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NFL 0-2 Teams Ranked: Playoff Chances for Chiefs, Bears, Texans, More  Action Network How many NFL teams make the playoffs after starting 0-2? These teams need hope  Yahoo Sports NFL Week 3 panic meter: Bears, Bengals raising alarms; Chiefs, Giants merit patience  NFL.com What matters (and doesn’t) from the Chiefs’ 0-2 start: Sando’s Pick Six – The Athletic  The New York Times Ranking NFL’s …

Brooke PryorSep 16, 2025, 01:37 PM ET Close Brooke Pryor is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN who has covered the Pittsburgh Steelers since 2019. She previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and the University of Oklahoma for The Oklahoman. PITTSBURGH — Steelers rookie Kaleb Johnson “probably” will not be returning kickoffs in Week …

The far-right political influencer Charlie Kirk, shot dead in an assassination at a university campus event last Wednesday, has proven as polarizing in death as he was in life. On the one hand are the MAGA faithful, mourning their preeminent youth-movement leader as a martyr. On the other are detractors who call Kirk’s ideology hateful and extreme, criticism that has …

Google Teams Up With Coinbase to Bring Stablecoin Payments to AI Apps  CoinDesk Google releases AI payments protocol that includes support for stablecoins, partners include Coinbase and Salesforce  Fortune Google Agentic Payments Protocol + x402: Agents Can Now Actually Pay Each Other  Coinbase Google launches new protocol for agent-driven purchases  Yahoo Finance Google launches AI agent-to-agent payments protocol with stablecoin support  The Block Source link

With statement victories over the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders, the Green Bay Packers have looked incredible through the first two weeks of the NFL season and solidified their status as Super Bowl contenders.  The Lions and the Commanders were top offenses last season who made a lot of explosive plays, but the Packers made both look stagnant and one …

With the 2025 college football season now a quarter of the way completed (for most teams), a much clearer picture of who is and isn’t likely to be competing for a national championship come playoff time has begun to emerge. Several elite squads have separated themselves from the rest of the pack at this early junction, and ESPN analyst Kirk …

There are few men more involved in college football than Kirk Herbstreit. On Monday, the ESPN College GameDay host revealed his top five teams in the country. Week 3 brought a whirlwind of unexpected results across the college football landscape. Five ranked teams fell, including two losses against unranked opponents. Along with Chris Fowler, Herbstreit called Georgia‘s 44-41 win over …

Do you want to share your predictions, analysis or thoughts on Saturday’s Week 4 college football games? Get involved with our coverage at live@theathletic.com. This college football season might be as wide-open as any we’ve seen in years. The introduction of name, image and likeness money and unlimited transfers has accelerated player movement at an unprecedented rate and lowered the …

The 2025 Major League Baseball season has been the season of the tailspin. We’ve seen so many contending teams going through just absolutely wretched stretches of baseball. The Mets won on Sunday, but before that had lost eight in a row and were getting in danger of falling out of the playoff picture, but they were merely the latest entrant …

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Don’t panic today. These teams have you covered. Panic Buttons, Pressed: Time to worry, everyone In the span of an NFL season, two games is nothing. A small sample size laughed at by other small …