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We are about a quarter of the way through the college football season, and there has been no shortage of drama. Three of the 12 teams projected to make the College Football Playoff by my model in the preseason are no longer in the field, and three teams that were …

By now, much of the rage has passed. The takes have gone cold, the vitriol has been spewed, and all the jokes have been told about the dopey owner being born on third base and thinking he’s hit a triple. The Oakland Athletics will soon pass into history, which means …

By Ben Standig, Paul Dehner Jr. and Mark Puleo In a battle of recent LSU Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, the rookie upended the Pro Bowl veteran and, in the process, may have dashed the Cincinnati Bengals’ playoff hopes before the calendar hits October. The Bengals fell to 0-3 with their 38-33 …

It seems like college football fans are booing the home teams and players more often, which goes right along with college football players getting paid in the open and college athletic departments early in the stages of asking for even more money so they can share court-mandated revenue with the …

It’s only Week 4 in the NFL, and already the league has given us plenty of surprises. Some of them have been good (Hello, Seattle Seahawks). Some have been bad (Sorry, Trevor Lawrence). This week the Power Rankings have dug deep to find something surprising on each team, and we’ll …

It had to be Rodri, didn’t it? The man who, before this season, according to football data website Transfermarkt, had missed just five games through injury for Manchester City since joining the club in 2019, is out — and possibly for the rest of the season. Why did it have …

BERLIN — “Vamoooooos,” a roar, and the ball skied in celebration. Carlos Alcaraz did what he normally does when he wins a tennis match — except this time he was dressed all in blue, playing on a black court, and about to be mobbed by Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and …

The Minnesota Vikings look like the best team in the NFL’s best division, unless Sam Darnold’s MRI says otherwise. There’s a sentence no one saw coming. We aren’t crowning anybody after Week 3. Former Vikings coach Dennis Green (RIP) would not allow it. But the first three weeks of this …

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Kyle Shanahan could probably sense the possibility coming. Perhaps that’s why he was so adamant about breaking the Los Angeles Rams’ spirit. For most of Shanahan’s tenure in the Bay, the San Francisco 49ers have owned his buddy Sean McVay’s club. SoFi Stadium on Sunday was, again, …

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Much of the talk going into Tennessee’s trip to Oklahoma was about Volunteers coach Josh Heupel’s return to his alma mater, Heupel was right when, through teary eyes, he told his players that Saturday’s 25-15 …