Believe it or not, Week 10 of the NFL regular season already is upon us, and a sense of urgency has set in across the league with just nine weeks remaining before the playoffs. The second head coach of the season received his walking papers last week. The Saints fired Dennis Allen on Monday and…

CLEVELAND — If there is anyone qualified to speak on what the Cleveland Cavaliers are doing to the rest of the league this season, it’s Steve Kerr and Draymond Green. The Golden State Warriors started winning championships after Kerr inherited a really good roster and made it great. The frenetic pace, the extra pass, the…

As the New York Giants face the Carolina Panthers in Munich this weekend, local fans wonder if American football would ever kick off in the country’s capital after commissioner Roger Goodell said last November that Berlin has “a lot of interest” in hosting an NFL game. And Goodell answered, hinting at a game to be…

Roki Sasaki, a premier pitcher in Japan and the No. 3 ranked player in The Athletic’s top 40 MLB free agent big board, is on the precipice of making his long-anticipated jump to Major League Baseball. The Chiba Lotte Marines, Sasaki’s club in Nippon Professional Baseball, announced early Saturday morning that they will post the…

How much could have changed in a month? Ask the Edmonton Oilers. When The Athletic polled its NHL staff for 2024-25 predictions in the preseason, Connor McDavid was the prohibitive favorite for the Hart Trophy, and his team was the front-runner to win the Stanley Cup. Now? Well, the Oilers are the top pick in…

After recently making his NBA debut, the Los Angeles Lakers’ Bronny James is playing in his first G League game Saturday to further his development. James will play for the South Bay Lakers at the UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo, Calif., which is also the Los Angeles Lakers training facility. Los Angeles plans…

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Dajuan Harris Jr. doesn’t love his new existence on the deepest team he’s played on in his five seasons at Kansas — “I like playing,” he says — but because of the depth Bill Self added this offseason, Harris and Hunter Dickinson could save their best for last in the final minutes…

Moves have been made, players swapped and teams remade with the NFL trade deadline passing Tuesday. Now, the unofficial back half of the season begins with Week 10. We’ll see another matchup of rookie quarterbacks, the Dallas Cowboys pivoting to Cooper Rush (and Jonathan Mingo?) against a hot Philadelphia Eagles team, Christian McCaffrey’s return to…

There was no made-for-television moment last spring as the Big Ten’s television draft unfolded. With a flurry of emails between CBS, NBC and Fox executives — plus a few follow-up phone calls to the conference to ensure contractual agreements were being met — each network consulted with its big board and planned how to best…

It feels like we’ve seen more of Steph Houghton since she’s retired. Not literally — although maybe her burgeoning media career means she is more visible to rival fans who would only glimpse her twice a season — but in a deeper, more human sense. Houghton’s interactions with the media were always cordial and insightful,…