Month: August 2024

The Detroit Lions have never won 10 or more games in consecutive seasons. Will that change this year? Can anything keep the two-time defending Kansas City Chiefs from nabbing the AFC’s top seed? Will Jayden Daniels’ arrival lift the Washington Commanders? Could Sean Payton’s Denver Broncos or Mike Tomlin’s Pittsburgh Steelers land among the league’s […]

The feeling before practice was different once Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau were at the rink. It changed as the two brothers tied their skates. For the three years Jerry York coached Johnny at Boston College and the four he had Matthew, he’d wish his players well with, “Hey, let’s have a good practice today.” The […]

Follow live coverage of day five at the 2024 US Open FLUSHING, N.Y. — Against the blue and green of the Billie Jean King Tennis Center courts, the yellow ball careening between two rackets stands out. That’s before you see the yellow balls up in the stands. They’re still, but they’re bigger. Thursday morning on […]

Windows, in basketball, are a metaphor for opportunity. Finite chances for achievement. Open spaces closing fast. The passing lane on a backdoor cut. A good look at the rim off a screen. The stretch run of a season. A swing game in a playoff series. An era. Stephen Curry’s window is open, as evidenced by […]

In the days before his first Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes was on a practice field with a small group of offensive players and coaches while the rest of the team worked on special teams. In Mahomes’ early years as an NFL quarterback, the Kansas City Chiefs’ special teams period had become his personal lab — […]

NEW YORK — Craig Anderson pauses the phone call. He’s got to get his notes. He returns with a sheet of paper he’s had for 62 years — the day-by-day performance of the 1962 New York Mets. “Somebody gave this to me at the end of the ’62 season,” he says. “I’ve kept it all […]

The Kansas City Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls, so the entire NFL will be looking to knock them off their perch atop the league. What’s surprising, though, is that despite winning two titles in a row, my NFL Projection Model does not see the Chiefs as the favorites to win it all this year. […]

Follow live coverage of day five at the 2024 US Open NEW YORK — There are many things that Iga Swiatek, the world No. 1 and the queen of tennis the past two years, is very good at.  Not letting her stress and frustrations spill into her game? She would be the first one to […]

The lounge-turned-meeting-room inside Maryland’s SECU Stadium is buzzing on a November Friday morning. The “Big Noon Kickoff” crew is in the middle of a production meeting, and there are many moving parts: Michigan, the team the Fox pregame show is following, is in the middle of a sign-stealing scandal ahead of the Ohio State game […]

If you have visited Barcelona recently, you might have noticed something unusual going on. Since the early summer, central hotspots such as La Rambla and neighbourhoods such as Gracia and Parc Guell have featured graffiti with the words “Tourists go home”. It’s all part of the same picture. Barcelona locals have been protesting against mass […]