Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi has been voted as Major League Soccer’s MVP for the 2024 season. It was the 37-year-old’s first full season at the U.S. club, whom he joined as a free agent from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2023. Messi scored 21 goals across 22 league appearances — of which 18…

Exactly one year ago today, I wrote a column about being old, and the subtle things I miss about what hockey used to be. No big issues, to be clear – we’re talking stuff like how the water bottles used to pop off the nets, and how linesmen used to have to climb the glass…

Hall of Famer Randy Moss is going to take an extended leave of absence from ESPN’s “NFL Countdown” to deal with a personal health issue, the network said. “Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss will step away from ‘NFL Countdown’ for an extended time to focus on a personal health challenge,” ESPN said in…

“I never could convince anyone … that I was anything more than a crazy Jets fan stuck in the 1980s wanting to do this film.” Some men dream of walking on the moon, building a Fortune 500 company, or starring in a Hollywood blockbuster. James Weiner had a more esoteric aspiration: He wanted to direct…

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Atop the Mercedes hospitality unit at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, cooled by nearby fans working hard in the midday heat, Lewis Hamilton sat at a table with his race engineer, Peter Bonnington, for some pre-race weekend planning. It was a routine they’d been through plenty of…

DETROIT — Players and coaches trickled in one by one in street clothes and found their seats, gathering for a final team meeting. It was the day before a much-anticipated divisional game against their rivals. They were set to hear from their head coach. Instead, the lights shut off. A movie clip — one of…

That Bill Belichick is talking with the University of North Carolina about being its next football coach brings to mind the late Rodney Dangerfield’s Thornton Melon character in the campus comedy “Back to School.” Dangerfield plays an aging millionaire clothing manufacturer who enrolls in college, the idea being that it’ll keep his son from dropping…

It began with a music video, entitled Fiesta de Campeones (the Champions Party), with lyrics that told us, “Football unites the world” and, “It’s a FIFA party, we know how to celebrate.” In a Telemundo studio in Miami, things started weird and rarely became any less surreal over almost two hours as FIFA oversaw the…

At some level, horrible players can’t disappoint us. It’s all about expectations, right? The first step to being disappointed is setting the achievement bar somewhere higher than the ground. So when we talk about the NBA season’s most disappointing players, keep in mind they’ve already done something that had us anticipating some level of success.…

The end of a New York sports radio era will conclude as “The Michael Kay Show” will soon broadcast its last program in the afternoon time slot on ESPN New York, sources briefed on the decision told The Athletic. While Kay will remain on the air in mid-days, the battle between Kay and his ESPN…