Category: Sports

Will Ohio State repeat? Can Arch Manning lead Texas back to championship glory? Which teams will re-enter the College Football Playoff conversation after missing the bracket in 2024? We’re already thinking ahead to all the possibilities of the 2025 college football season. After Stewart Mandel published his initial Top 25 last Tuesday, led by Penn […]

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA trade deadline. We’ve seen a few minor trades leading up to the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline. But with that date less than two weeks away, expect the action to heat up. I decided to create five different trade proposals that I would like to see […]

By James Jackson, Sam Amick and Jon Krawczynski The Miami Heat have suspended Jimmy Butler without pay for “an indefinite period to last no fewer than five games” after the forward walked out of the team’s shootaround Monday ahead of its game against the Orlando Magic. (2/2) The suspension is due to a continued pattern […]

He wore spandex sleeves, highlights in his hair and a diamond stud in his ear. He once called himself “the best kicker in history” and had the numbers to back it up. Before games, he used to slip a dollar bill under his wristband. “Because I was money,” Mike Vanderjagt says. He’d chirp at coaches […]

Ten media-centric thoughts, notes and takeaways off the NFL’s championship weekend 1. Network executives never root outwardly for teams, but I can assure you Fox brass liked seeing the Eagles advance to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon. They didn’t like that it came in a blowout, but I digress. The Philadelphia media market is […]

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Woody Johnson walked along the front of the New York Jets’ media conference room — bigger than the usual one, to accommodate a bigger crowd — and kept stopping to chat with some in attendance. He approached a group of photographers and asked what they thought about the team hiring Aaron […]

MELBOURNE, Australia — There are plenty of reasons to travel to Melbourne for the Australian Open each January, especially from a winter climate. It’s sunny, it’s warm and Aussies at Melbourne Park are good with beer at noon and banter all day. Roger Federer had it about right when he nicknamed this event the “happy […]

For INEOS, a regime intending to get to grips with Manchester United’s status as a loss-making enterprise, the potential €100million deal to bring Antony to Old Trafford stands out as a particularly acute example of the kind of lavish spending that has put the club in a precarious financial position. With the Brazilian now in […]

No one can say the Kansas City Chiefs are taking the easy road to NFL immortality. With a 32-29 victory over Buffalo on Sunday, the Chiefs have now conquered Josh Allen’s Bills, Lamar Jackson’s Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow’s Cincinnati Bengals in consecutive AFC Championship Games. Arrowhead Stadium is where opponent legacies go to die. […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When the clock struck 10 Saturday night at the hotel where football’s greatest winners gather before home games, the most important man in the ballroom had a hood over his head and a glazed, impenetrable look in his eyes. In less than 20 hours, Patrick Mahomes would do what he always […]