ROME — The room got a good laugh. Question after question had found its way to Rory McIlroy following Team Europe’s win in last weekend’s Ryder Cup. McIlroy being, as he so often is, fully the center of attention. Finally, a reporter took the microphone and offered to give McIlroy a break. “I have one […]

Here we go. Or should we say: Here we go again. Saturday in that feverish baseball hotbed of Atlanta, Ga., it’s the National League Division Series rematch we’ve been waiting for the last 355 days. It’s Braves versus Phillies in the finals of the NL East October Madness Regional. And while it’s mostly true that […]

Sign up for the Until Saturday newsletter | Jayna Bardahl and The Athletic’s college football staff deliver expert analysis on the biggest CFB stories five days per week. Get it sent to your inbox. It’s been a while since we’ve had a season without a clear-cut No. 1 team this deep into the fall. Several […]

Update: Jrue Holiday was traded to the Boston Celtics on Oct. 1. Details of that trade can be found here. As the NBA offseason calendar shifted to September and there was no trade in sight to his preferred trade destination of the Miami Heat, Damian Lillard incorporated himself back into the Portland Trail Blazers’ ecosystem. For […]

Cover 7 | Friday A daily NFL destination that provides in-depth analysis of football’s biggest stories. Each Friday, Richard Deitsch examines some of the biggest storylines in the NFL media world. Richie Zyontz got his foot in the door of sports broadcasting in an almost unheard-of way today: He took a full-time security job at CBS’ […]

It is Week 4 in the NFL. Time to talk about the New York Jets’ future at quarterback. Alas, the Jets find themselves in a quarterback conundrum, one that has felt never-ending for the last few … decades. Zach Wilson is clearly not the solution, now or in the future. This season feels like it […]

Sign up for the Until Saturday newsletter | Jayna Bardahl and The Athletic’s college football staff deliver expert analysis on the biggest CFB stories five days per week. Get it sent to your inbox. We entered this much-hyped college football weekend ready to learn about a lot of teams. Some flailed in the spotlight while […]

BRADENTON, Fla. — In the moments after IMG Academy once again finishes lighting up a scoreboard somewhere across the country, its players are often swarmed. Kids tap players asking for a pair of gloves worn during another IMG rout. They even ask for sweat-stained towels. Teenage contemporaries have their Snapchat apps open on their phones […]

It was May, barely a month into the Mets season, and the visiting clubhouse at Comerica Park was silent. The typical frenzy of a getaway day had been replaced by introspection, players sitting at nearly every locker, heads down as they scrolled through their phones. In a span of 27 hours, the Mets had been […]

For the past several years it has not been clear if the NBA fully understood the damage that the league and players were creating as a result of the load management that was becoming more and more fashionable. Teams and players were “following the science.” Anyone who complained too loudly on behalf of the fans […]