Category: Sports

There’s nothing that excites a journalist quite like a deal coming together past its initial deadline. Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s 14-year, $500 million contract extension with the Blue Jays came nearly … Read More

Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s Premier League football. This was the weekend when Aston … Read More

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the most mercurial player on the … Read More

SAN ANTONIO — J’Wan Roberts extended his hands. Settle down, he begged. Yes, this was impossible. Yes, this whole swirling, bizarre night was on the verge of alchemy. Yes, this … Read More

SAN ANTONIO — From their seats seven rows behind Duke’s bench, Ralph and Kelly Flagg had the perfect vantage point of the moment everything turned to dust. With eight seconds … Read More

The Athletic has in-depth coverage of the 2025 Men’s Final Four. The men’s NCAA Tournament started with 68 teams and plenty of March Madness dreams. Three weeks and 66 games … Read More

Just when you think you’ve seen everything that football has to offer, along come Ipswich Town. Amid another morale-sapping defeat that all but sealed their relegation from the Premier League, … Read More

WASHINGTON — Sometime soon — Sunday maybe, perhaps Thursday — Alex Ovechkin will reach the summit. In a career jammed with consequential goals, none will be remembered more than the … Read More

TAMPA, Fla. — They don’t talk about legacy at UConn. There’s no point. Why acknowledge the obvious? Because at UConn, talking about the importance of national championships isn’t pointing out … Read More

SUZUKA, Japan — “That. Is. Insane. That is insane!” Max Verstappen’s engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, rarely sounds as impressed as he did on the radio when his driver’s pole position for … Read More