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Tiger Woods is expected to play competitive golf again in January. Woods, who underwent back surgery last month, is being promoted as making his TGL debut in the nascent league’s second week of competition. His Jupiter Links Golf Club team will play Los Angeles Golf Club at 7 p.m. ET …

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 Six Kings Slam ended, while tournaments in Europe and Asia moved the season closer to the finals in Turin, Italy, for the ATP and in …

Sunday provided an extreme example of what the San Francisco 49ers can look like, at their worst, with Brock Purdy left to fend for himself on offense. Star running back Christian McCaffrey remained out. Starting receiver Deebo Samuel fell ill shortly before kickoff and lasted three snaps. The other starting …

After the Patriots lost their sixth in a row, first-year coach Jerod Mayo called his team soft. After the boos rained down on Saquon Barkley in his return to MetLife Stadium — one sign even read “TRAITOR” — the Eagles’ star running back torched his old team. And after another …

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It’s time to take notice of BYU. The Cougars are undefeated and have delivered Kansas State and SMU their only losses of the season. Yet BYU remains outside the top 10 in both the AP …

The Charlotte Hornets’ first home preseason game felt more like it was being played 600-plus miles northeast, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in Manhattan. Blue and orange garb overpowered teal and white inside the Queen City’s Spectrum Center. There were more Jalen Brunson and Patrick Ewing jerseys than LaMelo Ball …

LOS ANGELES — With the season over and dreams of advancing to the World Series dashed, Pete Alonso spent what could be his final moments inside a New York Mets clubhouse connecting with people he cared deeply about. He looked third baseman Mark Vientos eye-to-eye, both pairs moist, as he …

The tennis world awoke to a surprise on Monday, with Aryna Sabalenka replacing Iga Swiatek as No. 1 in the WTA rankings. Sabalenka, who has won two Grand Slam titles in a sterling season, has been engaged in a battle for supremacy with Swiatek — who has a Grand Slam …

NEW YORK — The 2024 WNBA Finals was one of the most memorable series in league history. Even as they were competing against each other, Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty players recognized the beauty of their competition and what a great advertisement it was in a season that brought …

NEW YORK — At long last, the New York Liberty are WNBA champions. Sunday’s Game 5 between the Liberty and Minnesota Lynx was far from New York’s most aesthetically pleasing game of the season, but style points aren’t awarded in winner-take-all affairs. Instead, the only number that matters is the …