Month: August 2024

The Athletic’s Heisman draft is back, with a new crop of challengers undertaking the tricky task of projecting this year’s most outstanding player. With all four of 2023’s finalists off to the NFL as top-12 draft picks, this year’s field looks as wide open as the race for the newly expanded College Football Playoff. Will […]

Following an underwhelming Copa America as the host nation this summer and with a men’s World Cup to be played mostly on home soil two years away, the USMNT needed to go big in replacing Gregg Berhalter as head coach. Consider their statement made. There is a strong argument to say Mauricio Pochettino will become […]

It was only four seconds and one-tenth of a point, but it was enough to strip Jordan Chiles of her bronze medal. A decision that left her speechless. “I have no words,” Chiles said on X on Thursday. “This decision feels unjust and comes as a significant blow, not just to me, but to everyone […]

Indianapolis is not new to hosting major sporting events, routinely hosting Final Fours and annually hosting the NFL Draft Combine. This past February, it was also the site of the NBA All-Star Game. Next summer, however, will mark the first time the city is hosting the WNBA All-Star Game. The game will take place July […]

Welcome to the season when everything might change, or nothing might change, for the most popular football league on the planet. In the coming months, the hearing against Manchester City for their 115 alleged breaches of Premier League regulations will begin and a verdict is expected before the end of the campaign. On Tuesday, in […]

ESPN has fired “Sunday NFL Countdown” host Samantha Ponder and analyst Robert Griffin III, sources briefed on the moves told The Athletic on Thursday. The decisions were made for financial reasons as ESPN nears the conclusion of its fiscal year at the end of September, per a source briefed on the matter. Both Ponder and […]

I read the comments, and you laughed at me. Well, guess what? It’s that time of year for you to do it again. If you missed last year’s installment of Oddly Specific Predictions, I nailed about 33 percent of the nearly 170 predictions I made in mid-August, a few weeks before the season started. That’s […]

College basketball preseason trips are already underway. (We hear the Bahamas are lovely this time of year, Louisville. Shame our invite got lost!) That’s our sign that rosters are basically finalized, and it’s finally worth asking the question: How’s the ACC looking? If nothing else, larger. Cal, Stanford, and SMU are now officially members, meaning […]

The Baltimore Orioles are a lesson in successful rebuilds, having gone from 115 losses in 2018 to one of the best teams in baseball — with one of the best farm systems — in five years. The O’s won the American League East last year, with 101 wins. Their farm system has produced the likes […]

Los Angeles Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh offered former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick a coaching job within the team in January, he told USA Today’s Jarrett Bell last week. But Harbaugh told reporters Thursday that Kaepernick won’t be a part of the Chargers staff in 2024 as a coach or player. “I love Colin, but he’s […]