from The Athletic. Since then, more photos of the pair from over the years have surfaced online, including an image of Russini and Vrabelkissing at a bar in 2020andvideo of them renting a boat in 2021, when the NFL insider was 7 months pregnant with her first son, Michael Andrew, whom she shares with husbandKevin Goldschmidt.

On April 21, Vrabel admitted to having "difficult conversations" with his family and the Patriots organization during a press conference, amid the influx of photos.

"Thank you for your patience that you’ve shown in a personal and private matter for me and obviously everybody involved. I know that that's not easy for you and I respect that and I appreciate that," hetold reporters.

"I understand I could’ve addressed you guys sooner, but it was important to me to have a conversation with the players, which I did yesterday, very candidly," Vrabel continued. "I take accountability for my actions and the actions that caused a distraction to the people that I care most about. My family, this football team, the organization and the fans."

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UConn and Iowa are two of the most recognizable brands in women’s college basketball, but the Huskies and Hawkeyes haven’t played each other all that often.

That will change next season when the two programs begin a home-and-home series. Iowa will travel to UConn for a non-conference game Nov. 8. The Huskies will travel to Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City in the 2027-28 season.

UConn hasn’t played a game at Iowa in more than two decades, last visiting Carver-Hawkeye in 1999.

The Huskies are 7-4 all-time against the Hawkeyes, but Iowa took the last victory and it was a meaningful one. The two teams met up in the 2024 Final Four in Cleveland with a Lisa Bluder-coached Iowa team taking a narrow 71-69 victory over Geno Auriemma’s Huskies.

Caitlin Clark, named the consensus National Player of the Year that season, finished with 21 points, but the end of the contest was a nailbiter.

UConn trailed by one point with nine seconds left after KK Arnold stole the ball. However, on the ensuing possession, the referees whistled Huskies forward Aaliyah Edwards for an illegal screen with 3.9 seconds remaining, handing the ball back to Iowa. Clark was fouled, hit the first free throw and missed the next, but Iowa got the rebound with 1.1 seconds to go. On the second of two inbounds plays, the Hawkeyes got a pass in to clinch the win.

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“I'm just frustrated with the loss” UConn’s Paige Bueckers, who finished with 17 points, said. “I mean, we can talk about officiating, but players play. Players decide the game.”

Fans will hope that these next two meetings between the Hawkeyes and Huskies are just as memorable.

UConn is coming off a year where it started 38-0 before losing in the Final Four to South Carolina. Iowa, in coach Jan Jensen’s second year, was upset on its home floor in the second round by Virginia.

Both programs return star players in the front court, with Sarah Strong back for the Huskies and Ava Heiden starring for the Hawkeyes.

UConn is piecing together an impressive non-conference slate that also features matchups with South Carolina, Duke, Michigan and Maryland.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Iconic women’s basketball programs, UConn and Iowa, to begin series this season

No. 6 seed Daniil Medvedev lost in the first round of the French Open for the seventh time in 10 appearances at Roland Garros, dropping a five-set match to Australian wild card Adam Walton, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 on Tuesday on Suzanne-Lenglen Court.

Other seeds to exit in Paris on Tuesday included No. 9 seed Alexander Bublik, No. 20 Cameron Norrie, No. 29 Tallon Griekspoor and No. 30 Corentin Moutet.

Medvedev melted down in the heat, took a verbal lashing for his on-court behavior from his wife seated courtside but still had a chance to put away Walton, the 97th-ranked men's singles player who was 4-9 this season entering his first clay-court match of the year.

Walton, who played in the second round at the French Open in 2025, trailed 4-2 in the fifth and appeared to be more ragged than his opponent in the match that lasted three hours and 22 minutes.

He required a medical break after the second set to take a salt tablet as neither player found much consistency until the decider.

And it was Walton who gained his second wind. He took the next four games to oust Medvedev and beat him for the second time in their three career matches. Medvedev dropped to 0-4 in five-set matches in the French Open, 10-10 in his career.

"Pretty tired now. It was an up and down match. I felt like the ebbs and flows of the match were quite large today," Walton said post-match in an on-court interview. "Just really proud of my efforts in the fifth set to come from a break down to get the win. It's huge. Beating him in Cincinnati (in 2025) definitely gave me the belief today. I knew I could do it. I believed. Just really happy with performance. Just really excited right now."

Catapulted by his first win over a top-10 opponent, Walton will oppose American Zachary Svajda in the second round.

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Bublik lost 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-5 to Germany's Jan-Lennard Struff. The Russian-born Kazakhstani, who was a quarterfinalist last year, had a chance to serve out the fourth set but hit two straight double faults, grabbing his shoulder and requiring a medical timeout in between. The 36-year-old Struff then won four games in a row for the victory.

Griekspoor of the Netherlands fell to 104th-ranked Matteo Arnaldi of Italy 6-7 (9), 6-3, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Arnaldi won every service game in the fourth set without dropping a point and earned the win on his first match point.

Moutet of France lost a five-set marathon to unseeded Vit Kopriva. The Czech hit 61 winners in the four-hour, 20-minute match to defeat Moutet 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

Norrie retired after 78 minutes down 7-6, 2-0 down to Paraguay's Daniel Vallejo. It was the first time in 12 years the reliable Brit has retired from a match and the first time he hasn't made it past the first round of a Grand Slam since the 2024 Australian Open.

In other Tuesday evening action, Frenchman Moise Kouame became the youngest winner at Roland Garros since 1991. The 17-year-old downed U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in his grand slam tournament debut, 7-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Cilic was 20 and a top-20 ranked men's player the day Kouame was born.

With vocal support from the home crowd, Kouame played well above his current ranking of No. 313 in the world with poise and precision to keep the 37-year-old Cilic, playing in the French Open main draw for the 18th time, off-balance.

Kouame was a winner on Court Simonne-Mathieu and advances to take on Paragauy's Adolfo Daniel Vallejo. Britain's Cameron Norrie, who has been nursing a rib injury, retired from their first-round match at the French Open while trailing in the second set, 0-2. He lost the first set on a tiebreak.

--Field Level Media

Hacks creator Paul W. Downs tells PEOPLE that the show's ending has been planned out since the early days of the series

NEED TO KNOW

• "A lot of things changed in terms of the order and certain characters in the ensemble, but what happens with Deborah Vance, we pitched, oh my God, seven years ago," he reveals

• The Hacks series finale airs Thursday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO

Paul W. Downshas known howHacksends since the beginning.

The HBO series follows the story of the legendary, but aging, comedian Deborah Vance, played byJean Smart. Downs plays her agent, Jimmy, and also created the series, which debuted in 2021.

“We pitched the ending to almost every network when we were pitching the show," Downs, 43, tells PEOPLE at the American Music Awards on Sunday, May 24. "I mean, obviously, things change. Actually, a lot of things changed for Jimmy and Kayla, a lot of things changed. "A lot of things changed in terms of the order and certain characters in the ensemble, but what happens with Deborah Vance, we pitched, oh my God, seven years ago."

“It’s something that we pitched when we pitched the series," he says. "And the fact that we were able to do it is the proudest I've been about the show."

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The fact that he and his fellow creators were able to pull it off as they intended was not set in stone, even up until the final days.

“Honestly, the day after [wrapping] we all felt relief because we got it, because until the very end, we didn't know if we would actually get to shoot everything we wanted to shoot, so that felt really good, but it's so sad to say goodbye to these characters who became our friends,” Downs says.

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While Downs had the ending planned since the start, Smart, 74, didn't feel the same way.

“I don’t remember ever picturing or even imagining an ending,” she toldDeadline. “I knew that it was going to be pretty much five seasons from the beginning, but I didn’t ask. I just was like, I’ll be surprised."

When she found out how it ends, "I was shocked and unsure about how I felt, because it was not remotely anything I could have imagined," she admitted. “But then I realized, no, it’ll work because they’re writing it and they’re amazing. And so I went, ‘Okay.’”

Downs’s character, Jimmy, became a fan favorite over the course of the series, as did his co-worker and business partner Kayla Schaefer, played byMegan Stalter. Fans, they both admit, are clamoring for a spinoff based on their characters, something they’re not opposed to. “Meg’s always saying yes,” he says.

Stalter, who joined him on the red carpet at the awards show, tells PEOPLE, “I keep saying to people, yes, because I figure the more I say yes, the more people will ask, and I just feel like we really should.”

TheHacksseries finale airs on Thursday, May 28, at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

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