Surprise, surprise. This is the NFL six weeks into the season: Baker Mayfield is playing like the league’s MVP, the Indianapolis Colts are sitting atop the AFC and the Baltimore Ravens — a team that has made the playoffs six times in the last seven years — is tied for the second-worst record in football at 1-5. Don’t forget the …
Read More »A few years ago, Baker Mayfield was a castoff, given up on by multiple teams. These days, he’s starting to write the first few lines of an NFL MVP résumé. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 5-1 and Mayfield is the biggest reason why. He has made clutch plays all season, including Sunday as he led Tampa Bay to a 30-19 …
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The Las Vegas Aces and center A’ja Wilson won their third WNBA title in four years on Friday after completing a four-game sweep of the Phoenix Mercury with a 97-86 road victory. After the game, Wilson was seen celebrating the moment and embracing her boyfriend, Miami Heat center and three-time All-Star Bam Adebayo. Wilson won the WNBA Finals MVP award …
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We’ve been waiting all offseason for some sort of resolution on those nagging Giannis Antetokounmpo trade rumors. Now, we’ve seemingly gotten it. According to ESPN, the Milwaukee Bucks star not only explored the possibility of changing teams for the first time in his career, but actually had a preferred destination in mind: the New York Knicks. The Knicks and Bucks …
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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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Daniel Jones is creating a ton of buzz in Indianapolis and for good reason. That doesn’t mean his resurgence is all about him figuring things out. His head coach has played a major role in this comeback tale, and anybody who’s followed Steichen’s career could see this coming. He couldn’t figure out how to get the best of first-round pick …
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As another MLS regular season rounds to a close and Decision Day (Oct. 18) fast approaches, now is a good time to check in and see what’s on the radar over the next two-plus weeks. These will decide how 2025 is remembered, for posterity’s sake. I didn’t vote Lionel Messi for Landon Donovan MLS MVP last year. Yes, he was …
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Aaron Judge doesn’t talk on his own behalf very often, but the New York Yankees seem more than happy to handle the bulk of the bragging. With every game somehow a referendum on Judge’s MVP battle with Cal Raleigh of the Mariners, Thursday night’s action seemed to sway the voters closer to the Yankees icon after a wild Wednesday that …
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A week-and-a-half ago, before the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh became just the seventh player to reach the 60 home run mark, a baseball writer with a vote in the American League MVP race made what they thought would be a binding pledge. If Raleigh reached the milestone, the thinking went, that would be enough to pass the Yankees’ Aaron Judge. …
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Thank you for that lovely introduction. You’re a great crowd. And it’s a thrill to be here, to hand out those awards you’ve been waiting all season to tell me I got wrong. I look forward to this column every year. You look forward to disagreeing with every word of this column every year. So, as usual, this is going …
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