Just over three weeks into the 2024-25 NHL season, things are looking interesting. The Edmonton Oilers — our preseason Stanley Cup favorites — are struggling to score goals. The Calgary Flames and Minnesota Wild — two teams that missed the playoffs last year — are unexpectedly off to hot starts. And the Winnipeg Jets are…

A sudden shift could take place for more than a few NFL teams in Week 8. The Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet in the second of two NFC South showdowns. The Philadelphia Eagles–Cincinnati Bengals loser might feel like any good fortune they’ve built up over the last few weeks will vanish. The AFC…

LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball and the Players Association just worked through the last remaining big-ticket item for the A’s move to Sacramento, a playing surface to combat the heat: MLB is going with grass, not turf as it originally planned. Now the two parties can go through a whole new checklist once MLB…

Incredible, isn’t it? Every summer, Europe’s top five leagues input their clubs’ names into a machine so mythical you’re left with the impression it’s carried around in a locked suitcase by a boffin who has been handcuffed to it. The fixture computer, in reality a dull laptop, uses an algorithm to randomly draw up the…

MEXICO CITY — With his son watching on, arms draped on the right-hand side of the podium at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Sergio Pérez soaked in the adulation of his home fans. Even though Max Verstappen had won the race for Red Bull, third-placed Pérez drew the crowd’s focus after scoring his first Mexican Grand…

Here’s who our writers see winning Game 1. Cody Stavenhagen: Yankees Jack Flaherty’s latest outing was concerning. He’s been terrific all year but threw his most regular-season innings since 2019. He dealt with a back issue in July. His ERA crept to 3.67 for the month of September. For the Dodgers to win, they will…

When the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers meet in the World Series, it won’t just be a matchup of the teams with the most American League and National League pennants, respectively. It also will feature two of the most iconic and best-selling caps in the world. The Yankees and Dodgers caps represent more…

If there is a Guinness Book of World Records entry for the most consecutive field stormings in a college football season, we have our winner. Meet Gary Morse, a Class of 2026 college baseball recruit who took official visits — on three straight weekends — to Vanderbilt (for the Alabama game), Oregon (for the Ohio…

For Mikaela Shiffrin, the goalposts keep moving. All that chatter about her setting the record for the most World Cup wins and becoming the greatest skier ever is so 2023. Now, with Shiffrin getting back to racing as the alpine season begins this weekend in Soelden, Austria, the talk has shifted to when she will…

This World Series gives baseball a chance to reclaim its own moniker, for the national pastime to again be national. And maybe even more. Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball’s commissioner, has been gifted a marketer’s dream. Two of the sport’s most iconic brands, the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, are squaring off in…