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Charles Barkley may be the hottest free agent to hit the market next year, if he hits the market. As Warner Bros. Discovery wrangles with the NBA in court, hoping to win back a piece of the league’s media rights for 2025, there is already a line of suitors for …

By Hailey Salvian, Shayna Goldman and Sean Gentille We waited more than a year for proper PWHL nicknames and logos. Now that we have them, courtesy of Monday’s official unveiling, we’re not going to waste any more time. Which of the six new combos — the Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost, …

TUCSON, Ariz. – After the four-digit code is punched in and the gate whirs open, there’s one last bit of direction from the voice on the other end of the line. “It’s the last house on the right,” Noah Fifita says. “Where the BMW is.” The black 740i with California …

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Remember these guys? It hasn’t actually been long since the San Francisco 49ers looked like this, played like this, stomped around on national television like this and seemed so very suited for another Super Bowl run like this. But yes, everybody needed some reminding. After this …

Some broadcasting notes from the NFL’s Week 1: 1. So who had Bill Belichick having more broadcasting jobs than Ryan Seacrest? But there was Belichick on ESPN2 Monday night, playing the role of Charles Grodin to Peyton and Eli Manning’s David Letterman. His first-half spot during the New York Jets–San …

By Tim Britton,  Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. All right, enough fooling around. There are less than three weeks left in the …

The night before Liverpool’s former owners faced the media for the first time at Anfield in February 2007, a meeting was held about the running order for business. George Gillett, a junk bond millionaire, had initially been batted away from the club because he did not have deep enough pockets. …

James Earl Jones, who was 93 when he died Monday, will be remembered by baseball purists for the stirring, soul-reaching words he delivered in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams.” Cast as a fictitious writer named Terence Mann, Jones is nominally speaking to Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella. But what he’s …

CHICO, Calif. — Years ago, Dennis Wallen was driving through Marysville, about 40 minutes south of Chico, when he spotted an old, torn up bicycle leaned up against a storefront. An avid fan of “American Pickers,” he’s always on the lookout for undiscovered treasures, especially bikes. The owner had bought …

Tyreek Hill spent part of his morning in handcuffs, then part of his afternoon in the end zone. Josh Allen showed why he’s a perennial MVP contender. The Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears proved in Week 1 you don’t need to score an offensive touchdown to win a game. And …