By Fabian Ardaya, Andy McCullough and Ken Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Monday he thought San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado threw a baseball at him between innings of Game 2 of the NLDS, adding yet another layer to an emotion-filled debacle in San Diego’s victory to even…
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“Finally the nightmare is over,” Paul Pogba declared on Friday evening, grateful and relieved to see a shaft of light at the end of the dark tunnel in which he has felt trapped for so long. Seven months after being hit with a four-year ban for a doping violation, Pogba learned from the Court of…
TALLADEGA, Ala. — As Denny Hamlin was digesting the reaction to his race team filing an antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR this week, fiancée Jordan Fish sent him a clip from the film “Moneyball.” “The first guy through the wall — he always gets bloody,” the actor depicting Boston Red Sox owner John Henry says in…
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Of course this was going to happen. It’s only a wonder it hasn’t happened sooner. College football is a sport where more than three years after players were finally allowed to monetize their name, image and likeness, there are still no clear guidelines governing the marketplace. There is no governing body with real teeth to…
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The NFL’s biggest surprise teams through Week 4 reside at opposite ends of the standings. The Minnesota Vikings are 4-0 after losing their highly drafted rookie quarterback and substituting the well-traveled Sam Darnold in his place. GO DEEPER Assessing 4-0 teams, from Vikings’ shocking start to Chiefs’ WR setback: Sando’s Pick Six The Jacksonville Jaguars…
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The ‘other guy’ theory of coaches is a sporting truism. A team that loses more than it wins with a so-called ‘players’ coach’, someone who specializes in relating to athletes and creating an easygoing atmosphere, will often replace them with a disciplinarian. Reserved coaches who don’t find success get replaced by high-energy, emotional types big…
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Sunday night’s dramatic derby with city rivals Real Madrid put Atletico Madrid’s relationship with the radical block of fans that gather inside their ground under a new global spotlight. After Real Madrid took the lead, Atletico captain Koke and manager Diego Simeone pleaded for calm with balaclava-wearing supporters, who had thrown objects onto the pitch…
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On the evening of June 3, 2019, roughly 50 people gathered in the backyard of a single-family home in Valley Grande, Ala. The sun was still high on a 92-degree day that showed no signs of cooling down as the group stood around the pool, munching on chips, dip and pizza. Kerry and Allen Henderson…
Maarten Paes is the starting goalkeeper for Major League Soccer team FC Dallas. Yet he can walk down a busy street in Dallas, Texas, and nobody will notice him. That is not the case online. Or in Indonesia. Like his team-mates in the Indonesia national team, Paes is mobbed when he visits the country and…
Having etched her name across the record book during the 2024 WNBA season, Caitlin Clark has been named the league’s Rookie of the Year, league sources told The Athletic on Friday. That Clark won the award came as little surprise considering how prolific her debut season was. Clark broke both the WNBA’s single-season and single-game…
