By Jeff Howe, Mike Sando, Mike Jones and Dianna Russini For a league bound by parity, the NFL is ruled by the organizations with the most stability. That all starts up top. A stable owner and a trustworthy front office are non-negotiable ingredients to sustained success on the field. The best front offices not only…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No, the Kansas City Chiefs don’t have a Travis Kelce problem. Three weeks into the NFL’s season, an increasing number of people — fans, analysts and even former players — have come to a rather quick conclusion that Kelce, the Chiefs’ star tight end and future Hall of Famer, is washed.…

By Cody Stavenhagen, Sam Blum and Stephen J. Nesbitt Before he was one of the most famed actors of a generation, Tom Hanks was a boy in the Bay Area. He could see the lights of the Oakland Coliseum from his family’s home in the Lower Hills. The A’s moved to Oakland when Hanks was…

LITTLE ELM, Texas — As Zion Williamson sits in silence, preparing for a 6 a.m. workout that’s become routine since the start of July, the echoes of a meeting from three months prior still reverberate in his mind. The anger, regrets and hope expressed that day in suburban New Orleans led him to this small…

Caitlin Clark is a tough grader. In her 2024 rookie season with the Indiana Fever, the Iowa-legend-turned-WNBA-superstar drew more eyes to women’s professional basketball in the U.S. than the league had ever seen. Yet all she would call her first professional year was “solid.” On Wednesday, the 22-year-old was far more focused on what lay…

MONTREAL — When Austin Kaiser arrives at a PGA Tour stop, he first does his homework: He walks every inch of the golf course for his player, Xander Schauffele. Maybe he talks to a few other caddies along the way, chatting with a buddy or two as he scribbles notes and maps greens in his…

ATHENS, Ga. — The fans walking into a Georgia baseball game on a May afternoon cannot look in on the football practice taking place across from the stadium. But there is no escaping the booming, amplified voice radiating over Rutherford Street. “Take his f—ing job!” “His ass wants to quit!” “Do it again! Get it…

Major League Baseball didn’t ask for Hurricane Helene to interrupt what is shaping up to be two fantastic wild-card races. But the league isn’t blameless in avoiding the worst-case scenario announced Wednesday: the potential for the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets to play a doubleheader Monday, the day before postseason play begins. The…

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti was in typically relaxed form when he spoke to the media before Tuesday’s La Liga game at home to Deportivo Alaves this week. “I’ve been lucky enough to coach 300 games at the best club in the world,” Ancelotti said. “To be on this bench is something special. To sit…

“He’s in charge of that right butt cheek,” Eli Manning says. It’s Sunday afternoon of Week 2, a little more than 24 hours before the Manning brothers are on the air, and a flurry of voice memos lights up Peyton’s phone. “The RPOs all look bad, Peyt.” “I don’t think Kirk was under center for…