Month: August 2024

EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s 4:39 p.m. on the first day of August, somewhere near the beginning of Michigan State football finding itself again. Def Leppard and Phil Collins classics fade out and a staffer at the top of the meeting room stairs flashes a thumbs-up to confirm perfect attendance. On the massive projector screen, […]

The preseason is hardly a crystal ball. However, for rookies who’ve never experienced the speed of the NFL game live, it’s often a terrific early test to see which draft picks — especially the first-rounders — are ready to start providing returns on their teams’ investments. And, just as important, it can reveal which ones […]

There is a moment about 40 minutes into “Untold: Sign Stealer,” the new Netflix documentary, in which former Michigan staffer Connor Stalions recounts his abrupt exile from the program last season after his elaborate scouting scheme got exposed. By this point, we’ve learned from Stalions’ own words as well as family home videos just how […]

Follow live coverage of day two at the 2024 US Open NEW YORK — A year ago, Ben Shelton started his U.S. Open on Court 10, in the quasi-hinterlands of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. To find it, walk over to the other side of the fountains, where a ball that flies over […]

The top tier is always exclusive territory when 50 NFL coaches and executives have their say in Quarterback Tiers each summer. That exclusivity has reached another level this year. Led by the incomparable Patrick Mahomes, only three players achieved Tier 1 status when balloting for the 11th annual survey was finished. That’s the lowest number […]

When Buffalo Bills star Josh Allen comes across YouTube clips of himself throwing passes for the University of Wyoming, he swears he doesn’t recognize that guy. “It’s night and day in terms of the type of thrower I am,” Allen said this summer. “Where I held the ball, where I released the ball — it […]

Euston station in London is a bleak place at the best of times. Claustrophobic, harshly lit and always overcrowded, nobody wants to be there for longer than is absolutely necessary. It was thus a fitting venue for a group of Everton fans to harangue their team’s players as they boarded a train back to Merseyside […]

Jerry Jones didn’t have a sense of urgency about getting a new contract done with CeeDee Lamb while the team was in California for five weeks of training camp. But the Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager clearly wanted it done before the regular season started. Lamb and the Cowboys agreed to a four-year, $136 […]

By Kaitlyn McGrath, Jen McCaffrey and Lauren Merola BOSTON — Under sunny skies on Monday afternoon, 112-year-old Fenway Park bore witness to a bit more history. Danny Jansen had been at the plate for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 26 in a game against the Boston Red Sox with one on and one out […]