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NFL Power Rankings Week 2: Let’s overreact! Chargers, Bucs up; Bengals, Falcons down

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NFL Power Rankings Week 2: Let’s overreact! Chargers, Bucs up; Bengals, Falcons down

The Week 2 NFL Power Rankings are here, and that means it’s time to overreact. The league’s coaches and players have spent all offseason telling us that every year brings new possibilities, that what happened in the past and media expectations for the future don’t matter. We’re going to take them at their word. That […]

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Giants’ Daniel Jones looked like a broken QB, but benching him now would be an overreaction

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Is the New York Giants’ season already on the brink after one game? That’s how it feels after a disheartening 28-6 loss to the Vikings in Sunday’s season opener. Here’s a final look at yet another discouraging season opener: Jones’ last stand? Giants quarterback Daniel Jones made the first start of the second season since

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What we learned from CFB’s Week 2: Is Notre Dame’s season sunk? Is South Carolina rising?

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Welcome to college football, where the entire conversation about a program can shift in a week. There are no greater examples than the scenes in Lexington, Ky., and South Bend, Ind., last Saturday, which lays the foundation for this week’s edition of overreaction or underreaction. “There was a perception about our team this week, but

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Ranking PWHL team names and logos: Which of the six new combos is our No. 1?

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By Hailey Salvian, Shayna Goldman and Sean Gentille We waited more than a year for proper PWHL nicknames and logos. Now that we have them, courtesy of Monday’s official unveiling, we’re not going to waste any more time. Which of the six new combos — the Boston Fleet, Minnesota Frost, Montréal Victoire, New York Sirens,

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Northern Illinois over Notre Dame is what makes college football more than NFL Lite

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Northern Illinois coach Thomas Hammock’s cheeks were soaked with some of the happiest tears of his life. He was drenched in the overwhelming joy of leading his alma mater to the biggest win in school history. His nose was running as the pride overcame him. It wasn’t pretty, but it was beautiful. It was college football.

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After this long, weird summer, the 49ers’ vibes are tremendous in Week 1

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Remember these guys? It hasn’t actually been long since the San Francisco 49ers looked like this, played like this, stomped around on national television like this and seemed so very suited for another Super Bowl run like this. But yes, everybody needed some reminding. After this long, anxious summer of contract

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MLB Power Rankings: Royals, Padres shake up top 10; Our picks for each team’s MVP

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By Tim Britton,  Chad Jennings and Kaitlyn McGrath Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. All right, enough fooling around. There are less than three weeks left in the regular season, and these games

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Chelsea are learning the hard way that co-owners rarely work in football

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The night before Liverpool’s former owners faced the media for the first time at Anfield in February 2007, a meeting was held about the running order for business. George Gillett, a junk bond millionaire, had initially been batted away from the club because he did not have deep enough pockets. To change his possibilities, he

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Ranking 134 college football teams after Week 2: A historic rise and new No. 134

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Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams. It took just two weeks for college football to descend into chaos. We’ve had two top-10 teams lose to unranked opponents. Notre Dame appeared to have a clear path to the College Football Playoff, then lost to Northern Illinois. Oregon

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Patriots’ joyous victory shows it’s Jerod Mayo’s team now, without the immense shadow

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CINCINNATI — Let the record show that Jerod Mayo’s first postgame news conference as a head coach in the NFL was also his first postgame news conference as a victorious head coach in the NFL. But when he stood there in the tiny interview room at Paycor Stadium on Sunday afternoon following the New England

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