The Los Angeles Dodgers smelled blood in the water. Down 5-0 in Game 5 of the World Series, the Dodgers capitalized on several Yankee blunders in the fateful fifth inning to tie the game and eventually win 7-6 to clinch the franchise’s eighth championship. “Everybody saw it. We’re all thinking it: (The Yankees) kind of (expletive) down their leg,’ Dodgers ...
Week 12 of the 2024 NFL season is a light one, six teams on bye weeks. It’s also not exactly frontloaded, Thursday’s Pittsburgh Steelers-Cleveland Browns matchup offering little intrigue aside from the hope division rivalries tend to produce compelling football. But the drama should pick up late Sunday afternoon, when the San Francisco 49ers, badly in need of a win, ...
The Pittsburgh Steelers (8-2) and Cleveland Browns (2-8) are set to clash on ‘Thursday Night Football’ to kick off Week 12. The Steelers lead the AFC North and are riding a five-game winning streak. Meanwhile, the Browns have lost two in a row and are looking to play spoiler in arguably the most fiercely contested division in the NFL. Although ...
(This story has been updated to correct an inaccuracy and to fix a typo.) Daniel Jones spoke to reporters after Thursday’s practice for the first time since the New York Giants benched him in favor of third-string quarterback Tommy DeVito. Jones walked up to the podium and greeted reporters by letting them know he had something to say. ‘I wrote ...
Julian “JuJu” Lewis, one of the nation’s top quarterback recruits, announced Thursday that he will play for Coach Sanders and his Colorado football team, making him the likely successor to Sanders’ quarterback son, Shedeur, in 2025. Lewis, who plays for Carrollton High School in Georgia, previously committed to play at Southern California but continued to take recruiting visits to other ...
Colorado coach Deion Sanders is now working as the co-host of a new weekly entertainment talk show that recently debuted as his football team makes a push for the College Football Playoff. The first of his 20 one-hour episodes aired Tuesday night on Tubi, the online streaming platform owned by the Fox Corporation. The show is called “We Got Time ...
ESPN talk show ‘Around the Horn’ will go off the air next summer, ending a more than two-decade run on weekday afternoons. Paired with ‘Pardon the Interruption’ − another show overseen by ESPN’s Eric Rydholm − ‘Around the Horn’ has been an afternoon staple for ESPN viewers, leading to heightened national profiles for regular panelists such as Woody Paige, Mina ...
The NFL has alerted team security directors and the players union about criminals targeting professional athletes’ homes, according to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero. The memo sent to all 32 teams stated that organized criminals are increasingly targeting these homes, including the burglaries of Kansas City Chiefs players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce in early October. The Athletic’s Diana Russini shared ...
With seven weeks remaining in the 2024 NFL season, the playoff contenders are coming into sharp focus. More than half of the teams in the league now have overwhelming probabilities of making or missing the postseason. At top, nine teams have 90% chances or better of earning one of the 14 playoff slots, according to Next Gen Stats’ playoff probabilities. ...
Running backs have won two of the past four NFL Offensive Player of the Year awards. San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey took the trophy home last season. In his first year with the Eagles, Saquon Barkley is staking his claim as a top candidate for the award. In a renaissance year for the running back, Barkley leads the ...