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We’re just over a month into the NHL regular season, and for some teams, the high hopes and optimism of the preseason have faded away for one reason or another. The Athletic asked its NHL staff this week for each team’s biggest concern at this point. The responses covered the …

“Two-nil is the most dangerous lead in football” is one of the game’s most familiar cliches. Known in his home country as Csaplar’s Trap, its origins are attributed to Czech football coach and football commentator Josef Csaplar. The phenomenon is more intangible than grounded in fact, relating to the horrible …

If there were any questions why Jay-Z picked Kendrick Lamar to perform the Super Bowl LIX halftime show February in New Orleans, a listen inside the Los Angeles Dodgers’ clubhouse after they won the World Series answered them. Lamar’s hit song “Not Like Us” played loudly. It’s become a theme …

Updated: Nov. 1, 2024 at 9:35 pm ET  This winter’s free agent class looks a bit better than last year’s dismal group, highlighted by one all-time superstar, after which there’s a decent tier of potential impact players on both sides of the ball if very few other players you could …

It’s time to turn back the clock in Indiana. After rehiring Kelly Krauskopf — who was the general manager of the Indiana Fever from 2000 to 2017 — in September to be the president of basketball operations, the Fever are getting the whole band back together with Stephanie White as …

The 2024-25 NBA season is less than two weeks old, but some noteworthy trends are starting to emerge across the league, including some we perhaps weren’t expecting. What has been each team’s biggest surprise so far, good, bad or ugly? The Athletic posed that question to its NBA staff. Here’s …

Is NHL officiating bad? Trick question, I know. Because viscerally, most people who follow the NHL as a supporter of a single team would almost universally answer, yes, it is. When people are asked to consider officiating in the abstract, they usually begin by saying they just want it to …

Steve Schnur can’t sleep. He calls it a blessing and a curse.  In pursuit of the next great sports video game soundtrack, Schnur scrolls social media in the middle of the night, discovering new music and sending it to his colleagues who have long gone to bed. That’s how he …

It’s a long wait from the first weekend in April until the first week of November, but at last, the men’s college basketball season is upon us. We’ve already shared The Athletic’s preseason conference rankings, full of stats and analysis. We’ve rolled out our preseason All-America teams and Top 25. …

Manchester United have confirmed Sporting Lisbon’s Ruben Amorim as their new head coach. The Portuguese will start officially on Monday, November 11 with Ruud van Nistelrooy, put in interim charge following Ten Hag’s departure on Monday, set to remain at the helm for upcoming games with Chelsea, PAOK and Leicester …