Jerry Jones didn’t have a sense of urgency about getting a new contract done with CeeDee Lamb while the team was in California for five weeks of training camp. But the Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager clearly wanted it done before the regular season started. Lamb and the Cowboys agreed to a four-year, $136…

This is a season about hope. For most of college football’s existence, much of the sport had none when it came to competing for a national title. Somehow, those odds got steeper when the four-team College Football Playoff was born. Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving…

MEXICO CITY — Ryan Meisinger decided to go to Mexico on July 1. He packed his belongings, boarded a commercial flight, and flew to Mexico City. When he landed, he was officially an employee of the Diablos Rojos del Mexico, a club in the Liga Beisbol Mexicana. Meisinger, 30, had begun the summer in North…

Anthony Edwards has opinions about the generations of players before he was born. Magic Johnson doesn’t think Edwards has the credentials to warrant a response. Isiah Thomas has his own thoughts, and thus the recipe for offseason NBA beef is born. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal released last week, Edwards gave a…

It was before a Manchester City press conference when a worried club official came into the room to warn everyone that — and it’s a story that feels relevant now — Sven-Goran Eriksson was as angry as he had ever seen. Eriksson had taken the City job in 2007, the era in east Manchester before…

Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg, the projected No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, has signed a deal with New Balance, the apparel company announced Monday. The deal — which was first reported by ESPN — will make Flagg one of New Balance’s signature athletes, likely including a signature shoe. Flagg joins Kawhi Leonard,…

The top tier is always exclusive territory when 50 NFL coaches and executives have their say in Quarterback Tiers each summer. That exclusivity has reached another level this year. Led by the incomparable Patrick Mahomes, only three players achieved Tier 1 status when balloting for the 11th annual survey was finished. That’s the lowest number…

The role of a college football coach seems to change by the month as the sport wrestles with the age of name, image and likeness freedoms, unlimited transfers and, soon, revenue sharing. Adding to the turnover that defines this new era: Nick Saban, arguably the greatest coach in the sport’s history, retired in January. Jim…

BOSTON — Under sunny skies on Monday afternoon, 112-year-old Fenway Park bore witness to a bit more history. Danny Jansen had been at the plate for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 26 in a game against the Boston Red Sox with one on and one out in an 0-1 count, when the skies opened…

On Nov. 25, the brothers Harbaugh will meet in the middle of a football field with squared shoulders and clenched jaws. It will be the first time Jim and John have opposed one another in 12 years. That doesn’t include four hours of floating table tennis in a pool on a recent vacation — diving…