Quick Hits

• Golf history: Scottie Scheffler won his second FedEx Cup — the PGA Tour's season-long championship — and passed Tiger Woods for No. 1 on the Tour's all-time money list with more than $130 million in career earnings.
• NFL rosters are set: Teams trimmed to the regular-season limit of 53 players. The Titans cut quarterback Will Levis, while two struggling young QBs — Minnesota's J.J. McCarthy and Anthony Richardson — kept their jobs, per CBS Sports.
• College football kicks off Week 1 with a legal soap opera: LSU coach Lane Kiffin is waiting on a Thursday court hearing that could decide whether two of his players are eligible — days before facing Clemson.
• Baseball's stretch run starts Tuesday: September means pennant races, and CBS flags a big Brewers-Cubs series starting this week. ESPN, meanwhile, is grumbling that multiple losing teams could actually make the playoffs this year.
• Premier League transfer deadline day: Manchester City is reportedly closing in on a deal for Enzo, and Arsenal made a statement by winning at Aston Villa.

Minnesota Teams

Quiet day on the home front, but the NFL's cutdown deadline touched the Vikings directly. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy — a former first-round pick whom CBS lumped in with the league's "struggling" young passers — survived the final roster cuts. CBS notes his future (and that of other former first-rounders) remains uncertain, but he's on the initial 53-man roster heading into the season opener.

Division-rival watch: the Green Bay Packers traded for running back Kaleb Johnson, a former Steelers third-rounder, as insurance behind starter Josh Jacobs. He'll be seeing the Vikings twice a year now.

Elsewhere, the Twins didn't make Monday's headlines as MLB's wild-card races (more on that below) heat up league-wide. Nothing crossing the wire for the Timberwolves, Wild, Lynx, United, or Gophers today.

NFL

Cutdown day — when every team shrinks its roster from 90 to 53 players — delivered the usual drama. CBS Sports' big takeaways: five unusually crowded quarterback rooms around the league, uncertain futures for several former first-round picks, and a "frightening" new pass-rush pairing in Los Angeles on the Rams.

Teams can now sign players to practice squads — up to 16 per team, including six veterans — so plenty of the players just cut will resurface there as backups-on-call.

The Titans moved on from quarterback Will Levis after three seasons; he'd been demoted to third string and is now looking for a new team. Pittsburgh, meanwhile, traded away both running back Kaleb Johnson and lineman Broderick Jones, and CBS says those deals expose how costly the Steelers' draft misses have become — with quarterback still the roster's biggest hole.

One for the hot-take file: CBS believes Cleveland's Shedeur Sanders will be starting by Week 4, and that the Ravens own the AFC's best defense. And for the truly forward-thinking — CBS's very first 2027 mock draft already has the Dolphins "tanking" for college star Arch Manning at No. 1 overall.

NBA

It's the quiet offseason, but the league turns 80 this year, and CBS Sports is updating the NBA's famous "75 greatest players" list — arguing it's time to add four more names to make it a Top 80. Expect plenty of barstool arguments over who makes the cut.

MLB

The calendar flipping to September means the playoff races get real. CBS points to a key Brewers-Cubs series starting this week as wild-card races (the extra playoff spots beyond division winners) heat up across both leagues.

ESPN's August winners-and-losers review sets up the September storylines, with names like Shohei Ohtani, Pete Crow-Armstrong, and Yordan Alvarez front and center down the stretch.

The odd footnote everyone's talking about: ESPN warns it's genuinely possible multiple teams with losing records could reach the playoffs this October under the current format — which the outlet calls "a shame" — and suggests rule tweaks to keep them out or at least make their road to the World Series harder.

College Sports

The Week 1 headliner is LSU vs. Clemson, but the real drama is off the field. Coach Lane Kiffin defended LSU's recruiting of former NFL players even as the SEC pushes back — and a Thursday court hearing threatens to determine the eligibility of two players, Dae'Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris. Kiffin's response to it all: "We're focused on Clemson."

ESPN ran one million computer simulations of the 2026 season and found something for everyone — including scenarios where Akron makes the playoff and California wins the national title. Long shots, yes, but not impossible.

Also in the mix: ESPN says the SEC is riding a shocking three-year national title drought, with Georgia under Kirby Smart eyed as the league's best bet to end it. Out west, USC opened to empty seats, and CBS says Lincoln Riley needs real results this year to win over a famously fickle Los Angeles fanbase.

On the hardwood (yes, already): Missouri got a big win when Mark Mitchell reversed course and returned to the Tigers after flirting with Kentucky — pushing Mizzou back into CBS's early Top 25.

Other Sports

Scottie Scheffler's second FedEx Cup title made him the PGA Tour's all-time earnings leader, surpassing Tiger Woods with more than $130 million banked. Not bad for a career still very much in progress.

In soccer, it's transfer deadline day in Europe — the last chance for clubs to buy players until winter — and ESPN's live blog has Manchester City closing in on Enzo before the Premier League window shuts at 6 p.m. ET. In the standings conversation, CBS's latest power rankings keep Arsenal on top after their win at Aston Villa (though ESPN says adding a forward would take them to another level), with Chelsea trending upward under new manager Xabi Alonso and surging Manchester City powered by Rayan Cherki and Erling Haaland.