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It feels trivial discussing mere football matters when set against the ethical concerns arising from Newcastle’s Saudi takeover, but it feels as if whatever happens on the pitch against Tottenham will accelerate Steve Bruce’s departure.

Sleepless nights, hotel room sprints, and so much 7-Eleven.

Can the Buccaneers have another healthy season? Is Urban Meyer really cut out for this? And just how washed is Ben Roethlisberger? Answering those questions and more ahead of the NFL season.

And so, he's back. Maybe just as interesting as the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo has returned to Manchester United is how it happened. Back in May, plenty of us speculated about how it could make sense.

The Ravens' QB knows what people say about him. He and his coach give us a look at the areas he's trying to improve. Plus, Matt Nagy talks Justin Fields's progress, scouting college football and much more before Week 1.SPARTANBURG, S.C.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Around the time Bear Bryant was building the University of Alabama into a dominant force in college football, Nick Saban was a boy washing cars in West Virginia. Back then, in the early 1960s, Saban did not want to be a football coach.

The four-hour playoff game has become endemic. For a sport trying to draw in younger fans, it’s a problem that requires a solution. Start with a pitch clock. The two championship series games on Tuesday night were scheduled to begin three hours apart.

WHEN SHOHEI OHTANI stands on the mound and stares into his catcher for a sign, his mouth is slightly open and his chin is raised just a little, giving off the impression he's every bit as curious as we are to discover what might come next.

Fewer than two years after he piloted one of college football’s greatest seasons, Coach O is out from his dream job amid an untenable situation in Baton Rouge.

Jon Gruden is gone. In a stunning turn of events that unfolded on Monday, Gruden was forced to resign as Las Vegas Raiders coach in the face of an avalanche of racist, anti-gay and misogynist emails first disclosed by The New York Times.

The Packers and Bengals took field goal kicking back to the Stone Age, the Chargers fell into a game-winning touchdown, and the Chiefs showed major cracks against the Bills Every week this NFL season, we will celebrate the electric plays, investigate the colossal blunders, and explain the inexplicab

IN THE HEARTS and minds of Mets fans, every baseball season ends twice. There's the moment when it's officially over -- mathematical elimination -- and the moment when, in retrospect, we should've known it was. On paper, the 2021 Mets weren't eliminated from postseason contention until Sept.

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When 150,000 Lionel Messi shirts went on sale on Paris St-Germain's website the day his signing was announced, they were gone within seven minutes.

Last season, the NBA’s development league launched a new team designed around prospects who wanted an alternative to the NCAA route. This year, the league has even bigger goals for the team—and for basketball at large.