Month: September 2024

By now, much of the rage has passed. The takes have gone cold, the vitriol has been spewed, and all the jokes have been told about the dopey owner being born on third base and thinking he’s hit a triple. The Oakland Athletics will soon pass into history, which means the time has come to […]

It had to be Rodri, didn’t it? The man who, before this season, according to football data website Transfermarkt, had missed just five games through injury for Manchester City since joining the club in 2019, is out — and possibly for the rest of the season. Why did it have to be Rodri who suffered […]

BERLIN — “Vamoooooos,” a roar, and the ball skied in celebration. Carlos Alcaraz did what he normally does when he wins a tennis match — except this time he was dressed all in blue, playing on a black court, and about to be mobbed by Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Daniil Medvedev, men whose dreams […]

The Minnesota Vikings look like the best team in the NFL’s best division, unless Sam Darnold’s MRI says otherwise. There’s a sentence no one saw coming. We aren’t crowning anybody after Week 3. Former Vikings coach Dennis Green (RIP) would not allow it. But the first three weeks of this season have been a revelation […]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Kyle Shanahan could probably sense the possibility coming. Perhaps that’s why he was so adamant about breaking the Los Angeles Rams’ spirit. For most of Shanahan’s tenure in the Bay, the San Francisco 49ers have owned his buddy Sean McVay’s club. SoFi Stadium on Sunday was, again, a sea of red. The […]

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Much of the talk going into Tennessee’s trip to Oklahoma was about Volunteers coach Josh Heupel’s return to his alma mater, Heupel was right when, through teary eyes, he told his players that Saturday’s 25-15 win against the Sooners was […]

Double the football, double the fun? That seems to be the NFL’s approach to a few Monday nights this year. There are four weeks featuring a “Monday Night Football” doubleheader this regular season, continuing the scheduling quirk that has become the norm since 2022. Why are there multiple Mondays with two games this season? It’s […]

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.  SINGAPORE — Max Verstappen has always made clear that he won’t be on the grid forever, no matter how much he loves racing and winning in Formula One. As the youngest-ever starter […]

Nearly 20 years ago, Conrad Piccirillo attended his first Indiana Fever game. The WNBA franchise was just five years into its existence and on the brink of its best year to date, but he admittedly was not there for the basketball. His daughters, 10-year-old Caitlyn and 11-year-old Claire, were members of the Fever Inferno’s youth […]