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College football is often at its most fun when we’re wrong. Through preseason polls, tape, rumors, analytics and more, we all try to find every bit of information, but it’s ultimately impossible. This is a volatile sport played by young people with a universe of distractions. In this new era where the top competitive tiers of the sport have been …

No. 3 Indiana has its highest ranking ever in AP Top 25, Texas, USC back in the rankings  AP News Hoosiers vault to No. 3 in poll; Texas, USC back in  ESPN Live updates: AP Top 25 poll sees biggest turnover in rankings since 2022  AP News Coaches Poll: Alabama, Indiana ramp up, Oklahoma slides in college football rankings  CBS Sports Yahoo Top 10: …

This year, Fortune’s Asia team is highlighting several women leaders who are showing influence and power beyond the corporate boardroom.  Here’s who made it onto Fortune’s first-ever “Most Influential Women” ranking: Twelve women from pop culture, policymaking and professional sports, who together show the diverse ways that power gets expressed across the Asia-Pacific. Blackpink Hallyu, the Korean wave, is taking …

Do you want to share your predictions, analysis or thoughts on Saturday’s Oklahoma-Texas game? Get involved with our coverage at live@theathletic.com. In a college football season where almost nothing has gone according to plan, we know one thing about the top. On the eye test, it looks like Miami, Ohio State and Oregon are the three best and most complete …

The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 MLB Wild Card playoffs.  Baseball’s compressed Wild Card Series can get as unpredictable as its name suggests. The MLB playoff format was expanded to a best-of-three opening series in 2022. Since then, three wild-card teams charged into the World Series (the Philadelphia Phillies in 2022 and the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks …

The Red Sox could meet any one of four opponents in the first round — including the Toronto Blue Jays, the team they just played in the second-to-last series of the year. (Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images)Getty Images For the first time since 2021, the Red Sox are likely back in baseball’s postseason, headed for a Wild Card round matchup …

The time has come at last. Beginning in 2026, the SEC will match its primary conference rival, the Big Ten, and move to a nine-game conference schedule. Along with the elimination of divisions ahead of the 2024 season, the SEC football schedule has been radically reshaped as the sport continues to adapt in the College Football Playoff era. Commissioner Greg …

In a crazy season full of surprisingly fast climbs and unimaginably precipitous falls, the Yankees and Mets represent the extreme situations. Here’s our final postseason assessment, with World Series title odds.  1. Phillies  Strengths: Three outstanding lefty starters led by Cristopher Sánchez and red-hot Ranger Suárez; deep veteran lineup;, Kyle Schwarber; Jhoan Duran closing.  Concerns: The “benefit” of first-round bye …

Now four weeks into the season we’re beginning to see some clear leaders emerge in college football. There have been plenty of upsets in the AP Top 25 over the last few weeks. That said, Saturday was a quieter bit of action in terms of the top 25. Outside of ranked matchups between Illinois and Indiana, Texas Tech and Utah, …

At least four NFL starting quarterbacks Sunday can learn a lesson from fictional character Jonathan Moxon. The Brown University-bound rebel who turned down whipped-cream advances from beautiful women didn’t try to imitate star jock Lance Harbor when Harbor’s injury bumped Moxon from backup quarterback to starter in the high-school football classic “Varsity Blues.” Just like Jake Browning shouldn’t try to …