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NFL Week 3 roundtable: Bryce Young’s benching, Saints’ hot start and unbeaten matchups

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NFL Week 3 roundtable: Bryce Young’s benching, Saints’ hot start and unbeaten matchups

Four of the NFL’s nine unbeaten teams meet Sunday, which should provide some buzz, albeit so early in the season. While C.J. Stroud’s Houston Texans meet the resurgent Sam Darnold’s Minnesota Vikings, Justin Herbert — questionable with a high ankle sprain as of Friday — and the Los Angeles Chargers meet the Pittsburgh Steelers, who […]

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The 3 biggest highlights from Juan Soto’s gutsy performance in huge win over A’s

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OAKLAND — Juan Soto didn’t feel great. When he woke up Friday morning, his left knee was stiff, swollen and achy. The night prior, he slammed it into the wall making a sliding catch at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, and with just nine games left in the season and a month until his hotly anticipated

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Matt Chapman, Logan Webb embrace long-term leadership roles with Giants

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BALTIMORE — Logan Webb was a teenage pitching prospect, just a couple months removed from his high school graduation, when he received his unofficial welcome to professional baseball. It was not a gracious welcome. And Matt Chapman delivered it. Webb was pitching for the Giants’ instructional league team in Arizona in the fall of 2014.

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ATP Next Gen Finals: Who is in the race to Jeddah? And how will the event evolve?

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This article is part of The Next Generation series. As the greats, such as Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal become the past, and Carlos Alcaraz and Iga Swiatek handle the present, The Athletic explores the next generation: the rising stars who will be tasked with securing tennis’ future. Over the last seven years the ATP

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Mikel Arteta’s time at Man City and the training drill that transformed Raheem Sterling

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It is the training drill that helped transform Raheem Sterling from a zippy winger who narrowly reached double figures each season into a back-post assassin who was among the most lethal goalscoring wingers in Europe. The change happened in the 2017-18 season, Pep Guardiola’s second in charge of Manchester City, the club Sterling returns to

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Can an NFL team go from 0-2 to the playoffs? It’s a long shot, but these 9 teams did it

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Nine NFL teams are still looking for their first win of the 2024 season after recording two consecutive losses to open their schedules. Historically, starting 0-2 has meant the odds are stacked against you. The Athletic’s Austin Mock’s playoff odds reflect that. None of the current 0-2 teams have better than a 44 percent chance to

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Did Shohei Ohtani just play the single greatest baseball game ever?

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MIAMI – The Veuve Clicquot had been poured and the commemorative T-shirts handed out. Only then, once there had been time for it all to sink in, could his awestruck teammates fully comprehend the latest demonstration of greatness by Shohei Ohtani. They marveled not only at his latest milestone, becoming the first player to hit

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Thursday night brought vintage Aaron Rodgers — and the end of the ‘Same Old Jets’ era

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Aaron Rodgers took the field on Thursday night and the crowd at MetLife Stadium roared, their conquering hero arriving at his coliseum. It didn’t go so well last time, but there wasn’t a hint of “here we go again,” no reintroduction to the Same Old Jets. Think about what this fan

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An ‘alien’ is coming to Atlanta: Falcons admit Mahomes Week is different

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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons’ defensive players talk about Patrick Mahomes like he’s an actor, and the NFL’s leading man is coming to Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday night. “When the play breaks down and you’ve got it all covered and you’ve done it all right, there’s a second part to the play. There’s

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NFL broadcasters are getting more access to teams: Here’s how they’re using it

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It is not an accident that you are seeing more in-uniform interviews from NFL players this season. Here’s why: Last May, the NFL broadcasting department sent out a memo on the topic to the league’s chief executives, club presidents, general managers, head coaches and public relations directors. The memo outlined access changes for the NFL’s

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