Month: August 2024

In the latest episode of “Fansville,” Deputy Quinn Ewers is urged to call for backup but resists. After a brief exchange with his fellow officer, Texas’ third-year starting quarterback delivers the punchline. “We don’t need any backup, even if he has great hair and famous relatives,” Ewers said. The allusion to Arch Manning is both an […]

With the 2024 NFL regular season just around the corner, the members of the NFL’s competition committee and game operations teams have begun reviewing the preseason to gather information that will help further improve the game, and educate the league and its teams about recent rule changes. In a conference call with reporters Thursday morning, […]

BOULDER, Colo. — A cluster of fans stood outside Gate 14 at Folsom Field, beseeching the man in all-white coveralls to acknowledge them. The handful of admirers reaching their hands and phones through the black metal bars on this drizzly early August afternoon soon doubled then tripled in size. But Deion Sanders was in the […]

By Shams Charania, Marcus Thompson II and Mark Puleo The end of Steph Curry’s contract with the Golden State Warriors got farther away Thursday, as the star guard agreed to a one-year extension worth $62.6 million to keep him with the team he’s won four titles with through the 2026-27 season, a league source confirmed. […]

NFL agents primarily exist in the shadows while supporting their clients. They also have a pulse on the present and future of many league matters. The Athletic spoke with 31 representatives for our sixth annual NFL agent survey. This diverse group, including returning and fresh participants, guides All-Pro selections, franchise quarterbacks, first-round picks and roster hopefuls […]

Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula 1. Sign up here to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Monday and Friday. MONZA, Italy — As a five-time winner of the Italian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton knows what it is like to stand atop the iconic Monza podium after the checkered flag. Suspended […]

Bill Belichick will cast a large shadow over the NFL throughout the 2024 season. The coaching legend is out of the league for the first time in 50 years, but he’ll have a ghost-like presence in many buildings, specifically among those franchises with coaches under intense pressure to win now. Whether Belichick actually gets another […]

The draw for the revamped Champions League league phase is — after what seemed like a never-ending ceremony — complete. As expected, the new format ensured a smattering of mouthwatering games, as well as a few less mouthwatering ones, ahead of the start of the competition proper next month. You can read an explainer on […]

How difficult is it to be a college football referee? Let’s find out how smart you are. Officials are often the target of frustration for fans, especially after questionable or missed calls. But they aren’t noticed when they make the right call, which happens the vast majority of the time. To give you a sense […]

Some things never change for Jayson Tatum. As his career has continued to ebb and flow, there has been one constant: Tatum finds himself at the center of conversation. He broke onto the NBA scene as an impressive role player when he was 19, only to oscillate in the public eye between auspicious and overhyped. […]