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A new contender in the West, plus saying goodbye to John Sterling
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning! Wear something bold today. Inside: 😤 Minnesota’s grit 📻 RIP, John Sterling 🏈 Dion Jordan’s incredible path While You Were Sleeping: The playoffs are getting betterEach year, the first round of the joint NBA/NHL playoff calendar takes a toll on me. Some nights can include eight postseason games, all shouting for their own attention. It bec...
Why Premier League title is Arsenal's to lose after Man City slip
Why Premier League title is Arsenal's to lose after Man City slipTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedWhy Premier League title is Arsenal's to lose after Man City slipClose00The Monday Night Club's Mark Chapman, Charlie Adam, Shay Given and Rory Smith discuss Manchester City's title race slip after drawing 3-3 at Everton in the Premier League.Listen to the best bits of the Monday Night Club on the Football Daily podcast....
Travis Konecny's miss on breakaway in overtime costs Flyers: 'It's got to go in'
RALEIGH — It was the kind of opportunity Travis Konecny surely fantasized about in springtimes past.Stanley Cup playoffs. Tied at two. Overtime. On the road. A breakaway opportunity, and with it, a chance to silence thousands of shrieking enemy fans, and send his Philadelphia Flyers back home with the series tied and momentum suddenly on their side.Advertisement
On night filled with tributes for John Sterling, 'theeeee Yankees win' in fitting fashion
NEW YORK — The most fitting tribute to John Sterling did not come during a pregame ceremony. It came in the first inning at Yankee Stadium.After Trent Grisham led off with a double, Aaron Judge crushed his MLB-leading 14th home run of the season. As he rounded the bases, he wasn’t initially thinking about giving the Yankees a 2-0 lead.“(I) was chuckling around the bases thinking what he was probably saying,” Judge said.It was the kind of moment Sterling spent more than three decades turning into...
Which Browns have been overlooked this offseason? Quinshon Judkins leads the list
The Cleveland Browns’ 10-man draft class officially arrives Thursday afternoon for a weekend rookie minicamp. Two weeks from today, the quarterback competition and overall installation of new coach Todd Monken’s offense will proceed to the next step when Cleveland holds its first organized team activity practice.Advertisement
Phillies takeaways: Aaron Nola changes up, outfield construction, fly-ball singles
Needing one more pitch to complete six scoreless innings, Aaron Nola went for a right-on-right changeup, a pitch he’s barely used over the past three years. He had thrown 14 right-on-right changeups this season before that one to Otto Lopez, and it was down and in. Lopez fouled it off. For Nola to succeed in Year 12, he does not have to reinvent himself. He won’t.Advertisement
How Pistons coach J.B. Bickerstaff transformed the NBA's worst team into winners
As 21-year-old Jarret Jack was going through his pre-draft workout circuit in the summer of 2005, he noticed one coach in particular had a level of passion none of his peers replicated.That coach was J.B. Bickerstaff, a second-year assistant for the Charlotte Bobcats working under his father, Bernie, the Bobcats’ head coach. Jack recalls the younger Bickerstaff — then 26 with a full head of hair — possessing the same fervor with which he now paces the sideline of Little Caesars Arena.Advertiseme...
Taylor Hall brought his 'B-minus game' to Hurricanes' Game 2 win, but it was enough
RALEIGH, N.C. — Taylor Hall knows pretty goals. You don’t score 302 times over 16 NHL seasons without mixing in plenty of them. So he was not expecting the bit of work he did in Tuesday night’s fourth period to fit the bill.Then, after he and the Carolina Hurricanes left the ice with a 2-0 series lead over the Philadelphia Flyers after a 3-2 win, Hall watched the replay of himself forcing his way to the slot, tumbling to the ground on his initial shot, then regaining his footing and batting the...
The Knicks' offense is achieving basketball nirvana in the playoffs
NEW YORK — Think of your favorite song.Surely, there’s a crisp snare following a thumping kick drum. A melody that rides over both like a wave does the ocean floor. Vocals cutting through to provide perspective to the backdrop of the track. All together it evokes an emotion.Harmony.The Knicks’ offense is in that level of flow state. It’s vinyasa with a basketball, synchronized swimming on the hardwood.Advertisement
Nationals fan survey results, Pt. 2: 80 percent of readers say Lerners should sell
WASHINGTON — It appears that the goodwill the Washington Nationals ownership group earned in the 2010s is mostly gone.In the aughts, with Ted Lerner at the helm, they supported expensive rosters and built winners. Over the last six years, spending has dwindled, clear direction has been hard to come by, and the losses have followed.Advertisement
With UDFAs, Eagles add to safety competition, return to rugby well
The Philadelphia Eagles have a history of making full use of their rookie allocation. Franchise pillars were found in the late rounds: Harold Carmichael, Jason Kelce, Jordan Mailata. Undrafted rookies have also carved out long-term roles. Reed Blankenship, the most recent example, rose from the ranks of the undrafted and became a full-time starting safety. That the Eagles are seeking to replace Blankenship, who signed a three-year, $24.75 million deal with the Houston Texans, makes analyzing thi...
Our experts pick preseason All-WNBA teams: Paige Bueckers, A'ja Wilson, Caitlin Clark
A new season is almost here, and the WNBA’s 30th anniversary promises to be a landmark year.Players are already in the spotlight for their increased salaries. Big moves between teams have been made. Young talent is brimming in the league and ready to shine.The Athletic’s women’s basketball reporters — Annie Costabile, Brian Hamilton, Chantel Jennings and Sabreena Merchant —have cast their votes to assemble our preseason All-WNBA teams. From their points of view, expect the veterans to dominate t...
Joe Maddon: These are the 3 best leaders I managed in MLB
This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here.Joe Maddon managed for 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. He was a three-time Manager of the Year and won the 2016 World Series with the Chicago Cubs. These are the three best leaders he managed.Advertisement
'An easy call': Ducks fume after icing wave-off leads to Golden Knights' winning goal
LAS VEGAS — Ivan Barbashev had just put the puck into an open net for his latest clutch playoff goal for the Vegas Golden Knights. Anaheim Ducks coach Joel Quenneville was furious and his players were mystified.In Anaheim’s view, the game-winning play in Vegas’ 3-1 victory in Game 1 on Monday night should never have happened.Advertisement
John Chayka has a divisive reputation. Can he and the Maple Leafs overcome it?
It’s fair to say that Monday’s news conference announcing the Toronto Maple Leafs’ new general manager is going to be remembered and talked about for a long, long time in this city.We’ll see if it’s for wrong the reasons.Word that John Chayka was in the running to be the Leafs’ next top hockey executive first hit my inbox at the start of April. A source with longstanding connections to the team sent over an article from a site I hadn’t heard of that stated Chayka had talked to the team about a p...
The Maple Leafs are on the clock with Auston Matthews
John Chayka equated his first few weeks as general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs to “trying to catch a moving train,” but even that might have been selling his challenge short.This looks a lot more like “Mission: Impossible.”Chayka’s surprising second chance in the NHL comes from an ownership group that has no interest in a rebuild and expects him to immediately rebound an aging 28th-place team back into its competitive window. This, while inheriting a cupboard woefully short on assets, in...
RFU backs Steve Borthwick to lead England for 2027 World Cup after Six Nations review
England suffered four defeats in dismal Six NationsBill Sweeney says improvement not ‘one simple answer’Steve Borthwick and his coaching staff are to remain in charge of England’s men’s team despite the squad’s worst Five or Six Nations for 50 years. The Rugby Football Union has opted to back Borthwick and his lieutenants through to next year’s Rugby World Cup in Australia having completed what it described as “a detailed and robust review” of England’s latest campaign.Despite having lost four F...
Michael Penix and the 6 biggest questions facing the Falcons after the NFL Draft
With the NFL Draft complete and rookie minicamp just around the corner, the Atlanta Falcons still have plenty of questions to address as Kevin Stefanski’s first season as head coach approaches.Today, let’s look at six of the most interesting among them.When will James Pearce Jr. be back?Let’s get this one out of the way first. The short answer is we don’t know. The pretrial intervention program Pearce entered in hopes of having his three felony charges dismissed will extend into October, and the...
What's at stake in the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery? Top prospects, team needs, more
The 2026 NHL Draft class doesn’t feature a clear talent at its apex like Connor Bedard or Macklin Celebrini. However, what it lacks in a surefire No. 1 prospect, it makes up for with a remarkably strong top 10. Defensemen are the story here, with four ranked in my top six. There are also prolific wingers available in Penn State’s Gavin McKenna and Frolunda’s Ivar Stenberg, and while there is a lack of a truly elite center prospect, teams are very high on Caleb Malhotra and Tynan Lawrence.Adverti...
How the Cubs’ hitting coaches are guiding rookie Moisés Ballesteros’ fast start
CHICAGO — As yet another line drive rocketed off Moisés Ballesteros’ bat during spring training, Cubs manager Craig Counsell was business as usual as he turned to the club’s hitting coaches assembled in the dugout: We need to talk.Serious in tone, and with a straight face that comes naturally for the buttoned-up skipper, Counsell delivered the message in the middle of a Cactus League game, trying to keep Ballesteros’ best interests in mind.Advertisement