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Ranking 134 college football teams after Week 4: Tennessee to the top 3; BYU, Navy soar

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Ranking 134 college football teams after Week 4: Tennessee to the top 3; BYU, Navy soar

Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. Much of the talk going into Tennessee’s trip to Oklahoma was about Volunteers coach Josh Heupel’s return to his alma mater, Heupel was right when, through teary eyes, he told his players that Saturday’s 25-15 win against the Sooners was […]

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Can Dave Aranda recover from Baylor’s last-second collapse against Colorado?

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Nearly three years ago, with a conference title on the line, Baylor’s defense turned into a brick wall. In the final minute of the 2021 Big 12 Championship Game, Oklahoma State had four tries to get 2 yards and a go-ahead touchdown. The Bears allowed just 1 3/4, and Baylor won the Big 12 crown

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Vikings, Packers coaches make the NFC North the NFL’s best division: Sando’s Pick Six

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The Minnesota Vikings look like the best team in the NFL’s best division, unless Sam Darnold’s MRI says otherwise. There’s a sentence no one saw coming. We aren’t crowning anybody after Week 3. Former Vikings coach Dennis Green (RIP) would not allow it. But the first three weeks of this season have been a revelation

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Sunderland’s 17-year-old wonderkid Chris Rigg analyses his brilliant backheel goal

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An hour after the final whistle has blown on Sunderland 1-0 Middlesbrough, Chris Rigg re-emerges onto the pitch where he has just settled a local derby with a piece of improvised magic, a backheel from nowhere that has made a stadium gasp and a national audience take note. The netting has been taken down and

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Will anyone in the Chargers organization protect Justin Herbert from himself?

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PITTSBURGH — For the second time in six weeks, Justin Herbert is in a walking boot. And as the Los Angeles Chargers return home after more than a week on the road, something must be asked of this organization: Who is going to protect Herbert from himself? Herbert aggravated his right high ankle sprain in

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As Bears flounder on offense, it’s fair to ask: Is Caleb Williams’ development in good hands?

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INDIANAPOLIS — Fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line. It’s the time to use one of your best, go-to plays. It’s time to send in a call that you’re 99.99 percent certain will work for a touchdown. What did offensive coordinator Shane Waldron call for the Chicago Bears against the Indianapolis Colts in that situation in the

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How Caitlin Clark’s rookie season has been ‘the perfect fuel on a fire’ for a new WNBA era

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Nearly 20 years ago, Conrad Piccirillo attended his first Indiana Fever game. The WNBA franchise was just five years into its existence and on the brink of its best year to date, but he admittedly was not there for the basketball. His daughters, 10-year-old Caitlyn and 11-year-old Claire, were members of the Fever Inferno’s youth

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The case for Aaron Judge, Juan Soto as MLB’s greatest offensive duo since Ruth-Gehrig

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Sometimes it takes a while before it hits us what we’re watching. One minute, we’re just doing what we do, tuning into baseball in 2024. The next, it begins to dawn on us. We’re witnessing something special. Then we ask: Just how special? Next thing we know, we’ve taken a trip back in time, to

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Alyssa Thomas stars with another triple-double as Sun beat Fever in Caitlin Clark’s playoff debut

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UNCASVILLE, Conn. — More than four months have passed since Caitlin Clark began her WNBA career at Mohegan Sun Arena against Connecticut Sun on opening night of the 2024 season. But during the Indiana Fever’s playoff debut Sunday against those same Sun, it felt a lot like May. Connecticut was the more composed, veteran team,

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