Month: August 2024

By Eno Sarris, Brittany Ghiroli, and Stephen J. Nesbitt Recently, conversation in major-league clubhouses has turned to an event still four years in the future: the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. On Monday, Texas Rangers reliever David Robertson jokingly declared he and 37-year-old closer Kirby Yates are planning to pitch for Team USA in 2028. […]

A month without basketball is over. Well, WNBA basketball that is. After a thrilling end to the Paris Olympic basketball tournament, the gold-medal winning Americans have again dispersed across the country to their respective WNBA teams. The New York Liberty entered the All-Star/Olympic break with the league’s best record (21-4) and are looking to claim […]

College football looks a lot different in 2024, but there are plenty of familiar standouts returning to fill out our annual preseason All-America teams. Our two teams are made up of 50 of the best players in college football entering the 2024 season, selected by a panel of editors after soliciting nominations from across our […]

This article is part of The Next Generation series. As the greats, such as Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal, become the past and Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek handle the present, The Athletic explores the next generation: the rising stars who will be tasked with securing tennis’ future. The WTA Tour is in […]

Bon travail, Paris. You did it. Hats off to perhaps the most memorable Olympic basketball tournament (and Olympic Games) ever. The U.S. men’s basketball team needed all it could muster from its aging (or should we say ageless?) superheroes, and based on the state of their NBA teams, one can fairly wonder if that is […]

“Buenos dias a todos,” Kylian Mbappe said. “Bear with me, I’m going to try to speak in Spanish.” No apology was needed. Mbappe’s excellent Spanish was perfectly understood by all 80,000 Real Madrid fans packed into the Santiago Bernabeu for his presentation last month. “Wow, it’s incredible to be here,” Mbappe continued, clearly struck by […]

LATROBE, Pa. — No air conditioning in the dorm rooms. Horsehair-stuffed mattresses. Two padded practices per day, seven days a week, full of live hitting. For 66-year-old former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Craig Wolfley, training camp at Saint Vincent College was a “totally different environment” when he suited up in the 1980s under legendary coach […]

In the 1980s, Bobby Bowden kept his Florida State football team in a hotel in Thomasville, Ga., the night before games to escape the distractions of Tallahassee. On game day, the Seminoles would bus about 45 minutes south to Burt Reynolds Hall, a dorm on Stadium Avenue, to drop off their clothes and walk to […]

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — He wore the khaki pants on the practice field, apparently for the first time as Los Angeles Chargers coach, so you know Jim Harbaugh was deadly serious on this toasty Monday. You could see it right away: This was Prime Harbaugh, full of fire, hiss and vinegar. Then he started speaking […]