Will Lionel Messi, Inter Miami close out Nashville in MLS playoffs? 'Anything can happen' Safid Deen, USA TODAY October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM 0 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Inter Miami and Nashville SC must be getting tired of each other. They'll meet in Game 2 of their firstround playoff series in the MLS Cup Playoffs – their third matchup in as many weeks – on Saturday, Nov. 1 at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tenn. It's been a onesided affair, to say the least. Lionel Messi had a hat trick with an assist in a 52 win on the final day of the regular season in Nashville on Oct.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Inter Miami and Nashville SC must be getting tired of each other.

They'll meet in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series in the MLS Cup Playoffs – their third matchup in as many weeks – on Saturday, Nov. 1 at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tenn.

It's been a one-sided affair, to say the least.

Lionel Messi had a hat trick with an assist in a 5-2 win on the final day of the regular season in Nashville on Oct. 18, then scored two goals with an assist in a 3-1 win in Game 1 at Inter Miami's Chase Stadium on Oct. 24.

Still, it's just a 1-0 series lead for Inter Miami, where a close-out win on the road will help them move onto the second round of the playoffs.

Game 3, if necessary, would be on Nov. 8.

"We know despite having had two positive results against them in the last two weekends, we have to understand that Nashville has put us in many difficult moments," Inter Miami coach Javier Mascherano said of Nashville before practice on Friday, Oct 31. "We've dealt with it well, but they'll surely put us in a difficult moment again. We have to be prepared for that."

Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez after a goal against Nashville.

Inter Miami has not lost in its last 10 matches against Nashville, but expects them to play with the same intensity they had in the first half of their Decision Day match to end the season.

Nashville led 2-1 at halftime at home with goals from Jacob Shaffelburg and Sam Surridge, a 2025 MVP finalist this season like Messi. However, Messi scored two of Inter Miami's four unanswered goals in the second half of that matchup.

During Game 1, Messi and Inter Miami took a 3-0 lead before Nashville's Hany Mukhtar scored a free kick in the closing minutes to ruin a clean sheet.

While Inter Miami may feel in command, their historic first-round playoff loss to Atlanta United last season still lingers this postseason.

Inter Miami, the 2024 Supporters' Shield winners, won Game 1 against Atlanta before dropping the next two matches to end their season short of MLS Cup title expectations.

"We're doing well as a group. We're on a good run. But we can't get overconfident about our opponents because anything can happen," said Tadeo Allende, who scored in Game 1 of the series for Inter Miami.

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" src=https://ift.tt/zbJ9osv class=caas-img>May 3, 2025: Lionel Messi celebrates with Inter Miami teammate Luis Suarez (9) after scoring a goal against the New York Red Bulls at Chase Stadium. Inter Miami won the game, 4-1.

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1 / 38Lionel Messi in MLS: Photos from soccer star's tenure with Inter MiamiOct. 24, 2025: Lionel Messi scores a goal off a header against Nashville SC during the first half of a Round 1 playoff game at Chase Stadium. Messi scored two goals as Inter Miami won the first game of a best-of-three series, 3-1.

Inter Miami left back Jordi Alba returned to practice after missing a session Tuesday due to a finger injury, Mascherano said.

Midfielder Rodrigo De Paul was given an excused absence after Game 1 to see his girlfriend, Argentine singer Tini Stoessel, perform in concert last weekend in Argentina. He returned to practice on Monday, and practiced all week.

"Rodrigo traveled over the weekend because we gave them Saturday and Sunday off. He had to travel to Argentina for personal reasons, and we gave him permission to do so. On Monday, he was here training with the rest of the team," Mascherano said of De Paul.

"I'm one of those coaches who, when I give players time off, I don't ask them what they're going to do … their private life is their private life. I have no reason to get involved in their private life. I'll also tell you that we knew he had to travel for some personal matters he had to resolve in Argentina, and he took advantage of the weekend to do so."

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Grant hits free throws with 1.4 seconds left and Blazers beat Nuggets 109107 ANNE M. PETERSON November 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM 0 1 / 3Nuggets Trail Blazers BasketballPortland Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray (24) attempts to defend against Denver Nuggets guard Peyton Watson (8) during the first half of an NBA Cup basketball game Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Ali Gradischer) PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jerami Grant made a pair of free throws with 1.

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1 / 3Nuggets Trail Blazers BasketballPortland Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray (24) attempts to defend against Denver Nuggets guard Peyton Watson (8) during the first half of an NBA Cup basketball game Friday, Oct. 31, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Ali Gradischer)

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jerami Grant made a pair of free throws with 1.4 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied for a 109-107 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Friday night in the NBA Cup opener for both teams.

Denver led 81-71 going into the fourth quarter. With 27.7 seconds left and the Nuggets in front 107-105, Grant hit a pair of free throws for the Blazers to tie it.

After a scramble on the other end, Shaedon Sharpe blocked Aaron Gordon's jumper and the Nuggets were called for a shot clock violation, giving Portland the ball with three seconds left.

A foul was called on Gordon and Grant made the free throws. Nikola Jokic missed a 13-foot jumper as the clock ran out.

Jokic had 21 points and 14 rebounds but fell just short of his fifth straight triple double to open the season with nine assists. Jokic went into the game tied with Oscar Robertson (1961-62) and Russell Westbrook (2020-21) for most consecutive triple-doubles to start the season with four.

Grant had 16 points off the bench for the Blazers, who won their third straight. Deni Avdija led Portland with 23 and Sharpe had 19.

Jamal Murray added 22 points for the Nuggets. The loss snapped Denver's three- game winning streak.

Murray was questionable with left calf soreness but started and the Nuggets went up 30-18 on his layup. Avdija's layup tied it for Portland at 41 but the Nuggets went into halftime with a 57-53 lead.

The Blazers briefly pulled in front 68-67 on Kris Murray's layup before Denver's 9-0 run to end the third quarter for a 10-point lead.

There was a lengthy delay at the end of the first quarter because of a shot clock malfunction at the Moda Center.

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The Trail Blazers host the Lakers on Monday.

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The RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 star tells EW that Michelle Visage also roasted Mathews after the girls, and tells a joke she cut from her own set. Daya Betty reveals 'crazier, more inappropriate' jokes she cut from Drag Race roast of Ross Mathews The RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 star tells EW that Michelle Visage also roasted Mathews after the girls, and tells a joke she cut from her own set. :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/JoeyNolfiauthorphotoba4923fec03a4027868306485696ef41.jpg) Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at .

The RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 star tells EW that Michelle Visage also roasted Mathews after the girls, and tells a joke she cut from her own set.

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Daya Betty's roast of Ross Mathews might've landed with lukewarm reception from the *RuPaul's Drag Race* judges, but that doesn't mean she didn't at least *try* to turn up the heat with her originally planned set of jokes.

Appearing on the latest episode of EW's BINGE podcast, Daya reveals that she cut a few jokes from her routine during the comedy challenge, but promises that some of them remain too controversial to tell.

"I had a whole list of 'Ross Mathews is so gay' jokes. One I had that didn't make the cut was: Ross Mathews is so gay, his favorite moisturizer was Astroglide," Daya recalls, adding with a laugh that others didn't make it past the initial screening process for far more hilarious reasons. "The people in the room that were ok'ing [the jokes] were like, 'Nope, you can't stay that!' I'm not even going to say it here because it's probably way too inappropriate. There was plenty [of] crazier, more inappropriate jokes. I'll just say it was severely inappropriate and there was a reason it was not aired."

She says the challenge also wrapped with an impromptu set from Michelle Visage, which she says the queens thoroughly enjoyed. But, for most of them — including eliminated queen DeJa Skye, who left alongside Jorgeous after they lost a three-way lip-sync against Daya — the roast actually began in the Werk Room as the queens workshopped their material among the sisterhood.

"We kind of used each other as practice dummies. Especially DeJa. DeJa was the best at it. She'd sit down in her little corner and she'd yell out a joke randomly, and we'd all be like, thumbs up, thumbs down, and, let's be honest, they were pretty much all thumbs down," Daya remembers. "You saw the episode, I had some thumbs down myself. It turned into a collaborative effort. I personally was working on my jokes even after makeup. I was still finessing jokes."

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Daya Betty reveals cut jokes from the 'Drag Race' roast of Ross Mathews. World of Wonder/VH1

Listen to Daya's full interview above, in which she also touches on discovering that nearly half of the cast brought similar wigs for various challenges, why she purposely walked super slow down the runway in her "giant 11-inch heels," and why she stands by the comments — *not* their delivery — that landed her in hot water throughout *Untucked*. Tune in to the next live episode of* Quick Drag *Friday at 10:05 p.m. ET on the @EW Twitter handle.

***Subscribe to*****EW's BINGE* podcast****** for full recaps of *RuPaul's Drag Race*, including weekly season 14 recaps with the cast, adapted from our new* Quick Drag* series airing Fridays at 10:05 p.m. ET/7:05 p.m. PT on the @EW Twitter account.***

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*RuPaul's Drag Race* Zoom reunions that could, without question, also pass for the *Mortal Kombat* character selection screen? No more! Angeria Paris VanMicheals joins *EW's BINGE* podcast to dish on the season 14 closer, including the show's first live reunion in three years that the finalist promises will be a dramatic moment where brewing tension comes to a head.

"What you can expect is a lot of unresolved situations between people coming to a head, finally," Angeria explains of the upcoming reunion, set to air Friday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on VH1. "The reunion of course is a moment where everybody gets to address those things they might've known had been said or might've not known. We've all been watching confessionals, so this is the moment for everything to be laid out on the table."

Without naming names, Angeria remembers feeling that things were "left unresolved" between certain cast members when they were eliminated from the competition, and stresses that the reunion "is the moment to come back and say, okay, let's resolve this."

She also says the fact that this is the first live reunion in years adds to the excitement factor: "This isn't a Zoom reunion, girl. No shade to the other seasons. They did what they had to do," she continues. "But we're back, live, sitting with each other and Ru, so it's going to be a lot of fun."

Angeria also teases something else might soon turn red-hot in the future: Her friendship with fellow season 14 finalist Lady Camden. After the adorable duo admitted there might be a mutual crush brewing in the Werk Room when they first laid eyes on each other during the premiere, Camden later promised to take her new friend to San Francisco's BDSM-centric Folsom Street Fair after Angeria's hilariously innocent reaction to finding out that it wasn't just, uh, a street carnival.

"I cannot confirm that this is a Brooke and Vanjie moment. Now, if we are *working* on a Brooke and Vanjie moment, that might be more of something. But, while the show is still going on, I know that myself and Lady for sure are trying to focus on everything when both of us have very busy schedules. Even if that was a thing, I don't think either one of us are able to handle anything that could blossom seriously," she says. "I think I can proudly say that both of us would be open to future possibilities when [we] have a little more of a handle on things. Right now, things are entirely too busy to be thinking about any kind of thing, so until then, she's going to take me to Folsom."

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Angeria Paris VanMicheals previews 'Drag Race' season 14 reunion. VH1/World of Wonder

Earlier in the episode, Angeria's fellow RuGirl and friend (as well as former pageant competitor) Silky Nutmeg Ganache joined EW's *Quick Drag* Twitter Spaces to spill her thoughts on the upcoming season 14 finale, recounting how she felt heading into the season 11 finale back in 2019.

"I know each girl is heading into the finale with a different goal. For me, when I went into season 11, to the finale, I knew that I was not going to win season 11. I felt in my heart of hearts.... I didn't think I had a chance at all. My goal going into it was to look as beautiful as possible, and to lose with my grace and my dignity," Silky says, adding that she felt the fandom and perception from the show painted her in an unflattering light. "This season, with them having a top five, I can't even imagine what these girls are going in with. Is it going to be another lip-sync smackdown where they're lip-syncing against each other and it's dwindling? With a bigger cast, it's more stressful for them. If they have self-doubt on top of this stress, I think it's going to show. I hope that no girl feels that way or feel what I felt going into the finale."

Silky previously opened up to EW about the mistreatment she received in the industry (including losing paid gigs) after her time on season 11, which featured sustained depictions of her arguments with other queens — particularly Yvie Oddly, which she says didn't reflect the true reality of the situation.

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Silky Nutmeg Ganache gets her redemption during the 'RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars 6' lip-sync smackdown. Paramount+

"I will feel validated when I start to get the roles on television shows or I get my own reality show just like those judges said that I needed," she told EW after her show-stopping domination of the *All Stars 6* lip-sync smackdown, which saw her slay five consecutive lip-sync performances in one episode. "I'm grateful that the fans are doing what they're doing now, but I went back on *All Stars* to excel in my career. Now is the time where I'm hoping that all the people that said, 'We need to see you more,' actually put in the action and aren't afraid to back me up because of the feedback they think they'd get."

Listen to Angeria and Silky's full *Quick Drag* recap as part of *EW's BINGE* podcast above, and hear more *Quick Drag* episodes from the rest of season 14 in the feed below.

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