If you log on to TexAgs.com, the popular Texas A&M fandom hub, and peruse the message boards, it won’t take long to find a mention of the Aggies’ most-hated rival: Texas. On TexAgs’ premium board, where tens of thousands of paying subscribers congregate to discuss Aggies football, the longest message board thread with the most…
The Chicago Bears fired head coach Matt Eberflus on Nov. 29. DETROIT — Seconds tick down the same way. The measure of a second doesn’t change from clock to clock. “One-one-thousand,” we would say on the playground. The clock might rush you, but a clock isn’t rushed. It read 0:32 when Caleb Williams got sacked…
ARLINGTON, Texas — Something seemed a little off. DeMarvion Overshown was blitzing, and the running back picked him up. But after the two collided, the back let the Dallas Cowboys linebacker go. And that’s when Overshown changed the game. The second-year linebacker put up his right arm, got a hand on the short pass intended…
In Jared Porter’s first public comments since being fired as New York Mets general manager nearly four years ago, he called his actions inappropriate and said the organization made the best decision. In January 2021, the Mets fired Porter within nine hours of an ESPN report that revealed he had sent dozens of inappropriate text…
Friday, November 29, 2024, marks the 125-year anniversary of the formation of FC Barcelona. To mark the occasion, The Athletic is running a series of pieces, celebrating the people and the moments who have helped make the club what it is today. We have told you about the story of Joan Gamper, the man who…
America’s breadbasket straddles the Missouri River, with Iowa on the eastern slope and Kansas burying a knee in its back from the southwest. The river’s thick, muddy waters and countless tributaries irrigate the world’s most fertile farmland. In Iowa, that means corn, hogs and even turkeys. In Kansas, that’s winter wheat, sorghum and cattle. Agriculture…
Thanksgiving is all about gratitude, football, and, of course, those unavoidable family conversations you’d rather dodge. (I’m gearing up for a spirited argument with my brothers-in-law — the same guys who, six weeks ago, were texting me to tell someone at the Eagles to fire Nick Sirianni but now can’t stop talking about booking trips…
Iga Swiatek, the women’s world No. 2 tennis player, has received a one-month doping ban after testing positive for the banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ). The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) issued the ban on Wednesday November 27 and announced it publicly on Thursday, after ruling that the player’s level of fault was at the lowest…
Anthony Edwards walked out of the Target Center locker room with a smile of exasperation on his face, the kind of smile that only comes when the muscles in your face do not know how to react to the scene unfolding in front of you. His Minnesota Timberwolves had just given away a 12-point lead…
It’s Thanksgiving, so I wanted to give thanks for the 2024 MLB season, which saw the best team in the regular season — the Los Angeles Dodgers — go on to win the World Series, but their impressive run was only one of many things that will stick with me. Here’s to the people, teams,…