The Week 2 NFL Power Rankings are here, and that means it’s time to overreact. The league’s coaches and players have spent all offseason telling us that every year brings new possibilities, that what happened in the past and media expectations for the future don’t matter. We’re going to take them at their word. That…

Just two weeks into the season, there has been no shortage of chaos in the College Football Playoff race. Florida State fell flat on its face in both Week 0 and Week 1, seemingly knocking itself out of the race for the 12-team Playoff already. In Week 2, Notre Dame lost to Northern Illinois at…

It was a predictably sloppy season-opening week across the board, and the NFL’s top quarterbacks were not exempt from miscues or substandard performances. Patrick Mahomes threw a single touchdown pass, just the second time that’s happened in a September game since 2020. Josh Allen had to overcome an early 14-point deficit at home. Lamar Jackson…

TUCSON, Ariz. – After the four-digit code is punched in and the gate whirs open, there’s one last bit of direction from the voice on the other end of the line. “It’s the last house on the right,” Noah Fifita says. “Where the BMW is.” The black 740i with California plates isn’t hard to find…

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Remember these guys? It hasn’t actually been long since the San Francisco 49ers looked like this, played like this, stomped around on national television like this and seemed so very suited for another Super Bowl run like this. But yes, everybody needed some reminding. After this long, anxious summer of contract…

Some broadcasting notes from the NFL’s Week 1: 1. So who had Bill Belichick having more broadcasting jobs than Ryan Seacrest? But there was Belichick on ESPN2 Monday night, playing the role of Charles Grodin to Peyton and Eli Manning’s David Letterman. His first-half spot during the New York Jets–San Francisco 49ers game was his…

By Tim Britton,  Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. All right, enough fooling around. There are less than three weeks left in the regular season, and these games…

The night before Liverpool’s former owners faced the media for the first time at Anfield in February 2007, a meeting was held about the running order for business. George Gillett, a junk bond millionaire, had initially been batted away from the club because he did not have deep enough pockets. To change his possibilities, he…

James Earl Jones, who was 93 when he died Monday, will be remembered by baseball purists for the stirring, soul-reaching words he delivered in the 1989 film “Field of Dreams.” Cast as a fictitious writer named Terence Mann, Jones is nominally speaking to Kevin Costner’s Ray Kinsella. But what he’s really doing is speaking to…

CINCINNATI — Let the record show that Jerod Mayo’s first postgame news conference as a head coach in the NFL was also his first postgame news conference as a victorious head coach in the NFL. But when he stood there in the tiny interview room at Paycor Stadium on Sunday afternoon following the New England…