By Sean Gentille, Jesse Granger, Shayna Goldman, James Mirtle, Mark Lazerus and The Athletic NHL Staff After two years of the Florida Panthers’ postseason dominance, is the road clear for another team to win the Stanley Cup? Can newly extended Connor McDavid take back the Hart Trophy after two years without it? The 2025-26 NHL season is finally upon us, …
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Initial thoughts from the Broncos’ 21-17 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 5 at Lincoln Financial Field: 1. Bo Nix gets his statement victory: Want to be the Super Bowl champs? You’ve got to beat the champs. And Bo Nix, Sean Payton and company just did it on the road. The Broncos have a signature win, one that’s going …
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PARIS — Five French women boxers will miss the world championships starting on Thursday in England because of complications with new gender tests that are compulsory after a furor at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The French team said it was “with astonishment and indignation” its boxers cannot compete after missing a deadline to get the test results from England. The …
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PHILADELPHIA — The 2025 NFL season certainly wasn’t a banner start for the Philadelphia Eagles. All-Pro defensive tackle Jalen Carter was ejected prior to the first play from scrimmage for unsportsmanlike conduct, allegedly spitting on Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. The ejection was the quickest in a game since 2005, when former Eagles linebacker Jeremiah Trotter Sr. was ejected from …
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Editor’s note: This article 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. The 2025 NFL season finally kicks off Thursday night with a matchup between the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and their NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys, whose contract …
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SALT LAKE CITY — The first official week of the college football season delivered in a large way. Many of the preseason thoughts that were formed about teams went out the window, while others were only enhanced as we got to see actual football on the field. It all made for a little chaos, though, and a big change in …
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NFL Preseason Power Rankings: Defending Champs Are Not No. 1 Sports Illustrated NFL Week 1 Power Rankings: Eagles get top spot to start, but Bills will finish No. 1 with long-awaited title CBS Sports NFC Hierarchy/Obituary: Week 1 edition PhillyVoice NFL power rankings Week 1: Are Bills, Chiefs, Eagles, Lions or Ravens team to beat? The Arizona Republic See where the Broncos rank in …
Read More »Khamzat Chimaev took the UFC middleweight title from Dricus du Plessis at UFC 319 on Saturday night with a performance so effortlessly dominant that simply calling it a victory via unanimous decision doesn’t quite say it. Even looking at the judges’ scorecards fails to capture how lopsided the fight was. All three judges had it 50-44 in favor of the …
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The FedEx Cup playoffs are ready to get underway and, fittingly, we start with the top 70 from the season-long standings heading to TPC Southwind for the FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis, Tenn. The longtime PGA Tour venue is a tremendous start for golf’s postseason, even if Rory McIlroy doesn’t feel like spending the second weekend of August in …
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Behind a brace from Cole Palmer, Chelsea won the Club World Cup in impressive fashion, toppling Paris Saint-Germain 3-0 on Sunday at MetLife Stadium in front of a sellout crowd of 81,118. When Palmer is in this kind of form, Chelsea can consider themselves to be one of the best teams in the world, and it showed …
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