PALM DESERT, Calif. — As the Los Angeles Lakers broke from their huddle, LeBron James and Bronny James walked onto the floor and into NBA history books. The Jameses opened the second quarter of the Lakers’ 118-114 preseason loss to the Phoenix Suns, becoming the first father-son duo to play with one another in NBA…

LANDOVER, Md. — It’s the first week of October and the Browns’ season has ended before the Guardians season. At 1-4, this is it. It feels like it’s already over, long before the leaves change, before the bye week, before a pumpkin is carved, before the NBA season begins and before the Guardians’ baseball fate has…

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Every college football season contains a Chaos Week that throws these rankings up in the air. This year’s was bigger than any we’ve had in a long time. Four top-10 teams lost on Saturday, three of them to unranked opponents.…

Stay informed on all the biggest stories in Formula One. Sign up here to receive the Prime Tire newsletter in your inbox every Monday and Friday.  Weaving toward the exit of McLaren’s air-conditioned hospitality unit in Singapore, Lando Norris couldn’t help but sneak a small square of chocolate cake left out on the side for the team’s guests.…

Connor McDavid waited for his family in the elevator so they could sneak in quickly without being noticed. His brother hugged him first. But there were no words as the McDavids ascended the Conrad hotel in Fort Lauderdale. It was well after midnight — hours after the final seconds of the final game fell away…

“Finally the nightmare is over,” Paul Pogba declared on Friday evening, grateful and relieved to see a shaft of light at the end of the dark tunnel in which he has felt trapped for so long. Seven months after being hit with a four-year ban for a doping violation, Pogba learned from the Court of…

Follow live coverage of Cowboys vs. Steelers on Sunday Night Football today The NFL world continues to turn at breakneck speed. Two weeks ago it seemed the Jets were on the right track and the Bills were world-beaters — now, in back-to-back weeks, the Jets have struggled to score points while the Bills lost back-to-back…

LAS VEGAS — The New York Liberty have been waiting nearly 12 months for this. From the moment Courtney Vandersloot’s jumper misfired in the waning seconds of Game 4 of the 2023 Finals, the Liberty were chasing revenge, a chance to redeem themselves after an opportunity lost and to even the score against the Las…

NEW YORK — In the moments after the Royals’ 6-5 loss to the Yankees on Saturday night, Michael Massey left the field and parked himself in front of a screen in a room inside the visitors clubhouse. Massey, the Royals second baseman, knew what question was coming when the room opened to reporters, so he…

A twinge of sympathy struck in the moment, sitting in Vanderbilt’s McGugin Center last month, listening to Diego Pavia talk about turning down significant money at Nevada to play his final collegiate season at Vanderbilt instead. “That’s gonna come when I go to the NFL,” Pavia said then of the money. “That’s my dream goal.…