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Phillies, Don Mattingly making history with turnaround after manager change
Earl Weaver never did this. Joe Torre never did this. John McGraw never did this. Whitey Herzog never did this.You can run through the records of every manager in the Hall of Fame. Not one of them has done what Don Mattingly has done over the last three weeks.Until Phillies president of baseball ops Dave Dombrowski buzzed his phone in the last week of April, Mattingly thought he’d never manage another game. Three weeks later, the interim manager of the Phillies looks like a manager who might nev...
What rule changes are next? Who will go 1-2 in the MLB draft? It's our MLB Mailbag, expert edition
We’ve long treated The Athletic’s MLB mailbag the way managers once treated starting pitchers: give someone the ball and see if they can go the distance.This time, we’re experimenting with a different approach.It’s a mailbag bullpen game, and while I have the ball here in the top of the first, I’m more of an opener. My job is to give the team one good inning before a bunch of relievers come out of the bullpen, one after another — and we’re playing matchups. Specific writers are going to respond...
D'Angelo Ponds might be the next Aaron Glenn. It doesn’t mean his path to the NFL was easy
Wander over to Miller-Showers Park, a narrow, nine-acre piece of land on the north side of Bloomington, Ind., and you might find a colony of muskrats swimming around a pond at the base of the park.The park sits on the north side of Bloomington, a 10-minute walk away from the football stadium. That pond is important.Advertisement
Colts' looming position battles: Will Riley Leonard or Anthony Richardson Sr. be backup QB?
The Indianapolis Colts begin OTAs next week, so now is a good time to dive into some of the team’s looming position battles. The Colts made several roster changes this offseason, with six starters from last year finding new homes elsewhere, thus opening the door for others to fill the void.Here are my top five position battles to keep an eye on.Advertisement
A Knicks miracle in Game 1 is more reason to believe they could win it all
NEW YORK — Let’s face it, wild and crazy as it was, Tuesday night really started on Monday night for thousands of customers inside Madison Square Garden. NBA stars from other places have long described New Yorkers as educated basketball fans, sometimes to excess, but this much was clear:The Garden crowd for Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals was smart enough to understand exactly what it saw in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals. The moment Spurs wonderkind Victor Wembanyama pulled up...
Steelers DC Patrick Graham has the NFL's highest-paid defense, a blessing and a burden
PITTSBURGH — At the gas station. Out at dinner. In the airport.It seems everywhere Patrick Graham goes, the new Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator hears what the city of Pittsburgh wants to see when Renegade is blaring and the Terrible Towels are twirling.“The benefit of being here with the Steelers is that there’s a clear standard in terms of what the people of the city and the Rooney family expect,” Graham said. “I know we made mention to the Steel Curtain. There’s no need for me as a c...
'What's wrong with it?' On caste census, SC says govt should know the numbers
The Supreme Court has upheld the Centre's decision to conduct caste enumeration in the upcoming 2027 Census, stating there is "nothing wrong with it." A bench led by the Chief Justice emphasized that such data is crucial for the government to identify backward classes and implement effective welfare measures. This marks the first comprehensive caste count since 1931.
Mets minor leaguer gets called up. His dad is out of the hospital just in time to be there
At 3 p.m. on Monday, Zach Thornton called his father, Paul, to share the news that the New York Mets were promoting him to pitch in Wednesday’s game for his major-league debut.Paul answered the phone from Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago, where he has spent the past month-plus relearning how to walk after a spinal surgery went wrong.“I’m going,” Zach told his dad.Advertisement
Women’s football coach who secretly filmed players banned for life
Petr Vlachovsky, a Czech women's football club coach who filmed players in changing rooms, has been banned for life.
Inside Cadillac's first F1 home race – and the slow, relentless work of a new team
As the United States national anthem played at the Miami International Autodrome, Mario Andretti stood in front of Valtteri Bottas’ Cadillac Formula 1 car. Andretti’s right hand rested over his heart as a single Northrop B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber flew overhead.For a long time, Andretti was the American associated with the pinnacle of motorsport. The now-86-year-old competed in F1 from 1968 to 1982, winning the drivers’ world championship in 1978 and 12 grands prix across 14 seasons. And you can’...
The Spin | A little Sachin in waiting? How cricket dreams are passed down through families
Within days of new parenthood, cricket tragics often find themselves mapping out futures for their offspring in the game. I’m no differentEvery cricket-loving parent will know the feeling. Not a feeling, exactly, more a tiny flicker of hope. A ridiculous, irrational hope that the gods who once reached down and gently kissed the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Ellyse Perry might one day do the same to your little sprog.You hold your breath the first time you wrap their chubby hands around a plastic...
Chelsea announce pre-season friendly as Alonso set for historic match
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Tennis players fear wrist injuries more than any other. Carlos Alcaraz is no exception
A certain look appears in tennis players’ eyes when the pain and discomfort they can manage in so many other parts of their bodies arrives in one of their wrists.Carlos Alcaraz had it during a changeover at the Barcelona Open in April, on a court named for another Spanish great, Rafael Nadal. Nadal managed to win 22 Grand Slam titles with chronic injuries to his foot and knees that persisted through his career — as well as wrist injuries of his own.Advertisement
NBA Players Tiers 2026: Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel, injured standouts in Tier 3
2026 NBA Player Tiers: Tier 5 | Tier 4Welcome to Tier 3, quite possibly the most polarizing tier. For some teams, this is as high as it gets, which obviously doesn’t make it easy to be in contender conversations.This year, 22 teams are represented in Tier 3 (21 were represented last year). Only two teams don’t have a player placed in the top three tiers, and no team clinched a top-six playoff seed without having a player higher than Tier 3. In 2025, the Houston Rockets were the only team that cl...
Former boxing champion given football ban for using homophobic slurs
Former boxing champion given football ban for using homophobic slurs7 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleRob ThomasBBC WalesGetty ImagesThe incident happened before Wrexham's fifth round FA Cup tie against Chelsea at the STōK RacecourseA former title-winning boxer has been banned from attending all football matches for three years after admitting chanting homophobic abuse prior to Wrexham's fifth round FA Cup tie against Chelsea.Sion Yaxley, 29, from Pwllglas, Ruthin, pleaded guilty a...
Amazon Prime’s NBA playoff coverage was an alienating, strangely visionary experiment in anti-TV
The streamer has given us a broadcast so powerfully isolating it effectively anticipates sport’s viewerless futureGame 7 in the NBA playoffs: a chance to kick back, enjoy the drama of a winner-takes-all shootout between basketball’s big beasts, and … switch over from your regular TV provider to Amazon Prime? The excitement drains from the occasion at the first touch of the remote. Amazon no doubt imagined it had landed a real coup when the Eastern Conference semi-final series between Detroit and...
MLS lobbying Ifab to explore stopping clock for pauses in play
Clock would stop for injuries, substitutions and set piecesMLS previously used a stopping clock from 1996-1999Ifab last debated a stopping clock in 2017Major League Soccer has had discussions with the International Football Association Board, global football’s rule making body, about trialing the use of a stopped clock in matches.A continuously running clock that does not stop for fouls, set pieces, injuries and the like is foundational to the way time has been kept in the sport almost from its...
This week’s soccer questions: Manchester City’s next steps, and is Messi peaking at the perfect time?
We look at what Celtic’s title win means for Scottish soccer, Argentina’s World Cup plans and the prospect of a Premier League without Pep GuardiolaSir Alex Ferguson may have him beat for longevity and number of titles. Arsène Wenger can take some credit for English soccer’s modernization in the 1990s, but Pep Guardiola completely changed the landscape in his decade as Manchester City manager. Continue reading...
Meet the 2026 NHL Draft prospect from a Caribbean island without an ice hockey rink
There isn’t an ice hockey rink on Grand Cayman, the largest of the three Cayman Islands in the Caribbean Sea.But through the front doors of the King’s Sports Centre, up the stairs, past the gym and left, there’s a small — nay, “tiny” — roller hockey rink made out of square tiles.When Jaxon Cover was growing up, and it would rain outside, water would leak into the rink. You couldn’t rollerblade on the wet tiles, so he’d improvise and wheel around the slick patches.Advertisement
Brian Flores subpoenas 25 NFL teams to delay discrimination lawsuit, league alleges
Attorneys for Minnesota Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores requested access to 24 years’ worth of hiring and employment documents from nearly every NFL team, according to lawyers representing the league and several of its franchises against allegations of employment discrimination.Flores, who is Black, has been in a legal battle with the NFL and multiple teams since 2022, when he sued over his belief that he was treated unfairly due to his race after his firing as head coach of the Miami...