FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The 2025 season has arrived, and with it, the return of power rankings. Every Tuesday, we will publish new rankings, reflecting the outcomes of games across the league and how they manifest change as teams attempt to climb their way to the top. With no games having yet taken place, consider this initial ranking your control …
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Here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day: 1. Anthony exits with injury: The Red Sox mounted an impressive comeback win in their game against the Guardians yesterday, but the mood was dampened by the fact that budding star Roman Anthony exited the game due to an oblique injury. After the …
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Editor’s note: This is part of our Countdown to Kickoff series, in which we highlight the NFL’s top teams, players, predictions and storylines to watch as the 2025 season begins. It could always be worse — in Dallas at least. Responses for The Athletic’s second annual Hope-O-Meter — the poll which measures how optimistic fans are about their team heading …
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Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is closing in on two NFL records for touchdown passes, and could break them both in Friday night’s opener against the Chargers. Mahomes has 291 touchdown passes in his NFL career (245 in the regular season and 46 in the postseason), and can break the records both for the most in his first nine NFL seasons …
Read More »George Raveling, Coach Who Brought Michael Jordan to Nike, Dies at 88 The New York Times ‘Just a magical ride to be on with him’: How Washington State played a central role to the legend of George Raveling The Spokesman-Review College basketball Hall of Famer, former Nike executive George Raveling dies at age 88 Yahoo Sports Former Iowa basketball coach George Raveling dies; …
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The San Francisco 49ers are short road favorites against the Seattle Seahawks in Week 1. We’ve heard all offseason how the Niners will need to replace the veterans they’ve lost, but a 6-win team being favored over a 10-win team brings us back to reality. It’s game week, but the Niners will tell you, “It’s about us.” So instead of …
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Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images We are now less than a week from the Minnesota Vikings opening up their 2025 regular season against the Chicago Bears. It’s a primetime matchup fit for the debut of new quarterback J.J. McCarthy. It has been obvious since the moment Sam Darnold signed with the Seattle Seahawks that this team was going to be quarterbacked …
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There will no longer be seven hours of commercial-free football on NFL RedZone. A late-season experiment with showing commercials wasn’t popular with viewers last year and host Scott Hanson had to apologize for saying at the start of the broadcast that the show would be free of advertisements, but they are now here to stay. Hanson confirmed that during an …
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Hot on the heels of the announcement of their driver line-up of Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez for 2026, Cadillac have revealed that IndyCar racer Colton Herta will fulfil the role of test driver at the team. American driver Herta, whose name had been spoken of in relation to a seat at Cadillac before the Bottas/Perez line-up announcement came on …
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Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony exited yesterday’s game due to soreness in his left oblique. He’ll be placed on the 10-day injured list, manager Alex Cora revealed in a radio appearance on WEEI today. Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reported not long beforehand that Anthony was likely to be placed on the IL and that the Sox would recall utilityman Nick …
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