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Ranking the 2026 'Monday Night Football' games: Bills-Rams, Eagles-Bears, Mahomes' return?
After months of mounting hype and idle space, the 2026 NFL schedule has finally been unveiled in full. Rejoice, fair townspeople! Now is our time for projection and prediction.Here, we are ranking the 17 “Monday Night Football” matchups that were just announced. The league’s primetime spots are all cool in their own ways, but there’s a special hold around MNF — its end-of-week finality, enduring theme music and disarming graphics. Though we’re still a few months away from hearing Joe Buck’s stat...
Manchester United’s summer strategy: who to keep, who to sell and who to sign
Marcus Rashford and Manuel Ugarte appear prime candidates to leave while Elliot Anderson and Adam Wharton are among the targetsManchester United’s return to the Champions League means they need squad members who can cope with the playing in two elite competitions a week. Casemiro’s departure has been announced and he will not be the only one leaving. Tyrell Malacia’s existence has often been forgotten over the past four years, the left-back having made 27 league appearances, so he will not be mi...
How one NHL family prepares to head home for the offseason — to Australia
ST. LOUIS — Last Saturday morning, St. Louis Blues forward Nathan Walker received a text message from his mother, Ceri.“Hope everything is OK with the packing,” she wrote. “Just a reminder that it’s Mother’s Day.”For Walker in St. Louis, it was actually the day before Mother’s Day. But for Mom, who was 15 hours ahead in Australia, it was the holiday.Advertisement
Canadiens' Phillip Danault providing exactly what Montreal hoped for when it traded for him
BUFFALO, N.Y. — There are always two sides to every story when evaluating a top player’s performance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.For the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, a narrative throughout the series was the production of their top line against the Tampa Bay Lightning. And while captain Nick Suzuki took that lack of production to heart and owned it, the reality is there was an opponent on the other side factoring into that performance.Advertisement
Remembering the Guardians' late PA announcer Bob Tayek: 'He was the voice of the ballpark'
CLEVELAND — Joe Buck kicked it over to Bob Tayek for the honor of a lifetime, to introduce two World Series teams on national TV in October 2016. In the Tayek household, everyone gathered around the TV, phones in hand, ready to record their own videos of the Progressive Field public address announcer receiving his moment to shine on the grandest stage.Advertisement
The Knicks are for real? Plus: Aronimink gets nasty.
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox.Good morning! If you can read this newsletter here, you can read it anywhere. Inside: 🗽 Knicks have a chance 🚦 Traffic jam at the PGA 🏇 Preakness minus Tempo New York, New York: The Knicks could actually do it this timeFor a non-Knicks fan with a normal level of interest in the NBA playoffs, it’s become a springtime ritual the past few years: Peer in on the New Yo...
How Kansas City became unlikely 2026 World Cup hosts for the US
Kansas City overcame major odds to become one of 11 venues in the United States for the biggest World Cup ever.
Celtic v Hearts: Scottish Premiership title decider – live
⚽ Updates from the 12.30pm BST kick-off at Celtic Park⚽ Live scores | The table | Get Football Daily | Mail SimonThree changes for Hearts, who drop Frankie Kent, Claudio Braga and Blair Spittal to the bench and bring Stephen Kingsley, Pierre Landry Kabore and Jordi Altena. No changes for Celtic.Celtic: Sinisalo, Johnston, Trusty, Scales, Tierney, McGregor, Engels, Nygren, Yang, Tounekti, Maeda. Subs: Doohan, McCowan, Iheanacho, Osmand, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Saracchi, Murray, Forrest, Ralston.Hea...
Chelsea star shares advice he received from Pep Guardiola as two giants face off in FA Cup final
Chelsea star Romeo Lavia has shared advice he received from Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola as the two giants of English football face off in the FA Cup final.The Belgian midfielder first impressed the City manager during a youth tournament named after Kevin De Bruyne whilst playing for Anderlecht.Despite De Bruyne being among the most eye-catching creative midfielders in Premier League history, Guardiola encouraged Lavia to adopt a different approach during his time at the City Academy.The B...
Cavs' postseason fate is on Donovan Mitchell's shoulders now
CLEVELAND — This is why he is here. It’s on him now. This is why the Cleveland Cavaliers surrendered three players and three unprotected draft picks to acquire Donovan Mitchell, for moments such as Sunday’s Game 7 in Detroit.Mitchell has heard all the criticisms of not being able to get out of the second round. He had the perfect opportunity at home Friday night in Game 6 to close out the Pistons, to unburden himself from one of the largest stains left on his terrific career.Advertisement
Xabi Alonso wanted for Chelsea job as appointment timeline accelerates
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'In Chennai, they know': Shastri sees silver lining for CSK after LSG loss
Ravi Shastri urges Chennai Super Kings to view their loss to Lucknow Super Giants as a learning opportunity. He highlighted the challenging pitch and praised CSK's 187 score despite batting struggles. Shastri believes key players will bounce back and bowlers will gain valuable experience for future matches, especially at home.
FIFA delegation set to meet Iran soccer officials for World Cup talks
A FIFA delegation is set to meet officials from the Iran Football Federation (FFIRI) on Saturday to offer reassurance over the team’s participation at the 2026 World Cup in the United States.Sources briefed on the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity, indicated the meeting is scheduled to take place in Istanbul, Turkey, and the FIFA delegation will be led by the federation’s secretary general Mattias Grafstrom.Advertisement
King Charles and Queen Camilla celebrate three horse victories in York and Newbury
King Charles and Queen Camilla enjoyed an exceptional day at the races on Friday, with three of their horses winning.The royal couple secured victories at two separate racecourses, claiming a pair of wins at York alongside another triumph at Newbury.Portcullis and Warrant Holder both delivered winning performances on the Knavesmire, while Point Of Law completed the impressive hat-trick further south.All three horses are trained by father-and-son duo John and Thady Gosden, making it a particularl...
Our 5 favorite mental tricks that help top athletes perform
This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk covering the mental side of sports. Sign up for Peak’s newsletter here.For the last two years, I’ve talked to athletes, coaches, professors and psychologists to better understand what it takes mentally to perform at the highest level.One theme has consistently surfaced: The importance of internal habits, or subtle mental shifts and tools, that can gradually reshape patterns of thought.Advertisement
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. uses José Caballero's bat in slump-busting night: 'I love that bat'
NEW YORK — Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. has been desperate to break the terrible slump he’s been in to start the season. To change his luck, he first tried wearing Trent Grisham’s pants; then, he moved to Giancarlo Stanton’s.But Chisholm believes he has found a new talisman — at least for now: shortstop José Caballero’s bat, which he swung to three hits, a walk and two RBIs in a 5-2 win over the New York Mets in the Subway Series opener at Citi Field on Friday night.Advertisement
How Jason Collins’ coming out essay became the ‘perfect story’ for Sports Illustrated
Arn Tellem was on vacation in Africa when he got a message from Jason Collins saying he had something important to discuss. Tellem thought his client was going to tell him he was leaving for a different agent.The NBA player’s news was a bit different: he was gay, and he was ready to come out.“I’ll never forget, it was a profound moment in my career and really was an incredibly powerful moment in our relationship,” Tellem said in an interview with The Athletic this week.Advertisement
Red Sox run into outs on basepaths, waste opportunities against MLB's top team
ATLANTA — The Boston Red Sox have undoubtedly — and inexplicably — been a better team on the road this season than at home.Entering Friday, they were hitting .247 on the road compared with .223 at home. They were averaging 4.8 runs per game away from Fenway Park compared with 2.8 runs at home. They’d homered 20 times on the road compared with 11 times at home. And with runners in scoring position, they had hit .294 on the road versus just .174 at home.With the start of a six-game road trip, migh...
Super Bowl LXI odds, playoff projections for every NFL team. Will Seahawks repeat?
After all the rumors and leaks, we finally have the 2026 NFL schedule etched in stone, which means it’s time to make some (way-too-early) predictions.For that, we’ll simulate the season 100,000 times using my NFL Projection Model to see who is most likely to come out on top.The model works by projecting how a team performs compared to league average. Using this projection, we are then able to predict a winner for every game on the schedule. These projections take into account home-field advantag...
Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez to call June 6 Yankees-Red Sox game for Fox
Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, Alex Rodriguez and play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt will call the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox game on Saturday, June 6, as the Fox studio team will move into the Bronx booth.Jeter, Ortiz, Rodriguez and Burkhardt are usually in the Fox Sports studio featured during the All-Star Game, the playoffs and the World Series. Rodriguez was a weekly game analyst on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” while Jeter and Ortiz have never been game analysts.Advertisement