Month: August 2024

This is a season about hope. For most of college football’s existence, much of the sport had none when it came to competing for a national title. Somehow, those odds got steeper when the four-team College Football Playoff was born. Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving […]

MEXICO CITY — Ryan Meisinger decided to go to Mexico on July 1. He packed his belongings, boarded a commercial flight, and flew to Mexico City. When he landed, he was officially an employee of the Diablos Rojos del Mexico, a club in the Liga Beisbol Mexicana. Meisinger, 30, had begun the summer in North […]

Anthony Edwards has opinions about the generations of players before he was born. Magic Johnson doesn’t think Edwards has the credentials to warrant a response. Isiah Thomas has his own thoughts, and thus the recipe for offseason NBA beef is born. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal released last week, Edwards gave a […]

It was before a Manchester City press conference when a worried club official came into the room to warn everyone that — and it’s a story that feels relevant now — Sven-Goran Eriksson was as angry as he had ever seen. Eriksson had taken the City job in 2007, the era in east Manchester before […]

NEW YORK — Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black knew what he was talking about. Black played with all-time home run leader Barry Bonds in 1993 and 1994 in San Francisco. “I saw Barry in his prime,” Black said. Then he turned the conversation toward Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and New York Yankees slugger […]

Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, has signed a deal with New Balance, the apparel company announced Monday. The deal — which was first reported by ESPN — will make Flagg one of New Balance’s signature athletes, likely including a signature shoe. Flagg joins Kawhi Leonard, […]

“My team have joked a few times that my waters could just break on the podium,” says archer Jodie Grinham, who will compete for Britain at this month’s Paralympic Games. “That would be quite something.” Grinham, speaking to The Athletic via video call from her training camp in St-Germain-en-Laye, west of Paris, will be seven […]

Deion Sanders’ news conferences often feel like a sermon. When he’s on a roll, his words have a rhythm and energy that remind me of a Sunday morning in the Black church. He will lead you to believe his purpose for being at Colorado is greater than football. Winning may be important, but developing complete […]

Danny Jansen is set to make Major League Baseball history on Monday at Fenway Park. The Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays will resume a June 26 game that was suspended for rain in what will be the first game of a doubleheader on Monday. Back in June, Jansen, then playing for the Blue […]

BALTIMORE — Christopher Disalvo is a 4-foot-4 middle infielder with a baseball obsession. He lives on Long Island, N.Y., but saw his idol from section 48, row 21, seat 4 at Camden Yards. Jose Altuve ambled into the on-deck circle and heard Disalvo call his shot. “I asked him, ‘If you hit a home run, […]