Christian Pulisic isn’t just the best male soccer player the country has ever produced—he’s also one of the best in the world. With more homegrown talent following in his footsteps, is he ready to be the leading man that U.S.
A new study tries—and fails—to predict athletic greatness with a DNA test. Thank goodness.
For years he was maligned as a difficult teammate. Then Jimmy Butler found his ideal home with the Miami Heat—and suddenly he was challenging LeBron’s Lakers in the Finals and becoming the breakout star of the bubble.
What’s next for the Change the Mascot movement?
Since 1973, a groundbreaking organization has gathered thousands of Black snow-sports enthusiasts for a week of on-mountain revelry. But the event has always had a more serious mission, too: changing perceptions about who belongs on the slopes.
The Alabama Crimson Tide screamed past Ohio State in Monday’s national title game, 52–24. The Buckeyes, fellow blue-blood titans and the only team with enough raw talent to even theoretically slow down Bama’s offense, gave up 621 yards.
By acquiring James Harden, have the Brooklyn Nets created a less successful version of the superstar dynamic Durant left Golden State to escape? So, OK. Walk me through this. About 12 seconds ago, Kevin Durant left the Golden State Warriors in a swirl of bad feelings.
Texas firing Tom Herman is the latest example that the football beast must be fed ever-increasing amounts, even when college athletics is navigating a financial crisis.
Twenty-nine baseball teams had the opportunity to acquire one of the best pitchers in the world for little more than a handful of lottery tickets, and only one jumped at it.
When Brandon Staley first met Sean McVay, it didn’t take long for them to realize they were cut from the same cloth. Then the 37-year-old outside linebackers coach for the Broncos, Staley traveled to L.A. last offseason to interview for the Rams’ vacant defensive coordinator job.
Forget Notre Dame and Texas A&M. The fourth and final playoff spot should have gone to Cincinnati. The committee’s complete dismissal of the Bearcats defies football logic—and reveals how far this system will go to ensure the same old outcome.
Whatever America’s central problem is, football is probably the best metaphor for it. That’s true no matter which level of football you’re looking at. 1.
In the end, the Houston Rockets didn't get the blue-chip young player they boasted they would receive in return for James Harden -- the second-greatest player in franchise history, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon, and one of the league's all-time best scorers.
There are 13 people on the College Football Playoff selection committee, and each week their chairman tells a national television audience how much football they’ve been watching.
The Browns will be without head coach Kevin Stefanski and several other coaches and players after a series of positive COVID-19 tests In the summer of 2019, the Browns were the most hyped team in football, landing on the preseason covers of Sports Illustrated and ESPN the Magazine and garnering an e
When Dallas coach Mike McCarthy boarded the Cowboys’ charter flight at BWI Airport outside of Baltimore early on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 9, he tried to get his mind right for the short week ahead.
It's time for the dumbest preseason tradition: Our ninth annual League Pass Rankings! These are not power rankings! They are watchability scores derived from an ancient formula that revealed itself to Bill Simmons when he played one Pearl Jam album backward.
College football has lacked drama in recent years, at least in the national-championship picture. Clemson has won five straight titles in the ACC. Ohio State has won three straight in the Big Ten. Oklahoma is a five-time reigning champion in the Big 12.
Drew Brees and Tom Brady defined an era of football. Then they stuck around long enough to usher in the next one. Tom Brady and Drew Brees first met in a dull Big Ten game in October 1999.
We're back with the first batch of 10 NBA things for the 2020-21 NBA season.
The 2020 NFL regular season is complete. There is just one college football game still to be played -- Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship between Alabama and Ohio State.
SOMETIME IN OCTOBER 2019, Joe Boylan, then an assistant coach with the New Orleans Pelicans, received an unexpected text from Brandon Ingram -- one of the franchise's new stars, acquired months earlier in the Anthony Davis trade.
It's time for one NBA preseason tradition: My six most intriguing players of the season, only there are five here. Blame the supercompressed offseason. As always, we steer away from rookies and sophomores.
It's time for another preseason tradition: breaking 30 NBA teams into tiers. Grouping teams -- as opposed to 1-30 power rankings -- nudges you to consider the league holistically.
With almost a week of the 2020-21 campaign in the books, we’re bringing our NBA rankings into the regular season with a look at one trend or takeaway for every organization The first week of NBA action is in the books, which means it’s time for the first edition of my regular-season power rankin