Month: August 2024

Follow live coverage of Georgia Tech vs Florida State in college football’s season opener today ATHENS, Ga. — Kirby Smart made it sound dire. On paper, Smart coaches the most talented college football team in America. But as he has surveyed his roster this month — deep down the roster — it’s confirmed a fear: […]

Follow live coverage of Georgia Tech vs Florida State in college football’s season opener today If you spent the offseason wondering what the heck is going on in college football at what feels like the sport’s most critical juncture in history, fear not. The one-of-a-kind sport we all know and love has changed — a […]

Steve McNair’s football story has been told plenty. Fans know how he emerged from being a star quarterback at HBCU Alcorn State to becoming a Heisman Trophy finalist and, eventually, the No. 3 pick in the 1995 NFL Draft by the Houston Oilers. He led the Tennessee Titans to Super Bowl XXXIV. He was the […]

Super Bowl-winning coaches Bill Belichick and Pete Carroll are potentially closer to Canton as the Pro Football Hall of Fame has revised its selection process, reducing the time a coach must wait to become eligible for enshrinement. But other changes to the process could raise the bar for enshrinement. Coaches now will only have to […]

Three days after the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced that world No. 1 Jannik Sinner had tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, the Italian confirmed that he had parted ways with the two men at the heart of the doping case that rocked the tennis world this week. In a press conference Friday, he […]

After five months of slow and steady, baseball is about to shift into fast and furious mode. It’s almost September, which means the annual all-out sprint to the postseason is about to begin. Unless it’s already happened, and we missed it. The oddsmakers at FanGraphs seem to think the playoff picture is all but set […]

The Olympics are an event that can fuel growth in interest and popularity, not just for a given sport or individual athlete, but for an array of collectibles, as well. The global nature of the Olympics, the way they cross-pollinate fans of different sports and draw in very casual or even non-sports fans — it’s […]

William McMichael, the coach at Detroit’s Mumford High School, insisted he wasn’t looking for publicity when he offered a position to Connor Stalions, the staffer at the center of Michigan’s sign-stealing scandal and the central character in an upcoming Netflix documentary. Publicity found him anyway. Mumford, a program that has gone 2-16 the past two […]

The greatest moment of Dominic Thiem’s tennis career came in an eerie vacuum in front of more than 20,000 empty seats. As he collapsed to the ground after four hours on court against Alexander Zverev in the 2020 U.S. Open final, the noise he heard was the whirr of camera shutters and a smattering of […]