Category: Sports

The transfer window might have closed on Monday night, but the question marks remain. As you sit here on Tuesday morning, you might be left wondering about the business your team did — or in a lot of cases, didn’t do. Why have they not brought in that extra player? Why did they let one […]

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline.  The Los Angeles Lakers have been involved in some of the biggest trades in NBA history, but Saturday night’s deal might be the biggest of all time. Yes, there’s recency bias, and there’s no way of knowing how the deal will pan out. But […]

The winter of 2022 was the greatest frenzy of sports broadcasting talent in history, with hundreds of millions doled out for NFL commentators. ESPN poached Fox’s top team, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, for a combined total of $165 million. Newcomer to the NFL, Amazon Prime Video signed Al Michaels — who had been discarded […]

The man who has led the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl run, the man who has been the most exciting player in football, almost quit the sport just before his career was about to take off. That was 14 years ago, in Eastern Pennsylvania, before Saquon Barkley became SAQUON! — a hulking, hurdling blur with superhero-like […]

“I don’t get that. I don’t understand that. … One minute he’s gonna take on the whole world, and then, 12 hours later, he’s sucking down pills. Why?” “Why? ‘Cause people are f—–g incomprehensible. (That’s) why.” Marty Bach, “Michael Clayton,” 2007 There is rarely a surprise in the NBA. When a coach is about to […]

No team in Super Bowl history loaded up to get there quite like the 1994 San Francisco 49ers. Jimmy Johnson’s rival Dallas Cowboys had won the previous two Super Bowls, beating the 49ers in the NFC Championship Game both times. Mike Holmgren’s Green Bay Packers were rising in the NFC. Free agency was new. Competition […]

De’Aaron Fox is headed to the San Antonio Spurs in a multi-team deal that’s sending Chicago’s Zach LaVine to the Sacramento Kings, a team source told The Athletic. Kevin Huerter, Zach Collins and Tre Jones will head to the Chicago Bulls as part of the deal. Jordan McLaughlin will go to the Spurs. The Kings […]

Executives around the WNBA largely expected this offseason’s market to serve as a tune-up for next winter. At the start of the offseason, only two non-rookie contract players had deals that extended past 2025. Seismic change loomed. But after an avalanche of moves, significant shifts have come an offseason early as a hectic week of […]

You can place plenty of bets on the Super Bowl, from typical wagers on the game itself to weird and bizarre props. Somewhere, someone is offering a bet on or including on a watch party’s prop sheet almost anything even vaguely related to the Super Bowl. By that standard, betting on the result of the […]

You wonder what went through the mind of Alaves’ left-back, Manu Sanchez, three minutes into the game against Barcelona at Montjuic yesterday. Lamine Yamal, the player who Sanchez was assigned to mark for the next 87 minutes or so of his life, had dribbled past him and four other team-mates in practically his first involvement […]