2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Creation of the PEWE and the PESEA
On 28 December 2018, in response to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's actions in Ukraine, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to create the Patriarchal Exarchate in Western Europe (PEWE), the Spanish-Portuguese diocese, as well as the Patriarchal Exarchate in South-East Asia (PESEA).


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Creation of the PEWE and the PESEA
On the same day, in an interview with Russia-24 channel, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations of the ROC, declared the ROC "will now act as if they [Constantinople] do not exist at all because our purpose is missionary, our task is to educate, we are creating these structures for ministerial care about our flock, there can be no such deterring factors here", and that the ROC will take charge of the Orthodox faithfuls of its diaspora instead of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Further protests by the ROC
On 26 February, during the first 2019 session of the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Holy synod adopted a statement saying that the granting of the tomos by the Ecumenical Patriarchate "to the so-called 'Orthodox church of Ukraine,' created artificially by a merger of two schismatic organizations, deepened the division between [Eastern] Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and worsened ever more considerably the inter-confessional relations." The ROC also blamed the action of the Ukrainian parliament regarding the UOC-MP.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Further protests by the ROC
On 7 October 2019, the ROC officially released comments by the Secretariat of the Biblical and Theological Synodal Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church. "The document discusses the problems of apostolic succession among schismatic "hierarchs", the limits of application of the oikonomia principle, issues of the lack of legitimacy of the OCU, the distortion of the role of the first bishop in the Orthodox Church, and explains the suspension of Eucharistic communion."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill
On 7 January 2019, during the festive Christmas liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Patriarch Kirill of the ROC did not mention a single name of the primates of other local Orthodox Churches, with whom the ROC is in canonical communion. Such commemoration is demanded by a church charter and is a centuries-old tradition. In contrast to this, the head of the newly created Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Metropolitan Epiphanius, solemnly listed the names of all the primates, including the "Most Holy Patriarch of Russia Kirill". Epiphanius later explained that he had done this after the Ecumenical Patriarch had instructed him (Epiphanius) to do so, and that Filaret had instructed him not to mention Kirill.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill
On 20 November 2019, during the patriarchal liturgy, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow did not commemorate by name any of the primates of the local Eastern Orthodox Churches, saying only "Remember, Lord, the Orthodox Patriarchs."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Further escalation, Omission of commemoration of all other primates by Patriarch Kirill
On 21 November 2019, Patriarch Kyrill and Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem concelebrated a liturgy together. During this liturgy, they commemorated each others, but did not commemorate any of the other Eastern Orthodox primates.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Reactions, Reactions of the Eastern Orthodox churches
Numerous Eastern Orthodox churches took position concerning the question of the canonical jurisdiction over Ukraine, whether before or after this schism.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues
The schism has its root in a dispute over who between the Patriarchate of Moscow and the Patriarchate of Constantinople has canonical jurisdiction over the See of Kyiv and, therefore, which patriarchate has canonical jurisdiction over the territory of Ukraine. "[T]he principal argument proposed [concerning the granting of the ecclesiastical status of autocephaly to Ukraine by the Ecumenical Patriarchate] is that Ukraine 'constitutes the canonical territory of the Patriarchate of Moscow' and that, consequently, such an act on the part of the Ecumenical Patriarchate would comprise an 'intervention' into a foreign ecclesiastical jurisdiction."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues
The Patriarchate of Moscow's claim of canonical jurisdiction is based mostly on two documents: the Patriarchal and Synodal "Act" or "Letter of Issue" of 1686, and a 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia. Both those documents are reproduced in the "Appendix" section of a study published by the Ecumenical Patriarch called The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church – The Documents Speak. The Church of Constantinople claims the Church of Constantinople has canonical jurisdiction over the See of Kyiv and that the documents upon which the Russian Orthodox Church bases its claim of jurisdiction over said See of Kyiv do not support the ROC's claim.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues
On 1 July 2018, the Patriarch Bartholomew said that Constantinople was the Mother church of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and declared that


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues
Constantinople never ceded the territory of Ukraine to anyone by means of some ecclesiastical Act, but only granted to the Patriarch of Moscow the right of ordination or transfer of the Metropolitan of Kyiv on the condition that the Metropolitan of Kyiv should be elected by a Clergy-Laity Congress and commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch. [


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues
It is written] in the Tomos of autocephaly, which was granted by the Mother Church [Constantinople] to the Church of Poland: "... original separation from our Throne of the Metropolis of Kyiv and of the two Orthodox churches of Lithuania and Poland, which depend on it, and their annexation to the Holy Church of Moscow, in no way occurred according to the binding canonical regulations, nor was the agreement respected concerning the full ecclesial independence of the Metropolitan of Kyiv, who bears the title of Exarch of the Ecumenical Throne..."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
The Ecumenical Patriarchate issued a document authored by various clerics and theologians called The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church – The Documents Speak. This document analyzes canonical historic documents (namely the Patriarchal and Synodal "Act" or "Letter of Issue" of 1686 and the 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia) to see if the claim over the See of Kyiv by the Patriarchate of Moscow is canonical or not.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
Through the autocratic abolition of the commemoration of the Ecumenical Patriarch by each Metropolitan of Kyiv, the de jure dependence of the Metropolis of Kyiv (and the Church of Ukraine) on the Ecumenical Patriarchate was arbitrarily rendered an annexation and amalgamation of Ukraine to the Patriarchate of Moscow.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
All these events took place in a period when the Ecumenical Throne was in deep turmoil and incapable "on account of the circumstances of the time to raise its voice against such capricious actions" [...] The Church of Ukraine never ceased to constitute de jure canonical territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.[ ...]


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
The Ecumenical Patriarchate was always aware of this despite the fact that, "on account of the circumstances of the time", it tolerated the arbitrary actions by the Patriarchate of Moscow. [ ...]


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
The Ecumenical Patriarchate is entitled and obliged to assume the appropriate maternal care for the Church of Ukraine in every situation where this is deemed necessary.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
On 27 December 2016, Konstantinos Vetochnikov wrote that the transfer of the See of Kyiv from the authority of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the authority of the Russian Orthodox Church "never took place". Later, Vetoshnikov made an analysis of the arguments of the Russian Orthodox Church. He pointed out that, according to the strict dogmatic approach (akribeia, ἀκρίβεια), the whole territory of Russia was originally subjected to the Ecumenical Patriarchate. After Muscovy had gone into schism in the 15th century, it received autocephaly according to a more flexible approach (oikonomia, οἰκονομία) to heal this schism.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
The Metropolitan of Kyiv at the same time remained within the jurisdiction of Constantinople. Then, also according to the oikonomia approach, the right to ordain Metropolitans of Kyiv was transferred to the Patriarch of Moscow. This was not a change in the boundaries of the Moscow Patriarchate eparchy, as it was issued by a document of a lower level (ekdosis, ἐκδόσεως), which was used for various temporary solutions. For pastoral reasons, the Ecumenical Patriarchate subsequently did not assert its rights to this territory.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
But after the collapse of the Soviet Union there was a split among the Orthodox of Ukraine, and the Russian Church for 30 years failed to overcome this split. And now, also for pastoral reasons, the Ecumenical Patriarchate was forced to act in accordance with the principle of akribeia, and so it decided to abolish the right to ordain Metropolitans of Kyiv which had been earlier transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate in accordance with oikonomia.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
On 20 August 2018, the pro-Moscow anonymous site Union of Orthodox Journalists analysed the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claim of jurisdiction over Ukraine and concluded the See of Kyiv had been transferred to the Patriarchate of Moscow. They added that even if the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided to abrogate the 1686 transfer, the territory covered in 1686 by the See of Kyiv's territory was "a far cry from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of today" and covered less than half of Ukraine's current territory.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
In its 15 October 2018 official statement, the Russian Orthodox Church gave counterarguments to the Ecumenical Patriarch's arguments.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, declared in an interview that Constantinople's plan to "grant Autocephaly to a part of the Russian Orthodox Church [...] that once was subordinate to Constantinople [...] runs counter to historic truth".


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
His argument is that the entire territory of Ukraine has not been under Constantinople's jurisdiction for 300 years because the Kyiv metropolis that was incorporated into the Moscow Patriarchate in 1686 was much smaller (it did not include Donbass, Odessa and some other regions) and therefore does not coincide with the present-day territory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. A similar argument was given on 13 November in a live phone interview to Radio Liberty by the Head of the Information and Education Department of the UOC-MP, Archbishop Clement.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
Archbishop Clement of the UOC-MP considers that "to revoke the letter on the transfer of the Kyiv Metropolis in 1686 is the same as to cancel the decisions of the Ecumenical Councils of the 4th or 7th centuries."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Arguments against the Ecumenical Patriarchate's claims
On 8 November 2018, the Union of Orthodox Journalists analyzed the same documents as The Ecumenical Throne and the Ukrainian Church (the Patriarchal and Synodal "Act" or "Letter of Issue" of 1686 and the 1686 Patriarchal Letter to the Kings of Russia) and again concluded that the See of Kyiv had been "completely transferred to the jurisdiction of the Russian Church in 1686".


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
The possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis (consultative assembly or conference) has been raised before and after the official break of communion.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
On 29 September 2018, Alexander Volkov, the press secretary of the Patriarch of Moscow, declared that the local Eastern Orthodox churches may initiate a pan-Orthodox Synaxis on the issue of granting autocephaly to the Church in Ukraine, however the problem was that the convening such a synaxis is "a prerogative of the First among the Equals, that is, the Ecumenical Patriarch". Volkov noted that


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
Others [sic] forms [of pan-Orthodox synaxis] exist, too [...] There are the elders of the Church who can take this task upon themselves. [ ...] If you look at the Diptychs [the table specifying the order of commemorating the Primates of Orthodox Churches – TASS], the next in line [after the Ecumenical Patriarch – TASS] is the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria. Or else, there is the so-called synaxis of the eldest Patriarchs– of Alexandria, Jerusalem and Antioch


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
On 7 November, answering the question "Who could, for instance, convene a Pan-Orthodox Council and chair it? ", Metropolitan Hilarion declared in an interview, which was published on the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church's Department for External Church Relations, that it was "obvious" that the Ecumenical Patriarch could not chair a Pan-Orthodox Council since "the most important problems in the Orthodox world are linked with precisely his anti-canonical activity".


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
On 4 December, when asked about the fact that convoking a pan-Orthodox council was a prerogative of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Metropolitan Hilarion replied:


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
which canons ? [ ...] I believe those canons do not exist, the Ecumenical councils were not convoked by the Ecumenical Patriarch, they were convoked by the emperor. The fact the Patriarch of Constantinople has been given the right to convey councils in the 20th century is the result of a consensus reached by the local Orthodox churches. It is not at a personal initiative that the council is convoked, but only with the consent of all the local churches.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
We had, until recently, the first among equals, that is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who convoked the councils in the name [...] of the local Orthodox churches. Now, the unifying element is no more the Patriarchate of Constantinople which, so to speak, autodestroyed itself. It is its decision. [ ...] We have to think about the future: who will convoke the councils, will it be the Patriarch of Alexandria, or another Patriarch, or else we will generally not have a council? Whatever. The Patriarch of Constantinople, as long as he stays in schism, even if he convokes a council the Russian Orthodox Church will not take part in it.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
In an interview published on 21 February 2019 in the Serbian magazine Politika, the Ecumenical Patriarch said: "As for the provision of autocephaly with the consent of other Orthodox Churches, this did not happen, because it is not a tradition in our Church. All the Tomoses of the autocephaly that were granted to the newly created autocephalous churches (Russia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Athens, Warsaw, Tirana and Presov) were provided by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and this was not preceded by any agreement or negotiation at the Pan-Orthodox level."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
Thus far, Patriarch John X of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of Cyprus, Metropolitan Sawa (Hrycuniak) of the Polish Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Tikhon of the Orthodox Church in America, Archbishop Anastasios, primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church, three hierarchs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Metropolitans Gabriel of Lovech, John of Varna and Veliki Preslav, and Daniel of Vedin), and the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia have expressed their desire for a pan-Orthodox synaxis or pan-Orthodox council over the question of Ukraine in various statements. On 12 November 2018, the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church of published a communiqué in which they requested the convocation of a Pan-Orthodox Synod.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine
In 2019, the Ecumenical Patriarch declared in a letter to Patriarch John X of Antioch that he would not convene a pan-Orthodox council on the question of Ukraine.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
On 21 November 2019, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem announced he would like to gather in Jordan with the other Eastern Orthodox primates "in the spirit of fellowship – koinonia – so that counsel will be taken together for the preservation of our unity in Eucharistic communion."


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
This initiative was welcomed by the ROC; Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the DECR, also added that the Patriarchate of Jerusalem had a "historic primacy" within the Eastern Orthodox Church.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
In December 2019, the Holy Synods of the OCCLS and of the ROC supported the proposal of meeting.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
On 22 November, the primate of the Church of Greece declined the invitation. At the beginning of January, the primate of the Church of Cyprus said he had not replied to the invitation because he "considered it prudent not to answer" and did not consider this meeting a "serious act", and added that "only the Ecumenical Patriarch, no one else" had the right to convene such a council.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
At few days later, the answer of the Ecumenical Patriarch to the letter of invitation of the Patriarch of Jerusalem was reported; the Ecumenical Patriarch stated he refused the invitation and asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to stop his initiative of meeting. A few days later, the primate of the Church of Greece reiterated that he would not attend Patriarch Theophilos III's meeting. Later, it was reported that the Orthodox Churches of Albania, Poland, Alexandria, Georgia, Bulgaria and Antioch had stated they would not come. The Romanian Orthodox Church said it would be present at the gathering, but would not be presented by its Patriarch but by a delegation.


2018 Moscow–Constantinople schism, Canonical issues, Possibility of a pan-Orthodox synaxis on the question of Ukraine, Proposal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem
The gathering took place on 26 February 2020. Were present the delegations of: the ROC with Patriarch Kirill as leader, the Church of Jerusalem with Patriarch Theophilos as leader, the Serbian Church with Patriarch Irinej as leader, the OCCLS with primate Met. Ratislav as leader, the Polish Church with Abp. Abel (Poplavsky) of Lublin as leader, and the Romanian Church with Met. Nifon Mihăiță as leader. After the gathering, the participants released a common statement.


2018 Moselle Open
The 2018 Moselle Open was a men's tennis tournament held in Metz, France and played on indoor hard courts. It was the 16th edition of the Moselle Open, and part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2018 ATP World Tour. It was held at the Arènes de Metz from 17 to 23 September 2018. Unseeded Gilles Simon won the singles title.


2018 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wild cards into the singles main draw:


2018 Moselle Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:


2018 Moselle Open, Doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Moselle Open – Doubles
Julien Benneteau and Édouard Roger-Vasselin were the defending champions, but Benneteau decided not to participate this year.


2018 Moselle Open – Doubles
Roger-Vasselin played alongside Nicolas Mahut and successfully defended his title, defeating Ken and Neal Skupski in the final, 6–1, 7–5.


2018 Moselle Open – Singles
Peter Gojowczyk was the defending champion, but lost to Kei Nishikori in the second round.


2018 Moselle Open – Singles
Gilles Simon won the title, defeating Matthias Bachinger in the final, 7–6(7–2), 6–1.


2018 Moselle Open – Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2018 Moss Side shooting
On Sunday, 12 August 2018, a mass shooting happened in the Manchester neighbourhood of Moss Side. It was the first mass shooting in the UK since the Cumbria shootings in 2010. The weapon used was believed by Greater Manchester Police to be a shotgun. There were no fatalities.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Background
Moss Side was hosting the Manchester Caribbean Carnival over the weekend, with over 16,000 attendees on the Saturday. The annual event attracted more participants than usual as it marked the 70th anniversary of the Windrush generation.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Background
Moss Side is described by a resident as a "volatile" inner-city area, with Sky News adding that it has "numerous gang territories and has long had problems connected with drugs and gun violence", though a local DJ interviewed about the incident said that "[i]t seemed like there was a general understanding over the last few years that everyone would just behave themselves" in Moss Side.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Background
Mass shootings are rare in the UK, with the most recent previous being a spree shooting in Cumbria in 2010, and the one before a school shooting in Dunblane in 1996. The DJ interviewed said he had been alerted to the incident and come down because he wanted to "see this thing, because 10 people is a major thing in Manchester." The most previous major violent crime in Manchester had been the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, in which 22 people were killed.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident
Reports say shots were fired at 02:25 in the morning of Sunday, 12 August 2018, on Claremont Road, a street that runs for two miles through Moss Side. Claremont Road is near Alexandra Park, the location of the festival, but the attack is seen as unrelated to the main festival, "just a street party".


2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident
Police arrived on the scene "within a minute" according to sources, but a witness said that it was "quite a long time [before the police arrived] considering somebody had been shot", mentioning that there was "informal security" on the scene, and that "the ambulance was [probably] waiting for armed police [...] and then eventually the police did turn up".


2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident
When the police arrived, they reported "several hundred" people in the area, with Chief Superintendent Wasim Chaudhry describing the street as "distressing". One witness to the incident said that after he heard the first gunshot he thought it was "a balloon", similar to the initial reports of the arena bombing the year before, but then "heard two more and [...] went behind a wall" when he realised something dangerous was happening.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Incident
The police believe that a shotgun loaded with pellets was used, and treated the incident as an attempted mass murder.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Aftermath
Twelve people were injured, with ten hospitalised, and one of these in serious condition. Nine of those injuries were said to be gunshot pellet wounds, the other was a man's broken leg. Two of the injured were children, one aged 12 and the other a teenager. Later in the day, Detective Superintendent Debbie Dooley confirmed that "most [of the injuries] do not appear to be life-threatening at this time". Several people remained in hospital overnight.


2018 Moss Side shooting, Aftermath
On 11 September two men, aged 24 and 30, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and on suspicion of possession of a firearm.


2018 Moto2 World Championship
The 2018 FIM Moto2 World Championship was a part of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Franco Morbidelli was the reigning series champion but he did not defend his title as he joined  MotoGP.


2018 Moto2 World Championship
2018 was the final season that the Honda CBR600RR inline-4 engine package—which débuted in the 2010 Moto2 season—was used in competition; as the brand new engine package (765cc inline-3) supplied by Triumph Motorcycles was introduced for the 2019 season.


2018 Moto2 World Championship
After finishing 3rd at Sepang Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia became the 2018 Moto2 World Champion. Miguel Oliveira finished second in the championship and his teammate Brad Binder finished third.


2018 Moto2 World Championship, Calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2018:


2018 Moto2 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2018 Moto3 World Championship
The 2018 FIM Moto3 World Championship was a part of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Joan Mir was the reigning series champion, but he did not defend his title as he joined Moto2.


2018 Moto3 World Championship
After winning at Sepang, Spanish rider Jorge Martín was crowned the 2018 Moto3 World Champion, having created an unassailable lead of 26 points over current runners-up Marco Bezzecchi.


2018 Moto3 World Championship
The final race in Valencia saw wildcard rider Can Öncü become the youngest Grand Prix motorcycle racing winner at 15 years, 115 days.


2018 Moto3 World Championship, Calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 2018:


2018 Moto3 World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


2018 MotoGP World Championship
The 2018 FIM MotoGP World Championship was the premier class of the 70th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season. Marc Márquez entered the season as the reigning champion, with Repsol Honda being the reigning team champions and Honda the reigning constructors' champions.


2018 MotoGP World Championship
Originally scheduled for 19 races, the season was reduced by one Grand Prix due to the cancellation of the 26 August Silverstone event due to unsafe track conditions involving standing water after a rider vote.


2018 MotoGP World Championship
Marc Márquez clinched the championship trophy on 21 October 2018 after sixteen rounds, winning three consecutive races during spring, another three consecutive races during autumn and nine overall. Andrea Dovizioso finished in second and Valentino Rossi ended up in third, the former with four wins, while Rossi did not record a race win. Jorge Lorenzo with three wins and a win apiece for Cal Crutchlow and Maverick Viñales were the other race winners. Yamaha suffered their worst winless streak in their history with no wins for 25 races, which lasted from the 2017 German Grand Prix until Viñales won the Australian Grand Prix. KTM got their first podium finish at the Valencian Grand Prix with Pol Espargaro, finishing in third.


2018 MotoGP World Championship, Results and standings, Riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top fifteen finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points. The British GP was canceled due to unsafe track conditions.


2018 Motocross des Nations
The 2018 Motocross des Nations was a motocross race held on 6 October and 7 October 2018. The event was held at the Red Bud circuit, in Michigan, United States. Motocross des Nations was last held in United States in 2010 but never at this venue.


2018 Motocross des Nations
France went into the event as the defending champions after taking their fifth title in 2017 and successfully defended their title.


2018 Motocross des Nations, Entry List
Start numbers are allocated based on the team finish from the previous year's edition. France are the reigning champions so they start with numbers 1, 2 and 3.


2018 Motocross des Nations, Qualifying Races
Qualifying is run on a class by class basis. Top 19 countries after qualifying go directly to the main Motocross des Nations races. The remaining countries go to a smaller final. Best 2 scores count.


2018 Motocross des Nations, B-Final
The B-Final is for the nations who finished 20th-31st in qualifying. The top nation from the B-Final qualify for the Motocross des Nations races. Best 2 scores for each nation counts.


2018 Motocross des Nations, Motocross des Nations races
The main Motocross des Nations races consist of 3 races which combine two classes together in each. Lowest score wins with each nation allowed to drop their worst score after the final race.


2018 Motocross des Nations, Final standings
Following the event, Italy were disqualified from second place overall due to failing fuel tests.


2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas
The 2018 Motorcycle Grand Prix of the Americas was the third round of the 2018 MotoGP season. It was held at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin on 22 April 2018.


2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team
The 2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team will represent the University of Mount Union in the 2018 NCAA Division III football season. The Purple Raiders, will be led by sixth-year head coach Vince Kehres, are members of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and will play their home games at Mount Union Stadium in Alliance, Ohio.


2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule
Mount Union's 2018 schedule consists of 5 home, and 5 away games in the regular season. The Raiders will host  Rose-Hulman, John Caroll, Wilmington College, Heidelberg University, and Marietta College and will travel to Baldwin Wallace, Otterbein University, Capital University, Ohio Northern, and Muskingum University.


2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule
Mount Union will have one non–conference game against the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology from the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.


2018 Mount Union Purple Raiders football team, Schedule
In 2017, Mount Union won the Stagg Bowl after winning against the University of Mary Hardin–Baylor 12–0. The team finished with a 15–0 record, with a 9–0 record in conference play. The Purple Raiders failed to win the championship again after winning it last year, by losing 16–24 in a rematch with Mary Hardin-Baylor in the Stagg Bowl.


2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament
The 2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament was a postseason men's volleyball tournament for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation during the 2018 NCAA Division I & II men's volleyball season. It was held from April 14 through April 21, 2018 at campus sites. The winner received The Federation's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Volleyball Tournament.


2018 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Volleyball Tournament, Seeds
All seven teams were eligible for the postseason, with the #1 seed receiving a bye to the semifinals and home court hosting rights for the semifinals and championship. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The #1 seed played the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals.


2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 24–27. Nevada, San Diego State, San José State, and UNLV met in the double-elimination tournament held at Tony Gwynn Stadium in San Diego, California. San Diego State earned the Mountain West Conference's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2018 Mountain West Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The conference's top four teams will be seeded based on winning percentage during the round robin regular season schedule. They will then play a double-elimination tournament with the top seed playing the fourth seeded team and the second seeded team playing the third seed.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
The 2018 Mountain West Conference Championship Game was played on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, to determine the 2018 football champion of the Mountain West Conference (MW). For the second consecutive year, the game featured the West Division champion Fresno State Bulldogs visiting the Mountain Division champion Boise State Broncos. The game was broadcast nationally by ESPN for the fourth consecutive year.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
Both Boise State and Fresno State finished the conference season with a 7–1 record. Boise State earned the right to host the championship due to their win over Fresno State on November 9 in Boise. After also meeting twice during the 2017 season, this was the fourth time the two teams met in a span of 372 days.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
The 2018 championship game was the sixth edition of the event. In the 2017 championship game, Boise State defeated Fresno State 17–14. The two schools also met in the 2014 game.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game
In a low-scoring game on a snow-covered field, the teams played to a 13–13 tie through regulation. In overtime, Boise State was held to a field goal, while Fresno State scored a touchdown to win, 19–16.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Fresno State
The Bulldogs finished the season 10–2 overall record, with a 7–1 conference record to be champions of the West Division. Their only conference loss came to Boise State. Fresno State enters the game ranked No. 25 in the College Football Playoff rankings and AP poll.


2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Boise State
Boise State finished with a 10–2 overall record, with a 7–1 conference record, with their only conference loss coming to San Diego State. The Broncos tied Utah State for first place in the Mountain Division. However, the Broncos won the head-to-head meeting to be crowned Mountain Division champions as the Mountain West does not recognize co-champions in a two-way tie. Boise State enters the game ranked No. 22 in the College Football Playoff rankings, No. 19 in the AP poll, and No. 20 in the Coaches poll.


2018 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 Mountain West Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Mountain West Conference. It was held from March 7–10, 2018 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. San Diego State defeated New Mexico in the championship game to win the tournament receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.


2018 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
All 11 MW schools were eligible to participate in the tournament. Teams were seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. As a result, the top five teams receive a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament. Tiebreaking procedures will remain unchanged from the 2017 tournament:


2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 Mountain West Conference women's basketball tournament was held from March 5-9, 2018 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner of the tournament received an automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The 2017 tournament, saw Boise State defeat Fresno State 66-53 to receive an automatic bid to the 2017 NCAA tournament.


2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Teams are seeded by conference record, with a ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.


2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2018 Mountain West Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Mountain West Conference held from October 30 through November 3, 2018. The five-match tournament took place at Spartan Soccer Complex in San Jose, California. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The San Diego State Aztecs were the defending champions, but will not defend their title after having failed to qualify for the 2018 tournament. The San Jose State Spartans won the tournament with a 1–0 win over the New Mexico Lobos in the final. This was the second tournament championship for San Jose State, both of which have come under coach Lauren Hanson.


2018 Mountain West Conference football season
The 2018 Mountain West Conference football season, part of that year's NCAA Division I FBS football season, will be the 20th season of college football for the Mountain West Conference (MW). Since the 2012 12 teams have competed in the MW-football conference. The season will begin on August 25 and will end on November 24. Mountain West is a "Group of Five" conference under the College Football Playoff format along with the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, the Mid-American Conference, and the Sun Belt Conference. The Mountain West Championship Game will be played on December 1. The entire schedule was released on March 1.


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Mountain West Media
2018 Mountain West media days took place on July 24 and 25 at the Cosmopolitan.


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Polls, Preseason All–Mountain West team
(* – member of the 2017 All–Mountain West first team)


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Preseason, Preseason Polls, Preseason All–Mountain West team
(** – member of the 2017 All–Mountain West second team)


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Coaches
NOTE: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Rankings
Listed are the Mountain West teams who were ranked or received votes at some point during the season. Air Force, Colorado State, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, and Wyoming were never ranked or received any votes.


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Schedule, Regular season, Week One
Boise State cornerback Tyler Horton was also named the Bronko Nagurski Trophy National Defensive Player of the Week.


2018 Mountain West Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
†The First Responder bowl was delayed and ultimately canceled with 5:08 remaining in the 1st quarter with Boston College leading 7–0. The game was ruled a no contest.


2018 Movistar Team season
The 2018 season for Movistar Team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI WorldTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.


2018 Moçambola
The 2018 Moçambola is the 41st season of top-tier football in Mozambique. The season was initially scheduled to begin on 24 February 2018, bur was postponed to 3 March 2018. The season finished on 4 November 2018.


2018 Mr. Olympia
The 2018 Mr. Olympia contest was a weekend long IFBB professional bodybuilding competition that was held on September 14 to 15, 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada. This was the 54th Mr. Olympia competition celebrated. The weekend competition is also known as the Joe Weider's Olympia Fitness and Performance Weekend. While the main event was the competition for the title of Mr. Olympia, several other events were held which includes the Amateur competition and sports expo.


2018 Mr. Olympia
On September 12, 2018, a press conference was held on Orleans Arena.


2018 Mr. Olympia
On September 13, 2018, prejudging and finals for Fitness Olympia, Figure Olympia and Classic Physique were held and livestream via Amazon Prime. Mr. Olympia pre-judging was also held on the same night.


2018 Mr. Olympia
On September 15, 2018, the Men's Physique Olympia and Women's Physique Olympia judging and finals were held in the morning at Las Vegas Convention Center. At night, the Bikini Olympia, 212 Olympia and Mr. Olympia finals were held at Orleans Arena.


2018 Mr. Olympia
On September 17, 2018, an Olympia Superstar Seminar was held.


2018 Mr. Olympia
Shawn Rhoden won his first Mr Olympia title, defeating seven-time defending champion Phil Heath.


2018 Mr. Olympia
Heath was attempting to tie the record for the most Mr. Olympia wins with eight, held jointly by Lee Haney (1984–1991) and Ronnie Coleman (1998–2005).


2018 Mr. Olympia
Rhoden became the oldest bodybuilder to win the Mr. Olympia title, at the age of 43 years, 5 months.


2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship
The 2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship was a non-ATP affiliated exhibition tournament. It was the 11th edition of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship with the world's top players competing in the event, held in a knockout format. The prize money for the winner was $250,000. The event was held at the International Tennis Centre at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.


2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship
Novak Djokovic (world number 1) and Rafael Nadal (number 2) received byes to the semi-final.


2018 Mubadala World Tennis Championship – Men's Singles
Kevin Anderson was the competition's defending champion, but lost in the final from Novak Djokovic.


2018 Mubi suicide bombings
On 1 May 2018, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives at a mosque and a market in the town of Mubi in the state of Adamawa in eastern Nigeria, killing at least 86 people and injuring 58 others. The blasts were carried out by young boys and happened shortly after 1:00 pm (12:00 GMT). No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the blame was attributed to the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group.


2018 Mubi suicide bombings
Major attacks had occurred in Mubi in 2012, 2014 and 2017.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign
Muharrem İnce, a member of parliament for Yalova, was announced as the presidential candidate of the Republican People's Party (CHP) on 3 May 2018. The following day, on 4 May, party leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu formally proclaimed the CHP's support for İnce. Shortly thereafter, the CHP began preparations for the campaign season, launching the production of campaign material and merchandise. It was revealed in early May that İnce's campaign would adopt the slogan “Türkiye’ye güvence Muharrem İnce”, roughly translating to "Muharrem İnce, an assurance to Turkey." The campaign began with an election rally in his home city of Yalova on 5 May.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Program, Economic policy
In a 26 May interview on his campaign trail, İnce, when asked about the ongoing Turkish currency and debt crisis, said on economic policy that "the central bank can only halt the lira’s slide temporarily by raising interest rates, because it’s not the case that depreciation fundamentally stems from interest rates being too high or too low. So, the central bank will intervene, but the things that really need to be done are in the political and legal areas. Turkey needs to immediately be extricated from a political situation that breeds economic uncertainty, and its economy must be handled by independent and autonomous institutions. My economic team is ready, and we have been working together for a long time."


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Program, Kurdish issue
In his campaign rallies, İnce pledged to allow education in the Kurdish language and to solve the Kurdish issue through dialogue rather than violence.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy
On European Union–Turkey relations, İnce is committed to Turkey’s bid to join the EU, the roots of which he traces back to the 1830s, during the Ottoman Empire’s Tanzimat period. He cites broad support among Turkey’s youth for a future with better employment opportunities as the main reason for Turkey to embrace further European integration in higher education and promises to give back dignity to the Foreign Ministry’s professional diplomats who are ridiculed by Islamist government trolls.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy
On Syria Turkey relations, he has proposed to end Turkey’s longstanding opposition to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, saying cooperation with the regime would facilitate the return of some of the 3.5 million Syrian refugees living in Turkish camps.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Program, Foreign policy
“When I become president, we will have an ambassador to Syria,” Mr. Ince told supporters during a recent rally.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Campaigning
As of 31 May, media suggested that "even die-hard CHP critics would concede" that İnce was "performing far better than expected", crisscrossing the country with a focus on promises to restore democracy and rule of law, and to offer better pay and education. With respect to president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, he displayed a mix of contempt and near pity.


2018 Muharrem İnce presidential campaign, Campaigning
Over the last week of May, İnce saw a 74 percent increase in social media popularity, bringing him close to Erdoğan who maintained the top spot on social media, with mentions and tags pertaining to him hitting the 1.3 million mark, with İnce at just over 1 million, while competitors Meral Akşener had 280,852, Selahattin Demirtaş 201,922 and Temel Karamollaoğlu 181,703.


2018 Mumbai Open
The 2018 L&T Mumbai Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 3rd edition of the tournament. It was part of the 2018 WTA 125K series. It took place from 29 October to 3 November 2018 at the Cricket Club of India.


2018 Mumbai Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Mumbai Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the main draw as a lucky loser:


2018 Mumbai Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following team received wildcard into the doubles main draw:


2018 Mumbai Open – Doubles
Victoria Rodríguez and Bibiane Schoofs were the defending champions, but Rodríguez chose not to participate this year.


2018 Mumbai Open – Doubles
Natela Dzalamidze and Veronika Kudermetova won the title, defeating Schoofs and Barbora Štefková in the final, 6–4, 7–6(7–4).


2018 Mumbai Open – Singles
Aryna Sabalenka was the defending champion, but she was ineligible to participate having qualified for 2018 WTA Elite Trophy.


2018 Mumbai Open – Singles
Luksika Kumkhum won her first WTA 125K series title, defeating Irina Khromacheva in the final, 1–6, 6–2, 6–3.


2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1
Proposition 1 was a 2018 direct initiative bathroom bill in Anchorage, Alaska. A public vote on the proposition was held on April 3, 2018. It would have made it legal for "any employer, public accommodation, or other person to establish and enforce sex-specific standards or policies concerning access to intimate facilities such as locker rooms, showers, changing rooms, and restrooms." The measure defined the term 'sex' as "an individual's immutable biological condition of being male or female, as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at the time of birth."


2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1
The proposition was the result of a petition campaign headed by Alaska Family Action, a Christian public policy organization. The group organized a petition titled "Regulating Access to Facilities Such as Locker Rooms and Bathrooms on the Basis of Sex at Birth, Rather Than Gender Identity." The Anchorage Municipal Clerk's Office certified over 6,200 valid signatures on the petition and authorized the referendum in July 2017. Local opponents of the bill were led by Fair Anchorage, a coalition of organizations.


2018 Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Proposition 1
Anchorage voters rejected Proposition 1 by a vote of 52.64% to 47.36%.


2018 Munster Senior Football Championship
The 2018 Munster Senior Football Championship will be the 2018 installment of the annual Munster Senior Football Championship organised by the Munster GAA. The fixtures were announced on 31 October 2017.


2018 Munster Senior Football Championship
Kerry won the championship, defeating rivals Cork in the final.


2018 Munster Senior Football Championship, Teams
The Munster championship is contested by all six counties in the Irish province of Munster.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
The 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship was the 2018 installment of the annual Munster Senior Hurling Championship organised by Munster GAA.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship
Cork won a second consecutive title by defeating Clare in the final.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format
A new provincial hurling championship featuring five-team round-robin groups in both Leinster and Munster and the new Joe McDonagh Cup was introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period. The proposal was carried by a narrow margin with 62% voting in favour (a majority of at least 60% was required) at the GAA's Special Congress on 30 September 2017. The top two teams in each provincial group would contest the provincial final, with the provincial winners advancing to the All-Ireland semi-finals and the losing provincial finalists advancing to the two quarter-finals.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format
An amendment to the motion from Laois, Offaly and Meath was carried by 87%. The third-placed teams in Leinster and Munster would compete in All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals against the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists, with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format
If a non-Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, the bottom team in the Leinster championship would be relegated to the following year's Joe McDonagh Cup and would be replaced in the following year's Leinster championship by the Joe McDonagh Cup winners. If a Munster team were to win the Joe McDonagh Cup, they would play off against the team who finished bottom in the Munster championship for the right to play in the following year's Munster championship, thereby ensuring that only Munster teams compete in the Munster championship.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Format
The restructure of hurling involved the reduction of the Leinster championship from nine teams to five while the Munster championship continued with the previous five Munster teams (Kerry previously competed in the qualifier group of the Leinster championship). A six-team Joe McDonagh Cup was created, consisting of all four teams from the 2017 Leinster qualifier group plus Antrim and Carlow, the 2017 Christy Ring Cup finalists.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Teams
The Munster championship was contested by five of the six counties from the Irish province of Munster. The exception was Kerry, traditionally the province's weakest at hurling (but strongest in football).


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship, Final
The winning team advanced to the All-Ireland semi-finals, while the losing team advanced to the All-Ireland quarter-finals.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
The 2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final was played on 1 July 2018 at Semple Stadium, Thurles. The winner would advance to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, with the loser entering the All Ireland quarter-finals.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final
Clare and Cork contest the final for the second year in a row with Cork retaining the title. Séamus Harnedy was the Cork captain and also was named as the man of the match.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up
Tickets for the final went on sale on 21 June and ranged in price from €35 to €40 in the stand and €25 to €30 in the terrace.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up
The match was shown live on RTÉ One as part of The Sunday Game Live with commentary from Marty Morrissey and Brendan Cummins.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final, Build-up
Clare were looking for their first Munster title since 1998, while Cork were the defending champions. Cork manager John Meyler was in his first year as manager, with Clare's joint managers Donal Moloney and Gerry O'Connor in their second year in charge.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling League
The 2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, known for sponsorship reasons as the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League, was the third Munster Senior Hurling League, an annual hurling league competition for county teams from the province of Munster. The league began on 30 December 2017 and ended on 14 January 2018.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling League
Cork were the defending champions. Tipperary and Waterford did not participate in the league.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling League
On 14 January 2018, Limerick won the league title following a 0-16 to 0-10 defeat of Clare. It was their first Munster SHL title.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, Format
Each team plays each other team once, earning 2 points for a win and 1 for a draw. The top two teams advance to the final.


2018 Munster Senior Hurling League, Results, Round 3
The final group game was cancelled, as Limerick and Clare had already reached the final.


2018 Muntinlupa Cagers season
The 2018 Muntinlupa Cagers season is the 1st season of the franchise in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL).


2018 Murray State Racers football team
The 2018 Murray State Racers football team represented Murray State University in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by fourth-year head coach Mitch Stewart and played their home games at Roy Stewart Stadium. They were members of the Ohio Valley Conference. They finished the season 5–6, 5–3 in OVC play to finish in fourth place.


2018 Murray State Racers football team, Previous season
The Racers finished the 2017 season 3–8, 2–5 in OVC play to finish in a tie for seventh place.


2018 Murray State Racers football team, Preseason, OVC media poll
On July 20, 2018, the media covering the OVC released their preseason poll with the Racers predicted to finish in seventh place. On July 23, the OVC released their coaches poll with the Racers predicted to finish in eighth place.


2018 Murray State Racers football team, Preseason, Preseason All-OVC team
The Colonels had two players selected to the preseason all-OVC team.


2018 Music City Bowl
The 2018 Music City Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 28, 2018 at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the 21st edition of the Music City Bowl, and one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Franklin American Mortgage Company, the game was officially known as the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl.


2018 Music City Bowl
The game was projected to be a close game, however Auburn jumped off to an early 21–0 lead. Purdue then put a touchdown on the board to make it 21–7, but Auburn then scored 35 unanswered points to end the half. The halftime score was 56–7, with Auburn setting the NCAA FBS record for points scored in any half of a bowl game. The final score of the game was 63–14.


2018 Music City Bowl, Teams
The game was played between Auburn from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Purdue from the Big Ten Conference. The teams had never played each other before.


2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Purdue Boilermakers
Purdue received and accepted a bid to the Music City Bowl on December 2. The Boilermakers entered the bowl with a 6–6 record (5–4 in conference).


2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Purdue Boilermakers
This game was the last attended by Purdue superfan Tyler Trent, who had become a national inspiration during his battle with terminal osteosarcoma. He and his family traveled to Nashville on an airplane normally used by the Indianapolis Colts, courtesy of team owner Jim Irsay. Trent, who served as an honorary Purdue captain for the game, died four days later on New Year's Day.


2018 Music City Bowl, Teams, Auburn Tigers
Auburn received and accepted a bid to the Music City Bowl on December 2. The Tigers entered the bowl with a 7–5 record (3–5 in conference).


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections
Elections were held in the Muskoka District Municipality of Ontario on October 22, 2018 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka District Council
The Muskoka District Chair was originally intended to be elected by the voters in each of the municipalities. Incumbent Chair John Klinck as well as former Chairs Gord Adams and Hugh Mackenzie had filed to run for election as Chair. However, on the last day of the 2018 nomination period, Ontario Premier Doug Ford cancelled the separate election of the Muskoka District Chair. As a result, the Chair will instead be elected by members of the District Council on December 10, 2018.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Bracebridge, Local Councillors
Four Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Georgian Bay, District Councillors
Two District Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Georgian Bay, Local Councillors
Four Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Gravenhurst, Local Councillors
Five Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 5 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Huntsville, Local Councillors
Five Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Lake of Bays, District Councillors
Two District Councillors were elected in 1 of 2 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Lake of Bays, Local Councillors
Four Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 4 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka Lakes, District & Town Councillors
Three District & Town Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards.


2018 Muskoka District municipal elections, Muskoka Lakes, Local Councillors
Six Local Councillors were elected in 1 of 3 wards (2 in each ward).


2018 Mutua Madrid Open
The 2018 Mutua Madrid Open was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in Madrid, Spain from 5–13 May 2018. It was the 17th edition of the event on the ATP World Tour and 10th on the WTA Tour. It was classified as an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the 2018 ATP World Tour and a Premier Mandatory event on the 2018 WTA Tour.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on ATP rankings as of 30 April 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 7 May 2018.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Seeds
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead. ‡ The player used an exemption to skip the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for his 18th best result are deducted instead.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Withdrawals
The following players would have been seeded, but they withdrew from the event.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds
The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 30 April 2018. Rankings and points before are as of 7 May 2018.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA singles main draw entrants, Seeds
† The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017. Accordingly, points for her 16th best result are deducted instead. ‡ The player did not qualify for the tournament in 2017, but was defending points from an ITF Women's Circuit tournament.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles
Łukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo were the defending champions, but lost to  Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in the quarterfinals.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Doubles
Nikola Mektić and Alexander Peya won the title when Bob and Mike Bryan retired in the final after Bob Bryan retired due to hip injury. The Bryan brothers would have regained the ATP no. 1 doubles ranking from Kubot and Melo if they had won the title.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles
Alexander Zverev defeated Dominic Thiem in the final, 6–4, 6–4, to win the Men's Singles title at the 2018 Madrid Open.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles
Rafael Nadal was the defending champion, but lost to Thiem in the quarterfinals.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles
Despite his withdrawal from the clay court season, Roger Federer regained the ATP no. 1 singles ranking as Nadal failed to defend his title.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top eight seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles
Latisha Chan and Martina Hingis were the defending champions, but Hingis retired from professional tennis at the end of 2017. Chan played alongside Bethanie Mattek-Sands, but lost in the quarterfinals to Andrea Sestini Hlaváčková and Barbora Strýcová.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the title, defeating Tímea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in the final, 2–6, 6–4, [10–8].


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Doubles, Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Simona Halep was the two-time defending champion, but lost to Karolína Plíšková in the quarterfinals.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Petra Kvitová won the title, defeating Kiki Bertens in the final, 7–6(8–6), 4–6, 6–3. This was Kvitová's third title in Madrid, and she became the first, and, to date, only, female player to win three titles at the Mutua Madrid Open.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles
Halep and Caroline Wozniacki were in contention for the WTA no. 1 singles ranking at the beginning of the tournament. Halep retained the top ranking when Wozniacki lost to Bertens in the third round.


2018 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
Click on the seed number of a player to go to their draw section.


2018 Myanmar National League
The 2018 Myanmar National League, also known as the 2018 MPT Myanmar National League, is the 9th season of the Myanmar National League, the top Burmese professional league for association football clubs since its founding in 2009. The departure of the two clubs from the MNL-1 disrupted the previous season. More disruption came when Nay Pyi Taw and City Yangon withdrew from the competition towards the end of the 2017 season.


2018 Myanmar National League
At an emergency meeting of the MNL committee on September 12, Nay Pyi Taw was expelled from the league after its players complained of not having been paid since April. The expulsion came after players boycotted a game in early September. An unsuccessful coup attempt in Turkey in July last year created a crisis for City Yangon that forced its departure from the MNL. It was a big disappointment for the club, which won the 2017 MNL-2 championship to end the season undefeated. MNL-2 third-place winners Myawady FC were promoted along with runners-up Sagaing United to the 2018 Myanmar National League.


2018 Myanmar National League
In the lead up to the 2018 season, the MNL inked a three-year sponsorship deal with the country's biggest TelCo MPT that will support funds for the Myanmar National League, MNL-2 and the youth competitions up until the 2020 season.


2018 Myanmar National League, 2018 Title Sponsor
Myanma Posts and Telecommunications signed 3 years contract with MNL. They help to develop Myanmar Football and Youth program.


2018 Myanmar National League, Teams
A total of 12 teams are competing in the 2018 season: 10 sides from the 2017 season and two promoted teams from the 2017 Myanmar National League 2.


2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Stadiums
(*) – not ready to play. MNL clubs that have not had their home stadia ready to host home matches currently use Aung San Stadium and Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon.


2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per MNL club. A team can use three foreign players on the field in each game, including a slot for a player from among AFC countries.


2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to five per T1 team. A team can use four foreign players on the field in each game, including at least one player from the AFC member countries (3+1).


2018 Myanmar National League, Teams, Personnel and sponsoring
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Myanmar National League, Result, Positions by round
The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.


2018 Myanmar National League, Matches
Fixtures and results of the Myanmar National League 2018 season.


2018 Myanmar by-elections
By-elections were held in Myanmar on 3 November 2018 to fill 13 parliamentary seats: one in the Amyotha Hluttaw, four in the Pyithu Hluttaw, and eight in the State and Regional Hluttaw. The seats were left vacant due to the resignation or death of incumbent Members of Parliament.


2018 Mzansi Super League
The 2018 Mzansi Super League was the inaugural edition of the Mzansi Super League (MSL) Twenty20 (T20) franchise cricket tournament in South Africa. It started on 16 November and finished on 16 December 2018. Six teams played a total of thirty-two matches. The players' draft took place on 17 October 2018, with more than 200 international players expressing their interest to take part.


2018 Mzansi Super League
On 18 October 2018, it was announced that Global Sports Commerce (GSC) is the official international commercial and broadcast partner from 2018 up to 2022. On 30 October 2018 it was announced that the Mzansi Super League 2018 champions will receive prize money of ZAR7 million and the runners up will receive R2.5 million, the player of the tournament received R100 000, and each player of the match won R15 000.


2018 Mzansi Super League
On 16 December 2018 the Jozi Stars won the first season final.


2018 Mzansi Super League, Squads
The following players were selected in the player draft on 17 October 2018:


2018 Mzansi Super League, Squads
Before the start of the tournament, JP Duminy was ruled out due to injury and was replaced by Quinton de Kock as the marquee player for Cape Town Blitz.


2018 Mzansi Super League, League stage
The MSL released the full fixture list on 18 October 2018. The team that tops the table gets direct passage to the final and will also have home ground advantage.


2018 Münster attack
On 7 April 2018, a man drove a van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster. He killed four people and injured about 20 others, six of them seriously, before committing suicide.


2018 Münster attack, Attack
On 7 April 2018, a man drove a camper van into people seated outside restaurants in a pedestrianised square in the old part of the German city of Münster. Police said the attacker drove into "several cafe and restaurant terraces in a major square in the centre of Münster". The perpetrator then shot himself dead. It was then found that his van was booby-trapped with a pistol connected to a wire.


2018 Münster attack, Attack
The attack initially killed three people, including the perpetrator, and also injured about 20 others, six seriously. Another victim died on 26 April. A Dutch victim who was in a coma after the attack died almost four months later on 29 July.


2018 Münster attack, Attack
Prior to the attack, Münster had been planning to install security bollards in public areas, although the list of public spaces regarded as high-risk and slated to receive bollards did not include the location of this attack.


2018 Münster attack, Perpetrator
The attacker was identified by media sources as a 48-year-old German national named Jens Alexander Rüther, born about "an hour south" of the city, who had previously suffered from psychiatric illness.


2018 Münster attack, Perpetrator
Media reported that Rüther was born on 1 May 1969 and had resided in Münster. Deutsche Welle described him as a "wealthy designer." He was later known as small-time criminal, who stole cell phones and car radios to finance his drug addiction. Local reports claimed that he had been in contact with certain far-right groups but had not been an extremist himself. He had said in the past that he wanted to commit suicide in a spectacular way. Authorities also considered the possibility that he committed the crime due to relationship problems.


2018 Münster attack, Perpetrator
He came from the Sauerland, grew up in Madfeld and graduated from high school Petrinum Brilon. There had been five criminal proceedings against Jens Ruther, three of them at the public prosecutor's office Münster and two at the Arnsberg public prosecutor's office. The proceedings in Arnsberg dealt with two “family disputes” from 2014 and 2016. In Münster, he was accused of driver flight (Germany) | unauthorized removal from the accident site (2015), property damage (2015) and fraud (2016) . All proceedings were terminated due to insufficient suspicion.


2018 Münster attack, Perpetrator
State Interior Minister Herbert Reul said on the day of the attack that there was no indication of an Islamist background of the attack. On 18 April, Reul said that after an analysis by the security authorities, right-wing extremism was also ruled out as a motive. He said that, rather, the crime "had to do with the life" of the perpetrator and his "assignment of guilt".


2018 Münster attack, Perpetrator
The crime was judged as extended suicide for personal reasons.


2018 Münster attack, Reactions
Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was "deeply shocked" about the crime. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences to the victims and relatives. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin condemned the crime and offered their sympathies. A public memorial service was held on the following Sunday.


2018 NA LCS season
The 2018 NA LCS season was the first year under partnership and sixth overall of the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS), a professional esports league for the MOBA PC game League of Legends. It was divided into spring and summer splits, each consisting of a regular season and playoff stage. The top six teams from the regular season advanced to the playoff stage, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semifinals.


2018 NA LCS season, Format
Starting in 2018, the North American LCS began franchising. There are various reasons for this. First, it changed the overall structure of the league, encouraging long-term investments from owners. This allowed the league to implement revenue sharing, leading to a better foundation for both the teams and professional players. Lastly, the professional players were given a larger voice and more protection within the league.


2018 NA LCS season, Format
The buy-in price for the league was $10 million for existing League of Legends teams, who had previously participated in the League Championship Series or Challenger Series. New teams would be subject to an additional $3 million (a total $13 million), which was distributed to the teams that were replaced in the league. Interested parties were given applications in June, due on July 28, 2017. Over 100 existing esports organizations, traditional sports teams, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs reportedly applied.


2018 NA LCS season, Format
Those applications were then narrowed down to a shortlist, nicknamed "phase two", which saw participants travel to Riot Games' Los Angeles office to interview and review their applications. Riot Games and the North American League Championship Series players' association also decided that league would not expand and instead remain at 10 teams.


2018 NA LCS season, Format
Buyers for the league were decided in mid-October. Several existing teams from the league — including Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming, Echo Fox, FlyQuest, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid — were reportedly accepted back into the league. Other existing teams, such as Immortals, Phoenix1, Team Dignitas and Team EnvyUs, were declined from entry into the restructured league. The team welcomed four new teams — one endemic esports team and three NBA franchises or affiliates. Longtime esports organization OpTic Gaming was reportedly awarded a spot in the league after receiving investment from Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman. The other three new spots went to Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob and his son Kirk as the Golden Guardians, the Cleveland Cavaliers and affiliated venture capital firms as 100 Thieves, and the Houston Rockets as Clutch Gaming.


2018 NACAC Championships
The 2018 North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships was a regional track and field competition held at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Canada, from August 10-12, 2018. It was the third edition of a senior track and field championship for the NACAC region, held three years after the 2015 NACAC Championships. The winner of each event qualified (granted their country ultimately picks them) for the 2019 Pan American Games competition, which will be held in Lima, Peru.


2018 NACAC Championships, Participating nations
According to an unofficial count, 319 athletes from 29 countries participated.


2018 NACAC Championships – Results
These are the full results of the 2018 NACAC Championships in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from August 10 to 12 at Varsity Stadium.


2018 NACAM Rally Championship
The 2018 NACAM Rally Championship was the eleventh season of the NACAM Rally Championship. This championship was the FIA regional rally championship for the North America and Central America (NACAM) region. The season began 8 March in Leon, Mexico, and ended 23 November in Colima, Mexico, after four events held in Canada and Mexico.


2018 NACAM Rally Championship
Venezuela's Rally Isla de Margarita was dropped without replacement from the calendar leaving only the mid-year Canadian Rallye Baie-des-Chaleurs event held outside of Mexico.


2018 NACAM Rally Championship
Defending champion, Citroën driver Ricardo Triviño won his ninth NACAM championship. Triviño won the first three rounds of the championship, wrapping the championship up after the mid-year trip to Canada. Fellow Mexican, Mitsubishi driver Ricardo Cordero Jr. finished second in the points after winning the season ending Rally Colima. Colombian Subaru driver Julián Jaramillo was third in the championship after good placings in the first two rallies of the championship.


2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 81st annual NAIA basketball tournament features 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The opening game round started on March 14, and the National Championship Game was played on March 20. As of 2018, 576 schools have participated in the NAIA Men's Tournament. 48 states, all but Alaska and Wyoming have been represented.


2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The Tournament Final saw the Graceland Yellowjackets beat the Generals of LSU–Alexandria 83 to 80 in overtime, with the winning 3-point basket made from the right sideline as the game clock expired. It was the first overtime final since 2016, and the ninth overtime final in tournament history. This was Graceland University’s first appearance in the national tournament, and first championship. LSU Alexandria also marked its first appearance in the tournament. The most recent previous first appearance champion was Dalton State (Ga.) in 2015. Graceland became the first team with double-digit losses to win the title since John Brown (Ark.) in 2005. Graceland was the first team from the Heart of America Athletic Conference to compete in the championship final.


2018 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Including the 2018 championship, the last 11 national champions have been different, with Texas Wesleyan taking the 2017 trophy. Six of those champions in the last nine years – Mid-America Christian, Dalton State (Ga.), Vanguard (Calif.), Pikeville (Ky.), Rocky Mountain (Mont.) and Graceland – were winners for the first time in school history.


2018 NAIA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2018 NAIA Division II Men’s Basketball National Championship was held from March 7-13 at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls, SD. The 27th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured thirty-two teams playing in a single-elimination format. In a rematch of the 2016 Championship game, the outcome was the same. The championship game was won by the Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats of Marion, Indiana over the Saint Francis Cougars of Fort Wayne, Indiana by a score of 84 to 71.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship
The 2018 NAIA Football National Championship was a four-round, sixteen team tournament played between November 17 and December 15 of 2018. The tournament concluded on December 15 with a single game, played as the 63rd Annual NAIA Football National Championship.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship
The championship game was played at Municipal Stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida. This was the 5th consecutive time the championship game was played at this venue after the prior six games had been played at Barron Stadium in Rome, Georgia. It was also the final game played at this venue after it was announced that the 2019 championship game will be played in Grambling, Louisiana.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship
The game was contested between two teams that had never before won a football national championship. On the visiting side of the scoreboard was the once-beaten, #7-ranked Benedictine Ravens, representing Benedictine College from Atchison, Kansas. The home team was the unbeaten, #1-ranked Morningside Mustangs, playing for Morningside College of Sioux City, Iowa. Benedictine was making its first appearance in the championship game while Morningside was appearing for the second time, losing the 2012 championship game in overtime to the Marian Knights.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship
Morningside was led by the quarterback-receiver duo of Trent Solsma and Connor Niles. Solsma was a first-team All-American who had just received the Rawlings Award in a banquet the prior evening. The award recognized the 2018 NAIA Football Player of the Year. Niles was a second-team All-American, a controversial achievement because many consider Solsma-to-Niles to be one of the most productive duos in NAIA football history. But an NAIA rule restricts the selection of players from the same team. So Solsma received the first-team choice, and Niles was the second-team selection.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship
In the end, this duo led Morningside to the victory, 35-28. They connected for 3 touchdown passes during the game. For his efforts, Niles was named the game's Most Outstanding Offensive Player. The parallel defensive award was given to Morningside defensive lineman Chase Reis.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff
A total of sixteen teams were selected to participate in the single-elimination tournament from across the country, with invitations that were revealed on Sunday, November 11, 2018. The field included eleven conference champions who received automatic bids. The field was then filled with at-large selections that were awarded to the highest ranked teams that were not conference champions. First-round seedings were based on the final regular-season edition of the 2018 NAIA Coaches' Poll, with certain minor modifications given based on geographic considerations. Each subsequent round will be re-seeded based on the rankings of all teams advancing to that round.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff
Quarterfinal pairings were announced by the NAIA on November 17, after the first round results were known.


2018 NAIA Football National Championship, Postseason playoff
Semifinal pairings were confirmed by the NAIA on November 24, soon after completion of the day's quarterfinal games.


2018 NAIA football rankings
The 2018 NAIA football rankings reports the poll results conducted during the 2018 NAIA football season. Each season, one poll evaluates the various National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) football teams and ranks them. Coaches from each of the football conferences are members of a selection panel, with conferences receiving one vote for every 4 member teams. Sometimes referred to as the football ratings or the NAIA Coaches' Poll, the poll is generally conducted once during the preseason and after each week of play during the regular season.


2018 NAIA football rankings
The Top 25 is determined by compiling points for each vote. A team receives 25 points for each first-place vote, 24 for second-place and so on through the list. The highest and lowest ranking for each team (counting zero for ballots with no votes for a team) are disregarded. To obtain the final tally, each team's ranking is recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that includes the team.


2018 NAIA football rankings
As an example, if there are 16 voting panelists, and one team is a unanimous choice for the highest ranking, then that team would receive 25 points * 14 ballots + 16 points (one for each ballot cast) = 366 points.


2018 NAIA football rankings
Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes.”


2018 NAIA football rankings
Once the regular season is completed, the NAIA will conduct a playoff to determine the year's national champion. A final poll will be taken after completion of the series of playoff games, collectively referred to as the 2018 NAIA Football National Championship.


2018 NAIA football rankings, Poll release dates
The NAIA released a preseason edition of the rankings on August 6, 2018. A complete schedule of poll release dates will be:


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
A 16-team tournament will be contested to determine the winner of the 2018 NAIA Football National Championship. Teams were selected to the field of participants through a two-tiered selection process. First, any conference champion ranked in the top 20 positions in the final regular-season Coaches' Poll received an automatic bid into the tourney field.


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
In 2018, the following 12 NAIA conferences (or divisions within large conferences) had champions who were part of this selection process for the automatic invitations:


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
After the automatic bids were granted, any open positions in the field were filled with at-large invitations. These at-large entries were granted to the highest ranked teams who were not conference champions. Since there were 12 conference champions, a minimum of four at-large invitations could have been granted to play in the 2018 tournament.


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
Based on the Week 10 (final regular season) Coaches' Poll, the following teams (11 champions and 5 at-large teams) made up the 2018 playoff field:


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
After the tournament participants were determined, the top 8 seeds were granted first round home games. Opponents were determined based on the oft-used tournament protocol that pairs highest seeds with lowest seeds: #1 vs. the lowest seeded entry, usually #16), #2 vs. the second-lowest seeded entry, usually #15), #3 vs. the third-lowest seeded entry, usually #14), etc. This alignment was then tweaked for geographic considerations by the tournament selection officials.


2018 NAIA football rankings, The postseason tournament
The first round tournament match-ups, finalized and announced on Sunday, November 11, were:


2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters
Since the inception of the Coaches' Poll in 1999, the #1 ranking in the various weekly polls has been held by only a select group of teams. Through the last (postseason) poll of the 2018 season, the teams and the number of times they have held the #1 weekly ranking are shown below. The number of times a team has been ranked #1 in the postseason poll (the national champion) is shown in parentheses.


2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters
There has been only one tie for the leading vote-getter in a weekly poll. In 2015, Southern Oregon was tied with Marian (IN) in the preseason poll.


2018 NAIA football rankings, Leading vote-getters
In 1999, the results of a postseason poll, if one was conducted, are not known. Therefore, an additional poll has been presumed, and the #1 postseason ranking has been credited to the postseason tournament champion, the Northwestern Oklahoma State Rangers.


2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208
The 2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208 was a NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race held at Meridan Speedway in Meridian, Idaho. Hailie Deegan won the race, the first ever victory by a female in K&N Pro Series history. Her Bill McAnally Racing teammates Cole Rouse and Derek Kraus finished second and third respectively. Kraus won the pole and led the most laps, leading the first 189 of 208.


2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Race
Derek Kraus took the pole and led the first 189 laps. With 20 laps to go, Taylor Canfield, who was making his series debut, spun in front of Kraus and blocked the racetrack. Kraus tried to avoid him but hit the outside wall and lost the lead to his Bill McAnally Racing teammate Cole Rouse. After the ensuing caution, Rouse held the lead until the final lap of the race, when Hailie Deegan tapped his left-rear quarter panel in turn one, making a last-lap pass. Deegan went on to score the win, the first of her career, while Rouse and Kraus finished second and third to complete a podium sweep for BMR. Deegan led only the final lap.


2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race
Deegan's victory was her first career win and the first win by a female in history at the K&N Pro Series West level of NASCAR. Deegan was ecstatic after the win, explaining, "This has to be the best day of my life right here. It doesn't get any better than this. People don't understand how many days, how many hours I've put into this. How much work I've done to get to this moment. It’s just amazing … this is the happiest day of my life."


2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race
Immediately following the race, Rouse expressed displeasure with Deegan's bump and run-style pass on the final lap, saying, "We were going into Turn 1...and she doesn't lift and drives into me, gets me completely sideways. We were going to win that race if it was run clean, but unfortunately it wasn't." He continued by saying he would race Deegan hard the last two races of the season: "I'm just going to go into the next two races, not give her any slack and we're going to win both of those.


2018 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208, Report, Post-race
It was a good night, but I don't really care about second, honestly." The next day, however, Rouse tweeted that he "got over it quick" and called Deegan "an amazing girl and amazing talent," adding, "I'm happy for her! She made history and I'm a part of it." Kraus, meanwhile, was unhappy due to the incident with Canfield (Canfield's third of the night). "We led 190+ laps, then a lapped car spun again. I was predicting he was going to roll down because he didn't have his brakes on yet. But he stayed there, and I was already committed [to the top]...and I guess NASCAR ruled me third. I don't know, I guess we'll go onto Roseville and Kern and win them two."


2018 NAPB season
The  2018 NAPB season was the inaugural season for the North American Premier Basketball. For 2018, the league consists of eight teams: the Albany Patroons, Kansas City Tornados, Kentucky Thoroughbreds, Nevada Desert Dogs, Ohio Cardinals, Rochester Razorsharks, Vancouver Knights, and Yakima SunKings.


2018 NAPB season
The Ohio Cardinals were replaced after 23 games by the Ohio Bootleggers, a semi-professional team in the North American Basketball League that also apparently had took over operations of the Vancouver Knights sometime during the season. The Knights also had become a travel team at that point and was transferred to a new ownership group that was never identified.


2018 NAPB season
The season ended with the SunKings defeating the Patroons two-games-to-none in the best-of-three finals to win the inaugural NAPB championship.


2018 NAPB season, Playoffs
There were eight teams in the league with the top four teams seeded one to four for the playoffs. Each round of the playoffs were played a best-of-three series.


2018 NAPB season, Draft
The inaugural player draft for the league was held on December 3, 2017, and the league's eight charter teams took turns selecting players who had all competed at the college level in the United States at some point.


2018 NAPB season, Draft
Vance Cooksey of Youngstown State University was the first overall NAPB selection taken by Vancouver Knights. Consequently, this makes him the first-ever selection in the history of the league.


2018 NAPB season, Draft
Although some of the players chosen in the draft had played semi-professional or professional basketball after college graduation, only the United States colleges they attended are listed.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
The 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 24th season of the third highest stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in North America. Christopher Bell entered as the defending champion, but he did not defend his championship, leaving his No. 4 Kyle Busch Motorsports entry to a number of drivers throughout the season, with Todd Gilliland covering the majority of the schedule in the truck. Title sponsor Camping World Holdings rebranded the series with their Gander Outdoors brand they acquired in 2017 for the 2019 season, replacing the Camping World brand.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
This was the third year that the Truck Series (and the Xfinity Series) had a playoff system. For the first time in the three years of the playoffs at that time, Christopher Bell and Matt Crafton were not part of the "championship 4" drivers competing for the title at Homestead. Bell had moved up to the Xfinity Series full-time, while Crafton did qualify for the postseason but did not advance to the last round of the playoffs as he had done the past two years.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
The 2018 season was also the first to feature the regular season championship trophy, which was awarded at the final race before the playoffs. Johnny Sauter clinched the NCWTS Regular Season Championship trophy at the end of the UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Brett Moffitt was declared the NCWTS Champion for 2018, after winning the Ford EcoBoost 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. In addition, Hattori Racing Enterprises won the NCWTS Owners' Championship.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule
The final schedule – comprising 23 races – was released on May 23, 2017.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes
In 2015, NASCAR and 21 Camping World Truck Series tracks agreed on a five-year contract that guarantees each track would continue to host races through 2020. Despite the agreement, Speedway Motorsports decided to cancel the New Hampshire Motor Speedway race and add a second race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, to form two weekends involving each of the three national series. The new race will be the third race of the regular season, while the established fall race will be the second race of the first playoff round.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes
As a result, the Chevrolet Silverado 250 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park will be held as the first race of the playoffs, while the Overton's 225 at Chicagoland Speedway will move from September to June. The UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway will become the final race of the regular season as a result of the schedule realignment.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes
Unlike the 2017 schedule, the JEGS 200 at Dover International Speedway will precede the 37 Kind Days 250 at Kansas Speedway and the North Carolina Education Lottery 200 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Also, the Eaton 200 at Gateway Motorsports Park will be held one week later as the tenth race of the season, slated to be held the week before the Chicagoland round.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Schedule, Schedule changes
On April 17, 2018, Bristol Motor Speedway announced the UNOH 200 will be moved one day to Thursday night, August 16. The new race date will also reflect a change from FS1 to Fox, as the race broadcast moves to the broadcast network. The live Thursday night race on Fox coincides with preparation for Fox to broadcast the majority of Thursday games during the 2018 NFL season. Fox will now air two Truck Series races, both during the second half of the season when NBC has the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series coverage.


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Results and standings, Drivers' standings
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or owner's points. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Regular season top 10 finishers. . – Eliminated after Round of 8. – Eliminated after Round of 6


2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, Results and standings, Owners' championship (Top 15)
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led. 1 – Stage 1 winner. 2 – Stage 2 winner. 1-10 – Owners' regular season top 10 finishers. . – Eliminated after Round of 8. – Eliminated after Round of 6


2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East
The 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East was the 32nd season of the K&N Pro Series East, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began with the New Smyrna 175 at New Smyrna Speedway on February 11 and concluded with the Crosley 125 at Dover International Speedway on October 6. Harrison Burton entered the season as the defending Drivers' champion. Tyler Ankrum won the championship, 84 points in front of Tyler Dippel.


2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Schedule
On December 6, 2017, NASCAR announced the 2018 schedule. Greenville-Pickens and Berlin were dropped from the schedule in favor of Gateway and a second race at New Hampshire. All races in the season - with the exception of the race at New Jersey Motorsports Park, of which extended highlights were shown on NASCAR America - were televised on NBCSN on a tape delay basis. In addition the New Smyrna 175 and the Apple Barrel 125 were shown live on FansChoice.tv.


2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, Results and standings, Drivers' championship
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or Owners' points. * – Most laps led.