It’s do or die for many NFL teams in the last full month of the regular season. After the Dallas Cowboys host the Cincinnati Bengals on “Monday Night Football,” only four weeks of competition remain. The playoff picture has started to come into focus. The Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills and Detroit Lions have already … Read more
Andrea Stella shut his eyes, taking a moment to collect his thoughts and pick the right words. An engineer by trade, the team principal of McLaren speaks with total precision. Every detail shared is well-considered. No answer is given flippantly or lacking proper thought, all delivered with a softly-spoken assurance. Sat with The Athletic in … Read more
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver George Pickens will have to wait to “introduce” himself to Cleveland Browns defensive back Greg Newsome II. The first-place Steelers (9-3) made Pickens inactive for Sunday’s meeting against the Browns (3-9) because a hamstring injury that prevented him from practicing late in the week. Newsome and Pickens ended Cleveland’s … Read more
At the end of his free skate Saturday, Ilia Malinin sprawled out on the ice, eyes closed, soaking it all in. The man known as the “Quad God” had just unleashed a series of quadruple jumps — including the quad axel, a jump that no one else has ever landed — and even a backflip … Read more
BUFFALO, N.Y. — As the Buffalo Sabres’ losing streak grew to six games Saturday afternoon against the Utah Hockey Club, you could hear the sounds of fans at their wits’ end. One day earlier, general manager Kevyn Adams spoke about the state of the team in a news conference that did not go over well … Read more
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Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes with one last overtake and a heartfelt message to the team where he won the Formula 1 title six times. “We dreamed alone but together, we believed,” Hamilton told race engineer Peter Bonnington and team principal Toto Wolff over the radio. “Thank you for all the courage, the determination and the … Read more
Arsenal could only muster another goal from a corner in a 1-1 draw at Fulham on Sunday as Mikel Arteta’s title-chasing team dropped two points in its bid to reel in Premier League leader Liverpool. William Saliba — one of two scorers from corners in Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Manchester United on Wednesday — repeated … Read more
ATLANTA — Kirby Smart felt it in pregame. He felt it later in the game, too. All he needed to do was look up in the stands at Mercedes-Benz Stadium at any point on Saturday and he’d see a few thousand empty seats in the upper deck during Georgia’s 22-19 overtime win over Texas. Call … Read more
COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. – Lindsey Vonn finished in 24th place in the first of two lower-level super-G races on Sunday as the 40-year-old dials in her equipment and technique during her comeback to ski racing. Vonn wound up 2.19 seconds behind the winning time of her American teammate Lauren Macuga, who flew down the course … Read more