Month: August 2024

On a sofa in the corner of a Winnebago motorhome in the TV compound at Old Trafford, Rebecca Lowe is flicking through pages and pages of hand-written notes. “Normally, I don’t do all of this prep on a Friday morning,” says Lowe, who has been the face of U.S. broadcaster NBC’s Premier League coverage for […]

Welcome to the dog days. Most of the NBA will spend the next few weeks lounging on deck chairs near various distant seas before the slow march back into playing shape begins after Labor Day. Before you know it, we’ll start a whole new cycle of October promises. Before we get to that point, it’s […]

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — Terry Fontenot was playing hooky from an Atlanta Falcons OTA workout day in Cooperstown, N.Y., in June when he got a surprise in his hotel room. The Falcons’ general manager spent the day watching his son, Kaiden, play in the Cooperstown All-Star Village baseball tournament. That night, he sat down with […]

For the second time, The Athletic is rolling out its NBA 40 under 40 list. Look around the league and you’ll see how many of its leading faces are successful at such a young age. The Boston Celtics won the NBA title this season with 36-year-old Joe Mazzulla behind the bench. The NBA’s Coach of […]

PARIS — The week was almost over, the Olympics nearly wrapped, when Erin Matson walked into the lobby of a botanical-themed boutique hotel. A sort of gilded garden pulled from a Parisian dream. This place is how the other side lives, and the name fit. La Fantaisie. Nike booked a block of rooms during the Olympic […]

By C. Trent Rosecrans, Stephen J. Nesbitt and Sam Blum One night earlier this summer at Kauffman Stadium, Bobby Witt Jr. came to bat in the ninth inning with one on, one out and his Kansas City Royals down a run. Then he roped a game-tying triple for his third hit of the game, raced […]

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Stacy Lewis is back sitting at the top table of the media room, answering a belated question from someone too shy to shout over the gusts of wind during the press conference. Her five-year-old daughter Chesnee wants to know if she can get a swimming pool — “a big one” — […]

Mike Greenberg will be the new host of “Sunday NFL Countdown” as ESPN sets up its lineup for its first Super Bowl in 2027, a source briefed on the matter told The Athletic on Tuesday. Greenberg replaces Sam Ponder who was fired last week with one-year and more than a million dollars left on her […]

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — In late June, the quietest time on the NFL calendar, Kansas City Chiefs general manager Brett Veach started receiving text message after text message while on a family vacation. Questions raced through his mind. Was there breaking NFL news? Did a member of the Chiefs organization need his attention? Did something […]

Richard and Kathy Verlander promised their son a sports car if he earned a college scholarship. So, in the fall of 2002, a gangly goofball from Goochland, Va., drove onto the campus at Old Dominion University in a black Mustang.  Three months earlier, the Pittsburgh Pirates pondered picking Justin Verlander in the Major League Baseball […]