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The crowd was roaring like it’d just seen a knockout in a heavyweight fight. But this was not that. It was Week 1 of the 2018 season, and the New York Jets were at Ford Field in Detroit to play the Lions. The matchup was highly anticipated, a prime-time game …

Croix Bethune’s head-turning rookie season came to an abrupt end when she suffered a torn meniscus while throwing out the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game last week. The injury will require surgery and will land Bethune on the season-ending injury list, the Washington Spirit said Wednesday. Spirit coach …

Penny Hardaway has been an OK basketball coach through six seasons with the Memphis Tigers, but his program is nationally relevant only in its ability to generate embarrassing headlines. The middling hoops product no longer justifies the off-court turmoil — the latest of which includes four members of Hardaway’s staff …

Follow live coverage of Kansas City Chiefs vs. Baltimore Ravens in today’s NFL season opener The Kansas City Chiefs have won back-to-back Super Bowls, so the entire NFL will be looking to knock them off their perch atop the league. What’s surprising, though, is that despite winning two titles in …

The 2024 season is here. The Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs get things started tonight, followed by a Friday night matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles. With no time to waste, let’s look at The Athletic’s NFL staff picks for MVP, Super Bowl champion and more. …

Kemba Walker is an NCAA champion and a four-time NBA All-Star. He also is a product of the Bronx. Those things, he believes, are inextricably linked. Walker, who retired from playing pro basketball in July and joined the Charlotte Hornets coaching staff, is one of the last great New York …

When Idaho scored on its second trick play of Saturday night’s surprising showdown against No. 3 Oregon to pull to within three points of the Ducks midway through the fourth quarter, the Vandals looked poised to pull off the biggest upset in college football history. The Ducks, who had beaten …

The top tier is always exclusive territory when 50 NFL coaches and executives have their say in Quarterback Tiers each summer. That exclusivity has reached another level this year. Led by the incomparable Patrick Mahomes, only three players achieved Tier 1 status when balloting for the 11th annual survey was …

Presumably, once you’ve won Olympic gold and broken your own world record, you get a little bored. At least, that’s the simplest explanation for Mondo Duplantis and Karsten Warholm racing each other over 100m on a warm, early September evening in Zurich, the night before the Weltklasse Diamond League meet. …

There’s still a long season ahead in college football with most teams only having played one game but Florida State couldn’t have gotten off to a worse start. The Noles, who began the season ranked No. 10, are 0-2 with losses to two unranked opponents. The team has struggled despite …