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Offensive coordinator John Morton, defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard, and special teams coordinator Dave Fipp spoke to the media Thursday as they do every week during the regular season. Here are my 10 biggest takeaways from those media sessions: 1. Sheppard felt pretty good overall about the defensive performance in Green Bay after watching the tape. He lamented a few plays, …

Nebraska coach Matt Rhule has coached in the Football Championship Subdivision. He knows what it’s like when a football program doesn’t have massive resources. He knows the big schools, the FBS, provide the lifeblood for the little guys. “I think FCS schools depend on playing FBS teams,” Rhule said. “I was in the FCS. If you don’t have an FBS …

Lineup: Devin Booker, Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, Ryan Dunn, Mark Williams Dunn is the biggest question mark here, as the Suns could opt for Royce O’Neale to add a little more spacing. But if Booker and Green are going to man the guard spots, it’d help to have another load-lightening defender next to Brooks. That way, Dunn and Brooks could …

One of the most interesting times of any professional sports league schedule is Week 2 of the NFL season. Week 1 is always wild and the results could be a bit misleading. “Any given Sunday.” Still, for those who lose to open the season, they will feel real pressure to avoid starting 0-2, which, as history has shown, can be …

The WNBA is not the only professional women’s basketball league going through a period of expansion. On Wednesday, Unrivaled, the professional 3×3 basketball league that paid the highest salaries in American women’s team sports history in its debut season, announced that it will be adding two new teams and 18 additional roster spots to the league for its second season. …

By Grant Brisbee, Johnny Flores Jr. and Andy McCullough Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. As the final month of the regular season unfolds, the standings in Major League Baseball remain in flux. Several new contenders in …

The NFL schedule-makers delivered a treat in Week 1. Three statement-making games between teams with big postseason aspirations suggested that the path to Super Bowl 60 in the AFC might run through Buffalo, and the defending champion Eagles’ biggest NFC challenger might be the Packers instead of the Lions. It was a great weekend to be Jim Harbaugh, whose Chargers …

Vibes Up/Vibes Down: These teams are off to the best (and worst) starts to the season  FootballScoop College football Power Rankings: Close wins, areas for concern and biggest surprises  ESPN USF STUNS Florida, Mateer shines for Oklahoma + wild Week 2 recap  Yahoo Sports Ranking 136 college football teams after Week 2: September surprises lead to big moves  The New York Times College Football …

Do you want to share your predictions, analysis or thoughts on Saturday’s Georgia-Tennessee game? Get involved with our coverage at live@theathletic.com. Even without marquee matchups, college football always delivers. With multiple overtime games, upsets and close calls, Week 2 provided a lot of reasons to shake up this week’s edition of The Athletic 136, just not at the top. Welcome …

South Florida leapt into the AP Top 25 for the first time in seven years, coming in at No. 18 Sunday after upsetting Florida. The Bulls knocked the Gators from the rankings, but Missouri and Auburn entered the poll to give the SEC a record 11 ranked teams. Ohio State remained No. 1 after a week where most of the …